Daniel Robert Epstein: Ted Naifeh

FireBrand is happy at the thought of Courtney Crumrim movies.
Hey Ted if you join the site, will you be on my friends list?



wow, i'm a whore.

holierthancow and I saw Naifeh on a panel about goth comics at Dragon*Con around the time we were starting to scribble out our own goth related webcomic. He made sitting on a panel yacking about the comics he does look fun, which kind of helped encourage me to work harder so that I might be able to get on a panel some day. So, in a way, Naifeh was an influence on my strip even though I've never read a single thing he's done. Funny how shit like that works.

I wish Ted was a regular staple at the SLG booth, his books are hot. Come back to us, Ted.

Ted also did art for the cool Nocturnals spinoff, Gunwitch: Outskirts of Doom. You can see a bunch of his Nocturnals art in this book:

http://www.greenronin.com/catalog/grr2006

i love it when i know a little bit about someone but one of these interviews makes me know and want to know a shitload more. one of the main attractions of the site, i think.

plus, great last line

i think it is AWESOME that you did an interview of Ted. Talking to him, he is so down to earth and his comics are just awesome!!

I ♥ Courtney, Gloomcookie and How Loathsome! Ted is definitely up in my top 3 favourite writers and illustrators. I had no idea Courtney Crumrin was so popular...a movie! Wow.

He looks really familiar, does he live in SF? Maybe I've just seen him at APE.

Mmm...Hawt.

O - Yes, he lives in The City and he really is a great guy. No swelled head at all, which is unfortunately rare in the World of Comics.

"All the Best Influences are the Bad Ones."

I wanna be Aloysious when I grow up.

I'm looking forward to the day my daughter's old enough to read my Courtney Collection.



[Edited on Jan 20, 2005 by Tesla]

[Edited on Jan 20, 2005 by Tesla]

Ah yes, those were the days! Hey, Pirate, I wonder how many other SLG people have accounts here?

As for Ted's saying Johnny was more likely to appeal to teenage boys, there was a time I would have agreed, but very early on it was clear that the audience was pretty evenly split between males and females, which I thought was a damned cool surprise. apparently violent, delusional demantia is a unisex joy. The girls also tend to write the more coherent fanmail, too, so it all works out as far as I'm concerned.

JV