Over the years whenever anyone comes to me and says Dan, I want to read good comic books and dont give me any superheroes. Without fail I always handed them Minimum Wage by Bob Fingerman, since rechristened Beg the Question. His semi-autobiographical tale has the pathos of Daniel Clowes later work contrasted with sex and humor of Peter Bagge.
But Fingerman has put aside telling us about himself in his work and is now concentrating on making us sick with laughter. His latest work is a collection of shorter tales in the book You Deserved It! With the highlight being, Otis Goes Hollywood, the tale of a nave sociopath who ends being in snuff films. Also from Dark Horse is the zombie anthology, Zombie World: Winter's Dregs And Other Stories, which includes the Bob Fingerman written story, Winter's Dregs. It is story of a zombie outbreak in New York City that is brought on by a new rodent killer.
Buy You Deserved It
Daniel Robert Epstein: When did you first write Winter's Dregs?
Bob Fingerman: I think I wrote it in 1997 and it came out in 1998.
DRE: For Dark Horse?
BF: Yeah, they had a series called Zombie World. I had actually wanted my story to be a separate book, but they decided that it would be better to make it all one book.
DRE: What made you want to do a zombie story in the first place?
BF: This is going to go back a lot of years but I had proposed two zombie miniseries and Dark Horse was the first place I had pitched. They rejected both, one because it was too bleak and the other one was a satire that was too big. It wouldve been like a 12 issue thing
Then I went to Axel Alonso at Vertigo and got rejected there. Axel wanted it but the higher powers didnt. Then Zombie World got started at Dark Horse and an editor that I worked with named Scott Allie, told me about it. He said, Do you have anything? I said, Yes. I happen to have some zombie stories that Id like to pitch. So I repitched the same two that I had pitched before and Scott really wanted the one that that was rejected for being too bleak. I felt great and he said, But we have this timeline. The concept of the series was that they went from the beginning of the zombie thing and it was going to continue from there. So the one that I wanted to do and had originally pitched was too late in the timeline. My story was one in which the pandemic had taken over the world and he wanted something that was more of an origin. So he said, Can you write a prequel? Then later well do the one you really want to do. So anyway, Winter's Dregs is the prequel to the one I never got to do because they cancelled the series. Finally last year I wrote it as a novel called Pariah.
DRE: Did Scott hook you up with [Winter's Dregs artist] Tommy Lee Edwards?
BF: Yes, I had actually never heard of Tommy before. It was one of the few times I think Ive been paired with someone that I didnt pick where it actually worked out.
DRE: Where was Tommy living at the time?
BF: Hes lived in North Carolina as long as Ive known him. He came to New York to shoot a bunch of reference material, so I think thats why the book looks as authentic as it does. We went on a little walking tour of places in the script and I said Shoot pictures of that. We went into the subway together and I said, Shoot. He did his homework.
DRE: How is that process of writing for someone else to draw?
BF: It depends on the person, but Tommy and I worked very well because he is an extremely nice guy. There was good communication between us. Hes a talented guy, so thats a plus. The only think I think he didnt know how to draw was old Jews. I said to him Youve never seen an old Jew, have you? The old garmentos should have looked like Fyvush Finkle.
DRE: Did anything get changed for the book?
BF: No, it didnt. The only thing that got changed was they made it smaller. I had said that they should do it 6 x 9 and then they said no. Then I had just got my comps and Oh, theyve made it 6 x 9. I wonder who decided that.
DRE: Is the mayor in Winters Dregs supposed to be Rudy Giuliani?
BF: Oh yeah, a lot of what I do, even the fantasy stuff is spawned by things that bug me. The idea for the prequel came about after there was a rat problem near Gracie Mansion at Carl Schurz Park, which is the park on the East River. There was a rat problem elsewhere, but Giuliani didnt care until there were rats around his house. Then they started bombing the park with poison and the rodents didnt die, they just moved. I lived a block away and I had never had a vermin problem but suddenly my apartment was overrun with mice. I basically went berserk and it started what is now my pathological hatred of rodents.
My wife and I began to see them in the apartment. That was the first time and fortunately the last time that I ever killed a mammal. I killed one with a hammer. I heard it clattering after it got caught in a trap in the bathroom. Im not saying this is like a macho thing. It was horrifying. We were watching TV and we hear the mousetrap go off and it was sickening. It became more sickening because wed hear Clickety, clack, clack, clack, clack. It was still alive. So I said, Fuck. I got to go do the humane thing. But because my heart was pounding in my chest it was literally overkill. I put a newspaper over it so I didnt have to look at it and then I took a hammer and slammed it. I hit it so hard its intestines shot out and hit the wall. Then I said, Okay. Im cleaning this mess and then were not staying here tonight. We left the apartment. Its kind of a macho pussy thing in equal measure. We came back to the apartment and there were like three traps that got sprung and then I tore the kitchen apart and started nailing up holes. But yeah, it began this pathology of hatred for rodents but not bunnies. Bunnies are good rodents. Then again, if they were running around my apartment, Id probably hate them too.
DRE: Was it just a coincidence that it got collected into this big book while You Deserved It was coming out?
BF: I have been pushing for a Winters Dregs for a long time and so has Tommy, way more so than me. Tommy was really diligent, except in his case he was looking to sell it to someone else because after five years we owned it outright. Now of course Dark Horse owns it again.
DRE: Well, its a nice book they put together.
BF: Yeah it is a nice book. We had been pushing for it to get collected for awhile and they said there was no demand. Now its out but I think that has to do with the fact that zombies have become hot. It had to do with somebody at Dark Horse realizing now is the time to collect this stuff before the whole zombie thing just fades away. I hope it doesnt for at least another year because Im working on a new zombie thing right now.
DRE: George Romero told me I dont think we can keep pumping this well for so long.
BF: Hes wrong though because I think theres a lot yet to be done.
DRE: So now were going to talk about You Deserved It.
BF: Yeah, enough with that zombie crap.
DRE: SuicideGirls are going to love the beaten up Bob Fingerman pic in the back of the book.
BF: I did that in Photoshop.
DRE: So its not makeup?
BF: No, wellthe blood was. I just took a little dropper full of red dye and because Id shaved before the dye stained my skin. Its almost like I was tattooed. I had to scrub my face raw because I used this waterproof ink. That was stupid.
DRE: So the big centerpiece in You Deserved It is the story, Otis Goes Hollywood. What brought you to Otis?
BF: Otis Goes Hollywood goes back to the birth of my career. When I was 19 years old, I did a bunch of parodies of Ranxerox [by Stefano Tamburini and Tanino Liberatore]. The deal with Ranxerox is that he was this preternaturally violent robot with an underage human girlfriend. He was very jealous and killed a lot of people. My parody was to make it even more so. Of course, if it was a real parody, I wouldve made him gentle, but you dont understand those subtleties when youre 19. I had a story about him going to Hollywood and then the whole thing kind of fell apart. But I still liked the idea of a guy who is really violent who gets discovered by a Hollywood agent because hes so violent. But I wanted to make him someone whos incredibly unaware of just how violent he is. I like the idea of someone who is kind of a nave guy and a murderous sociopath. I think in the Publishers Weekly Review they said that hes pretty much the only innocent in the whole thing and hes a mass murderer. Otis really is the only one in it who doesnt have an axe to grind. Everyone else has got an angle. His girlfriend turns out to be terribly sleazy. Hes being completely taken advantage of by these Hollywood types. The art community that he gets involved with is disgusting. But I actually think of him as the only Republican character Ive ever drawn.
DRE: I love his line, You deranged son of a biffy.
BF: Yeah, he cant curse. He never says a naughty word. Hes like a really violent Puritan and if that isnt a Republican, I dont know what is. Look at whos running this country. Theyre all these Puritanical sociopaths.
DRE: The first story about the paramedics, Missing Pieces, seems like an EC Comics suspense story.
BF: Except for the punchline, everything in that story is true though. A friend of mine used to be friendly with a New York City paramedic, who built his model kits for him and also sold atrocity photos on the side. So I said, Someday Im going to do something with that. So thats where that came from.
DRE: Thats awful.
BF: This was a guy my friend met at one of those Chiller conventions think because he sold painted up model kits. My friend liked models, but he didnt like to build them. So they got to know each other and then the guy was like Ive got a sideline. This is before the Internet so he would sell prints. I always wondered, Where does he go to develop? He doesnt go to Rite Aid with those kinds of pictures. Truth is always going to be stranger than fiction. I just needed to come up with a punchline for it.
DRE: I love the picture of Patton Oswalt you drew for his introduction.
BF: I told Patton he can use it for whatever he wants. He should put it on his website. I know he liked the drawing so its not like he was offended by it.
DRE: Its the first time Ive ever seen a published cartoon of him.
BF: Well, I put a cameo of him in Beg the Question at the titty bar holding up a dollar bill. That came from when we went to a costume competition at San Diego Comicon. He started waving dollar bills when all the ten year old girls in Sailor Moon outfits came out.
DRE: Is Buying Bologna a true story?
BF: Mercifully no.
DRE: [laughs] Its just disgusting. I mean this guy is fucking bologna. But then he adds the coleslaw?
BF: Yeah, thats sort of the coup de grais.
DRE: What does that add to it?
BF: I dont know. I just thought, What could make it more disgusting? Thats just all about how gross can you make it?
DRE: You cant get grosser than that, maybe if there was mayonnaise.
BF: Mayonnaise is the most disgusting substance on Earth. Sorry mayonnaise lovers.
DRE: Thats on the record.
You make fun of furries which you did back in Minimum Wage too.
BF: Its was just a little nod to them but they needed a whole story.
DRE: Have you ever met a furry?
BF: I have not met a furry. I freely admit bigotry against furries. Theyre just fucking weirdos.
DRE: In You Deserved It you drew a picture of yourself in just your shirt and boxers. I also remember a cover of The Comics Journal where you drew yourself naked. It seems that you cant draw yourself fully clothed.
BF: I think I like drawing myself like an idiot. Also when you work at home you work in your underwear more often than you should. That was a nod to decency wearing that many clothes. I just think its funny. For me its a way to get a cheap laugh. Lets face it, if I had just made those boxers blue or something, it would just be me wearing bad shorts. Its just funny to draw myself in underwear.
DRE: Jerry Stahl called you the Marcel Proust of low-end, contempo urban torment.
BF: Jerrys the best. I honestly was almost embarrassed at how good that quote was. Its like, Jesus Christ. Im not worthy of that praise, but Ill take it. Im very proud of my quotes because I work hard to get them. I get them from cool people.
DRE: Do you know Penn Jillette too?
BF: I do now because we have a mutual friend.
DRE: Who is that?
BF: An actor named Dean Cameron.
DRE: Chainsaw!
BF: See, when someone knows who Dean Cameron is that is the mark of a man who watches too many B movies. He knows people don?t know who he is
I think Dean is truly the unsung comedic genius in Hollywood. Everything hes done though you could only call cult like Rockula and Miracle Beach which is a favorite of my wife and I.
DRE: I was watching Summer School on cable the other day. Thats a very good movie.
BF: Thats a fun movie and it had that great gore scene in it.
Deans an extremely funny guy though. If this part makes it into the interview, everyone go check out his website.
DRE: What else is going on with you?
BF: Ive written two genre books. One of them, a vampire novel, is going to be published by M Press which is Dark Horses prose line.
DRE: Will there be a sequel to Beg the Question?
BF: No.
DRE: No, you might do one later on or no never?
BF: Right now Im thinking never. Id like to do more with those characters, but honestly at this point Id only be interested in developing it for television. I was hoping that would happen. I was actually going to partner with one of the writers from Futurama, Dan Vebber, to develop it but he had other commitments.
DRE: Would it have been a cartoon?
BF: No, live action. I wouldnt want to see it as a cartoon. It wouldnt make sense because its a very real life kind of thing. I still maintain the only reason I ever did it as a comic is because comics is what I did. Given the subject matter and so forth, I dont think comics are the only way that those characters could be done.
DRE: I remember when we spoke a few years ago you were thinking like Jack could be played by David Cross.
BF: Yeah I still think that.
DRE: Hes not too old?
BF: Yeah well I talked with David Cross about it and he was interested, but again things didnt pan out. He looks young and since it was for TV, changes would have been needed anyway. I thought it would be even funnier if the roommate Jack was substantially older than Rob Hoffman. It would just make the character that much more of a loser. If youve got a 22 year old living with a guy whos in his 30s or something, that doesnt paint the 30 something year old guy well.
DRE: Have you ever seen any Bob Fingerman related tattoos on people?
BF: Only many years ago so who knows if there are more. A skinhead in prison sent me a picture of the tattoo of his forearm. He had gotten characters from Skinheads in Love tattooed on his forearm and I was very scared.
Also Im writing and drawing a new zombie thing for Dark Horse that will see print for sure. Its my first original graphic novel instead. Its a humorous zombie book. It was the shortest pitch I ever made and the best way to describe it is, thats its little kids versus zombies. The way I pitched it was Little Rascals meets Dawn of the Dead. Its called Recess Pieces and hopefully Hersheys lawyers will be able to deal with that.
by Daniel Robert Epstein
SG Username: AndersWolleck
But Fingerman has put aside telling us about himself in his work and is now concentrating on making us sick with laughter. His latest work is a collection of shorter tales in the book You Deserved It! With the highlight being, Otis Goes Hollywood, the tale of a nave sociopath who ends being in snuff films. Also from Dark Horse is the zombie anthology, Zombie World: Winter's Dregs And Other Stories, which includes the Bob Fingerman written story, Winter's Dregs. It is story of a zombie outbreak in New York City that is brought on by a new rodent killer.
Buy You Deserved It
Daniel Robert Epstein: When did you first write Winter's Dregs?
Bob Fingerman: I think I wrote it in 1997 and it came out in 1998.
DRE: For Dark Horse?
BF: Yeah, they had a series called Zombie World. I had actually wanted my story to be a separate book, but they decided that it would be better to make it all one book.
DRE: What made you want to do a zombie story in the first place?
BF: This is going to go back a lot of years but I had proposed two zombie miniseries and Dark Horse was the first place I had pitched. They rejected both, one because it was too bleak and the other one was a satire that was too big. It wouldve been like a 12 issue thing
Then I went to Axel Alonso at Vertigo and got rejected there. Axel wanted it but the higher powers didnt. Then Zombie World got started at Dark Horse and an editor that I worked with named Scott Allie, told me about it. He said, Do you have anything? I said, Yes. I happen to have some zombie stories that Id like to pitch. So I repitched the same two that I had pitched before and Scott really wanted the one that that was rejected for being too bleak. I felt great and he said, But we have this timeline. The concept of the series was that they went from the beginning of the zombie thing and it was going to continue from there. So the one that I wanted to do and had originally pitched was too late in the timeline. My story was one in which the pandemic had taken over the world and he wanted something that was more of an origin. So he said, Can you write a prequel? Then later well do the one you really want to do. So anyway, Winter's Dregs is the prequel to the one I never got to do because they cancelled the series. Finally last year I wrote it as a novel called Pariah.
DRE: Did Scott hook you up with [Winter's Dregs artist] Tommy Lee Edwards?
BF: Yes, I had actually never heard of Tommy before. It was one of the few times I think Ive been paired with someone that I didnt pick where it actually worked out.
DRE: Where was Tommy living at the time?
BF: Hes lived in North Carolina as long as Ive known him. He came to New York to shoot a bunch of reference material, so I think thats why the book looks as authentic as it does. We went on a little walking tour of places in the script and I said Shoot pictures of that. We went into the subway together and I said, Shoot. He did his homework.
DRE: How is that process of writing for someone else to draw?
BF: It depends on the person, but Tommy and I worked very well because he is an extremely nice guy. There was good communication between us. Hes a talented guy, so thats a plus. The only think I think he didnt know how to draw was old Jews. I said to him Youve never seen an old Jew, have you? The old garmentos should have looked like Fyvush Finkle.
DRE: Did anything get changed for the book?
BF: No, it didnt. The only thing that got changed was they made it smaller. I had said that they should do it 6 x 9 and then they said no. Then I had just got my comps and Oh, theyve made it 6 x 9. I wonder who decided that.
DRE: Is the mayor in Winters Dregs supposed to be Rudy Giuliani?
BF: Oh yeah, a lot of what I do, even the fantasy stuff is spawned by things that bug me. The idea for the prequel came about after there was a rat problem near Gracie Mansion at Carl Schurz Park, which is the park on the East River. There was a rat problem elsewhere, but Giuliani didnt care until there were rats around his house. Then they started bombing the park with poison and the rodents didnt die, they just moved. I lived a block away and I had never had a vermin problem but suddenly my apartment was overrun with mice. I basically went berserk and it started what is now my pathological hatred of rodents.
My wife and I began to see them in the apartment. That was the first time and fortunately the last time that I ever killed a mammal. I killed one with a hammer. I heard it clattering after it got caught in a trap in the bathroom. Im not saying this is like a macho thing. It was horrifying. We were watching TV and we hear the mousetrap go off and it was sickening. It became more sickening because wed hear Clickety, clack, clack, clack, clack. It was still alive. So I said, Fuck. I got to go do the humane thing. But because my heart was pounding in my chest it was literally overkill. I put a newspaper over it so I didnt have to look at it and then I took a hammer and slammed it. I hit it so hard its intestines shot out and hit the wall. Then I said, Okay. Im cleaning this mess and then were not staying here tonight. We left the apartment. Its kind of a macho pussy thing in equal measure. We came back to the apartment and there were like three traps that got sprung and then I tore the kitchen apart and started nailing up holes. But yeah, it began this pathology of hatred for rodents but not bunnies. Bunnies are good rodents. Then again, if they were running around my apartment, Id probably hate them too.
DRE: Was it just a coincidence that it got collected into this big book while You Deserved It was coming out?
BF: I have been pushing for a Winters Dregs for a long time and so has Tommy, way more so than me. Tommy was really diligent, except in his case he was looking to sell it to someone else because after five years we owned it outright. Now of course Dark Horse owns it again.
DRE: Well, its a nice book they put together.
BF: Yeah it is a nice book. We had been pushing for it to get collected for awhile and they said there was no demand. Now its out but I think that has to do with the fact that zombies have become hot. It had to do with somebody at Dark Horse realizing now is the time to collect this stuff before the whole zombie thing just fades away. I hope it doesnt for at least another year because Im working on a new zombie thing right now.
DRE: George Romero told me I dont think we can keep pumping this well for so long.
BF: Hes wrong though because I think theres a lot yet to be done.
DRE: So now were going to talk about You Deserved It.
BF: Yeah, enough with that zombie crap.
DRE: SuicideGirls are going to love the beaten up Bob Fingerman pic in the back of the book.
BF: I did that in Photoshop.
DRE: So its not makeup?
BF: No, wellthe blood was. I just took a little dropper full of red dye and because Id shaved before the dye stained my skin. Its almost like I was tattooed. I had to scrub my face raw because I used this waterproof ink. That was stupid.
DRE: So the big centerpiece in You Deserved It is the story, Otis Goes Hollywood. What brought you to Otis?
BF: Otis Goes Hollywood goes back to the birth of my career. When I was 19 years old, I did a bunch of parodies of Ranxerox [by Stefano Tamburini and Tanino Liberatore]. The deal with Ranxerox is that he was this preternaturally violent robot with an underage human girlfriend. He was very jealous and killed a lot of people. My parody was to make it even more so. Of course, if it was a real parody, I wouldve made him gentle, but you dont understand those subtleties when youre 19. I had a story about him going to Hollywood and then the whole thing kind of fell apart. But I still liked the idea of a guy who is really violent who gets discovered by a Hollywood agent because hes so violent. But I wanted to make him someone whos incredibly unaware of just how violent he is. I like the idea of someone who is kind of a nave guy and a murderous sociopath. I think in the Publishers Weekly Review they said that hes pretty much the only innocent in the whole thing and hes a mass murderer. Otis really is the only one in it who doesnt have an axe to grind. Everyone else has got an angle. His girlfriend turns out to be terribly sleazy. Hes being completely taken advantage of by these Hollywood types. The art community that he gets involved with is disgusting. But I actually think of him as the only Republican character Ive ever drawn.
DRE: I love his line, You deranged son of a biffy.
BF: Yeah, he cant curse. He never says a naughty word. Hes like a really violent Puritan and if that isnt a Republican, I dont know what is. Look at whos running this country. Theyre all these Puritanical sociopaths.
DRE: The first story about the paramedics, Missing Pieces, seems like an EC Comics suspense story.
BF: Except for the punchline, everything in that story is true though. A friend of mine used to be friendly with a New York City paramedic, who built his model kits for him and also sold atrocity photos on the side. So I said, Someday Im going to do something with that. So thats where that came from.
DRE: Thats awful.
BF: This was a guy my friend met at one of those Chiller conventions think because he sold painted up model kits. My friend liked models, but he didnt like to build them. So they got to know each other and then the guy was like Ive got a sideline. This is before the Internet so he would sell prints. I always wondered, Where does he go to develop? He doesnt go to Rite Aid with those kinds of pictures. Truth is always going to be stranger than fiction. I just needed to come up with a punchline for it.
DRE: I love the picture of Patton Oswalt you drew for his introduction.
BF: I told Patton he can use it for whatever he wants. He should put it on his website. I know he liked the drawing so its not like he was offended by it.
DRE: Its the first time Ive ever seen a published cartoon of him.
BF: Well, I put a cameo of him in Beg the Question at the titty bar holding up a dollar bill. That came from when we went to a costume competition at San Diego Comicon. He started waving dollar bills when all the ten year old girls in Sailor Moon outfits came out.
DRE: Is Buying Bologna a true story?
BF: Mercifully no.
DRE: [laughs] Its just disgusting. I mean this guy is fucking bologna. But then he adds the coleslaw?
BF: Yeah, thats sort of the coup de grais.
DRE: What does that add to it?
BF: I dont know. I just thought, What could make it more disgusting? Thats just all about how gross can you make it?
DRE: You cant get grosser than that, maybe if there was mayonnaise.
BF: Mayonnaise is the most disgusting substance on Earth. Sorry mayonnaise lovers.
DRE: Thats on the record.
You make fun of furries which you did back in Minimum Wage too.
BF: Its was just a little nod to them but they needed a whole story.
DRE: Have you ever met a furry?
BF: I have not met a furry. I freely admit bigotry against furries. Theyre just fucking weirdos.
DRE: In You Deserved It you drew a picture of yourself in just your shirt and boxers. I also remember a cover of The Comics Journal where you drew yourself naked. It seems that you cant draw yourself fully clothed.
BF: I think I like drawing myself like an idiot. Also when you work at home you work in your underwear more often than you should. That was a nod to decency wearing that many clothes. I just think its funny. For me its a way to get a cheap laugh. Lets face it, if I had just made those boxers blue or something, it would just be me wearing bad shorts. Its just funny to draw myself in underwear.
DRE: Jerry Stahl called you the Marcel Proust of low-end, contempo urban torment.
BF: Jerrys the best. I honestly was almost embarrassed at how good that quote was. Its like, Jesus Christ. Im not worthy of that praise, but Ill take it. Im very proud of my quotes because I work hard to get them. I get them from cool people.
DRE: Do you know Penn Jillette too?
BF: I do now because we have a mutual friend.
DRE: Who is that?
BF: An actor named Dean Cameron.
DRE: Chainsaw!
BF: See, when someone knows who Dean Cameron is that is the mark of a man who watches too many B movies. He knows people don?t know who he is
I think Dean is truly the unsung comedic genius in Hollywood. Everything hes done though you could only call cult like Rockula and Miracle Beach which is a favorite of my wife and I.
DRE: I was watching Summer School on cable the other day. Thats a very good movie.
BF: Thats a fun movie and it had that great gore scene in it.
Deans an extremely funny guy though. If this part makes it into the interview, everyone go check out his website.
DRE: What else is going on with you?
BF: Ive written two genre books. One of them, a vampire novel, is going to be published by M Press which is Dark Horses prose line.
DRE: Will there be a sequel to Beg the Question?
BF: No.
DRE: No, you might do one later on or no never?
BF: Right now Im thinking never. Id like to do more with those characters, but honestly at this point Id only be interested in developing it for television. I was hoping that would happen. I was actually going to partner with one of the writers from Futurama, Dan Vebber, to develop it but he had other commitments.
DRE: Would it have been a cartoon?
BF: No, live action. I wouldnt want to see it as a cartoon. It wouldnt make sense because its a very real life kind of thing. I still maintain the only reason I ever did it as a comic is because comics is what I did. Given the subject matter and so forth, I dont think comics are the only way that those characters could be done.
DRE: I remember when we spoke a few years ago you were thinking like Jack could be played by David Cross.
BF: Yeah I still think that.
DRE: Hes not too old?
BF: Yeah well I talked with David Cross about it and he was interested, but again things didnt pan out. He looks young and since it was for TV, changes would have been needed anyway. I thought it would be even funnier if the roommate Jack was substantially older than Rob Hoffman. It would just make the character that much more of a loser. If youve got a 22 year old living with a guy whos in his 30s or something, that doesnt paint the 30 something year old guy well.
DRE: Have you ever seen any Bob Fingerman related tattoos on people?
BF: Only many years ago so who knows if there are more. A skinhead in prison sent me a picture of the tattoo of his forearm. He had gotten characters from Skinheads in Love tattooed on his forearm and I was very scared.
Also Im writing and drawing a new zombie thing for Dark Horse that will see print for sure. Its my first original graphic novel instead. Its a humorous zombie book. It was the shortest pitch I ever made and the best way to describe it is, thats its little kids versus zombies. The way I pitched it was Little Rascals meets Dawn of the Dead. Its called Recess Pieces and hopefully Hersheys lawyers will be able to deal with that.
by Daniel Robert Epstein
SG Username: AndersWolleck
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boonfark said:
Bob Fingerman has more talent in his pinkie than most people have in their whole foot. Hmm, that didn't come out right, let me try again. Bob Fingerman is the Elephant in the Parlor of comics. Nope, let's give it one more shot. Bob Fingerman has more balls than Lance Armstrong and... No, no, no. Him good. Me likee.
BEG THE QUESTION will make a lot of SG members think that he's been peeping in their windows for a long time. Yeah, that's it. Bob Fingerman is the Peeping Tom of Alternative Comics and one hell of a talented cartoonist.
I was lucky enough to get to know him a few years ago and he is so funny that I often think our acquaintance was some kind of cosmic mistake -- like he was supposed to be friends with the guy next door and it was misdelivered to my door instead.
Find his books and read them. You won't regret it. And if you're ever lucky enough to meet him you will be able to strike a kitchen match on his noggin. He loves that.
Check out his website here.
[Edited on Oct 31, 2005 by boonfark]
AndersWolleck said:
Yessir, me, you and Mr. Sulu.