Whenever I read autobiographical comics I cant wait until the storyteller gets to the part where they have sex. Its always the most revealing and often interesting aspect because cartoonists have the most fucked up sex life. I think comic book creators Kelli Nelson and Robyn Chapman think the same thing and thats why they put together True Porn. Its a collection of almost 50 stories by independent comic books creators and the stories are all about sex. There are some amazing creators involved including Ivan Brunetti, Ariel Schrag, Neil Kleid and many more. Its a great book that Alternative Comics just released. It wont disappoint even the most hard-bitten SuicideGirl thats read nearly every dirty story on the internet.
I got a chance to talk to True Porn co-editor and contributor Kelli Nelson. I figured she would be interesting because in her introduction of the book she says that she pictures everyone she meets having sex. It was too bad we werent going to meet in person. Her story is one of the best in the book. Its the story of how she met her husband, his fetishes and how she was able to learn to deal with them. Its a very open and honest story that nearly caused me to burst out in tears.
Check out the website for True Porn and order the book.
Daniel Robert Epstein: So is True Porn anthology the first of its kind in comics?
Kelli Nelson: Oh, Im sure its not. There have been more than a few occasions where the authors sex life has been used to tremendous quantities.
DRE: But as an anthology you think?
KN: As an anthology, I dont know. I havent heard of anything like it. But theres no telling whats out there that I havent heard of.
DRE: [laughs] Did you know many of the creators who got involved?
KN: Not at all. When we were at Alternative Press Expo out in San Francisco we were trying to see if anyone was even interested in doing the project. It was the only time we actually asked people to be involved. We asked three or four creators who were at the convention. Like Hey, does this sound good to you? and they were like Yeah! Sign us up.
After that, people who weve never heard of came out of the woodwork and started to ask us Are you still accepting submissions? It was really amazing how quickly it got around.
DRE: Did you ever expect it to be as big as it was in terms of the size of the book?
KN: We were really hoping we could get to that size but never in our wildest dreams did we think that we would have 200 plus pages of porno. That was just our good fortune.
DRE: Is it like real porn, meaning could it get someone off?
KN: No, I dont think so. I think theres a great volume that could fall under the word porn. Although, I would conceivably have a very hard time getting off on some of the pieces. But everybodys got a fetish.
DRE: Did you always intend to have a story of your own in there?
KN: Oh yeah, both Robin and I were talking about it. Each of us were thinking in our heads: Oh yeah, were going to be in that. Oh yes. But I dont think we knew what the story we were going to do at that point.
I was actually thinking, pretty much up to a couple months before the deadline that I was going to do a completely different story. It probably would have been a better idea but oh well, too late now. Ill hold it off for possible number two.
DRE: [laughs] Your story was definitely a bit odd, so you ended up marrying that guy?
KN: Yeah, I certainly did.
DRE: Youre still with him?
KN: Mmhmm. I certainly am.
DRE: What does he think about having that stuff out there?
KN: Um.
DRE: Well, hes a pervert, so he doesnt mind I guess.
KN: Yeah, hes an exhibitionist so he doesnt particularly care. As long as somebodys talking about him, thats what hes concerned about. He was kind of creeped out but kind of pleased at the same time.
DRE: You didnt feel kind of guilty then?
KN: I dont even know if it was guilt. He expressed a couple of times that he was worried that it didnt adequately reflect our relationship according to him. In a way it doesnt, but at a particular time in our relationship that was a really kind of touch and go time because we were both pretty angry at each other but weve gotten over it.
DRE: Did anyone turn you down?
KN: No, not really. Everyone who sort of signed up for it came through. It was really great. Quite a few people who thought that it was interesting, quite a few men said, Mmmm, no---nonono. Whether they were in relationships or not, they did not want to discuss it, and of course thats their right, obviously. But I just thought that was interesting.
DRE: Is there any reason that one of the usual comic book sexual suspects isnt in there, like Joe Matt [creator of Peepshow]?
KN: I had asked to use Mr. Matt and he said Although I like the idea, Im not going to give you my material. It was a really interesting response and I totally respect that. But we had talked to some of the usual suspects, as you said. But for some reason everyone was getting slammed, thank god, by freelance work while the deadline was coming around.
DRE: How is the book doing?
KN: The book is doing well. Of the 2000 that we printed out, I think we have 30 left. For small-timers like Robin and me, thats some pretty good odds.
DRE: Is it going into a second printing?
KN: Were thinking about it. Were not sure. Extraordinarily we broke even from the first book so were trying to dig up the money for at least a couple hundred more.
DRE: What does it mean to just be distributed by Alternative Press?
KN: Basically, what we really wanted to do was have our hands in the entire process, from casting calls to basically printing it up. Neither of us had done a book of that magnitude. Fortunately Jeff Mason [Publisher of Alternative Comics] was kind enough to say, OK, you guys can have free editorial range, whatever you want to do. I will take care of the distribution. He was just kind enough to do it.
DRE: Thats awesome.
Would you show this to your parents?
KN: The really unusual thing is that when Robin and I were getting ready, this was the week before we were supposed to send it off to the printer, my mother visited out of the blue. So as much as it pained me I had to tell her about the project. She was very cool with it. She was, OK, thats fine. I still would never show it to her. She asked for a copy of and the book and I cut out my pages. [laughs]
DRE: [laughs] Did she notice?
KN: I dont know if she noticed. I honestly dont know. I dont even know if she thought I was in the book or not.
DRE: Is your mom a very progressive-type mother?
KN: Um---
DRE: I would imagine no because you became an alternative cartoonist.
KN: [laughs] She is a good mother and she is progressive for a small town in Tennessee.
DRE: How was the book release party at Toys in Babeland [in New York City]?
KN: Im sorry I missed it.
DRE: You werent there? [laughs]
KN: I wasnt there. Robin went on in my stead. She lives in New York. I just could not get away. So I missed our own porno party.
The things I heard about from the party were There was no room to walk around. That pleases me. There were multiple occasions of individuals saying they were frightening kind of doe-eyed couples who were just trying to buy a vibrator and here are all of these alternative cartoonists screaming at them to buy a damn book.
DRE: How do you decide which story goes where?
KN: Usually we were looking at how the art cells flowed because that was the first visceral thing that a viewer would see. If there was really no good way to judge that, then we also worked with the subject matter. It was a very new experience for us to try to shoehorn all of these pieces into an organic flow. But we tried our damnedest and it seemed to work. I havent had anyone say that it was terribly laid out. So maybe thats good.
DRE: Did you find any commonalities through the stories?
KN: Not really. I thought that was a really interesting aspect because, like I said earlier, there is a fetish for everyone.
Every person on the planet is going to view sex and their own sexuality in a different way. That was something we were really striving for which I think we got since I cant really see a theme.
DRE: How did you and Robin come up with the idea for the book?
KN: Robin and I were going on a two day drive to pick up her old belongings from an ex-boyfriend. They had had a pretty messy breakup. They had been together for four years and were living together pretty much the entire time. So it was not a pleasant trip. You just kind of knew all the way up that there was going to be some drama. The best thing that we could think of to do was simply not talk about it [laughs].
We wanted to change the subject so were two comic book nerds so we talk about comics. We were driving along, just discussing the kind of comics we would really enjoy to see that werent being produced. I think Robin had recently read the a comic book of dirty stories and she said, You know, this is a really good anthology that deals with subject matter that not a lot of quote unquote respectable artists are dealing with and not a lot of respectable artists who we respect their work. So we decided that we should be doing this stuff. We thought that throwing together a couple of books would be easy, what a mistake that was!
DRE: [laughs] In what way was it tough to put together?
KN: Well I think it was just our enormous inexperience with something of this size. We had both published our own work before but much smaller books. The most difficult part was trying to wrangle all the people to meet the deadline and to make sure that they were happy with the final project. We were not prepared for that at all. Its pretty safe to say at this point that we did not know what we were getting into and luckily we didnt, otherwise we might have not done it.
The design of it was pretty straightforward. We already knew that we were getting a cover from James Kolchaka which we were forever grateful for. Then later on we heard that James Sturm would be interested in doing the back cover and we were like Oh my god! This is it, the design is taken care of, well just run with what they got and do a repetition of their theme throughout the book. The really, really difficult part as far as just the manufacturing of the book is that just dealing with the printer was very frustrating. God bless the printer, they were so patient with us. I think it was pretty obvious from their point of view we didnt know what the hell we were doing.
DRE: What was the original criteria for the book?
KN: Basically we didnt want to have too tight of an editorial range on it. So we pretty much said we want stories about sex. They had to be autobiographical but they have to be about sex in some way. We didnt want to limit them to the type of sex or the way that they would depict the sex. If they didnt even want to show sex, thats fine. If they simply want to discuss sex, thats great. If they wanted to just have page upon page upon page of orgy, thats great, but we also really desperately needed to make sure that it just wasnt a sex scene. We needed to have a story there too. Because its too easy to do six pages of two people humping, not having anything invested in it and not have any reason to have those six pages. Thats why we really clearly defined it as stories about sex. The story first and the sex second.
DRE: Were you surprised about how personal the stories got??
KN: We really didnt have any idea what we were going to get. So we really didnt know what we were going to be seeing each time we opened up the mail. We were really fortunate that the right people wanted to get involved in this project. Because I think there is such a volume of voices and content that is pretty unique to each artist. I dont think we have repeats of scenes or styles or moods, which was something we were really striving for.
DRE: Do you still imagine people having sex, everyone you meet?
KN: Usually yeah.
DRE: [laughs] How did that start?
KN: I dont know. When Im talking to someone, Im just looking at their face and its the first thing that pops into my face. T I dont know why my brain is hardwired this way. It gets kind of bad.
DRE: How long have you been doing that for?
KN: Probably since I understood the concept of sex.
DRE: Which was when, 9?
KN: No, I was what is charitably known as a late bloomer. Sex scared the hell out of me until at least junior high. I didnt want anything to do with the concept.
DRE: So that means you had your first sexual experience really late?
KN: Oh yeah, really late.
DRE: College?
KN: College, yeah, I think was 20 or 21 at the time. I cant remember.
DRE: When did you start doing comics?
KN: I started doing comics when I was about 15.
DRE: But were you always drawing up until then?
KN: Actually no, but I did start drawing very early on in my life. But I stopped after I got to this one particular teacher in junior high because she made it so cruel and so terrible to draw. It was just no fun; it wasnt about the enjoyment of it but about creating a grid and copying a picture.
DRE: Yeah, I did that with a Garfield panel.
KN: Yeah, she wanted us to do pictures of dogs. That was her artistic realm.
DRE: Did she have a dog?
KN: I have no idea. I just think she was a cruel evil woman who just hated children and thats why she was there. I stopped drawing for a very long time after that.
DRE: Im sure youll love this next question. So being a female independent comic creator, is it easy, is it not easy, give me some insight there.
KN: I dont know what its like to be to be anything else.
KN: I cant imagine it would be that much different. We work in a vacuum. We occasionally come together at these conventions and thats about the only other time I see anybody else who does comics. So I cant imagine that my sex would have much to do with it.
DRE: How did you meet Robin?
KN: We went to college together.
DRE: How old you are?
KN: Im 26.
DRE: What comics did you grow up reading?
KN: Oh superheroes, absolutely.
DRE: Oh really?
KN: I think my path is a pretty common one for most kids my age who do comics. I grew up on superheroes. That was my bread and butter.
DRE: And which ones?
KN: I was a Marvel zombie. Have you ever noticed, they had their own little language. At least they did back in the 70s. If you purchase so and so number of comics you fell under the Zombie category. Well I was the guy with the tambourine.
DRE: [laughs] So you werent much a troublemaker then?
KN: Oh God no, I was very boring.
DRE: [laughs] As opposed to now, when you put out porn comics.
KN: Even now Im boring. Thats like my shining example of not boring.
DRE: Do you have any tattoos?
KN: No.
DRE: No?
KN: I havent found anything I would like well enough.
DRE: Not even any of your drawings?
KN: No, no, no. Theres something thats so incredibly masturbatory about putting my own drawings on my own body thats just kind of creepy for me.
DRE: How did you develop your style?
KN: Mostly out of laziness. I have always really liked the clean line. When I saw Tintin for the first time I was just so amazed even though its obvious that Herge is using ink as opposed to my computer drawings. His line was so crisp, so clean and so delicate, it just was beautiful. Thats what I wanted, something crisp, clean and beautiful. Except I got just the crisp and clean.
DRE: So you draw on the computer?
KN: Yeah, yeah.
DRE: How long have you been doing that?
KN: I had been using the traditional method of the ink sharpie and what not. Just working in what everybody else would consider the way you make comics. I wasnt really satisfied with how that was looking. My husband was a computer graphics major and I was really amazed by this new tool. I didnt know anything about computers when I went to college. I didnt even know where the ON button was.
By hanging around him and watching how he used the machine as a tool. I eventually got over my stigma of press the art button and the computer does everything for you. I was very impressed with what it could do and the possibilities for my work specifically. I didnt start using the computer until about three or four years ago and now I pretty much do all of my work on the computer.
by Daniel Robert Epstein
SG Username: AndersWolleck
I got a chance to talk to True Porn co-editor and contributor Kelli Nelson. I figured she would be interesting because in her introduction of the book she says that she pictures everyone she meets having sex. It was too bad we werent going to meet in person. Her story is one of the best in the book. Its the story of how she met her husband, his fetishes and how she was able to learn to deal with them. Its a very open and honest story that nearly caused me to burst out in tears.
Check out the website for True Porn and order the book.
Daniel Robert Epstein: So is True Porn anthology the first of its kind in comics?
Kelli Nelson: Oh, Im sure its not. There have been more than a few occasions where the authors sex life has been used to tremendous quantities.
DRE: But as an anthology you think?
KN: As an anthology, I dont know. I havent heard of anything like it. But theres no telling whats out there that I havent heard of.
DRE: [laughs] Did you know many of the creators who got involved?
KN: Not at all. When we were at Alternative Press Expo out in San Francisco we were trying to see if anyone was even interested in doing the project. It was the only time we actually asked people to be involved. We asked three or four creators who were at the convention. Like Hey, does this sound good to you? and they were like Yeah! Sign us up.
After that, people who weve never heard of came out of the woodwork and started to ask us Are you still accepting submissions? It was really amazing how quickly it got around.
DRE: Did you ever expect it to be as big as it was in terms of the size of the book?
KN: We were really hoping we could get to that size but never in our wildest dreams did we think that we would have 200 plus pages of porno. That was just our good fortune.
DRE: Is it like real porn, meaning could it get someone off?
KN: No, I dont think so. I think theres a great volume that could fall under the word porn. Although, I would conceivably have a very hard time getting off on some of the pieces. But everybodys got a fetish.
DRE: Did you always intend to have a story of your own in there?
KN: Oh yeah, both Robin and I were talking about it. Each of us were thinking in our heads: Oh yeah, were going to be in that. Oh yes. But I dont think we knew what the story we were going to do at that point.
I was actually thinking, pretty much up to a couple months before the deadline that I was going to do a completely different story. It probably would have been a better idea but oh well, too late now. Ill hold it off for possible number two.
DRE: [laughs] Your story was definitely a bit odd, so you ended up marrying that guy?
KN: Yeah, I certainly did.
DRE: Youre still with him?
KN: Mmhmm. I certainly am.
DRE: What does he think about having that stuff out there?
KN: Um.
DRE: Well, hes a pervert, so he doesnt mind I guess.
KN: Yeah, hes an exhibitionist so he doesnt particularly care. As long as somebodys talking about him, thats what hes concerned about. He was kind of creeped out but kind of pleased at the same time.
DRE: You didnt feel kind of guilty then?
KN: I dont even know if it was guilt. He expressed a couple of times that he was worried that it didnt adequately reflect our relationship according to him. In a way it doesnt, but at a particular time in our relationship that was a really kind of touch and go time because we were both pretty angry at each other but weve gotten over it.
DRE: Did anyone turn you down?
KN: No, not really. Everyone who sort of signed up for it came through. It was really great. Quite a few people who thought that it was interesting, quite a few men said, Mmmm, no---nonono. Whether they were in relationships or not, they did not want to discuss it, and of course thats their right, obviously. But I just thought that was interesting.
DRE: Is there any reason that one of the usual comic book sexual suspects isnt in there, like Joe Matt [creator of Peepshow]?
KN: I had asked to use Mr. Matt and he said Although I like the idea, Im not going to give you my material. It was a really interesting response and I totally respect that. But we had talked to some of the usual suspects, as you said. But for some reason everyone was getting slammed, thank god, by freelance work while the deadline was coming around.
DRE: How is the book doing?
KN: The book is doing well. Of the 2000 that we printed out, I think we have 30 left. For small-timers like Robin and me, thats some pretty good odds.
DRE: Is it going into a second printing?
KN: Were thinking about it. Were not sure. Extraordinarily we broke even from the first book so were trying to dig up the money for at least a couple hundred more.
DRE: What does it mean to just be distributed by Alternative Press?
KN: Basically, what we really wanted to do was have our hands in the entire process, from casting calls to basically printing it up. Neither of us had done a book of that magnitude. Fortunately Jeff Mason [Publisher of Alternative Comics] was kind enough to say, OK, you guys can have free editorial range, whatever you want to do. I will take care of the distribution. He was just kind enough to do it.
DRE: Thats awesome.
Would you show this to your parents?
KN: The really unusual thing is that when Robin and I were getting ready, this was the week before we were supposed to send it off to the printer, my mother visited out of the blue. So as much as it pained me I had to tell her about the project. She was very cool with it. She was, OK, thats fine. I still would never show it to her. She asked for a copy of and the book and I cut out my pages. [laughs]
DRE: [laughs] Did she notice?
KN: I dont know if she noticed. I honestly dont know. I dont even know if she thought I was in the book or not.
DRE: Is your mom a very progressive-type mother?
KN: Um---
DRE: I would imagine no because you became an alternative cartoonist.
KN: [laughs] She is a good mother and she is progressive for a small town in Tennessee.
DRE: How was the book release party at Toys in Babeland [in New York City]?
KN: Im sorry I missed it.
DRE: You werent there? [laughs]
KN: I wasnt there. Robin went on in my stead. She lives in New York. I just could not get away. So I missed our own porno party.
The things I heard about from the party were There was no room to walk around. That pleases me. There were multiple occasions of individuals saying they were frightening kind of doe-eyed couples who were just trying to buy a vibrator and here are all of these alternative cartoonists screaming at them to buy a damn book.
DRE: How do you decide which story goes where?
KN: Usually we were looking at how the art cells flowed because that was the first visceral thing that a viewer would see. If there was really no good way to judge that, then we also worked with the subject matter. It was a very new experience for us to try to shoehorn all of these pieces into an organic flow. But we tried our damnedest and it seemed to work. I havent had anyone say that it was terribly laid out. So maybe thats good.
DRE: Did you find any commonalities through the stories?
KN: Not really. I thought that was a really interesting aspect because, like I said earlier, there is a fetish for everyone.
Every person on the planet is going to view sex and their own sexuality in a different way. That was something we were really striving for which I think we got since I cant really see a theme.
DRE: How did you and Robin come up with the idea for the book?
KN: Robin and I were going on a two day drive to pick up her old belongings from an ex-boyfriend. They had had a pretty messy breakup. They had been together for four years and were living together pretty much the entire time. So it was not a pleasant trip. You just kind of knew all the way up that there was going to be some drama. The best thing that we could think of to do was simply not talk about it [laughs].
We wanted to change the subject so were two comic book nerds so we talk about comics. We were driving along, just discussing the kind of comics we would really enjoy to see that werent being produced. I think Robin had recently read the a comic book of dirty stories and she said, You know, this is a really good anthology that deals with subject matter that not a lot of quote unquote respectable artists are dealing with and not a lot of respectable artists who we respect their work. So we decided that we should be doing this stuff. We thought that throwing together a couple of books would be easy, what a mistake that was!
DRE: [laughs] In what way was it tough to put together?
KN: Well I think it was just our enormous inexperience with something of this size. We had both published our own work before but much smaller books. The most difficult part was trying to wrangle all the people to meet the deadline and to make sure that they were happy with the final project. We were not prepared for that at all. Its pretty safe to say at this point that we did not know what we were getting into and luckily we didnt, otherwise we might have not done it.
The design of it was pretty straightforward. We already knew that we were getting a cover from James Kolchaka which we were forever grateful for. Then later on we heard that James Sturm would be interested in doing the back cover and we were like Oh my god! This is it, the design is taken care of, well just run with what they got and do a repetition of their theme throughout the book. The really, really difficult part as far as just the manufacturing of the book is that just dealing with the printer was very frustrating. God bless the printer, they were so patient with us. I think it was pretty obvious from their point of view we didnt know what the hell we were doing.
DRE: What was the original criteria for the book?
KN: Basically we didnt want to have too tight of an editorial range on it. So we pretty much said we want stories about sex. They had to be autobiographical but they have to be about sex in some way. We didnt want to limit them to the type of sex or the way that they would depict the sex. If they didnt even want to show sex, thats fine. If they simply want to discuss sex, thats great. If they wanted to just have page upon page upon page of orgy, thats great, but we also really desperately needed to make sure that it just wasnt a sex scene. We needed to have a story there too. Because its too easy to do six pages of two people humping, not having anything invested in it and not have any reason to have those six pages. Thats why we really clearly defined it as stories about sex. The story first and the sex second.
DRE: Were you surprised about how personal the stories got??
KN: We really didnt have any idea what we were going to get. So we really didnt know what we were going to be seeing each time we opened up the mail. We were really fortunate that the right people wanted to get involved in this project. Because I think there is such a volume of voices and content that is pretty unique to each artist. I dont think we have repeats of scenes or styles or moods, which was something we were really striving for.
DRE: Do you still imagine people having sex, everyone you meet?
KN: Usually yeah.
DRE: [laughs] How did that start?
KN: I dont know. When Im talking to someone, Im just looking at their face and its the first thing that pops into my face. T I dont know why my brain is hardwired this way. It gets kind of bad.
DRE: How long have you been doing that for?
KN: Probably since I understood the concept of sex.
DRE: Which was when, 9?
KN: No, I was what is charitably known as a late bloomer. Sex scared the hell out of me until at least junior high. I didnt want anything to do with the concept.
DRE: So that means you had your first sexual experience really late?
KN: Oh yeah, really late.
DRE: College?
KN: College, yeah, I think was 20 or 21 at the time. I cant remember.
DRE: When did you start doing comics?
KN: I started doing comics when I was about 15.
DRE: But were you always drawing up until then?
KN: Actually no, but I did start drawing very early on in my life. But I stopped after I got to this one particular teacher in junior high because she made it so cruel and so terrible to draw. It was just no fun; it wasnt about the enjoyment of it but about creating a grid and copying a picture.
DRE: Yeah, I did that with a Garfield panel.
KN: Yeah, she wanted us to do pictures of dogs. That was her artistic realm.
DRE: Did she have a dog?
KN: I have no idea. I just think she was a cruel evil woman who just hated children and thats why she was there. I stopped drawing for a very long time after that.
DRE: Im sure youll love this next question. So being a female independent comic creator, is it easy, is it not easy, give me some insight there.
KN: I dont know what its like to be to be anything else.
KN: I cant imagine it would be that much different. We work in a vacuum. We occasionally come together at these conventions and thats about the only other time I see anybody else who does comics. So I cant imagine that my sex would have much to do with it.
DRE: How did you meet Robin?
KN: We went to college together.
DRE: How old you are?
KN: Im 26.
DRE: What comics did you grow up reading?
KN: Oh superheroes, absolutely.
DRE: Oh really?
KN: I think my path is a pretty common one for most kids my age who do comics. I grew up on superheroes. That was my bread and butter.
DRE: And which ones?
KN: I was a Marvel zombie. Have you ever noticed, they had their own little language. At least they did back in the 70s. If you purchase so and so number of comics you fell under the Zombie category. Well I was the guy with the tambourine.
DRE: [laughs] So you werent much a troublemaker then?
KN: Oh God no, I was very boring.
DRE: [laughs] As opposed to now, when you put out porn comics.
KN: Even now Im boring. Thats like my shining example of not boring.
DRE: Do you have any tattoos?
KN: No.
DRE: No?
KN: I havent found anything I would like well enough.
DRE: Not even any of your drawings?
KN: No, no, no. Theres something thats so incredibly masturbatory about putting my own drawings on my own body thats just kind of creepy for me.
DRE: How did you develop your style?
KN: Mostly out of laziness. I have always really liked the clean line. When I saw Tintin for the first time I was just so amazed even though its obvious that Herge is using ink as opposed to my computer drawings. His line was so crisp, so clean and so delicate, it just was beautiful. Thats what I wanted, something crisp, clean and beautiful. Except I got just the crisp and clean.
DRE: So you draw on the computer?
KN: Yeah, yeah.
DRE: How long have you been doing that?
KN: I had been using the traditional method of the ink sharpie and what not. Just working in what everybody else would consider the way you make comics. I wasnt really satisfied with how that was looking. My husband was a computer graphics major and I was really amazed by this new tool. I didnt know anything about computers when I went to college. I didnt even know where the ON button was.
By hanging around him and watching how he used the machine as a tool. I eventually got over my stigma of press the art button and the computer does everything for you. I was very impressed with what it could do and the possibilities for my work specifically. I didnt start using the computer until about three or four years ago and now I pretty much do all of my work on the computer.
by Daniel Robert Epstein
SG Username: AndersWolleck
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pirateclub:
Man, I was too busy at APE to go and find them. I totally wanted to submit something to this book too. And I have a good story, dammit. Oh, well. Maybe next time. Good interview.
tohidemyhurt:
very cool interview. how many of us have suffered a horrible art teacher along the path of our schooling? it almost seems an experience with an odd up-side. but anyway, will be spending some time today trying to track down this book. an interview with Joe Matt would also i imagine be very cool. --thanks man for the nice read.