Jhonen Vasquez
Jhonen Vasquez
Jhonen C. Vasquezis an American comic book writer, cartoonist and music video director. He is best known for creating the comic book Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, with its spin-off comics Squee! and I Feel Sick, and the Nickelodeon animated series Invader Zim...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth1 September 1974
CitySan Jose, CA
CountryUnited States of America
american-cartoonist book johnny
Johnny was the very first book I did.
american-cartoonist buy letter negative parent response
Usually when I get a letter from a parent it's because they buy my stuff. I don't really get a whole lot of negative response in general.
affected age american-cartoonist hated retro shows stuff
Retro looking stuff but a lot of these guys doing these shows are my age or younger. I was just disgusted. I hated being around that kind of thing. Not that it affected what I did because when it comes down to it I was doing my own show.
american-cartoonist stories
It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.
american-cartoonist characters far full himself joke laughing series
When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.
american-cartoonist audience funny guess laugh robot
Some robot who never made me laugh didn't think was funny or didn't think the audience would understand. I guess that's television.
children insane destroyed
Children are all criminally insane, and must be destroyed!
writing trying robots
I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably.
reading light might
I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.
people age fans
I could go through a lot of my old emails from when I first started doing comics. Back then the lowest age of fans was like 15 or 16 up to people in their 20's and 30's.
growing-up thinking past
Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture.
thinking done email
Ever since I'm done with Zim everyone thinks that I'm going to go back to comics. I've been flooded with emails asking me if I'm working on the new Johnny over and over again.
kids littles television
But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television.
winning thinking awards
Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.