Joe Matt Tribute (47:41, 109mb)
On the panel was Matt Groening, Sammy Harkham and Brian Doherty. The spoke about Joe’s obsessive personality, how he was the opposite of most comic artists in that writing and drawing was easy but inking was slow going due to perfectionism, the many reasons why he wasn’t more productive, how he really got into old western TV shows. Matt spoke about how he first came across Matt’s work and what he loved about it. They revealed Joe’s girl problems, his knowledge of his issues in regards to that but his unwillingness to change, his odd living situation, Seth, Chester Brown and the cartoonist tropes he used in his work, his work Spent, he was teaching singer Aimee Mann how to be a cartoonist, the 15th and final issue of Peepshow and what was left to be finished, Matt revealed that HBO wanted to do an animated Peepshow and why that all fell apart, Joe’s integrity and how his commitment to that hurt him.
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