IMAGINE YOU'RE AT A COMIC-CONVENTION AND YOU SPOT YOUR FAVORITE CREATOR.
YOU KNOW THEY HAVE BEEN SIGNING BOOKS FOR HOURS BUT YOU MAKE THE DECISION TO
ASK THEM SOME QUESTIONS WHILE YOU'RE WAITING IN LINE.
YOU ONLY HAVE A FEW SHORT MINUTES, BUT WHAT DO YOU ASK THEM,
THAT THEY HAVEN'T ANSWERED ALL DAY, AND HOW MANY QUESTIONS CAN YOU SQUEEZE IN?
SIT DOWN WITH US AS WE BROWSE THE ARCHIVES AND
TAKE FIVE with...
ONCE KNOWN AS THE COMIC INDUSTRY'S MOST PROLIFIC "TRACER," JIMMY HAS RECENTLY SHOWN THERE IS MORE TO HIM THAN JUST INKING. AFTER GETTING THE BUG WRITING MARVEL COMICS "DEADPOOL"- HE THEN MOVED TO DC COMICS AND THEIR "SUPERBOY" TITLE, AND CONTINUES TO PUT OUT BOOKS
THROUGH BLACK BULL PUBLISHING.
ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR AND RESPECTED CREATORS IN THE BIZ, JIMMY HAS DONE IT ALL.
IN BETWEEN SIGNING BOOKS FOR A HUGE LINE OF FANS, JIMMY WAS NICE ENOUGH TO TAKE TIME FOR THIS INTERVIEW. IT'S ALWAYS GREAT HANGING OUT WITH JIMMY AND WONDERING WHAT HE'LL DO NEXT!
THANKS JIMMY, I APPRECIATE IT!!!
1) So...how much ink do you go through in a steady month?
Jimmy: Probably like...2 small...7 ounce bottles. Enough for a small country!
2) Have you gotten a lot of flak for your website, "Brooklyn Bizarro" (with Buddy Scalera & Joe Delfini) because of it's "over 18" content?
Jimmy: The only flak I had was when I tried to promote "Deadpool" on it, and Marvel made me pull the drawing of Deadpool off the site.. They said some mother called up and complained...which was bullshit...but...(shrugs).
3) Would you like to do any more "creator-owned" work?
Jimmy: As a matter of fact, I am doing more creator-owned stuff. I'll be doing a book for Black Bull. I plan to do some stuff for DC and that's gonna be part creator-owned. Then I've got some other plans...
but yeah...there's alot of stuff that's gonna be coming the next year or so.
4) Are you going to concentrate more on writing, and get away from inking?
Jimmy: No...I have just as much inking work. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna bring the writing work up to the same amount of iking work I'm doing. My next writing gig is a steady ongoing series for DC.
I'm taking over...uhm...one of the...I can't tell you...but it's an ongoing series from DC. (Superboy)
I'm writing a book for Black Bull. It's a mini-series. I gotta lot of good stuff going on!
5) Now for the real question...You have an Amish man, a blender, and a box of paper-clips.
What are your plans for the evening?
Jimmy: Uh...no bullets?!? We got paper-clips, an Amish guy, and a blender...okay...
You put the Amish guy in a dress and...No vodka?!? Hmmm...Just paper-clips and a blender?
Okay...Take the glass off the blender. Put the paper-clips in...hang the Amish guy from the ceiling... drop the paper-clips into the spinning blade so they shoot back up, into the Amish guy.
Y'know what I'm sayin'?!? Then...we get a giant magnet the next day and we pull 'em out of him!
Those are like...three hard things!
Next time ask me to put baby-oil in it, and I'll have a whole 'nother story for ya!!!
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