Honolulu’s Star-Bulletin talks with Gilbert Hernandez about Sloth, his 128-page graphic novel for Vertigo:
“I like to allow readers a certain amount of projection,” Hernandez said by phone from his Las Vegas home, “to have teasers along the way in the story and let them fill in the blanks using their own imaginations. I remember as a teenager I got pretty good at projecting things and events in my head. Using the story thread of the coma was meant to give each of them their own separate voices. It wasn’t meant to be a big deal.
“I’ve always intended this story as a novel. It was meant to be a one-time deal, to use the characters only once. It was the way to go. I feel better about doing longer stories. I’ve always been frustrated with ‘L&R’ in the sense that it could only be done in short chapters, and doing it for over so long of a time.”
There’s a seven-page PDF preview of Sloth available on the Vertigo website.
