Continuing their interview onslaught, the Daily Cross Hatch talks to underground cartoonist Skip Williamson (part one):
So what drove you away from comics?
Wow. Now that’s interesting. I got into self-publishing around 1994, and each time I published a book, fewer people bought it. The last thing I published was a collection of ‘Snappy’ Sammy Smoot strips, and I only got 1,500 orders, so I said, “fuck it. If nobody cares, I’m going to do something else.” I wasn’t being that vitriolic about it—I’d always liked the medium of painting, and the whole lowbrow thing was beginning to move on, so I figured I’d do that. Now I’m totally fed up with the gallery scene, so I’m back to comic again.
