Over at the Daily Cross Hatch, Brian Heater talks to David Yurkovich, author of the new Top Shelf book, Death By Chocolate Redux, which collects his earlier work:
There’s certainly a sense in these stories, versus your newer work, that you’re just getting used to balancing darkness with goofiness. Yeah, that’s really what I’d like to do. It really is a balancing act. Too much and you’re doing a really dark story and there’s no levity in it. You get too much on the other side, and you’re doing comedy—nothing against doing either, but I don’t want to have to choose.
Was it a bit painful to have to go back and reexamine work from a decade ago?
Yeah, definitely. There were a lot of things that I would have done differently, if I would have had the skill to do them. I did it the best I could. The first Death by Chocolate was published in ’96. I drew that before August of ’95, because I had applied for a Xeric for that. At the time I had sent it in, I had 20-30 pages done, so I had the majority of those done by ’95. Looking at them, 10-11 years later it’s clear that there’s room for a lot of improvement in these panels. Fortunately, we had a lot of lead time with Top Shelf, so I could essentially fix everything that I didn’t like.
December 29th, 2010 at 9:04 am
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