It’s time once again for another edition of I Can Has Comix. This time Wizard editor Sean T. Collins talks to Jordan Crane, author of the new Fantagraphics series, Uptight:
Even today, your series Uptight is comparatively inexpensive for that format. The few pamphlet-format alternative comic books that exist tend to be not as cheap.
CRANE: My intention with Uptight was slightly different. I really got sick of waiting for 2 or 3 years between books. It was also brought on by the fact that I had kids, and my working time, while they were young, was cut down for a couple of years. I was having trouble getting in as much work as I could, so it took a long time to get pages done. The Clouds Above took a long time to get out, and that’s what I was working on when they were babies. All I had done up to that point was books: I had The Last Lonely Saturday and Col-Dee and then Clouds Above, and I was working on Keeping Two, too. I was like, “God, I’ve been working this whole f—ing time and nothing’s come out.” Every time I would see people I’d be like, “Oh yeah, I’m working,” but I wanted to be around and be like, “Yeah, I’ve got a new thing—here it is.” And I was getting sick of doing webcomics, because even though it was nice to have the deadline, I f—ing hate reading online. I just hate it. I don’t even like reading newspapers online. I do, but I only skim them at best.
