Tom Spurgeon talks to Mean author Steven Weissman about his new book and his “L’il’ Tykes” characters:
SPURGEON: How do you feel in general about seeing your early work again? Were you happy with the way it looked? Is there an area that looking back you’re happiest that you’ve improved in?
WEISSMAN: I think the comics in Mean are pretty hilarious. They’re funny looking, the stories are all over the map, I don’t know.I can admit that, say five years ago, I wouldn’t have seen this as a worthwhile project. This was work I had been pushing away from, you know, artistically. Now, I’m pushing off from the comics I was doing in 2002, 2003, and I think I can be more objective about these older stories. Does that make sense?
