Skyscrapers of the Midwest was one of the best “comics completely out of left field by an artist I heretofore had never heard of or seen before” in recent memory. Tom Spurgeon must have like the series too, since he took the time to interview creator Josh Cotter yesterday:
SPURGEON: Are you surprised by anything you see in Skyscrapers?
COTTER: I started it as a therapeutic thing in terms of the isolation I felt wherever I went. But doing comics has made me even more isolated. I’ve seen so many friendships and other relationships just fall away the last few years. I love doing comics, but everything suffers because of comics. I’ve become so obsessed working on comics, and it’s such a solitary dispute. It’s created more problems at time. I can’t stop drawing, but the older I get the more into I get into something I’m doing the more things suffer.
