The Daily Cross Hatch chats up mini-comic artist and Mome contributor Tom Kaczynski in the first of a two-part interview:
Your comics often deal with weird occurrences and elements of mystery and ideology about society in a way that feels almost sci-fi. Are you a big fan of sci-fi?
I am a big fan of sci-fi! No, I really like science fiction and I started reading it when I was a kid, then I sort of stopped for awhile, then I got back into it again recently. I used to love Jules Verne, H.G. Wells and all those really old sci-fi guys. Right now I’m reading people like Philip K. Dick and A.E. VanVogt who is this golden age science fiction guy who influenced Philip K. Dick. I really love his stuff. It’s almost like [Voltaire’s] Candide in outer space (especially Slan) … in terms of pacing, not really in terms of philosophy. But yeah, I love science fiction. I think my favorite science fiction author would be J.G. Ballard, who doesn’t really write science fiction anymore, but his stories do talk about the future through the present in a very interesting way.
January 17th, 2011 at 4:12 pm
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