The Daily Cross Hatch has the first part of a two-part interview with acclaimed French cartoonists Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian (Get A Life, Maybe Later):
Every time we consume art—whether it’s a book, a comic, or a piece of music, we’re constantly trying to read things into it about the artist himself. You two must get a lot of questions regarding who is specifically doing what. Was that part of what prompted Maybe Later? The ability to real claim something for yourself?
CB: We never plan things prior to a project. We always go along with the project. Whenever an idea pops up, we talk about it, and it’s not necessarily intended to be shared, at the beginning. It depends on the reaction. Say I have an idea—I’ll talk about it with Philippe, and he reacts to it, we’ll probably develop this idea as a collaborative project. But then again, if he doesn’t bounce back, then it’s probably not such a good idea, so I’ll probably put it aside and move on to the next idea, or maybe bounce back to an idea that he suggests.
