At Horror Yearbook, Mike Fish talks with Buffy the Vampire Slayer artist Georges Jeanty about collaboration, the surprise in Issue 12, and trying to capture the actors’ likenesses:

Horror Yearbook: There’s been some criticism to you that when you draw The Scooby Gang, you don’t meet the likeness of the actors. What do you say to that?

Georges Jeanty: What?! I hadn’t heard that! I thought I was so well insulated as to not hear the criticisms … okay, now I’m depressed! I’ll be the first one to say I don’t get it right all the time, but I can say with absolute honesty that I do make an effort to draw the in question. I never just fake it. As bad as some of the likenesses might look, I never skimp. So please, bear with me if a stray drawing doesn’t meet up to standards.

I will say Joss said something to me early on that put me in the right frame of mind when drawing these characters, he told me he wasn’t as interested in it looking like Sarah Michelle Gellar as he was in having the drawing looking like Buffy. That did it for me.

Issue 13 of Buffy Season 8 hits stores next week.

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