When the going gets tough, do the tough get going? Or do they stay and fight to the bitter end?
Kevin Huizenga examines both in his new graphic novel Fight or Run, published by Buenaventura Press. The Pulse took an in-depth look at the book:
“I wanted to make up something with a stable structure and rules that I could just draw as an exercise, without having to think about it too much. There are a lot of strips like this–like Little Sammy Sneeze. Threats are indeed an ageless subject. There’s not a real subject though in the strips–it’s just a game…as they say. That means other people can play too, if they want, or not, c’est la vie.”
According to previews, the minimalist book was similar to “prehistoric cave art or the arcade classic Mortal Kombat.” Huizenga said he received a grant from the French government to inspect several cave paintings, which helped influence his work. You can read the rest of the interview here.
December 4th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
“In-depth” is a really funny way to describe Jen’s interview. Actually, “interview” is a really funny way to describe it. It seems like she just comes up with a bunch of questions ahead of time, and shoots the subject an e-mail–which leads the bizarre, bulling-ahead quality of her pieces that seems to disregard the subject’s actual answers.
As Fight or Run is a 32-page, stapled pamphlet, I’m going to go out on a limb and say it’s what the kids used to call a “comic book”, not a graphic novel.
I’m also going to raise the remote possibility that he was pulling the ContinoBot 3000′s chain about receiving grant money to fly to Europe to study French cave paintings as research for his 32-page comic book. But, you know, I’m happy to be wrong about that.
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