SOPHIE: Guess!! My father and mother, of course. Who were your influences, not just in terms of drawing style, but in approach to comics storytelling? That's when it's most hard to create though, when you know that people are gunna see it and judge it.the pressure's on ! Thank you for the visual rhythm. My friend Mara from Oog & Blik in Holland also wanted to publish my first comic, so she helped me get at it, and I did it for Oog & Blik in the beginning. SOPHIE: I always did a lot of comics just to fool around, always had and have a sketchbook to draw whatever, and then when I started living alone and wanting to make money in a more artistic way then teaching English ( a couple of years ago), I decided I had to do a nice publishable comic book. When did you first start drawing with an eye on producing your own comix? Were you doing a lot of drawing that ended up lost in sketchbooks? I'm surprised that in a first comic you've captured that visual rhythm that comics need in order to work and make sense to a reader. Other kids who are emotionally unstable have a hard time believing in themselves, and it's not their fault. They seem to often get that I am a different person, gender, time, and all that makes what I do into something else.(thank god I'm a girl !) But it's also easier cause my parents are really good to me and supportive, which has helped me be strong about the whole situation. I didn't even give myself a chance! It's hard, cause my dad is a perfectionist, and so I put a lot of pressure on myself without realizing it.you have to start out bad if you want to end up good ( that's what I say to myself )!īut people in general are less jerky about it than you'd think. SOPHIE: well, even if I seem young to you, for me it took a long time to finally convince myself that I was capable of doing decent comic.I went through years of starting them, and not finishing cause I thought they sucked. Belly Button Comix reads as if you dropped the gauntlet, saying, "Sophie's here, and she's all good." Have you had to spend a lot of time reminding people that you are your own woman or artist, so to speak? Sometimes, children of famous parents seem to struggle if they move into the same professional field as their parents. I was surprised to find out that you were so young. I interviewed her back in February, and that e-discussion becomes Mr. I look forward to BBC #2, and I hope she remains in comics. I enjoyed BBC, especially the short tale, "Eddy Bear."Īlthough Sophie has told other interviewers that she doesn't consider herself a professional artist, she is as good as many pro cartoonists. I certainly am willing to lie when put in the position to do so, but thankfully Sophie didn't let me down. I love her father's work, and I didn't know if I could be fair. In addition to art, Sophie is a musician and has trained at a circus school and toured France with a traveling circus.Īfter I first received Sophie's comic BBC #1, I was trying to find a way to avoid reading or reviewing it. Zwigoff also directed the 1994 film, Crumb. In Terry Zwigoff's 2001 film adaptation of Daniel Clowes' graphic novel, GHOST WORLD (also the title of the film), Sophie's drawings and watercolors are used in the sketchbook of lead character Enid (played by Thora Birch). However, this isn't the first time we've seen Sophie's art. Oog & Blik of The Netherlands publishes BBC in Europe. Sophie has also joined the family business when Fantagraphics published her comic BELLY BUTTON COMIX #1 in early January of this year. She's Sophie Crumb, the daughter of acclaimed cartoonist Aline Kominsky-Crumb and Underground comix legend and one of the most well-regarded comic book artists in the history of the medium, R. Crumb's comics for at least the last two decades, you've seen a cartoon representation of her as a toddler or as an independent Parisian teen. If you've been a regular reader or devotee of R.
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