Comic strips transcript10/27/2022 ![]() ![]() #Comic strips transcript fullBut the fact is that all of us are born into a world that is full of characters, just full of full full of characters. ![]() S24: Right now, it just seems like it’s really difficult to find what’s beautiful and incredible about the world. S29: I really love having met little scruffy cousin Aditi. And then also be willing to just fight anyone who tries to say a bad word about those people. The whole thing amazes me that you can be attached to something and then be part of it. ![]() S21: You look like you’ve always been in it. S28: He says, see, you look like you belong. He talked to me like like I was part of this world, you know, and and he put his arm around me. He did this thing when he gave me the original. S21: When I saw that, it was a shock and a beautiful shock. We decided to be best friends, even though she’s a girl. S17: And Jeffie saying to a Bilkin, Daddy, this is Linda. I always wear a little bandanna tied and there’s my red hair and I’m wearing jeans and a shirt just like I do. And looking at his father, Bill, and I’m standing next to him and I look just like me. And it looks just like me, except I’m a little kid. The beautiful thing is he actually drew me and I got to be in the strip one day as a character. And the way I did it was by drawing a picture that that’s the whole reason I got to meet him and touch his hand because I drew a picture and I became a cartoonist. But part of the reason I was crying so much was I realized I had crossed into the circle. S21: But I mean, when I shook his hand, I. S27: He actually thought I was joking because he also knew that it was an uncool strip. It was me turning red in like drooling and snot coming and me walking toward Jeff and him backing up like, what the hell is going on with this chick like you so much? S21: And that’s when I burst into tears and it was very ugly. A friend of mine said, You like Family Circus, right? Michael? Yeah. And then one day I was at the National Cartoonists Society Convention. S25: Go to a museum and I’d stare at a painting and really hope that I’d start sobbing from its beauty. S24: I had always heard that when you see great art, you burst into tears, right? And I always try. ![]() I always felt this happiness like there’s that world. You know, just like in the fairy tales that, you know, fairy tales often are about redemption or some deliverance out of a terrible, terrible situation. Nobody likes Family Circus, on the other hand. And to this day when I see it, I look at to see what the hell everybody is up to in that strip. I feel really, really close to all those characters. Comic characters were perfect, these little black and white characters. And so if she found out that you were attached to anything, she’d take that or do something to it. You know, my mom had some not know she had mental issues, I think. And they were perfect because I could hide these characters. And and my goal was to really be able to cut along that black line, not to cut into their bodies, but not to leave too much paper around them either. And I used to use them to cut out all the characters with these little precise scissors. So she stole all kinds of crazy surgical scissors, little tiny scissors that I stole from her. My mom, if you left a pair of scissors in a room with her and you left, you’d come back and you wouldn’t know where the scissors, where she stole scissors. She was a janitor at a hospital, but she was a little bit of a kleptomaniac and she loved scissors. And so my mom, she didn’t have a whole lot of love to give me and my brothers. They were in hiding and none of them came out of it intact. I was born into a family that was really traumatized by the war during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War Two. S21: And it was sort of the opposite life that I was having in my home. ![]()
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