Thursday, January 15, 2009

The Wile E. Coyote of emotional trauma

"Hannelore, man, I don't know what the deal with her is. Well, I guess I do, it's just very wordy and complicated. For one thing, she's extremely fun to write. I can get away with just being incredibly cruel to her, but she's got this inner core of hope and resiliency that allows her to bounce back into shape -- she's the Wile E. Coyote of emotional trauma, I guess. I've got obsessive-compulsive disorder myself (nowhere near as bad as her, but enough that it is sometimes a problem) and so I can use some of my own tics and experiences to flesh out her problems."
(July 17, 2008, Jeph Jacques, ComicMix)

2 comments:

  1. i’ve been following your blog: excellent.

    i thought maybe you’d like this one i just read in the new yorker:

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    http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/01/19/090119fa_fact_lepore

    cheers

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