John Peters’s Bio
I don't draw enough.
- Answered 70
John Peters’s Answers RSS Feed
-
If all meeps are sneetches but not all sneetches are meeps... what are breedeeps?
Breedeeps may be Meeps but maybe sneetches but not really. But if you breed Breedeeps with Sneetches but not breed the Meeps we may be knee deep in sleeping Sneebreeps.
-
Is there a topic that makes you uncomfortable to represent or discuss in your craft, but will because it is important that you do?
None, really... at least, not in the stories I draw. There have been times when a collaborator would start to second guess things worried if people would be offended or get the wrong idea, but that's the time to push harder rater than fall back. So far this philosophy has worked out pretty well.
There are some things I would like to do but I lack the experience or skill to do the subject justice, so I don't go there yet. I'm way too much of a fence-sitter to take sides in politics or religion and I haven't the experience to do any kind of proper slice-of-life kind of story. And I'm really BAD at adult content. -
Is there something in your life that you are searching for, but it always seems to elude you?
At the moment, finding a day job (since I've been unemployed for 20 months now)...
Seriously, though - not really. I suppose I could say "wider recognition for my comics", but I'm honest enough with myself to know that I haven't really earned it. It could be the wisdom that comes with age or just plain denial, but just doing the comic work itself is its own reward, really.
Short answer: Nothing that i deserve. -
Mama Rose is awful mean to Gypsy - was your mother mean to you?
No! My Mom was an absolute Saint, quick-witted and with a wicked sense of humor. Granted, you couldn't ever sneak anything past her, or hide anything for that matter. She was a true Jedi Master, though she would have dismissed the comparison.
I miss her hugs. -
Have you ever had the chance to play with a Sitar?
No, but I'd love to get a hold of one for a few weeks. I have a long list of instruments I'd love to try, although I have no real musical talent.
-
You are going to be the Guest of Honor at a convention; what convention would you want that to be?
Something independent or webcomic related - that kind of narrows things down a bit. What, like APE or NEWW.
I'm actually a guest (without Honor) at the local anime con in Denver this year, mostly for doing program illustrations and a t-shirt design for them. I've also been in their Artist Alley for nine years now. -
If you could own any piece of art, regardless of medium or cost, what would it be?
The Naked Maja by Goya. Always loved that painting.
If I couldn't have that, I'd want the original Star Destroyer model from Star Wars (IV), or the original Ben Kenobi lightsaber. -
Gypsy? Gypsygirl? What's with all that "Gypsy" stuff? You're not descended from gypsies.
No, I'm not. After my divorce in 2000 all my debts were paid and I had no real attachments, so I fancied myself as a wanderer, even though I didn't actually go anywhere. In 2003 I worked at a job where the other two people in the same room would only communicate by AIM - I chose "gypsypress" with an eye toward website and publishing one day. Soon after, I found there was already a Gypsy Press (which went out of business) that had published comics, including "Pandora" - the title that forced Vince Sneed and I to change our comic to Forty Winks (but that's another story).
When I created a website I took the name Gypsygirl Press, gypsygirl coming from a line in the Sondheim/Stein musical Gypsy ("cause if ya gotta gimmick, gypsygirl ya got it made"). Only recently did I find that there was another Gypsygirl Press out there, publishing books about gypsies.
The webcomic was titled Gypsy by a whole separate set of circumstances, but it fits.
I still feel like a wanderer, but I still don't go anywhere. -
If you were to meet on of your characters face to face, what do you think the first thing they'd say to you would be?
"AAAAH! DON'T EAT ME!!!"
Because we are much bigger than they are. Gypsy, Ziggy, etc. have been as tall as two feet in height, and as small as 1/4 inch in height in early versions of the story.
If it were Pandora, we probably wouldn't talk. We'd just sit and draw together. -
If all the World's a stage, were would the audience sit?
I believe the audience seating area is referred to as "the House". Didn't everyone at the Globe Theatre have to stand?
-
Why won't Holley Hunter return my phone calls?
Maybe because you spelled her name wrong?
-
Does your drawing hand ever get worn out from drawing?
No, not really. I've done several 24-hour comics and never had the drawing hand cramp up - more often than not my knees/legs/bum hurts. I think decades of drawing has given the hand some decent stamina.
I have a friend who is a professional musician as well as a comic artist. His hand doesn't wear out either, probably for the same reason. -
when you're pressed for an idea, what do you do?
Drink heavily. No, not really... I usually grab the sketchbook and brainstorm. Whatever comes to mind, even if it has nothing to do with the assignment. I think this works more as a way to relax and get past that initial idea block. Sometimes I work on something else just to clear the mind.
-
Why don't you draw enough?
Laziness and procrastination. If I used my time wisely I'd have five times more work done, an actual buffer for the comics I have, and one or two more comics out there.
-
Are you ever surprised at a direction a comic you create takes? You know, it sort of takes a life of its own and rewrites your script unexpectedly?
All the time. I guess this happens more often when you're working from a loose outline rather than a script. The biggest surprises happen when a quick throwaway character, line, or gag becomes an important to the story later.
-
Do you have any favorite characteristics you like to give your characters or are they generally randomly put together to make them?
If I'm working with a writer, the writer usually gives most of the character description.
In the case of Gypsy, the characters existed years before the story was developed. Walk-on characters are usually made up right on the page. -
Why *did* the chicken cross the road?
It needed Exorcism.
-
If a body meet a body comin' through the rye and if a body kiss a body, need a body cry?
Body crying is sweat, no? So I think it would depend on the temperature and level of activity.
-
maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaooooooooooW!!!!!
Alright, i'll clean out the litter box. >cheee<
-
Is formspring broke, or did you clear out all your previous questions?
That IS strange... all my old questions/answers are gone. Oh well, time to build the archive again.
