Eden Brower
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Matt Shaw:
What kind of cartoons do you draw? I assume something along the lines of Crumb, Diana, BackDerf...Al Columbia?
Matt Shaw
Just dumb cartoons for my own pleasure. I was trained by Terry Maddocks although my favourite cartoonist is Gary Larsen and Bill Watterson. Growing up I liked Jim Davis.
For a while I would cartoon faces onto fruit and vegetables and put them in fucked up poses. Those I sold to a magazine called NUTS for about £100 a photo. That made me laugh because I would do it on my camera phone and I was selling one a week, every week for about 6 months. Meanwhile some of friends went to photography classes / schools and couldn't sell anything. They were so pissed at me (in a nice way). Anyway that all started because I grated a carrot and then, on the head, drew a screaming face. I left the shredded carrot up to this "head" and snapped the photo and sent it off. I won letter of the week and they offered me my own segment. Happy days.
Recently I have got back into sketching and those I sell on my ETSY page. Normally twisted things and I have got quite masterful at drawing the penis. In fact a lot of readers tend to request a penis whenever I sign their books! Who am I to say no?
Happy Days indeed.
For a while I would cartoon faces onto fruit and vegetables and put them in fucked up poses. Those I sold to a magazine called NUTS for about £100 a photo. That made me laugh because I would do it on my camera phone and I was selling one a week, every week for about 6 months. Meanwhile some of friends went to photography classes / schools and couldn't sell anything. They were so pissed at me (in a nice way). Anyway that all started because I grated a carrot and then, on the head, drew a screaming face. I left the shredded carrot up to this "head" and snapped the photo and sent it off. I won letter of the week and they offered me my own segment. Happy days.
Recently I have got back into sketching and those I sell on my ETSY page. Normally twisted things and I have got quite masterful at drawing the penis. In fact a lot of readers tend to request a penis whenever I sign their books! Who am I to say no?
Happy Days indeed.
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Alexis Avent
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Matt Shaw:
Hello, Mr.Shaw. My name is Alexis.Im 16 and i love reading your books... To be honest they entertain me before i go to bed. Your books inspired me to write me own. Right now im writing a book called Flat-line. Im a couple of chapters into it but my brain just seemed to stop working all of a sudden.... what should i do?
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