Huizenga Interview
Tom Spurgeon has an interview with Kevin Huizenga up that has some interesting parts, such as:
The idea of doing other people’s stories never really occurred to me until I went through this kick of reading a lot of Jorge Luis Borges. The way that Borges would incorporate these older stories, like 1001 Nights, he would do re-tellings of these stories, and fit these old stories under his own ideas about infinity or libraries or labyrinths. I thought that was great. There was something spot on about that. I think Borges read voraciously, and when you read so much you want to do something with your reading. Kind of re-adapting it, making it your own. I guess it’s kind of selfish, but if you do it respectfully I think it’s great.
Huizenga is fast becoming one of my favorite comics discoveries of the year. I’ve read two of his Or Else issues and a few shorts in some anthologies, and they have all been of extraordinary quality, intelligent and wonderful yet also quiet and simple.
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