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It's the final day of Top Shelf Month, and to celebrate, we're closing things down with the most hilarious interview we've ever posted. Please enjoy the mayhem that ensues when Jeff Lemire, creator of Essex County and Sweet Tooth, and Matt Kindt, creator of Super Spy The Lost Dossiers and 3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man, interview each other! Get ready for an irreverent look inside the friendship between these two acclaimed writer/artists (who happen to be first-rate smart-a**es).
Questions from Matt to Jeff:
Matt Kindt: Where do your ideas come from?
Jeff Lemire: I steal them from you or from the Internet Idea Data Base.
MK: What's your favorite movie pre-1970s?
JL: 2001.
MK: What's your favorite movie post-1970s?
JL: 2001.
MK: Which author have you read the most books by?
JL: Charles Bukowski and Joe Kubert.
MK: Is that the same answer as your favorite author? If not, who is that?
JL: Matt Kindt of course. Also, probably Alan Moore, Seth, John Steinbeck, William Gibson, Eddie Campbell and a bunch of other great people.
MK: Which do you enjoy consuming more: movies, prose books, comics/graphic novels, or TV?
JL: Comics!!
MK: Have you ever played an instrument?
JL: Is that a sexual innuendo?
MK: There's a train speeding down the track towards two people who are tied to the rails. You stand on a cliff above the track. There is a fat man on the cliff. You can push the fat man off of the cliff to throw the switch and change the course of the track and save the two lives below. There is no other option to save the two people on the track other than pushing the man off the cliff (killing him) and saving the two lives. What do you do?
JL: I wait until the train kills the two people. Then I push the fat man off the cliff.
MK: Do you have a prose novel in you?
JL: Yes, I ate War and Peace yesterday.
MK: Why do you prefer hockey over American Football?
JL: Hi-Li. I'm working on a really heart-wrenching graphic novel about two Hi-Li playing brothers torn apart by deception rights now.
MK: If you could own any car, what would it be?
JL: KITT.
MK: How many graphic novels do you think you can finish before you retire/die?
JL: One a year, every year until I check out.
MK: What do you want your kid to grow up to be?
JL: Batman.
MK: Have you almost died ever? Or been physically attacked by someone (not counting hockey games)?
JL: I seem to remember you attacking me once in a hotel room at San Diego. It was dark and everyone else was sleeping. I'm not really sure if you were trying to kill me or not, but you kept whispering something about "double agents" and "my microfilm." Does that count?
Questions from Jeff to Matt:
JL: Top Five favorite comics ever?
MK: Watchmen, New Frontier, that Frank Miller Daredevil issue where Daredevil plays Russian roulette with Bullseye who's paralyzed in the hospital, Batman Year One, Cages, and . . . oh yeah–Essex County!
JL: Least-favorite contemporary comic book creator?
MK: He knows who he is . . . !
JL: Favorite TV show ever?
MK: Twin Peaks–but The Wire might be better–I just don't have the heart to really say that.
JL: You are trapped in a room with me and Chris Staros. Poison gas is pumped into the room. You have two gas masks and must choose who lives. Who do you choose, Chris or me?
MK: You're kidding right? I put on both masks just in case one leaks.
JL: How long on average does it take you to ink a page of comics?
MK: 30 minutes
JL: Are you a Super Spy or a Giant Man?
JL: If you could write and draw any one monthly comic for each DC and Marvel what would it be?
MK: Marvel: Black Widow. DC: Legion of Super Heroes.
JL: How many books are you currently working on?
MK: Three: End of the World, Super Natural, Strange Crimes (and I might be adding a fourth top-secret one next week)
JL: How do you juggle more than one project at a time?
MK: Lots of lying. I only have so many hours in a day but I end up drawing on one book at a time while writing in the evenings on another.
JL: When 3 Story gets made into a movie who would you like to have play Craig?
MK: I'd like to see you screen test for it, but if it can't be you, then . . . Amy Adams.
JL: Does your wife know about us yet?
MK: She thinks "Jeff Lemire" is the title of a new book I'm "working on" . . . so technically . . . yes?
JL: If so, is she tough? Could I take her in a fight if it came down to it?
MK: Sharlink the Shark is based on her . . . so . . . no.
JL: Does your wife own any firearms?
MK: Does a blow-gun count?
JL: When you think about how f*cking awesome I am, does it make you jealous, or do I inspire you to be a better cartoonist?
MK: It's crazy since you are so awesome–and then when I think about how I'm twice as good as you . . . it boggles my mind.
Our thanks go out to Jeff and Matt for closing down Top Shelf Month in style–remember, today's the last day to save 20% on all of our Top Shelf books. Also, make sure to check out our five-page preview of the Complete Essex County and our seven-page preview of Super Spy The Lost Dossiers!
So do you want to hang out with Jeff Lemire and Matt Kindt as much as we do? What's your favorite Jeff Lemire or Matt Kindt book? Post your comments below!
