After deliberating for a few weeks, I’ve decided to post another set of interviews, this time with Gustavo Sala. Although I’ve done a bunch of awesome interviews, Sala’s was extremely relevant to my project (also ONLY 9 pages long!). This interview was conducted on September 28, 2011. I began by explaining my project, then Sala responded generally:
Gustavo Sala: I’ve been lucky enough to make a living off of comics as well as graphic humor. I don’t consider myself as much a comics artist as a graphic humorist because the majority of my work has to do with comic strips, small format comics, vignettes. Even though I’ve done comics of no more than three or four pages, the longer format is hard for me. But I can make a living off of drawing, adding up a bunch of small jobs that make up something like a salary. It allows me to pay the rent, move around, eat and go on some trips. The majority of trips are by invitation and I don’t pay for the passage, so I can go on these trips more easily. That’s good news. Drawing is my job, and it’s pretty flexible, because between jobs I can collaborate with friends or independent magazines or other things, maintaining the formal publications that allow me to live and have projects on the side. Genios magazine for kids, Rolling Stone, Fierro, Barcelona, Página 12 (for six years)— together, all of these jobs provides a living, but only while I keep all of them. From next month onward, I’m going to have a humor page in the erotic magazine Hombres. Also, all of these mediums give me a lot of artistic freedom. So I’m like a brat, with a lot of slackness and freedom to work on the subjects that amuse me—black humor and the absurd, the dirty and the offensive, the acid. It’s hard for me to think in terms of work because I have a lot of fun.
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