Interview2
INTERVIEW WITH JACK
Sassy-Ass: well, jack, lets get started. how do you like being the head honcho of an independent publishing company?
Jack Munroe: I'm not the head honcho. I'm more like an emperor. It's real fun, though! I say, "against the wall!" and she does it.
SA: i've noticed that in the past few months you've changed your genre of choice to erotic comics. how, to you, is this different than the work you've previously done?
JM: It's not different at all. The freedoms and restrictions are still the same in amount. With underground comics, I was able to pull off a lot without getting it too dirty. With erotic comics, you MUST be dirty. The word "plot" is almost taboo. Fuck it anyway, right? It's not like Die, Spanks! had a plot.
SA: do you like having our pictures on a woman's ass?
JM: Ah, the image for the TFPublic. She was very nice to let us do that, although I get the feeling that Michael Kidblount was uncomfortable around a gaping anus.
SA: haha, isn't that true! anyway, why are you so gung ho on ada lee lately? what is it about that character that has you so transfixed?
JM: Money, really. Actually, she's really cool. She's kinda like SuperGirl. Extremely intelligent, a black belt in Karate, rich as hell, type-A personality, and super-sexy. Everyone wants to be Ada Lee.
SA: will you be drawing a female lesbian version of yourself anytime soon in the ada lee project?
JM: Nope. Being a male lesbian is cool with me for now.
SA: ada lee is an extremely sexy project. can you tell us some of the problems you ran into when embarking upon and creating this project?
JM: The only problem I had was when NBM wrote to me asking whether or not I wanted Ada Lee to be more story and less sex, or less story and more sex. I guess the original storyline was split down the middle, and I didn't really know what to do with it. Obviously, I chose sex over story because sex sells. You know what they say - "To make your own rules, you have to follow the ones that were there first."
SA: you also have other, more intellectual and serious comic and lit projects. will you be doing more of those in the future?
JM: Of course, just not in the NEAR future. I want to start writing again. Maybe touch up that novel I wrote when I was fifteen. I'd also LOVE to see NAIAD LANDS published.
SA: do you wear women's panties on your head?
JM: Depends on whose they are. I'd wear Bjork's panties on my head - as long as they were still on her.
SA: what purpose does 'the basement' serve in treefrog publications? what purpose does it serve in yourself?
JM: It's just a page that I vent through. Knowing that other people are reading that shit is what makes it complete. Even if half of it is poorly-thought-out opinions, it's just a place where I can go and put down others.
SA: just one more question for you today jack. if you could be any one of your characters in any one of your projects, who would you be and why?
JM: Hmm.... I don't know. All of my characters are pretty much just amplified peices of my own personality, so in a way, I am all of them. Go figure.
SA: You sexy thang.