By: E&P Staff The Daily Gazette in Schenectady, N.Y., has a feature on "Speed Bump" cartoonist Dave Coverly, in which he discusses the painful process of creating humorous comics day after day.
?Sometimes, you feel like you?re drawing these things and throwing them into a black hole,? he tells the paper. ?It?s every week, you churn them out and every week you start all over again. Any kind of feedback -- even negative feedback -- is great. Just so you know somebody?s reading it.?
Coverly -- who has done ?Speed Bump? for Los Angeles-based Creators Syndicate since 1994 -- adds, ?The devil is in the details. The hardest thing is not the joke, because that?s kind of easy. The hardest thing is coming up with stuff. Everything seems like it?s been done.?
Coverly also addresses how some people still compare his style to Garry Larson, creator of ?The Far Side.?
?I think when I first started, it bothered me for two reasons,? Coverly tells the Daily Gazette. ?I felt Larson was fantastic; I can?t say he was my inspiration because he wasn?t. I?ve always been a huge fan of New Yorker cartoons. I like cartoons that are about something -- they?re funny, but you can look at them a second time. I don?t mean that in any kind of elitist way, I just really enjoy that kind of humor.?
Check out the full interview,
here.
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