Do I know Katchoo?

[Dante_R]

Terry, by novels do you mean only text with no images? A REAL novel?

Also, I have decided my life's mission for the moment is to meet you. I live only 5 blocks from Phoenix Comix and Games in Houston, where you used to visit regularly. I am so pissed that you had to move before I could run into you. See, I have this friend named Becca, or Beck.. for short. The story of her life fits Katchoo almost exactly. (Wondering if we might have a mutual friend) Maybe not. I do know that Katchoo and Francine were based off of multiple people, one being your wife. However, Becca even looks like Katchoo. The spitting IMAGE of her. I know you are living farther north these days, but maybe you could tell me when your next visit to Houston will be? Or maybe a convention nearby? I don't drive unfortunately.

By the way... I am sure you have heard this before, but I just want to say it anyway. I never read many comics when I was younger. I did read the punisher from time to time, because he had no superpowers... and before they started making him such a static character the writing wasn't THAT bad as comics go. But besides the Punisher, the only books I have really liked have been Transmetropolitan, (Warren Ellis) Johnny the Homicidal Maniac (Jhonen Vasquez) and Strangers in Paradise. I wish more comics had the layered writing that is deeply entrenched in your work. I will be sad to see when SIP finishes as I know it must eventually. But, I hope that you will not depart from the idea of comics written like prose, which is what I consider your work. I have found more redeeming qualities in your comic than I have in so called "literature" at times.

Thank you for writing what I consider nearly the greatest modern story ever told.

[Anaka]

a novel? Ohhh is Terry thinking of writing a novel??? that would be wonderful(as long as it dosen't take much time from your drawing! You could hire a secretary and dictate while you draw maybe...). I love the writing of this story as much as the art, that is what really makes it such a great work of art, and so different from most comics. The artist and the writer are one, the symetry, and the co-ordination. About the only other comic I can think of is A Distant Soil, where Doran writes and draws the story(unfortunately we get an insallation about once every election year). I think so many comics don't do well because of incongruities and miscomunications between different talents... and the unfortunate happenstance of more mainstream comics that artists and sometimes even writers are frequently replaced... and the story suffers for it. Ghost comes to mind... which was very dynamic in the beginning with an enticing mytery,but got X-mened into incomprehesibility. And most tragic(and my first and favorite comic) Elfquest, which had a husband/wife writing/drawing team that was fantastic... but the artist was kidnapped by aliens and the replacements just butchered my childhood dream... **sigh** But we know that won't happen with Terry(stay away from funny lights in your window man!!) and we love ya for it!