How I Met Eric Powell... - A Goon Intro by Steve Niles
The Goon has returned to a monthly release at a Local Comic Shop near you and we can't be more stoked. The humor and action are about to amp up and we don't want you to miss any of it. Over the next few months we will be posting more of these intros from The Goon Trade Volumes and more entertaining items to keep this Eisner winning series at the forefront of your mind. If you're looking for a free issue of The Goon to get you started click here. Don't forget to pledge your support to The Goon Movie Kickstarter.
When I met Powell he didn’t hang out with fancy-pants cable-TV stars. Hell, he didn’t even have cable or a TV (or as Powell called it, the electronic the-ater box). Eric and I met online, and no, it wasn’t on match.com so fuck off.
I was on the ebays looking at art, wishing I could afford some, when I came across this amazing image of a cybernetic gorilla, beautifully drawn and selling for way too cheap, so I bid on it. I also dropped the artist a note saying I loved his stuff. It wound up being Eric Powell. We became immediate friends, and bitched and whined for days on end about how nobody would hire us in comics. We talked horror and shared a mutual love for ’70s comics and we even came up with a Defenders pitch that was immediately shot down by Marvel. I think Powell has the pitch piece in one of those sketchbooks of his he sells at them funny-book conventions.
Anyway, that’s how we met, and yes, I won the gorilla.
But we’re here to talk about Powell’s creation, The Goon. This is something that started out as a black-and-white indie comic and has grown into a multimedia empire, or as close as you can get to an empire in Kentucky, Tennessee, or wherever he lives. I think they filmed Deliverance there. Not sure.
The Goon is one of my favorite comics, and Powell is on the top of my list of best artist/writers out working today.
The Goon combines two of my favorite things: laughing and shitting my pants (comedy and horror), and the volume you hold in your hands is yet another example of just how good Powell is at what he does.
Sit back, put on a diaper if you’re not already wearing one, enjoy the conclusion of the Labrazio saga, and see a true master at work.
Steve Niles
Los Angeles, 2009
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