It’s too hard to pick one artist, though. I don’t know if there’s one in particular-just all these kids’ books, all this European stuff. I started self-publishing the comic stuff really early, so I guess it was in Mad and Disney Ducks as well-all these comics swirling around me. I still really like his watercolors and stuff. SH: I really liked Richard Scarry when I was younger. I quit doing the teen drama and started putting all the depressing addiction-based stuff into Megg & Mogg, and it became less about pranks and silliness and more about sadness and attempts to change. I never intended it to be my breakthrough work. I call it a “stoned collage.” I just wanted to do a fun, breezy joke comic, and it just kind of happened.
I was drawing witches for some reason, and then I just remembered the kid’s books. It was some kind of magic in the air.ĪVC: And what incited the creation of your Megg, Mogg, & Owl? I had no idea at the time that he had lived there. in the same area that Jan Pienkowski lived and worked on his Meg and Mog. I started drawing Megg & Mogg when I moved to the U.K. I always really loved those Meg and Mog books and Jan Pienkowski’s illustrations. She did try and shield me from a lot of the creepier elements that were around at the time. So my mom always-despite being a hardcore junkie and regularly passing out in the bathroom, overdosing-bought me a lot of books. SH: I grew up on those kids books about Meg and Mog, and they’re an early-learning kind of thing.
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