"There was a night, maybe sometime around 1993, when
I [Joe Matt] was working on an issue of my comic book,
Peepshow and I was using some xeroxes of
Peanuts strips from the collection, “You Can Do It, Charlie Brown” as blotter-paper. Anyway, there came a moment when I was using white-out and to remove some excess white-out from my brush, I wiped it on the blotter paper beneath my hand. And that’s how I came to idly white-out the words balloons on a few
Peanuts strips. Once I saw the balloons whited-out and forgot what they originally said, I began filling them with the first
perverted thing my brain thought they might say. It was so much fun and I was so happy with the results that I brought the pages out to show to
Seth and
Chester [Brown] the next day. Seth was eager to try it and immediately suggested we each go home and produce a set number of pages for a mini comic.
Less than a week later, Chester brought out his original take on the concept and put Seth and I to shame."
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posted by Alvy Ampersand
on Jan 20, 2011 -
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