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The Third Degree: Joe Casey
Joe Casey started his professional comics career at Marvel and has also worked for Wildstorm, as well as producing an impressive array of creator-owned comics, including GØDLAND, OFFICER DOWN, THE MILKMAN MURDERS, ROCK BOTTOM, and BUTCHER BAKER THE RIGHTEOUS MAKER. He is a member of the Man of Action creative collective, which created Ben 10 and Generator Rex. March’s SEX is the first of Casey’s Image titles to be released in 2013. He’ll follow up with THE BOUNCE in May.
What are you working on right now?
SEX, THE BOUNCE, the GØDLAND FINALE. Conveniently, all Image comics. Plus, a bunch of TV shows.
What’s the best part of your job?
Actually having it.
What’s the worst part of your job?
Listen, if there’s a downside to making comicbooks, I haven’t found it yet.
How did you first discover comics?
Pretty sure it was seeing Spider-Man on TV and then seeing a comicbook on some 7-11 spinner rack. I put two and two together and got my folks to buy it for me.
I was hooked from Day One.
If you weren’t working in comics, what would you be doing?
I’d like to think I’d still be making comics. It’s kinda like breathing to me.
What’s the best thing a fan has ever said to you?
“You’re much better looking in person.”
Who is the biggest influence on your work?
Can I count myself? Because without me, there would be no work. How’s that for existential...?
What is the single work of which you’re most proud?
Not so much a single work... more the fact that I’ve been doing it consistently for the last 15 years.
Own up to one of your guilty pleasures.
Filling out questionnaires like this one. It totally gets me off.
What was the last comic book you bought?
Does BACK ISSUE Magazine count...?
If you could be someone else for a day, who would it be?
I’d be the guy who discovers the secret to immortality.
What’s the strangest thing you have in your house?
Me.
What makes you laugh?
The idea that anyone might actually be reading this...
What is one of your favorite places?
The original Great Escape, Nashville, TN. R.I.P.
What music are you listening to these days?
Lots of loud guitar rock. As usual.
What is your favorite film of all time?
Anyone who can name just one favorite doesn’t watch enough films...
Who is your best friend?
That’s a bit personal, isn’t it...? Don’t worry, I have one.
What is the best advice you’ve ever received?
Never to follow anyone’s advice.
When was the last time you were truly frightened?
When I saw how many questions there were on this questionnaire...!
Who is someone you really admire?
Whoever thought of these questions. I can’t help but tip my hat to them.
What would you like to see happen in comics in the next 12 months?
That I make more of them.
SEX, THE BOUNCE, the GØDLAND FINALE. Conveniently, all Image comics. Plus, a bunch of TV shows.
What’s the best part of your job?
Actually having it.
What’s the worst part of your job?
Listen, if there’s a downside to making comicbooks, I haven’t found it yet.
How did you first discover comics?
Pretty sure it was seeing Spider-Man on TV and then seeing a comicbook on some 7-11 spinner rack. I put two and two together and got my folks to buy it for me.
I was hooked from Day One.
If you weren’t working in comics, what would you be doing?
I’d like to think I’d still be making comics. It’s kinda like breathing to me.
What’s the best thing a fan has ever said to you?
“You’re much better looking in person.”
Who is the biggest influence on your work?
Can I count myself? Because without me, there would be no work. How’s that for existential...?
What is the single work of which you’re most proud?
Not so much a single work... more the fact that I’ve been doing it consistently for the last 15 years.
Own up to one of your guilty pleasures.
Filling out questionnaires like this one. It totally gets me off.
What was the last comic book you bought?
Does BACK ISSUE Magazine count...?
If you could be someone else for a day, who would it be?
I’d be the guy who discovers the secret to immortality.
What’s the strangest thing you have in your house?
Me.
What makes you laugh?
The idea that anyone might actually be reading this...
What is one of your favorite places?
The original Great Escape, Nashville, TN. R.I.P.
What music are you listening to these days?
Lots of loud guitar rock. As usual.
What is your favorite film of all time?
Anyone who can name just one favorite doesn’t watch enough films...
Who is your best friend?
That’s a bit personal, isn’t it...? Don’t worry, I have one.
What is the best advice you’ve ever received?
Never to follow anyone’s advice.
When was the last time you were truly frightened?
When I saw how many questions there were on this questionnaire...!
Who is someone you really admire?
Whoever thought of these questions. I can’t help but tip my hat to them.
What would you like to see happen in comics in the next 12 months?
That I make more of them.
