I had a blast working on the JAY & SILENT BOB story and was amazed at how seemless it all came out. Compared to the upcoming CLERKS comic–which is much more chatty, like Kevin’s films–this shortie was quite cinematic and comic-bookish.

The final product was a true collaboration, something that I could’ve written or Kevin could’ve filmed.

It’s been a while since I dabbled in B&W (since Batman) so that was fun as well–even though a guy on the View Askew site claimed my use of zip-a-tone was “amateurish”. In an earlier post on this board, Pitzerboy pointed out the fact that only the title characters and the dog have any solid black in their final rendering. I would add one other element to that list–the dope.

I think I mentioned before that this story would make a peek appearance in a JAY & SILENT BOB short that Kevin was doing for MTV. Turns out the whole thing’s evolved into more than that. Kevin filmed 11 shorts for them fellas and the brass at MTV loved them so much that they’re putting the whole thing all together as an hour-long special. Apparently two of the shorts feature the comic.

Also, Graphitti’s issueing a t-shirt with the cover on the front and that small, round panel of silhoettes on the back (“The whole ******* world’s against us dude. I swear…”).

Annnnnnnnd…they’re doing JAY & SILENT BOB action figures as well–which I’m designing the model sheets for. Can’t wait to see THEM accesories, eh?

MATT WAGNER

Also, just finished the model sheets for the JAY & SILENT BOB action figures.They’re so damn rude even I can’t quite believe they’re going to be toys! I’dbet the AOL TOS prevent me from going into too much detail so suffice it tosay this…the JAY figure comes with Walt Flanagan’s Dog as an accesory andthey should’a named him “Tripod”!

MATT WAGNER