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Well... the paper I tear isn't THAT expensive :)

Posted By: MACK!
Date: THU, 3/8/01, 11:22 p.m.

: hey...

: i sent out the cash to David Choe, i really hope that he
: has some left...

: did you hear about the whole NYX thing? wheeeeew...

: and a quote you might find interesting: out of context,
: please see brian's board for the whole rant by Choe.

: <<
: Joe is a shithead : because he thinks if you get David
: Mack to drip watercolors and tear expensive Japanese
: paper and collage it over your drawings, it makes it
: look "DEEP" .oh and because he gave up doing
: great books like Kid Fluffy, and firefighting
: superhero’s called ASH, both great contributions to
: the field of comics , to become the editor over at
: marvel. Hey everybody, I want the old Joe Back, I ‘m
: gonna start a petition, we want" ultimate
: ASH!" "ULTIMATE KID FLUFFY!" oh yeah.

OK. I know people want me to respond to this.

It's true that there were many slurs in Choe's rant about Joe's Italian ethnicity. Well that is wrong. Mostly because Joe is not Italian! He's Cuban. :)

I'm not really involved, and I don't like hearing or talking about people in this kind of light. And I especially do not like hearing friends (like Joe) or non-involved artists (like Bagley, who I do not even Know) dissed.

But I know that is something between Joe and Choe and Joe can handle himself in that arena.

So while it was very WEIRD that my name was mentioned in that attack on Joe, I certainly did not even consider that it was an attack on me.

So the only reason that I am saying something is because a lot of people have perceived (and told me) that Choe was attacking me.

It is a strange thing to bring my name into it. If it is somehow an attack on me, it really doesn't bother me, nor do I take it seriously.

But I don't see why it would be, because David Choe has always been very nice to me in the past. In fact he wrote a kind letter to me that thanked me for some Kabuki books (we swapped some books at a show), and said that they were very inspiring to him. And he also sent a shirt to my girlfriend Anh. In fact I recently printed his letter in Kabuki Agents #5 in case you want to read it. I basically just used it as an excuse to plug his book.

I've also plugged his book and work in interviews and in this message board and on the Bendis board. So if he IS attacking me, I don't know why. He's been very friendly to me in person. He stopped by my table at a con and we swapped stuff. I have no problem with him personally. I get his humor and his work.

So I am not personally hurt by what he said about me.
But it does sort of put me in a very awkward position in that he mentioned my name when attacking others. Especially when attacking my friends. Like I said that is between Joe and Choe. Apparently they had a business disagreement that I know nothing about. And prefer to not be brought into. But because my name was mentioned, I should say that in all my business dealings with Joe and Marvel Knights, I have so far been treated very fair and considerately.

I only mentioned this, because people have started to polarize us in their posts on the message boards. And I am not really interested in this.

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Well... the paper I tear isn't THAT expensive :) -- MACK! -- THU, 3/8/01, 11:22 p.m.
;) -- Dave Cummings -- THU, 3/8/01, 11:38 p.m.
Re: ;) -- MACK! -- FRI, 3/9/01, 1:37 a.m.
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