Awa comics submissions8/13/2023 I can fit in with the cool crowd.” He posted the drawing in a school bathroom and wrote below it, “Whore.” By lunch, everybody in the school had seen it. I showed it to an older buddy, and he asked to borrow it. There was this popular girl – she hated my guts, because I was the weird, art geeky kid – who fell asleep at her desk, drooling onto her books. But the first time I realized the power of art came in 11 th grade, in my homeroom class. So, I have a first-grade education and a college degree in art. In second grade, I knew this was all I could do, that I would never learn anything beyond that. When did you realize you have a talent for drawing? While I’m trying to get my money, my dad would come by and say, “My customers are supposed to spend money at the bar, not on you.” So, I’d bring in the drawing, and they’d say, “Hey, thanks!” and walk away. They’d say, “I’ll pay you $50 for a drawing.” I’m in high school, age 16, and $50 is practically a year’s income. I was always getting screwed by drunk people. ![]() I didn’t drink until I was in my late twenties. I mean, why does one drunk person do this, while another drunk person does that? Same circumstances, different outcomes. I thought I’d grow up to be a psychologist, because it was so fascinating. Your parents owned a bar? That must have been fun. Even now, when I go into the bar, I get free drinks. In interviews, I end up going down dark avenues. You could – well - you know, this subject isn’t very good for a comic book, is it? Sorry about that. A psycho-killer, I guess, would be one avenue. You have to come up with your own entertainment. Well, to live in Erie, you have to be creative. … And she forces him to rob a bank, the police cordon him off, and he blows up. That’s redundant, isn’t it? (Laughs) Sorry. This evil woman straps a bomb to a mentally challenged pizza delivery guy… There’s a serial killer or something, right? I went to college in Ohio for four years, and then, as soon as I could get to New York, that’s where I went.ĭid you ever see the Netflix documentary “Evil Genius?” It takes place in Erie. I’ve been in New York (City) for about 30 years. ![]() I’m like, “What were you thinking?” He says, “They were a little rude.” Fortunately, I didn’t, because there were fights, and I had a roommate who would wear his Yankee cap to a game in Boston. ![]() I almost went there in ’98 with my roommates. I’m also curious about (Baltimore’s) Camden Yards. Three Rivers Stadium, before they got rid of it. They had Willie Stargell, it was crazy, I was five. I leaned toward Pittsburgh, because my grandmother was a big Pirates fan. Is it more Buffalo or Cleveland? Or even Pittsburgh? Well, it’s sort of a glorified truck stop along Route 90 between Buffalo and Cleveland. In fact, I have neighbors downstairs - because of the pandemic, I got to meet them – and when they bake cookies, they send them up in the elevator, so I don’t creep on them as much. And I can look over a fence really creepily. “Fred Harper.” Do you realize you have the perfect name for a sitcom next door neighbor? SNELSON #1, by Paul Constant and Fred Harper, ships from AHOY Comics on August 4, 2021. For more than 20 years, his cultural satire regularly has graced covers of THE WEEK magazine. Fred Harper, the artist behind AHOY Comics’ upcoming masterpiece, SNELSON: COMEDY IS DYING, has been drawing, painting and creating mayhem since the 11 th grade, back in Erie, Pa.
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