
The Rumpus Interview With Jason Polan by Jason Novak
Michelle Tea’s new novel, Mermaid in Chelsea Creek, was illustrated by Jason Polan, an artist who obsessively draws spot sketches of people and things around New York City. His life and background are fascinating, but he prefers to remain as anonymous as possible and let his work speak for itself. The following testimony was gathered from my research into his story, and then wildly embellished.
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He took a random panel from a 1950s anti-smoking comic, the kind of preachy story where an older brother bullies his younger brother into smoking a cigarette, and then built a completely new story around it. The protagonist, a young guy with writhing green tentacles for a head, occupies every panel and simply describes what happened to him.
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