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Edited by Ines Estrada and Ginette LaPalme
Gang Bang BongThis week I am focusing my review on just one book, Gang Bang Bong #2. I was in Gang Bang Bong #1, which was a slender pamphlet. This second issue is a meaty perfect bound monster. Somehow I was not invited to contribute in this one even though the bitches who edit it are supposedly my friends. Goddamn you cute girls with your talent and charms and looks and likeability! I know I'm like the Grinch who wrecked comics but you should be nice to me because I'll pay you! RAHHHHHH! I'm getting worked up here. Gotta calm down.Ines Estrada was born and lives in Mexico city, and she is one of the sweetheart geniuses of comics. Ginette Lapalme is also a sweet genius and she is from Toronto or some other similar shithole from that awful snowhell to the north we call Canada. Together they edit this bilingual comic, which features translations that run along the bottom of the pages—so you're in luck if you want to read this thing and speak either Spanish or English.
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I don’t really know. Ginette and I were bouncing name ideas off of each other and this one stood up. I like how it sounds like kids’ blabber without meaning, and how people (and myself) usually end up mixing it up when writing or saying it out loud.Gang Bang Bong sounds like a kid's blabbering to you, but it also combines gang bangs and bongs, which are points of interest for teenage boys.
Well then I share the interests of such teenage boys.I was in Gang Bang Bong #1. Why was I not invited to be in #2?
I want every issue to have different people. Also, we used a quote from your previous review for the back of this issue, so you could say you are in it, at least in spirit.
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Yep!VICE Mexico may be hiring you to do comics work for them. Are you trying to steal my job?
Not really, but now that you mention it, how do you think I would go about getting your job? I would love to get free comics. Not superhero ones though, those suck.That's why you'll never have my job. You have to like all the comic genres to be a true expert.
Exactly.

I think he is the kind of guy who doesn't really care if his work gets out there or not. He draws to please himself and to release himself of inner thoughts and dreams. I don't know him much, though. That's just what I can feel through the internet. Judging from the little interaction I've had with him, he seems like a really nice guy who likes good post-punk bands.I think his work is very tropical, and the people I've shown his work to here have loved it immensely. But that might just be because it is very good.Also, I am not Spanish. Their language just happens to be my mother tongue.

DeForge's comic is a funny joke that actually misled a few people into emailing me asking about submissions. The only true thing in it is that we might come from another planet. Maybe.

I don't have a comic in this issue. Ginette LaPalme did this sweet one-pager about two lovers dying eternally, one for the other, and I just painted on top of it. I also did the inside cover, which gives a different perspective to Ginette's cover.
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I told Lala to do the index page because I love how her stuff is always illegible. This might be the worst reason for getting someone to do an index page, but it turned out really nice and, surprisingly, it is readable!

What is interesting to me about Tony's work is that it seems to be very static. He displays these fleeting moments filled with obscure feelings…. I don't know, I like how he makes a narrative out of no narrative at all.

Benjamin always makes stories about weird characters who seem to be very anxious and always talk funny. I like his sense of humor and I've always been amazed by his control of the brush and ink.

Lizz Hickey also makes weird characters who talk funny, though hers seem to take on a more sporadic plane. I don't know if this is how she works, but when you read her comics it feels as if she makes them as they come to her, without any planning beforehand, which results in this very fresh style.Can I be in Gang Bang Bong #3?
Maybe? I'm not sure… I want every issue to have different contributors. And by the way, I can tell you that the next issue is going to be triple better… we're still planning it out, but if everything goes as expected, it will be printed in three fluo inks…How are you so cute?
If that's what you think then you shouldn't need an explanation.And that's my interview with Ines. You can get Gang Bang Bong at their website.Previously - Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-In #30
