You were talking about it before, how there’s very little biographical information on Queen? Frankly, it has never really been easy to create an idea of what they were like as people. Freddie Mercury apparently—I never read many interviews anyway when I was younger—notoriously did not do very many interviews. Whereas George Michael, although he also does not do many interviews, his songs are very autobiographical, more than most pop songs and pop singers. I remember back to 1990. I was in 8th grade and “I want your sex” was our class’ number 1 song of the year. Everybody loved that song. He was considered awesome at the time. And then in the mid-90s that completely reversed.
He can write a ballad like no one else.
He has a good voice. And that is the connection between the two. The reason that I like him so much from the “Concert for Life” is that he kind of was the stand out that night in terms of not coming up short. Which happened to most of the people at that show and which always happens to people because Queen songs are not that easy to cover. Whenever you see people on “American Idol” singing Queen, the judges often say that you shouldn’t do it because they’re always going to fall up short.
Freddie & Me is autobiographical. You’ve been working on comics for years now; had you ever drawn yourself before?
I’d done one autobiographical comic before which was about my bachelor party. It was featured in an Anthology called True Porn Vol 2. It’s all like alternative-type cartoonists doing short pornographic true-life stories. Mine, I must warn up front, is actually not racy. It’s funny. It’s about our going to a strip club for my bachelor party. But it’s not as racy as some other people’s. It is more about the act of going to the bachelor party and being like: “Woo!” You know? Strippers who are not into it at all and are talking to each other the whole time? You’re sitting there and they’re having a conversation with each other about what they’re doing later. And you’re like, “Yeah! Bachelor Party!” Plus, my friends are all a colossal pile of nerds so it was more like, “Time for us to go out and be men!” Something like that. [laughs]
This is kind of a stupid question but was it hard to draw naked women?
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