Lonnie Garcia and Yugo Limbo, The Comics Journal:
“My next question is the puppet question. Oh, boy. So, I love puppets. I grew up with them, like many people, and my favorite movie for a really long time was Little Shop of Horrors because of, you know, the obvious. But when I got into college, I got back into puppetry, especially Jim Henson. I really connected to a lot of the work he was trying to do, and his explorative spirit, he just had a really good body of work. It seemed like it was a really cool thing to be involved in at the time. If I had been born in a different period, that’s something I really would have liked to be involved in. But what got you into puppets? I know you’re a big puppet person.
So, every single kid in America grew up on Sesame Street and The Muppets. But in a similar vein to what we were talking about earlier with the whole, “Oh, I didn’t know you could do that [with art]!” thing, I remember in early high school, Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared came out.
And that merged two worlds of my interests with puppets and really experimental stuff. I’m very glad that they kept going, especially with the new show that came out because it’s five times as experimental as anything they ever did with their YouTube shorts, and I’m very happy to see it.”
Read the full interview on The Comic Journal’s website here!