Eric Rickert lives in Brooklyn, New York and works at DC Comics. Julie Leidner is an artist and writer living in Louisville. They met at the fat kids’ table in a high school cafeteria and have been friends ever since. “Millennial Wax” – their first comic project – is about their generation and its disconnectedness. Also, pop music.
Rickert: So, Julie, do you remember how we got started with all this? I’m blanking.
Leidner: Umm, I believe you sent me an email asking me if I had ever thought of doing a comic and I responded with something like, “Uh, no.”
Rickert: That’s right!
Leidner: Which you interpreted as me being disgusted by the idea.
Rickert: I’m so fearful of rejection. I know. You can always see it on my face, can’t you?
Leidner: I can. But that’s what happens when you talk through email or whatever. You couldn’t hear that I was actually being thoughtful about the idea.
Rickert: Right. That the tone is absent is a huge problem.
Leidner: It happens with the medium of [Google Chat] too. Ha. Anyway…
Rickert: I’ve wanted to collabo’ with you forever though. Seriously.
Leidner: Well, you have mentioned this idea to me several times over the past few years. That is true.
Rickert: I picked up the nagging gene from my mom, yeah.
Leidner: I always kind of brushed it off, I guess, because I thought that I wasn’t a comic book or comic strip type of person. But you know what? After I caved to your nagging and started to do this, I realized that I do have a history of reading comics. It was like uncovering a repressed memory.
Rickert: I remember having a chat with you ages ago about how much we both loved Storm [from “The X-Men”]. That Mohawk and leather? Incredible. Major sartorial inspiration for me.
Leidner: Yeah, for me it was because of my older brother. He got “The X-Men” comics and also MAD magazine and I would read every single issue from cover to cover. I was a big MAD magazine fan for years as a kid.
Rickert: Yeah, I was such a comics nerd as a kid. Guess that never changed.
Leidner: Did you read anything besides “X-Men”?
Rickert: I read everything. I was a Marvel Comics boy though: “X-Men,” “Avengers,” “Ghost Rider.” Now I only remember my deep, deep, deep love for “The X-Men” Dazzler. And almost no one cares about her. (shrug)
Leidner: Whoa, I don’t remember her.
Rickert: Mutant pop star. Basically, the comic book version of Kylie Minogue.
Leidner: Oh, god. What was her special power – having the greatest ass in England?
Rickert: That, and turning sound into light. Which fueled her pop career, thank you very much. Speaking of, did pop stars play a role in the comic [“Millennial Wax”] for you? Like, as inspiration or something?
Leidner: Well, Lady Gaga’s nose was an inspiration for me. I think the female character in “Millennial Wax” is a combination of Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian, that one hot rapper chick that you showed me a picture of, and then Pam Grier. That one came out of left field.
Rickert: Foxy Brown, really? Awesome. I know I was the one who requested the stripper-like high ponytail. I thought she should look kinda like Iggy Azalea. That’s right. I’m obsessed with her look. So perfect for a female rapper. Such a perfect ‘90s throwback. And the boy? Please tell me it’s not intentional that he looks like me in my raver days.
Leidner: You were definitely an inspiration for some of his facial expressions.
Rickert: BRB, babe.
Rickert: Sorry, had to call my boyfriend and make my lunch for tomorrow. God, I sound like such a ‘tween.
Leidner: You’re such a Millennial.
Rickert: IKR! [I know, right?]
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