I think partially so me and my sister could go to the grade school there, which was a good little one-room school house.
and then my uncle had lived on the island, and we eventually moved out there when I was six.
It’s close to Canada, it’s up in the very northwestern corner of the state. Vernon, Washington, and then I grew up in Bellingham, which is a college town. TCJ: How did your parents come to live there, and where were you born? MT: There’s probably like 500 people year round and then it goes up to like a couple hundred more in the summer-time. TCJ: So just a few hundred people live there? A safe, dreamy atmosphere and somewhat claustrophobic at a certain point. Indian reservation on the other side of the water. A commercial fishing industry kind of limping along/dying. No police, so famous as a place to party. The phone book was one page long, double-sided. Matthew Thurber: Lummi Island was beautiful and small. What was growing up there like? What was the size of the community? TCJ: You're from Lummi Island, Washington. He was an engaged (and engaging) interview subject willing to explore any idea I introduced in great depth, and did so with a warm and open sense of humor. In this interview, we discussed Thurber's development as an artist in a number of different fields, his diverse range of interests, and the wide variety of themes that emerge in 1-800-MICE. 1-800-MICE is the culmination of many years of exploration in comics and is hilarious, absurd, thought-provoking, compelling, and pointedly satirical all at once. It's a sprawling epic that leaps between the narratives of a number of different characters before drawing them together in unusual ways, depicting life in a vibrant, tense Volcano City set in a fantasy world where trees are sentient, banjo-playing gangsters hire sushi-chef assassins, and both consciousness and identity are highly fluid concepts. Thurber is a veteran of the indie music scene after his stint in Soiled Mattress and the Springs.Īs a cartoonist, Thurber's work reveals a tension between complex but traditional narrative structures, boldly avant-garde visual storytelling, and the overall sensibilities of a gag cartoonist. In addition to the recent publication of his collected masterpiece 1-800-MICE (published by PictureBox), Thurber has also just released a new album, under the name of his one-man musical project, Ambergris. Matthew Thurber grew up on an island, was a teen when grunge broke in the Pacific Northwest and eventually made the trek across the country to attend art school at Cooper Union in New York. He never left the area, and now resides in Brooklyn with his girlfriend, the artist Rebecca Bird. Thurber is known as a multimedia artist. Features “I Just Like Hybrid Activity”: The Matthew Thurber Interview
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