Big Things: Jason Yungbluth

What Is Deep Fried? It's a hilarious, over-the-top humour comic produced by one of the small press scene's most unashamedly tasteless talents. Jason Yungbluth takes time out from mocking the afflicted to let Ninth Art in on the joke.
18 July 2003

Jason Yungbluth is best known for DEEP FRIED, a 48-page anthology of cruel and unusual humor published "anywhere from one to four times a year, depending on my mood." Characters of Yungluth's whom you may have heard of include Weapon Brown, Clarissa, and Beepo and Roadkill. He desribes himself as "Comin' from Bizuffalo, New York y'all! We're the Afghanistan of the northeast, and that's why my comedy be rippin' through through you like a bullet from a Kalashnikov!"

...Er, quite.

BIG NEWS:

I am currently working on DEEP FRIED: BIRTH DEFECT, the next instalment of the DEEP FRIED series of comic books for children with brain abnormalities. It will be out in August, along with THE GREAT TASTE OF DEEP FRIED, a trade paperback of DEEP FRIED's first four issues.

On my website I continue to produce SHOCK AND AWE, my new animated series spoofing the war in Iraq.

BIG BUSINESS:

My comic strip BEEPO AND ROADKILL, which was widely beloved at the University of Buffalo, did not find the same reaction at the syndicates. A couple years after graduation I decided that the world had degraded to the point where a comic book with the same characters could thrive. I am the worm in the comic industry's apple!

BIG TROUBLE:

Time and money are the biggest hurdles. Comics suck one and rarely excrete the other. It's a tough business, especially when you do everything yourself. After the comic is drawn, I don't have all that much time left to promote it as well as I should. But I soldier on!

BIG SPENDER:

I can't afford to make comics! No one can! It's a celestial paradox! Comics are expensive to make and do not sell, yet people still make them and try to sell them! It's like some sort of flippin' zen for masochists!

BIG AMBITION:

With unlimited time, money and opportunity, I would produce more DEEP FRIED for sure, on a more timely schedule. And I have some ambitious fantasy comic concepts that I would like to pursue at some point as well. I also don't think there are enough comics devoted to salted nuts. I'd probably do something about that, too. SALTY AND THE KASHEW KLAN, I'd call it! They would be the result of an experiment in gamma honey roasting gone horribly wrong! Hmmm. Y'know, with Marvel restarting the Epic line, maybe...?

BIG TIME:

CLARISSA is one feature of DEEP FRIED people want to see more of, so I'm planning a CLARISSA special for the fall, followed by another issue of DEEP FRIED for Christmas. I am looking to score work in animation, and I have some ideas for an animated project or two based on DEEP FRIED which I may begin to develop. And of course, I'm looking forward to more poverty!

BIG FINISH:

"He crushed the nations of earth in his iron grip, laid waste to man's hopes and set fire to man's dreams! Come the end of time, his cruelty still will not have been equalled! He liked FRASIER."

BIG DEAL:

My fantastically terrible and grotesquely hilarious comics are available through Diamond, Cold Cut and FM International. But your best option is to order them off my website.

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