A Very Brief and Scummy Interview: Shawn G. Pacheco

by Rhonda Baughman

Much like a few of my recent articles in the FuckNuggets! series, this brief interview is a culmination of the tried and true art of stumbling … as in, myself or one of my roommates, stumbles onto something so cool on the web – our faith in humanity and the internet is restored, at least briefly (i.e. see: Totten, Caroline, See Sharp Press, Lunchmeat).

Interview with Shawn Pacheco:

“I have been drawing for as long as I can remember, first becoming fascinated with drawing around nine or ten years old. I had a Popeye coloring book – and drew him on a separate sheet of paper. From then on … I knew I loved to draw. I also love comic books, always have and always will I knew I wanted to do a comic book and when I met Mike Taylor at Wonder Con, I showed him my artwork and he dug it. Mike at the time was inking for Lightning Comics. He asked me if I wanted to do a comic together – and I jumped at the chance: the result is “Doll Parts”.

“I like a lot of detail – I want the viewer to melt into my pages. When I put together my website I had about five names for it and scumo was one of them. I wanted something short and catchy, like whamo!, and I always thought my work was gritty and a bit scummy.”

“I am mostly inspired by other artists, movies, old cartoons, comic books, music and nature. The artists include H.R. Giger, Tom Bunk, Richard Corben, Hideshi Hino, to name a few. When I see a new Corben comic or a new Bunk painting it moves me and makes me want to move forward with my artwork. I appreciate that you like my artwork – and I agree with you that there are only a handful of artists that still do fun type of artwork – and I am glad to be one of them. Right now I am painting a gingerbread house acrylic on illustration board. Sometimes I do get a commission with a specific idea, but if I’m going to spend time on it, it has to be something I’m really into, so I rarely do them.”

Visit: www.scumo.com & http://scumo.blogspot.com/

Image a copyright 2010, Shawn G. Pacheco, used with permission.