![]() ![]() These two loves come together spectacularly with the release of his wild and vital graphic novel interpretation of genre fiction legend Joe R. The bloodier, the better! Nothing was good without gallons of blood!” “I had discovered import horror movies a bit earlier, and that was a time I was a full-on gorehound. “When I took the train to the big city nearby there were second-hand bookstores that carried Fangoria and Gorezone along with comics from smaller publishers,” he says. “Even as a kid, I took making comics quite seriously, spending evenings and summer holidays getting the next issue ready.” ![]() “Quite early on I started making my own comics, printing them and selling the magazines to my friends and family,” Piironen tells RUE MORGUE. Which is to say, though Jussi Piironen grew up in a small Finnish town of around 7000 residents, he could nevertheless find a slew of Marvel, DC and Image comics in his native language at the local supermarket as well as Bande Dessinées (i.e., legendary Franco-Belgian comics) at the library. Culture is like water flowing down a mountain: It finds a way to where it needs to be. ![]()
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