Ron Turner helped the comics scene happen in the US. Friends with Crumb, Leary, everyone, he’s been distributing and publishing comics for over 30 years.
Ron: Thank you very much Jeff, it’s good to be here.
Interviewer: It’s good to have you Ron. You were the first person I was introduced to in San Francisco when I moved here in 1995 by Howard Jurofsky of Heavy Metal Magazine. He use to write for them years ago. I’ve published this book called This Book Can Make You Famous. So I thought it was appropriate to talk with you because you’ve seen so much happened over the past 34 years in the comic strip, comic book and art book publishing world. What do you think it is that catches the attention of the public now? Why do people glam on to R Crumb or certain manga? What is it that people are seeking in comics that makes one thing succeed and the other thing fail? How do you know when you when you look at something? Give us some of your views.
Ron: How do I know it’s a good thing? How do I know it’s an interesting thing? Well I guess I have little sense or somewhere in me that start turning on when I see something. I was pondering about that just this morning; what sensors do we have where is the guilt to land in our head or what motivates us to do things or to not do things? Who scour the pot clean so you can use it again? These little things swinging down from the lid of the pan that influences the cooking. What’s really going on in somebody’s brain when they take in information? The eyes are where we take most of our information through. So it’s mostly visual although it’s not the only thing. There is string theory now that’s finally arriving that there are some kinds of vibrations in the basic universe that allows for all of our thinking, being and sensing.
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