8/23/2023 0 Comments Invader zim tagr![]() For the most part everyone understood what they were signing on for.įrom what I understand, Nick producer Mary Harrington originally approached you about pitching a show to the network, after she discovered Squee! and Johnny the Homicidal Maniac (both books I think I picked up at an indie comic convention and devoured when I was probably too young to be reading them). The tricky thing about returning was making it clear to the new Nick that inviting Zim back meant inviting Zim back, a thing that wasn’t going to be something else, they were still inviting a pulsating garbage bag of filth encrusted rabid weasels into their studio. They had time to see what Zim turned into and how it was still creating interest no matter how much time passed. The Nick I dealt with back during the series isn’t the Nick I dealt with to work on that TMNT short or Enter the Florpus - it was a whole new bunch of people who, in many cases, were people who worked under the people of old, and they maybe just got it a bit more than those people of old. Mainly I think that Nickelodeon, like most places, isn’t a person so much as a collective with a makeup that changes as people come and go. Nickelodeon has said it was canceled in part because of low ratings, so what changed the network’s mind? Nickelodeon has been no stranger to bizarre animated programming over the years, but in the era that Invader Zim aired, I think it’s safe to say that its tone was uniquely creepy, pessimistic, and counterculture. Even then I knew I wouldn’t work on anything until I had an idea that justified the work beyond simply providing something because people wanted it. I hadn’t planned on doing more animated Zim, but Nick’s latest approach just happened to sync up with me wanting to work on something with a greater chance of actually happening. Those years are just sorta buried with no real proof of your existence. Heartbreaking stuff sinking years of your life into something people will never see and then seeing generic stuff churned out in place of what you were trying to do. My mind was on other matters, really! In the recent years leading up to production on the Zim movie I was elsewhere developing other things that just didn’t fly. What convinced you to do it, or did something keep you from doing it before now? You’ve said that Nickelodeon was after you for years to do more Zim. I just hope people like this movie someone made or that, if they hate it, they hate it so much they die. Just because SOMEONE made a movie to make me look like a liar doesn’t mean I will back down. Jhonen Vasquez: What do you mean “go back”? I swore the Zim movie was just a huge hoax and I stand by it. How are you feeling as you finally bring the project to a conclusion - and to go back on all those years of teasing?
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