Holly lives in Los Angeles in a small apartment filled with books, beer bottles, and pictures of Japanese rockstars. She began writing short stories about killer leeches at age 12 and went on to study creative writing at USC, eventually partnering up with Jordan Peters, who remains her artistic symbiont and Jennifer Alexis, her go-to girl for ideas. Holly's stories have been featured in Barbaric Yawp, Triptych, Peridot Books, and Clear Magazine, among others.
Every creature needs something to believe in, and it always takes the form of their own kind. Dogs have dog gods. Fish have a fish god. The reason God was a middle aged white man for so long is because it was middle aged white men drawing pictures of him. If junkies drew their own god, Holly thought, he would subsist on divine drugs. He would test their faith by testing their addiction. He would be a God on High, or a God on Heroin, or just on H.
Holly Interlandi: "This sucker is just a short story that Jordan Peters was awesome enough to illustrate. It’s a kind of concrete fairytale, an extremely autobiographical account of shunning bodies and embracing chain-link. Fairytales are usually love stories, and I gave mine a happy ending."
Porn isn’t just about sex. It’s a business. There is less gritty reality in comics than there ought to be. Body Shots is not a cartoon – it is a story. A series of stories. And there absolutely no KA-BOOMs.
