ERNIE COLON INTERVIEW in SCARCE 77 (2011) Part 13 ANNE FRANK:

• ME: In the afterthought text of the Manimal reprint, you wrote « ..In my world, Black blows their Goddamned brains out. I felt better for that. But the victims, the ghostly shadows, the backdrops for all this popular junk, deserve something more than Manimal. I dearly wish I could have given it ». 33 years later, with the Anne Frank graphic biography, do you at last feel you have given it ?

ERNIE: Anne stands alone in all the variety of work I've done. She is sui generis--as a person, as a writer and as a subject.

TO BE CONTINUED...