TV Guide July 29–August 4, 2000
Heroic Efforts
Rich Sands
Cartoonist Judd Winick Gets a New Job and Pays Tribute to an Old Friend
Judd Winick has gone from The Real World to the fantasy world of
superheroes. A member of the MTV series’s 1994 San Francisco cast, Winick is
now writing DC Comics’s Green Lantern. His first issue goes on sale August
2. Winick, who used to write and illustrate Frumpy the Clown, a weekly
newspaper strip, and The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius, the comic
book, is excited to “[bring] a lot of my own experiences” to Lantern. But
the 30-year-old Long Island native is quick to note an essential difference
between himself and the ring-wielding superhero: “I don’t have the most
powerful weapon in the universe dangling from my hand.”
Winick may not have the coveted power ring, but next year he’ll don a wedding
band. After dating for five years, he and fellow Real World-er Pam Ling got
engaged in March. Now a doctor, Ling conducts research for the Center for
AIDS Prevention Studies in San Francisco, where the couple lives.
Another The Real World
housemate who had a lasting impact on Winick’s life was
Pedro Zamora, who died of AIDS-related causes in 1994. “It took a while to
get past it enough that I could look back on it honestly,” says Winick, who
has created a graphic novel on their friendship,
Pedro And Me (Henry Holt and Co.),
due out in September. Zamora “was too important to the world for [his story]
to go by the wayside. I wanted one more opportunity to put it out there.”
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