So the Clawcast interview with Jay Naylor finally came out. Here's the highlights; you can hear the full thing over at the Clawcast site:
• Haukaiu is actually approved by Ollie Canal, who Naylor says he sends "every little word" to in order to make sure things aren't out of whack with Ollie's vision of the Lutrai world
• As far as edits of his works go, he doesn't think about them (and he also doesn't go to imageboards or the like)
• Piracy apparently hasn't hurt his business, and he pretty much doesn't give a shit about it unless it does
• He believes the reputation he has is because of who he was when he was in his early twenties, as opposed to anything recently
• He believes he's not using his characters as his mouthpiece
• A recent instance of him having his characters do something that he wouldn't have done himself/didn't believe in himself was when Fisk decided to not stay at home and live with Beth, and instead go join the secret assassination group
• On the topic of racial stereotypes using species, he says it's because BD's universe shares the same history as real life, thus he needs to represent other races to maintain the history and the context (and apparently, rabbits, felines, and canines all represent "the various regions of Europe"); he chose hyenas to represent "Africans" because it was the only species he felt comfortable drawing into the role (he didn't do zebras because he didn't like drawing hooved characters back then, he didn't do giraffes because he hates long necks [?!], and he didn't do lions because of possible confusion with the generic felines)
• He believes that anyone who wants to hate him will ignore the positives of his works and go right for the negatives in order to nitpick them, and that most of the people who hate him disliked him to begin with, and haven't thought "logically" about "the real issues"
• He says that criticisms of how he's portrayed Beth from her original appearance to now may actually be valid
• He doesn't believe Fisk is a Mary Sue, he says Fisk is not "his personal furry", and regrets having Fisk being attached to him as a representation of him
• In regards to the incest in BD, he might not do it again if he could go back and do it, and he did it in the first place to throw in a twist
• He no longer writes stories to throw in twists, he writes them to pit character archetypes together.
• He doesn't editoralize "too much" through his characters (he admits that the "abstract art chapter" is an exception to this)
• In what is a rather cheap shot at Mat Sherer, he calls Mat an "America-hating piece of crap"
• He recalls all the differences between his Lucy Black and Mat's Lucy Koneko (different ages, different last names, living in different countries, different histories) and believes the differences didn't obligate him to credit Mat, especially if he was to "[become] an embarassing liability"
• He calls Mat "combative" and says "he picked fights on the Internet", and says Mat hated people like Scott Kurtz because everyone else hated them
• He describes Mat's personality as "disgusting, negative, young, immature, sick" and didn't want to be associated professionally with him
