Larsen, Erik Jon

If not for comics, Erik Jon Larsen says he would have been a dishwasher, ditch digger or a tedious, menial laborer.  He started drawing seriously at birth, and broke into comics when he published a fanzine, Graphic Fantasy.  After reading it, Gary Carlson contacted him and the rest was history.  His first professional work was Megaton #1, Nov. 1983.
    ''Getting married and Savage Dragon 1-3 are my greatest accomplishments,'' Larsen says.  He spends four hours on full pencils and uses a Mars Lumograph 2H Clo-erase non-photo pencil.  He joined Image so he could have comlete control over his creations, with no editorial interference.
    In twenty years, he'd like to be doing Savage Dragon #240.  And he wants to be remembered as a ''burned out old hack who's totally lost it... whining about the new young punks who are outselling him.''