Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Spider Jerusalem" in English language version.
K: I read that your friends sometimes appear as the models for characters in Transmetropolitan. For instance, your friend André Ricciardi was the model for Spider... R: André is still a close friend. When it came time to do Spider, he was so much like Spider in his own right... Spider ended up being older and kind of growing into his own character by himself, but André is definitely the basis for it.
