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Mr. Media interviews Hilary Price

I posted the podcast interviews with Cavna and Gilchrist earlier and completely forgot this one. Go listen to Bob Andelman’s (AKA Mr. Media) interview with Rhymes With Orange creator Hilary Price.
Or listen below.

Posted on: Mar 9, 2010,  Section: Comic strips, Interviews, Podcasts, Comments: 1 Comment

Podcast interviews: Mike Cavna and Guy Gilchrist

Two podcast interviews of note: Comics Coast to Coast interviewed Guy Gilchrist, cartoonist for the Nancy strip and budding country music artist. Tom Racine interviews the Comic Riffs blogger Michael Cavna.

Posted on: Mar 9, 2010,  Section: Blogs, Comic strips, Interviews, Podcasts, Comments: 1 Comment

Mr. Media interviews Ziggy’s Tom Wilson

Bob Andelman interviewed Ziggy cartoonist Tom Wilson yesterday in his latest Mr. Media podcast.

Posted on: Feb 5, 2010,  Section: Comic strips, Interviews, Comments: 4 Comments

Tall Tales Radio interviews Rick Kirkman

Tom Racine interviews Rick Kirkman, co-creator of Baby Blues in his latest podcast. Topics include “working with his old friend and colleague Jerry Scott, and their interesting and frustrating journey into television animation!”

Posted on: Feb 4, 2010,  Section: Comic strips, Interviews, Podcasts, Comments: 1 Comment

Bill Watterson grants first interview in decades

Plain Dealer reporter John Campanelli scores an email interview with Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson.
Readers became friends with your characters, so understandably, they grieved — and are still grieving — when the strip ended. What would you like to tell them?
This isn’t as hard to understand as people try to make it. By the [...]

Posted on: Feb 1, 2010,  Section: Comic strips, Interviews, Comments: 27 Comments

Eric Millikin talks with Larry Wright

Eric Millikin, interviews cartoonist Larry Wright for the The Comics Journal:
EM: The Detroit News, which featured editorial cartoons by both you and Henry Payne up until recently, and before that both you and Draper Hill, has to be one of the last major metro dailies to have two editorial cartoonists on staff.
LW: The News only [...]

Posted on: Jan 14, 2010,  Section: Editorial cartooning, Interviews, Comments: 2 Comments

Bob Andelman interviews Ray Billingsley

Mr. Media, AKA Bob Andelman recently interviewed Ray Billingsley, creator of Curtis about the strips first collection: “A Boy Named Curtis”

Posted on: Jan 14, 2010,  Section: Comic strips, Interviews, Comments: 2 Comments

Matt Wuerker at the Newseum

Matt Wuerker, the editorial cartoonist for Politico, recently appeared on the Newseum’s Inside Media. Here are 5 snippets from that appearance. As an aside, apparently bloggers are criticizing Matt for being a Dick Cheney lapdog. He writes to Jim Romenesko to demonstrate that it is not so.

Posted on: Jan 7, 2010,  Section: Editorial cartooning, Interviews, Comments: 2 Comments

Tom Richmond on Tall Tales Radio

Tom Racine interviews MAD cartoonist Tom Richmond about caricature, MAD Magazine, Batman, and his trip to Iraq with Stephan Pastis and Gary Trudeau.

Posted on: Jan 6, 2010,  Section: Interviews, Magazine Cartoonist Bloggers, Podcasts, Comments: 7 Comments

Stephen Silver to release “The Master’s Series”

Stephen Silver is releasing a video series entitled “The Master’s Series” this month which features Stephen visiting the homes and studios of famous cartoonists to talk about their careers, film their techniques as they draw, ink and color. The series is sold through Schoolism.com for $39.
Have you ever wanted to sit in the studio of [...]

Posted on: Jan 5, 2010,  Section: Comic history, Discussion, How-to, Illustration, Interviews, video, Comments: 2 Comments

News briefs for December 23, 2009

Comic Strips
» JC Duffy has launched called “Nightly Deposits.”
Interviews
» Scott Nickel interviews illustrator Danny Hellman.
Webcomics
» Comic Book Resources has posted their review of the year in webcomics.

Posted on: Dec 23, 2009,  Section: Blogs, Comic strips, Interviews, web comics, Comments: 2 Comments

News Briefs for December 21, 2009

Animation
» Some suspect the Homer Simpson character is a caricature inspired by Irish comic strips of the late 1800s – dumb and drunkard.
Children’s Books
» Stephanie McMillan has put together a video preview of the children’s book she’s illustrating. The book is entitled “Mischief in the Forest”

Editorial Cartooning
» David Willson, the editorial cartoonist for the Palm [...]

Posted on: Dec 21, 2009,  Section: Animation, Children's Books, Interviews, mobile, Comments: 3 Comments