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Missed interviews: Hilary Price and Patrick McDonnell

While I was out on vacation last week, a couple of interviews were published. The Washington Post featured a live chat with Rhymes With Orange creator Hilary Price. PBS’ Religion & Ethics Newsweekly featured an interview with Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell regarding his work’s spirituality.

Posted on: Jul 13, 2010,  Section: Comic strips, Interviews, Comments: 2 Comments

Go read: Spurgeon interview with Richard Thompson

Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon has posted a transcript of the panel he moderated at Heroes Con last June with Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson. Definitely a must read if you’re a fan of Richard’s work – and should read anyway if you’re not. SPURGEON: How do you like to read strips? Are you a [...]

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

Piers Baker interviewed on Tall Tale Radio

Piers Baker is this weeks guest on the Tall Tale Radio podcast. Co-hosting the show with Tom Racine is Rabbits Against Magic creator Jonathan Lemon. The multi-talented Piers Baker of “Oliie & Quentin” leaps across the Atlantic thanks to the magic of Skype, to talk to me and my co-host, the magical Jonathan Lemon, he [...]

Posted on: Jul 1, 2010,  Section: Comic strips, Interviews, Podcasts, Comments: 0 Comments

Jerry Scott interviewed on Tall Tale Radio

Tom Racine has posted this week’s Tall Tale Radio podcast with special guest Jerry Scott. Jerry collaborates with Jim Borgman on the strip Zits and with Rick Kirkman on Baby Blues. Tom writes: Fresh off his National Cartoonist Society win for “Best Newspaper Strip 2010,” Jerry Scott of “Zits” (and “Baby Blues”) joins me to [...]

Posted on: Jun 25, 2010,  Section: Comic strips, Interviews, Comments: 5 Comments

Interviewed: Dick Locher talks about his cartooning career, future and Parkinson’s

During the American Editorial Cartoonists Association convention, I had a wonderful opportunity to sit down and talk with Chicago Tribune editorial cartoonist and Dick Tracy cartoonist Dick Locher. He had mentioned in an earlier panel a couple of upcoming milestones in his career: drawing 10,000 cartoons, 40 years with the Chicago Tribune (stared in 1972) [...]

Posted on: Jun 24, 2010,  Section: AAEC, Comic history, Comic strips, Interviews, Comments: 22 Comments

Dan Piraro interviewed by Hogan’s Alley

Regarding Bizarro creator Dan Piraro, Tom Heintjes writes, Creatively restive, Piraro also produces fine art, some of which uses the Catholic imagery that he was exposed to at parochial school. Yet after 17 years of deadline-mandated creativity, Piraro has refused to coast or repeat himself, and his peers in the National Cartoonists Society have acknowledged [...]

Posted on: Jun 8, 2010,  Section: Comic strips, Interviews, Comments: 0 Comments

Bolling, Scott, Toomey interviews posted

Scott Nickel has posted another in his 20 Questions series with an interview with Molly and the Bear creator and Pixar artist Bob Scott. 3. You’ve worked at Pixar for about a decade. How did that come about, and is it, in fact, the coolest job in the world? Yeah, almost 11 years. Boy, that [...]

Posted on: May 26, 2010,  Section: Animation, Comic strips, Interviews, Podcasts, Comments: 1 Comment

Tall Tale Radio interviews Marciuliano, Fruhlinger

Sally Forth writer Francesco Marciuliano and The Comics Curmudgeon Josh Fruhlinger are guests in the latest Tall Tales Radio podcast. I’ve been wanting to get this guy on the show for ages, and thanks to my friend Francesco Marciuliano of “Sally Forth,” it has happened. Josh Fruhlinger of “The Comics Curmudgeon” fame joins me and [...]

Posted on: Apr 27, 2010,  Section: Comic strips, Interviews, Podcasts, Comments: 0 Comments

Riffs interviews Breen, Wuerker

I reported Steve Breen took home the Fischetti award. The noise level of the announcement was muted considerably by the Pulitzer announcement the day before. I’m glad to see Michael Cavna was able to interview Steve. Michael talks to Matt Wuerker who was this year’s recipient of the Herblock award .

Posted on: Apr 19, 2010,  Section: Editorial cartooning, Interviews, Comments: 0 Comments

Tom Toles and Robert Wright at Bloggingheads

Robert Wright interviews Tom Toles in a Bloggingheads episode: For just the past week, Toles has added a blog-like commentary to his cartoons: He talks about the past and future of political cartoons. (They’re dead or could last forever.)  There’s an interesting revelation about the origin of the tiny commentary part at the bottom of [...]

Posted on: Mar 31, 2010,  Section: Editorial cartooning, Interviews, Comments: 0 Comments

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. [...]

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