Wiley Miller Interviewed
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Wiley Miller, creator of Non Sequitur, was interviewed by the Kennebunkport Post. Nothing too new from this interview, but does an excellent recap of the Wiley’s history before Non Sequitur and how his feature came about.
Here’s a sample:
“When my friends and I would hang out I would just do little doodles on napkins. They really liked them so I started bringing paper and saving them, they were my ‘bartoons,'” he said.
While he was employed at the San Francisco Examiner, Miller attended a party at a friend’s home. He had brought the ‘bartoons,’ and ended up showing them to Victoria Coviello – whom he later married. Miller said it was her prodding him to sell his ‘bartoons’ to Playboy magazine that “got the ball rolling.”
“I took it on as a design project and started to fill things out, started to mix up all of these skills I had learned – editorial stuff, gags, good dialog, color,” he said.
When Miller quit the job in San Francisco, Coviello was simultaneously accepted as one of 10 students selected into the University of Iowa’s nonfiction Writer’s Workshop.
“We had to take the opportunity,” he said. “And because of bad economic times I knew I had to do something big.”
In 1992 Miller released “Non Sequitur” and “never looked back,” and with its original initial success he said he was finally able to fulfill his dream – to sustain himself using his ideas instead of doing the work for others.
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