A Half-Dozen Cartoonist Quickies
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With Alexis E. Fajardo, Randy Glasbergen, Amy Kurzweil, Mikke Stratton, Brian Fies, and Tom Toro.
Kid Beowulf moves from GoComics to Patreon
Kid Beowulf has finished running Book Four on GoComics and creator Alexis E. Fajardo has decided Book Five will be featured on his Patreon site rather than GoComics. Rachel DeSchepper interviews the cartoonist as the switch nears:
[As the] fourth book wraps its GoComics run on March 23… We chat with creator Alexis E. Fajardo on closing out “The Tarpeian Rock” arc, what he needed to pay off for readers, and where Beowulf and Grendel are headed next.
Chenango County’s ‘Better Half’ — The Life and Works of Randy Glasbergen
Magazine and comic strip cartoonist Randy Glasbergen hailed from the wilds of south central New York state. It is there where an exhibit featuring his The Better Half newspaper panel and magazine cartoons is being displayed. From Jessica Benton at The Evening Sun:
Glasbergen began his professional career at just 15 years of age, as a freelance artist. “There’s a lot to be said for the talent of someone who was employed as a professional artist while still in high school at just 15 years old,” Moquin said.
The exhibit is made up of original art pieces spanning all decades of Glasbergen’s professional career. In addition to being a successful cartoonist, Glasbergen was also a best-selling author who published several books on how to be a cartoonist. The exhibit will also include merchandise featuring his art work and a variety of his treasured pop-culture items.
Notes on a Burmese Prison
Kristen Radtke at The Verge interviews Amy Kurzweil on the collaboration with her cousin Danny Fenster (or here) about his incarceration in a Myanmar prison.
ailed during the 2021 coup in Myanmar, American journalist Danny Fenster spent six months as a political prisoner. For much of his incarceration he battled boredom and fear, subsisting on meditation and podcasts on an SD card smuggled in by mail, sent by his girlfriend, Juliana.
Now, nearly five years after his release, he collaborated with his cousin Amy Kurzweil, a celebrated New Yorker cartoonist and graphic memoirist, on a long-form interactive comic for The Verge about his imprisonment. I chatted via email with Kurzweil about her role as an illustrator and storyteller in this ambitious long-form project.
Emerging Cartoonist on Prince Edward Island
Logan MacLean for The Guardian profiles Mike Stratton.
When Mike Stratton was a kid, he and his friends used to draw funny pictures to make each other laugh. But as he grew up and got into music, drawing took a backseat to other hobbies and working adult life.
About five years ago, the Marshfield man started getting back into drawing, working on still life pictures.
When The Guardian spoke to Stratton at his home studio on Feb. 25, it was clear how much he loves the work. He was excited to share the process, which starts with an idea. Then he puts on a record from his deep collection of classic rock vinyl, takes out a pencil and gets to work in the studio.
Mom’s Cancer Twentieth Anniversary Edition
This week saw the release of an expanded edition of Brian Fies’ Mom’s Cancer, “now with 32 more pages of content including 22 pages of new art.”
Amaris Ketcham and Nora Hickey at Autobiographix interviewed Brian.
Last month, Amaris talked about reading Mom’s Cancer by Brian Fies while in the waiting at the UNM Cancer Research and Treatment Center. This Eisner award-winning graphic memoir is being re-released in March to celebrate its twentieth anniversary. Fies has also expanded the memoir, adding details about what happened after the original ending.
Tom Toro TV
Get a glimpse into cartoonist Tom Toro’s process, and another chance to caption one of his cartoons New Yorker cartoonist Tom Toro is interviewed on a five and a half minute KGW News segment.
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