Mr. Media interviews Christopher Hart

Mr. How-to-draw-cartoons author Christopher Hart is interviewed by Bob Andelman about his new book Manga for the Beginner Midnight Monsters: How to Draw Zombies, Vampires, and Other Delightfully Devious Characters of Japanese Comics. The video also features him demoing how to do it.

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Interviewed: Mr. Media interviews Mark Anderson

Bob Andelman aka Mr. Media interviews Andertoons cartoonist Mark Anderson. But Anderson was driven to find a way. He worked a day job to pay the bills and spent his pre-dawn and late-night hours drawing comics for whatever customers he could find – magazines and newspapers, sure, but also greeting card companies, trade publications, corporations…

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Mr. Media interviews M. Tom Inge on Will Eisner

Bob Andelman (AKA Mr. Media) interviews M. Tom Inge about his new book “Will Eisner: Conversations (Conversations with Comic Artists).” From Amazon’s description: (Will Eisner: Conversations) collects the best interviews with Eisner (1917–2005) from 1965 to 2004. Taken together, the interviews cover the breadth of Eisner’s career with in-depth information about his creation of The…

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Mr. Media interviews Jeff Keane about 9/11

Another engaging interview by Bob Andelman, aka Mr. Media with Family Circus cartoonist Jeff Keane on the topic of the 9/11 and carrying on the legacy of Family Circus. Here’s the description: Jeff is now in charge of creating ?Family Circus,? the cartoon his father Bill started in 1960. He still seeks out his fathers?…

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Mr. Media interviews Ivan Brunetti

Bob Andelman (AKA Mr. Media) has posted an interview with Ivan Brunetti, author of the new book, “Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice” described as, “literally a 15-week master course in the art, grown from his practical experience teaching at the University of Chicago and Columbia College Chicago. In a mere 88 pages, Brunetti dispenses exactly what…

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Mr. Media interviews Scott, Borgman, Kirkman

Bob Andelman recently interviewed Baby Blues creators Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman and Zits creators Jim Borgman and Jerry Scott. Topics discussed include raising their own kids, what they’d think if their kids wanted to become a cartoonist, collaborating with each other, side projects (or avoidance of), feature optioning, and coming up with the character’s…

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