Heathcliff Cartoonist Peter Gallagher Opens the 2024 Season of PBS’ Comics Culture

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1. Mike Tiefenbacher

   D.D.: Maybe you know the answer to this question that came up in a discussion between me and my fellow cartoonist/comic-strip enthusiast John Wells just the other day: Whatever happened to the remarkable Mike Peters PBS cartoonist-interview series, THE WORLD OF CARTOONING from the late ’80s? I’m sure it exists in some archive somewhere, but can we unconnected fans, who didn’t have the forsight to videotape them, somehow view the 14 episodes? And how do we convince somebody to produce a present-day version (with Peters, or perhaps another erudite and humorous cartoonist with the requisite connections to line-up a dozen or more interview subjects)? It’s rather astonishing the the Peters show didn’t become a regular network series, given the multiple boxes it ticks (then and now) in the PBS playbook.

   1. D. D. Degg  (admin)

      As you say, in this time where everything is on the internet,
      where is “The World of Cartooning with Mike Peters” archived?
      I found four interviews (Mort Walker, Chuck Jones in two parts,
      Paul Conrad, and Jeff MacNelly) at the bottom of this page:
      https://www.youtube.com/@theworldofcartooningwithmi3171/videos

      Mike Lynch presents the two part Tony Auth interview:
      http://mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/2019/11/video-tony-auth-interview-on-world-of.html

      But where is the rest of the series?
      And why aren’t they all on that YouTube channel?