Booking Cartoonists
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Seems the cartoonists in the news these days are the ones making the rounds promoting their latest books, but that does offer us a chance to read interviews and profiles of those cartoonists.
And unlike some book lists you may have read the books listed here are all real.
Peter Kuper Insectopolis: A Natural History
Peter Kuper spends 80 minutes with Steve Brodner on Brodner’s The Greater Quiet discussing and paging through Insectopolis as well as Kuper’s career before this book (Spy vs. Spy; magazine illustration). With Brodner you know we’ll get into the nuts and bolts, the hows and whys of illustrating.
A more comics fan oriented interview comes by way of the Comics Grinder podcast.
Read excerpts from the book at Lit Hub (bees) and Orion (ants).
Alison Bechdel Spent: A Comic Novel
In one of many funny scenes in Alison Bechdel’s new comic novel “Spent,” the writer/cartoonist has drawn herself — or, more precisely, a loosely fictionalized protagonist named Alison — pulling Karl Marx’s “Das Capital” off her home bookshelf. She’s looking for inspiration to “write a really good book about the corrupting influence of money” in order to honestly examine her own privilege and complicity in late-stage capitalism.
But instead of writing, Alison, who lives on a goat sanctuary in rural Vermont with her wife, Holly, is repeatedly distracted by the torrent of bad news on her computer screen. Democracy is being dismantled. Books are being banned. Oceans are overheating.
“Who can draw when the world is burning?” Alison wonders.
For the San Francisco Chronicle’s Datebook Jessica Zack interviews Alison Bechdel.
At autostraddle Drew Burnett Gregory interviews Alison Bechdel about Spent and her long cartooning career.
Alison: The book originated as an inquiry into the effect of money on our lives, as well as privilege or the lack thereof. Mixed in there for me is also this weird journey I’ve had from being very much an outsider in the culture to somehow crossing over and making a living doing this crazy thing that was never— something that was never, you know, a good idea if a person wanted to make a living. [laughs]
Drew: [laughs]
Alison: So that’s just been something I always muse about and wanted to play with in this book. But I somehow never really got into it, because the story and the characters kind of ran away with things.
Tom Toro Crocodiles Need Friends, Too!
This action-packed story full of humor and heart follows a lonely predator on the hunt…for pals.
Unfortunately I missed this book in our May Hey Kids! Comics! post but here it is released this week.
Toro is interviewed for a four and a half minute segment on KOIN-TV.
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