Regarding Bizarro creator Dan Piraro, Tom Heintjes writes, Creatively restive, Piraro also produces fine art, some of which uses the Catholic imagery that he was exposed to at parochial school. Yet after 17 years of deadline-mandated creativity, Piraro has refused to coast or repeat himself, and his peers in the National Cartoonists Society have acknowledged […]
Scott Nickel has posted another in his 20 Questions series with an interview with Molly and the Bear creator and Pixar artist Bob Scott. 3. You’ve worked at Pixar for about a decade. How did that come about, and is it, in fact, the coolest job in the world? Yeah, almost 11 years. Boy, that […]
Sally Forth writer Francesco Marciuliano and The Comics Curmudgeon Josh Fruhlinger are guests in the latest Tall Tales Radio podcast. I’ve been wanting to get this guy on the show for ages, and thanks to my friend Francesco Marciuliano of “Sally Forth,” it has happened. Josh Fruhlinger of “The Comics Curmudgeon” fame joins me and […]
I reported Steve Breen took home the Fischetti award. The noise level of the announcement was muted considerably by the Pulitzer announcement the day before. I’m glad to see Michael Cavna was able to interview Steve. Michael talks to Matt Wuerker who was this year’s recipient of the Herblock award .
Robert Wright interviews Tom Toles in a Bloggingheads episode:For just the past week, Toles has added a blog-like commentary to his cartoons:He talks about the past and future of political cartoons. (They’re dead or could last forever.) There’s an interesting revelation about the origin of the tiny commentary part at the bottom of the cartoons. […]
I posted the podcast interviews with Cavna and Gilchrist earlier and completely forgot this one. Go listen to Bob Andelman’s (AKA Mr. Media) interview with Rhymes With Orange creator Hilary Price.Or listen below.
Two podcast interviews of note: Comics Coast to Coast interviewed Guy Gilchrist, cartoonist for the Nancy strip and budding country music artist. Tom Racine interviews the Comic Riffs blogger Michael Cavna.
Bob Andelman interviewed Ziggy cartoonist Tom Wilson yesterday in his latest Mr. Media podcast.
Tom Racine interviews Rick Kirkman, co-creator of Baby Blues in his latest podcast. Topics include “working with his old friend and colleague Jerry Scott, and their interesting and frustrating journey into television animation!”
Plain Dealer reporter John Campanelli scores an email interview with Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson. Readers became friends with your characters, so understandably, they grieved — and are still grieving — when the strip ended. What would you like to tell them? This isn’t as hard to understand as people try to make it. […]
Eric Millikin, interviews cartoonist Larry Wright for the The Comics Journal: EM: The Detroit News, which featured editorial cartoons by both you and Henry Payne up until recently, and before that both you and Draper Hill, has to be one of the last major metro dailies to have two editorial cartoonists on staff. LW: The […]
Mr. Media, AKA Bob Andelman recently interviewed Ray Billingsley, creator of Curtis about the strips first collection: “A Boy Named Curtis”
Matt Wuerker, the editorial cartoonist for Politico, recently appeared on the Newseum’s Inside Media. Here are 5 snippets from that appearance. As an aside, apparently bloggers are criticizing Matt for being a Dick Cheney lapdog. He writes to Jim Romenesko to demonstrate that it is not so.
Tom Racine interviews MAD cartoonist Tom Richmond about caricature, MAD Magazine, Batman, and his trip to Iraq with Stephan Pastis and Gary Trudeau.
Stephen Silver is releasing a video series entitled “The Master’s Series” this month which features Stephen visiting the homes and studios of famous cartoonists to talk about their careers, film their techniques as they draw, ink and color. The series is sold through Schoolism.com for $39. Have you ever wanted to sit in the studio […]