Sylvia creator Nicole Hollander was on NPR yesterday talking about her new book called “Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial.” The book is a humorous look at getting older. The book was published by Broadway book.From the description of the book: Nicole Hollander grew up in the nineteen-fifties, when women of a certain […]
Comic Book Resources has an excellent interview with Non Sequitur creator Wiley Miller about all his feature, his book and his move to Maine. Was it hard to sell the syndicate on a strip without characters or themes, just focusing entirely on the funny? At the time, yes. I created this during a severe recession […]
Freelance-Star editorial cartoonst Clay Jones interviewed fellow cartoonists Scott Stantis, Joel Pett and Matt Davies to talk shop about various aspects of cartooning. Topics covered include: state of today’s cartoons, disagreeing with the paper’s positions, how does winning the Pulitzer affect your work, impact of blogs, and receiving hate mail.On that last topic, here is […]
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has posted an interview Tom Spurgeon coducted with Amy Lago, editor of the Washington Post Writers Group regarding the dropped Opus comics back in late August and early September.An excerpt: SPURGEON: Are you worried about any of the potential free speech elements to this incident, that it might be […]
The Charlie Rose’s new website includes thousands of videos from interviews he’s had on his show. Among the few dug up by Drawn! include Charles M. Schulz, Garry Trudeau, Matt Groening and James L. Brooks, Scott Adams, Art Spiegelman. Sparky has always intrigued me. As I watched the 35 minute video I was inspired by […]
Rex Babin, of the Sacramento Bee, and Mikhaela Reid, an alternative weekly cartoonist, were interviewed by NPR’s “Morning Edition,” discussing their favorite cartoons on George W. Bush and on cartooning the next president.You can listen to it here.
Over at Cecil Vortex’s blog, he has an interesting interview with Bizarro cartoonist Dan Piraro. CV: I understand that to syndicate a cartoon, you first need to stockpile a large number of comics. Was that a challenge for you? DP: Early on it was very hard. See, on the one hand, I really love starting […]
Over at the Publishing Spot is a mini Q and A with Rex Morgan, M.D. and Judge Parker writer Woody Wilson.Questions answered: How did you become involved writing comic strip scripts? Any advice for young writers looking to get involved with writing for newspaper comic strips?
Terry LaBan, co-writer and artist for Edge City talks to Comic Book Resources about his feature.An excerpt: Q. In what ways does the daily format work to your advantage in telling stories and to what degree is it frustrating? A. I don’t think it’s often appreciated what a unique and cool way a daily comic […]
Berkeley Breathed continues his book tour. He was interviewed by the Northwest Herald. Did you think “Bloom County” was going to be as successful as it was? The only reason that “Bloom County” worked in the ’80s is because I didn’t know what I was doing. I had no intentions of being any more of […]
Berkeley Breathed is out on his book tour for his new book “Mars Needs Moms.” He was interviewed on American University’s NPR program. Streaming audio is available.
Brooke McEldowney, creator of 9 Chickweed Lane and Pibgorn, was interviewed by WUKY (NPR station at the Univ. of Kentucky). Here’s the link to the MP3.
Jonathan Lemon writes in to tell Daily Cartoonists about an interview with KAL, Tom Meyer, Mark Fiore on the topic of The Art of Political Cartooning conducted by the Commonwealth Club. You can listen to it online.
Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon has posted an interview with Brendan Burford, King Feature’s new comics editor. At age 28, Brendan picks up where Jay Kennedy left off after Jay’s untimely death. TOM SPURGEON: When your promotion was announced, I think it was [King Features President] Rocky Shepard who in one of the articles indicated that […]
It looks like The Journal News editorial cartoonist Matt Davies is scheduled to appear on Minnesota Public radio to discuss the challenges of covering the war in editorial cartooning. Also slated during the segment will be Tim Kreider, an alternative weekly editorial cartoonist out of Baltimore.The segment will air during Midmorning about 10:06 a.m. CST