Richard Thompson will be featured on the Washington Post’s live chat discussions today at noon (EST). Richard does a local comic called Cul de Sac for the Post each Sunday and also Richard’s Poor Almanac which appears in the Post on Saturdays.
One of the featured cartoonists is Lynn Johnston and her For Better Or For Worse comic. The video interview runs about 14 minutes and is quite interesting – even if you know a lot about Lynn.
Lynn Johnston, the artist who has created the For Better or For Worse comic strip for more than 20 years, gets technical (and spiritual) about drawing people.As a side note, For Better or For Worse has begun applying minor animation to the online strip. Watch the strip for a couple of seconds.
Jake Fuller, the editorial cartoonist for the Gainesville Sun was recently interviewed by his own paper for a podcast (or as they call it, a ‘Suncast’)…. What is it about political cartoons that causes controversy especially in religion?
This section features audio interviews of actors, writers and directors of past and upcoming DreamWorks films. If you feel there is info missing here and can help expand it e-mail me at jawad@dreamworksfansite.com.
The Dallas Morning News has an interesting story about how Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman got together to create their hit feature “Zits.”Sketches in hand, he ran into Jim Borgman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist from Cincinnati, at a conference…. Drawing.”Then the conference broke up and everybody went home.”But every once in a while, the fax would bleep,” Mr. Borgman says.
News columnist Mike Peters (not the Grimmy Mike Peters) interviewed the Brevity duo and filed a quick six question story. Questions include: What made you do a comic strip?How do you describe Brevity?How does your collaboration work?How does creating the comic strip compare with your day job?Can we believe anything on your Comics.com bio page ? where, for instance, Guy claims to be a member of the 1987 Olympic team?What’s new?On the last question, Guy reveals that there will be a new Brevity book coming out later this year.
Andrew Feinstein and Justin Borus, self syndicated creators of “Girls and Sports,” will be featured on ESPN2’s morning show, Cold Pizza. Check them out between 10am and noon EST. Girls and Sports has over 175 clients across the US.
San Francisco legendary hippy Diamond Dave Whitaker recently interviewed Dan Piraro about his one man comedy show that is sheduled to start in Los Angeles on April 13. Topics include: cartooning, Dan’s show, reefers, veganism, politics, reefers, flashbacks to the hippy days, and reefers. Okay, maybe marijuana wasn’t the dominating topic, but I had a […]
Kent Worcester will be interviewing Tom the Dancing Bug creator Ruben Bolling at the Museum of Comci and Cartoon Art in New York next Monday. Here are the details as sent to me by Kent.The New York-based Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) is hosting a special event this coming Monday titled “Ruben Bolling […]
Yesterday I received an email from Dominic Bonacci, one of the planners for the upcoming Comics Symposium sponsored by the Lakeland Community College asking for my opinion on why there is a lack of media coverage of comic strip industry. With his permission, I’ve posted his email below along with his questions. I’ve inserted my […]
Yesterday, Clay Bennett was on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal to talk about Sunshine Week. It’s a great interview. You can see the streaming video on the C-SPAN web site. Click on the Washington Journal Entire Program (03/17/2006) link to launch the video.
Local Cincinnati radio WGUC has a series of interviews with Jim Borgman to talk about his celebration of 25 years with the Cincinnati Enquirer. There are 8 interviews with tops ranging from the feedback he’s getting, Zits (his comic strip, not his complexion), a day in the life, etc.The interviews are streaming video.The Cincinnati Enquirer’s […]
The Newseum is sponsoring a discussion on how publications should cover the cartoon controversy. The panel includes Signe Wilkinson of the Philadelphia Daily News.How did the publication of cartoons portraying the Prophet Muhammad come to spark violent Islamic protests? Where should we draw the line between free speech and religious tolerance? What issues does the […]
Scott Adams has invited his blog readers to ask him questions on what it’s like to be a minor celebrity. Ever wonder what it’s like to be a minor celebrity syndicated cartoonist? Leave your questions in the comments and I’ll pick a few today to answer.