Garry Trudeau pushed his deadlines further and further back, to make the strip [Doonesbury] more and more live. One printer in Kansas City, Trudeau learned years later, did […]
What bothers me is that I’ve recently stopped getting insulting letters. That means I’ve definitely become too mainstream!
Is the original really “comics” or is it more like a manuscript page, and not comics until its reproduced? But these discussions are fairly abstract and academic. Almost […]
I don’t sit around worrying about whether or not I’ve got the correct thickness on my brush. I whack it down and make sure, and go back and […]
Comics are often viewed as the “anti-book” book. The simple rebellious nature of the medium alone motivates young boys to read them.
We’ve got too many comic strip corpses being propped up and passed for living by new cartoonists who ought to be doing something of their own. If a […]
When I started writing comics in 1985/86, I sort of had this vision of a golden age and it was absolutely Utopian. It had huge golden spires, and […]
A comic might come together in my mind over a span of years – just ideas randomly colliding/combining until some magic synthesis happens and a story develops.
There’s not much future in being a strip artist now. That’s quite a turnaround in fortunes, because presiding over an established syndicated comic strip used to be the […]