Jules Feiffer: Methods and Materials

Watterson speaks

Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, gives his first interview in 20 years here.

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Marcos Martin interview

Michel Fiffe interviews artist Marcos Martin over at The Beat.
Check out more samples of Martin's artwork here.

Charles Burns Interview

Jesse Thorn chats with cartoonist Charles Burns on The Sound of Young America.

Joe Q: Origins

Graphic NYC interviews Joe Quesada about his rise to the top- from starting out as a colorist at Valiant comics to becoming Marvel's Editor-in-Chief.

Decoding Steranko

James Romberger interviews Jim Steranko here.

Steranko gallery here and here.

Guy Davis Podcast interview

Comic Geek Speak talk with Guy Davis about everything from his love of arcade video games to what its like to be a major contributor to the Hellboy universe.

Davis is also the subject of the next issue of Modern Masters.

Official site here.

AV Club geeks out

Art by Cameron Stewart, Paul Grist, and Steve Bissette

Check out interviews with writer Grant Morrison, outgoing Dr. Who show runner Russell T. Davies and legendary Swamp Thing artist, Steve Bissette.

My favorite bit from Morrison's interview:

AVC: Speaking of British comics, if a British writer reaches a certain level of critical success, is he automatically inducted into a magic circle?

GM: Induction isn’t automatic, and involves a rigorous series of Harry Potter-style challenges involving hippogriff-wrangling, mer-wolf races, and all the usual folderol of an openly occult lifestyle. Marshall Law writer Pat Mills is also a magician of some infamy.

Davies on the Dr. Who format:

What I wanted to do was repeated patterns within the show, like every year we would go to the year five billion. Every year you’d go back in history and meet a famous figure, whether Queen Victoria or William Shakespeare or Dickens. Every year we’d come back to Earth and spend some time with the companion’s modern-day family. Not absolutely fixed within that, not a rigid path. But I think it’s important in an ever-changing show to have sort of little rocks or anchors that you can cling to and sort of say “Don’t worry, we’re still on the same show, I’m going to still always come back to what you like.”

Bissette on the creation of John Constantine:

And [John Totleben and I] wrote Alan [Moore], and said “We’re going to put Sting in the comic, and Alan, you better make it a character, because he’s not going to go away. We’re going to make him more and more visible, whether you like it or not.” So Alan made him John Constantine.

Karasik interview

Stardust by Fletcher Hanks

Last Thursday at Desert Island, Paul Karasik, editor of You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation!, was interviewed by Dan Nadel about artist Fletcher Hanks.

Listen to the interview here.

More about Fletcher Hanks here.

Rob Liefeld, 1991

That Dennis Miller sure knows his comics!
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"Nocturnals"

Painter Dan Brereton is interviewed by CBR about his creator-owned series, "Nocturnals," here.

Considered Mad

Yesterday on the radio show All Things Considered, Denis Kitchen discussed the art of Harvey Kurtzman. Listen here.

Buy "The Art of Harvey Kurtzman" by Denis Kitchen here.

500th Post Art Link Extravaganza!!!

I. N. J. Culbard is illustrating a series of Sherlock Holmes graphic novels.


Check out some black and white line art from Rafael Grampá!

Mike Huddleston's artwork has me reading Gen 13 again...


Travis Charest has a blog...


... and so does Kevin Nowlan! (This is the penciled cover for Spirit #30- out this week, with story and interior art by Mike Avon Oeming!)

Check out the preview here.

Toby Cypress has a process blog for his upcoming project, "Rodd Racer."



Chris Sprouse is interviewed by the Sardinian Connection...


...as is Ladrönn....


Kevin Cannon speaks about his career here.


Grant Morrison discusses his latest collaboration with Frank Quietly here.




Whew!

So...did this landmark post live up to your expectations, Christian Bale and Kermit?
Glad you found Lout Shelter's 500th post so satisfactory!

The Amazon, the Troll and the Legend

Emerald City ComiCon poster featuring Hellboy and the Fremont Troll

Amazon.com interviews Mike Mignola.

The King Speaks

Bendis Live

Interview with Brian Michael Bendis on The Sound of Young America by Jesse Thorn, who thinks Falkor the Luck Dragon is a member of the Fantastic Four.

Mark Waid Interview

art by Daniel Acuña

There's a in-depth interview with writer Mark Waid about the highs and lows of his career at Aint It Cool News.

Check out Waid's blog here.

Ben Linus's Secret Past

Lost's Michael Emerson discusses his pre-acting career...as an illustrator!

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Dr. Pepper's Cherry Smooth Movers: D-Pi

Ron Wimberly's official site here.

Genesis, according to R. Crumb

On his official site, R. Crumb announced the completion of "Robert Crumb's Book of Genesis"-

...It's 201 pages. He has also finished the Cover, the Introduction, the commentary (for the back sleeve) and also the Map, which will be in the beginning of the book. The book is soon going to production and it's planned to be released this fall.

He spoke about the project to Robert Hughes in a 2005 interview.

CRUMB: I was fooling around with Adam and Eve one day. Doodling about Adam and Eve. At first I did this satirical take off on Adam and Eve — lots of jokey asides and Jewish slang because they're Jewish right? God is Jewish.

HUGHES: Now you're going to get it for anti-Semitism.

CRUMB: Finally I got over fooling around and I realized I just had to tell it straight.

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