Kirby Speaks!

Here's a link to a Jack Kirby talk from 1970. Kirby's talk is about half way down the page.
"Kirby sounds like a forceful visionary let loose on a crowd, practically preaching." (Dan Nadel).
Link via Comics Comics.

Below is a page of Kirby pencils from True Divorce Cases issue 1, from 1970 (and published in the Jack Kirby Collector vol.6, no. 23, 1999).

Ellen Lindner interviews Jimi Gherkin and Peter Lally...

... at Angoulême!
ellenlindner.livejournal.com



And don't forget to tune into the Alternative Press Radio Hour. The first show can be downloaded here.

APF2 Reports and Coverage

A podcast by creative choices featuring an interview recorded at the Publish You Book Launch (you'll need something like iTunes to open this... then you download the podcast. It's podcast no.3, and it's free).

The down the tubes report written by gareth brookes.

A nice write up of the "Are You Zine Friendly?" event on dazed digital.com (Dazed & Confused).

(via Steve Tillotson on Bugpowder).

Xaime stuff

Jaime Hernandez interviewed on Inkstuds Radio.

Also : Warped Reality has a lecture given by Jaime in 2007, which you can download on this page.

AND here's another Jaime Hernadez Inkstuds interview, this one being from 2006.

Kenny Penman on Panel Borders

Alex Fitch interviews Kenny Penman who runs Blank Slate books, the new British publishing company that's been around for just under a year. Alex and Kenny talk about what factors decide the choice of books he publishes, the travails of finding a market for new graphic novels in the middle of a credit crunch and how his history as one of the founders of Forbidden Planet International has helped his new career as a publisher.

(From Trains Are... Mint)

Chris Ware and Marjane Satrapi

A few weeks ago graphic novelists Marjane Satrapi and Chris Ware spoke with the New Yorker Art’s Editor Françoise Mouly at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts as part of a three-day festival of New French Writing. They tackled topics like storytelling and autobiography.
Download the MP3, or listen to it on wnyc.org.

The Art Of Ken Reid

The January 29, 2009 episode of Panel Borders : Alex Fitch talks to writers Alan Moore and Pat Mills about the late cartoonist Ken Reid.








Images from www.comicsuk.co.uk and Peter Gray’s Ken Reid fan page

Robert Crumb podcast

Thanks to Sean Duffield for sending me this recent, lengthy podcast interview with R.Crumb. I could listen to this guy all day.

Just one more week until The Alternative Press Fair!

Read about the artists and exhibitors.

Read the Spoonfed interview with Jimi Gherkin, Peter Lally and me.

Read the *UNEDITED* interview!

Harvey Pekar's Jazz Opera

“People don’t accept experimental art, few people even read James Joyce anymore,” Pekar continued. “Jazz has no following, not real jazz. The musicians have to sell their own CDs at the shows because record companies don’t want them. I want to tell people if they turn their backs on anything new and different, the art form will die.”

Read about it at Comic Book Resources, where you can also listen to an excerpt from a telephone conversation between Pekar and Robert Crumb. The guys talk about the kind of music they like and argue about who’s right. “Crumb thinks no good music has been written after 1933,” Pekar said. “But we talk about it.” Crumb also makes some interesting comments about funding for the arts.

UK Alternative Cartoonists on Resonance FM

An interview with Sean Duffield, Gareth Brookes, Peter Lally, Gavin Burrows, and me. It's clear that some of us aren't used to public speaking, but there are some good points raised. Interview conducted by Dickon Harris.

Art Spiegelman on Resonance FM

Grant Rogers talks to Art Spiegelman.



(Photo by Seth Kushner)