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12/18/07--10:00: Stephan Pastis, PEARLS BEFORE SWINE cartoonist: Mr. Media Interview - Dec 18,2007 (chan 2999684)

Stephan Pastis, a former attorney, is the creator of the hilariously subversive "Pearls Before Swine" comic strip. "Pearls" was named "Best Newspaper Comic Strip" by the National Cartoonists Society in 2004 and 2007.


04/09/08--10:00: Arie Kaplan, SPEED RACER comic book writer: Mr. Media Interview - Apr 09,2008 (chan 2999684)

Arie Kaplan is a MAD Magazine writer, comedy writer, animation writer, screenwriter, lecturer, pop culture expert, playwright, cartoonist, stand-up comic, member of the Friars Club, and he is writing the new Speed Racer comic book mini-series for IDW Publishing. www.ariekaplan.com


05/28/08--08:00: Jules Feiffer, EXPLAINERS cartoonist: Mr. Media Interview - May 28,2008 (chan 2999684)

In 1956, Jules Feiffer was a 27-year-old aspiring cartoonist with lofty goals and a hunger to see his work in print. He had previously apprenticed with Will Eisner for six years (1946-1952), eventually writing Eisner's "Spirit" strip. But in '56, Feiffer started contributing a strip to the only alternative weekly published in the US, a small radical newspaper called The Village Voice. His strip tackled just about every issue, private and public, that affected the sentient American.


09/03/08--11:00: Alan Gardner, DAILYCARTOONIST.com editor: Mr. Media Interview - Sep 03,2008 (chan 2999684)

The Daily Cartoonist (TDC), launched in 2005, is one of the fastest growing news blogs for professional cartoonists. While it has primarily focused on newspaper cartooning (comic strips and editorial cartooning), it has coverage has grown to include webcomics, movies and animation, and magazine gag cartoonists. Alan Gardner is the writer and editor of TDC. He put himself through college as an editorial cartoonist for his college papers as well as The Herald Journal - a daily paper in Northern Utah.


09/04/08--14:30: Guests include Alaskan Journalist Charles Wohlforth and Cartoonist/Writer/Humorist Allison Killkenny - Sep 04,2008 (chan 2999684)

In the first half hour,Author Charles Wohlforth, also a speechwriter and journalist, will be our guest. In the 2nd half hour Allison Kilkenny, cartoonist, writer and humorist will join us.


09/16/08--10:00: Clay Bennett, CHATTANOOGA TIMES FREE PRESS editorial cartoonist: Mr. Media Interview - Sep 16,2008 (chan 2999684)

Clay Bennett is one of the most decorated editorial cartoonist of our time. Winner of The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 2002, the Sigma Delta Chi Award (2001), the National Journalism Award (2002), the National Cartoonist Society's Award for Editorial Cartoons (2002), the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award (2007), the John Fischetti Award (2001, 2005), the Overseas Press Club Award (2005, 2007), the National Headliner Award (1999, 2000, 2004) and named 'Editorial Cartoonist of the Year' by Editor & Publisher magazine (2001), he's also a great guy. ClayBennett.com


09/19/08--11:00: Mike Lynch, CARTOONIST: Mr. Media Interview - Sep 19,2008 (chan 2999684)

Mike Lynch is a magazine cartoonist whose clients include Reader's Digest, Playboy, Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, the New York Daily News and many others. He's also the National Cartoonists Society National Representative. In addition to his Web site, heykidscomics.com, Mike writes the popular Mike Lynch Cartoons blog on the business of cartooning.


11/12/08--10:00: Patrick McDonnell, MUTTS cartoonist: Mr. Media Interview - Nov 12,2008 (chan 2999684)

In 1994 Patrick McDonnell created the comic strip MUTTS which now appears in more than 700 newspapers and 20 countries. MUTTS has been described by Peanuts creator Charles Schulz as "one of the best comic strips of all time." McDonnell has received numerous awards for this strip, including the National Cartoonists Society’s highest honor, The Reuben, for Cartoonist of the Year. In 2005, McDonnell embarked on a children's book career. His first children’s book, which featured the MUTTS characters, The Gift of Nothing, quickly became a New York Times bests


12/11/08--08:00: Charles Filius ~ The Extra Large Medium - Dec 11,2008 (chan 2999684)

Charles A. Filius is a highly acclaimed psychic medium who initially began his professional career as a cartoonist. Initially, Filius was a most unlikely candidate as a medium, having spent many years as a spiritual non-believer. In the end, however, disbelief and skepticism became more difficult for Filius to overcome than actually believing and embracing his powerfully-emerging psychic gifts. www.comedium.net / www.charlesfilius.com


02/05/09--18:00: Chris Muir - political cartoonist - Feb 06,2009 (chan 2999684)

Chris Muir, political cartoonist and creator of Day By Day, the conservative political strip, joins us tonight to talk about his craft, his beginnings, and what inspires him day by day.


02/19/09--22:30: RACIST CARTOONIST;;;PLUS ANTI AMERICAN CONSRVATIVE PARTY SHOWS NEW REASONS WHY THEY ARE IDIOTS - Feb 20,2009 (chan 2999684)

CARTOONIST MAKES ANTI-AMERICAN CARTOON ABOUT PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA...AND IN OTHER NEWS WE WILL DISCUSS WHATS MAKING HEADLINES....WE WILL OPEN THE PHONE LINES...NO CHAT ROOM


03/07/09--07:00: Dave Sims "The Godfather of sports talk radio" and legendary columnist Bill Gallo - Mar 07,2009 (chan 2999684)

Fast paced, passionate, entertaining and energetic would best describe the hottest sports show on the Internet. Join us for ninety minutes of sports talk from the media capital of the world (NYC). We'll dissect the local teams as well as cover all of the teams nationwide throughout all of the leagues. With in-depth analysis on the latest issues, hot topics, special guest interviews, must watch games, etc., The Mass Appeal is your two way sports talk program that you won't want to miss with your hosts JayReelz and J.D. This weeks' guests: Dave Sims, broadcaster for Westwood One/Seattle Mariners. Bill Gallo, legendary cartoonist/columnist for the New York Daily News.


04/07/09--11:00: Al Jaffee, Arnold Roth, HUMBUG! cartoonists: Mr. Media Audio Interview - Apr 07,2009 (chan 2999684)

Humble Mr. Media welcomes two classic cartoonists, Al Jaffee and Arnold Roth, for a chat about Hefner, Kurtzman and Humbug! Between MAD and Annie Fanny, Harvey Kurtzman’s biographical summaries will note that he created and edited three other magazines, Trump, Humbug, and Help!, but, whereas his MAD and Annie Fanny are readily available in reprint form, his major satirical work in the interim period is virtually unknown. Humbug, which had poor distribution, may be the least known, but to those who treasure the rare original copies, it equals or even exceeds MAD in displaying Kurtzman’s creative genius. Humbug was unique in that it was actually published by the artists who created it: Kurtzman and his cohorts from MAD Will Elder, Jack Davis, and Al Jaffee, were joined by universally acclaimed cartoonist Arnold Roth. With no publisher above them to rein them in, this little band of creators produced some of the most trenchant and engaging satire of American culture ever to appear on American newsstands. At last, the entire run of 11 issues of Humbug is being reprinted in a deluxe format, much of it reproduced from the original art. Join legendary artists Al Jaffee and Arnold Roth for this exclusive peak at Humbug! Al Jaffee, Will Elder, Arnold Roth


06/26/09--07:00: Jonathan Rosenberg, GOATS: INFINITE ROSENBERG cartoonist: Mr. Media Radio Interview - Jun 26,2009 (chan 2999684)

What is ‘Goats’? Does cartoonist Jonathan Rosenberg own infinite typewriters? Only Mr. Media knows! Q: I just stumbled onto the “Goats” website and I have absolutely no idea what is going on. What is this exactly? A: In the simplest terms possible, this website is the home of Goats, a comic strip written by me, Jonathan Rosenberg. I've been drawing the strip since April of 1997 and I live in New York City with my wife and some cats. I have a Livejournal if you're interested in the particulars. What is the strip about? A: Goats started out as a pseudo-autobiographical strip and mutated into a sci-fi monstrosity. There's no good way to summarize it but basically it centers around the adventures of two bar patrons, their pets and the increasingly strange people that they meet. I recommend perusing the reader's guide, the character bios and the complete archive of the strip for an idea of where it's been and where it's going. I don't get the jokes in this comic. Is it supposed to be funny? A: Goats is meant to be entertaining. Sometimes that means funny, sometimes that means jokes, sometimes that means sly pop culture references and adventures and fighting and monsters and such. I'm writing a story that I hope people enjoy, and that's my primary goal.


06/26/09--08:00: Denis Kitchen, UNDERGROUND CLASSICS; THE ART OF HARVEY KURTZMAN co-author: Mr. Media Radio Interview - Jun 26,2009 (chan 2999684)

Denis Kitchen takes Mr. Media on a tour of the seamy world of Underground Classics and The Art of Harvey Kurtzman! Underground comic legendary publisher and artist Denis Kitchen joins Mr. Media live to discuss his two new books, Underground Classics (written with James Danky) and The Art of Harvey Kurtzman (with Paul Buhle). Kurtzman discovered Robert Crumb, gave Gloria Steinem her first publishing job, and “Monty Python” animator Terry Gilliam also started at his side. Kurtzman had a Midas touch for talent, but was himself an astonishingly talented and influential artist, writer, editor, and satirist. He created MAD and Playboy's "Little Annie Fanny." Kurtzman's groundbreaking "realistic" war comics of the early '50s and various satirical publications (MAD, Trump, Humbug, Help!) had an immense impact on popular culture, inspiring a generation of underground cartoonists. Underground comix galvanized artists both domestically and abroad; they forever changed the economics of comic book publishing and influenced generations of cartoonists, including their predecessors. While the works of Robert Crumb and Art Spiegelman are well-known via the New Yorker, Maus, and retrospective collections, the art of their contemporaries such as Gilbert Shelton, Trina Robbins, Justin Green, Kim Deitch, S. Clay Wilson, and many other seminal cartoonists who came of age in the 1960s is considerably less known. Denis Kitchen is a pioneering cartoonist, writer, editor, and underground comic book publisher.


08/08/09--07:00: Mark Tatulli, LIO, HEART OF THE CITY cartoonist: Mr. Media Radio Interview (Rewind) - Aug 08,2009 (chan 2999684)

A spiky-haired little boy, a giant cephalopod and cartoonist Mark Tatulli walked into a bar… Mr. Media can’t wait to hear how this LIO joke ends! (Originally broadcast February 2, 2007) For anyone still mourning the departure of "The Far Side" and "Calvin and Hobbes" from your local newspaper’s comics page, cheer up! There is a weird new kid on the street, and he’ll make you forget about your favorite strips from the last century. "LIO" is the creation of Mark Tatulli, and he’s a fresh brand of weird and wonderful now appearing in more than 250 newspapers, with more adding the strip daily. If “Far Side” creator Gary Larson and "Calvin" creator Bill Watterson had mated, LIO is the character they would have produced. Tatulli’s brainchild, LIO, and that’s spelled L-I-O, is a young boy who combines elements of mad scientist, comic strips, science fiction, and the Adams family, and get this, LIO never speaks. New Jersey native Mark Tatulli is an internationally syndicated cartoonist, an accomplished filmmaker, and an animator. He has won three Emmy awards for his work in television, and, since this interview was originally broadcast, has received the Rueben Award from the National Cartoonists Society for Best Newspaper Comic Strip for Lio.


08/28/09--10:00: Al Williamson: 1931-2010. Mark Schultz on the Flash Gordon Illustrator - Aug 28,2009 (chan 2999684)

Co-author Mark Schultz rushes in to save Al Williamson’s Flash Gordon and Mr. Media! Al Williamson’s Flash Gordon: A Lifelong Vision of the Heroic, collects all the major works of the artist featuring the character. At 256 pages, it encompasses Williamson’s three stints of depicting Flash in comic book format: the legendary King Comics stories from the 1960s, the 1980 adaptation of the Universal Flash Gordon motion picture, and the Marvel Comics miniseries of 1994. In addition to these classics of sequential storytelling, Al Williamson’s Flash Gordon features Williamson’s Flash drawings done for commercial illustration and prints, his assists on the “Flash Gordon” comic strip, a variety of Flash images contributed to amateur publications, and a selection of largely unpublished images spanning his interest in the character from childhood to the conclusion of his career. Williamson was born in New York City in 1931. Williamson’s professional credits are both legion and legendary. Developing an elegantly illustrative cartooning style, he first came to prominence with the highly influential EC comics line of the 1950s. His much beloved work in the mid-’60s on King Features Flash Gordon comic book series garnered him a “Best Comic Book Cartoonist” award from the prestigious National Cartoonist Society. Mark Schultz has been cartooning, illustrating, and writing for over twenty years. He is best known as the creator of the award-winning speculative adventure comic book Xenozoic Tales, which has been adapted to television as the animated series Cadillacs and Dinosaurs.


08/30/09--10:00: Peter Kuper, STOP FORGETTING TO REMEMBER cartoonist: Mr. Media Radio Interview (Rewind) - Aug 30,2009 (chan 2999684)

Graphic novelist Peter Kuper tells Mr. Media: ‘Stop Forgetting to Remember!’ (Originally broadcast June 21, 2007) I think the reason that many people who never read comic books find themselves drawn to graphic novels isn’t because they come in hard cover or because they cost more or because they’re hip at the moment. I think it’s because we’re more likely to find little pieces of ourselves in the stories, which are often more autobiographical than Spider-Man or Green Lantern could ever be. At least that’s the thought I kept returning to as I read through Peter Kuper’s latest graphic novel, Stop Forgetting to Remember. The youthful sexual frustration, the aimlessness, the side comments to no one in particular, the social doubts, the eagerness/anxiety over fatherhood, the pain of maintaining an adult friendship -- there were so many things that could have been ripped from my own life that I couldn’t put the book down. Kuper, whose previous graphic novels include Sticks and Stones, The System, and an adaptation of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, is perhaps most widely recognized as the artist behind Mad magazine’s legendary “Spy vs. Spy” these days. And his strip “The Virgin” was optioned by HBO as well as actor Forrest Whitaker’s production company.


09/06/09--13:00: Funny Sundays With Lloyd Dangle - "Troubletown" Comic - Sep 06,2009 (chan 2999684)

Join us this Sunday as we feature cartoonist Lloyd Dangle - author and illustrator of the popular "Troubletown" comic strip.


09/13/09--20:00: Terri J. Garofalo-Paranormal Cartoonist - Sep 14,2009 (chan 2999684)

Terri J. Garofalo is an artist, cartoonist and humorous wordsmith… Jane of all trades, master of some. She is known for the highly popular Entities-R-Us Ghost Hunters Comic Strip was has featured the likes of Brian Harnois and Shannon Silva. She is also a paranormal investigator.


10/25/09--15:00: Cartoonist Dawud Anyabwile, creator of Brotherman Comics!!! - Oct 25,2009 (chan 2999684)

Brotherman: Dictator of Discipline is widely recognized as the catalyst for the Black Comic explosion of the 1990’s. As people are looking for an alternative to the slew of cookie-cutter heroes, Brotherman offers within the realm of action and adventure, uplifting and hope filled stori


11/24/09--11:00: Ray Billingsley, CURTIS daily newspaper cartoonist: Mr. Media Radio Interview - Nov 24,2009 (chan 2999684)

Cartoonist Ray Billingsley finally books ‘Curtis’ with Mr. Media! The last time cartoonist Ray Billingsley was on Mr. Media Radio, he expressed his frustration with the disinterest of traditional publishers in collecting his daily comic strip, “Curtis,” in book form. Well, Billingsley has taken matters in his own hands and is back to talk about the publication of A Boy Named Curtis. This first in a series collection begins with strips first published in 2000. Billingsley draws from real life, and the strip has the fresh quality of situational humor, mixed with melodrama, comedy and pathos. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, “Curtis” is read in more than 250 newspapers nationwide. The strip depicts the urban existence of Greg and Diane Wilkins, a black family that lives in a weathered brownstone. Eleven-year-old Curtis and his younger brother, Barry, are emblematic of preteens in the big city, navigating their way through adolescence and its delights and dangers. Order A Boy Named Curtis direct from Ray Billingsley! LISTEN! Ray Billingsley’s first appearance on Mr. Media (April 13, 2007)


12/15/09--10:00: Gahan Wilson celebrates '50 Years of Playboy Cartoons' by drawing the short straw with Mr. Media - Dec 15,2009 (chan 2999684)

Gahan Wilson is among the most popular, widely-read, and beloved cartoonists in the history of the medium, whose career spans the 2nd half of the 20th century, and all of the 21st. His work has been seen by millions — no, hundreds of millions — in the pages of Playboy, The New Yorker, Punch, The National Lampoon, and many other magazines; there is no telling, really, how many readers he has corrupted or comforted. He is revered for his playfully sinister take on childhood, adulthood, men, women, and monsters. His brand of humor makes you laugh until you cry. When Gahan Wilson walked into Hugh Hefner’s office in 1957, he sat down as Hefner was on the phone, gently rejecting a submission to his new gentlemen’s magazine: “I think it’s very well-written and I liked it very much,” Hefner reportedly said, “but it’s anti-sin. And I’m afraid we’re pro-sin.” Wilson knew, at that moment, that he had found a kindred spirit and a potential home for his cartoons. And indeed he had; Wilson appeared in every issue of Playboy from the December 1957 issue to today. Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons features not only every cartoon Wilson drew for Playboy, but all his prose fiction that has appeared in that magazine as well, from his first story in the June, 1962 issue, “Horror Trio,” to such classics as “Dracula Country” (September 1978). It also includes the text-and-art features he drew for Playboy, such as his look at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum, his take on our country’s “pathology of violence,” and his appreciation of “transplant surgery.” For more original interviews with great cartoonists, visit Mr. Media Radio.


01/20/10--10:30: INTERVIEW: Mark Tatulli, cartoonist, LIO, HEART OF THE CITY - Jan 20,2010 (chan 2999684)

Thanks to listener Rene Bakewell, who noticed that the long posted Mr. Media Radio interview with LIO and HEART OF THE CITY cartoonist Mark Tatulli cuts off before the end! I'm reposting that show, originally broadcast on January 19, 2007, in its full length.


05/23/10--12:00: EGO blog interview with John Cox - May 23,2010 (chan 2999684)

John Cox is a painter, cartoonist, and illustrator. http://www.JohnCoxArt.com


07/31/10--20:00: lance scurvin - Aug 01,2010 (chan 2999684)

here is an enterprising man who has a lot under his hat. he is a writer,cartoonist,motivator speaker,bus driver and a all around good guy. he resides in florida were he is taking the internet by storm. he has over 10,000 followers me with a stimulating conversation with the internet sensation


10/27/10--10:00: Sergio Aragones, comic book artist, MAD - Oct 27,2010 (chan 2999684)

The veteran MAD magazine cartoonist — also known for creating the Groo the Wanderer comic book — drops in on Mr. Media host Bob Andelman. Sergio will discuss his new book, MAD's Greatest Artists, featuring his best work from his 1963 MAD debut up through the present.Find more original interviews @ Mr. Media Radio • Twitter


02/20/11--15:00: Emmy Award-winning Cartoonist Dawud Anyabwile. Mr. Anyabwile is an - Feb 20,2011 (chan 2999684)

Join The Gist of Freedom host, R. Lee Gordon and renowned Cartoonist, Dawud Anyabwile. Mr. Anyabwile is an Emmy Award-winning graphic artist whose work can be seen on MTV, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, TNT an NBA TV. Dawud is the creator of the legendary comic book series Brotherman: Dictator of Discipline. WWW.TheGistofFreedom.com


03/20/11--15:30: Chris Browne, cartoonist, Hagar the Horrible - Mar 20,2011 (chan 2999684)

An interview with the artist and writer behind the Hagar the Horrible daily comic strip.


09/07/11--12:00: EGO interview with Bosch Fawstin - Sep 07,2011 (chan 2999684)

From @BoschFawstins Twitter profile: "Cartoonist, creator of PIGMAN, the jihadists worst nightmare." Bosch Fawstins blog: http://fawstin.blogspot.com/