Interview – Gilbert Hernandez, 2007 Comic-Con International (audio)

On Friday, July 27, 2007, at Comic-Con International in San Diego, moderator Gary Groth was joined by the Hernandez Brothers for two featured spotlight panels on their work and the 25th anniversary of Love and Rockets. We are pleased to bring you this audio recording of the interview and Q&A with Gilbert. (Click here for the interview with Jaime.) Click here to download the audio file (17.2 MB MP3) or stream it here: {audio}images/stories/artists/interviews/2-01%20SDCC%20Panel_%20Gilbert%20Hernandez.mp3{/audio} Related books (click covers for complete product details) {product_snapshot:id=7,false,false,false,left} {product_snapshot:id=810,false,false,false,left} {product_snapshot:id=200,false,false,false,left} {product_snapshot:id=988,false,false,false,left}

Interview – Jaime Hernandez, 2007 Comic-Con International (audio)

On Friday, July 27, 2007, at Comic-Con International in San Diego, moderator Gary Groth was joined by the Hernandez Brothers for two featured spotlight panels on their work and the 25th anniversary of Love and Rockets. We are pleased to bring you this audio recording of the interview and Q&A with Jaime. (Click here for the interview with Gilbert.) Click here to download the audio file (19.5 MB MP3) or stream it here: {audio}images/stories/artists/interviews/01%20SDCC%20Panel_%20Jaime%20Hernandez.mp3{/audio} Related books (click covers for complete product details) {product_snapshot:id=864,false,false,false,left} {product_snapshot:id=810,false,false,false,left} {product_snapshot:id=1440,false,false,false,left} {product_snapshot:id=738,false,false,false,left}

Exclusive Flog interview with Drew Friedman

This interview originally appeared on FLOG! The Fantagraphics Blog. Above: Photo of Drew Friedman, in his studio. © 2008 David Burd. Drew Friedman is, along with Daniel Clowes and Chester Brown, one of the primary reasons I am working in comics today and didn't abandon my juvenile love for the medium long after most boys have discovered girls and sports. So when we decided to start conducting some exclusive author interviews for Flog!, it didn't take me long to decide I really wanted to spotlight Drew, especially as we are on the cusp of releasing his new book, MORE OLD…

MOME Interview 6: Tim Hensley

This interview is reprinted in its entirety from MOME Vol. 6. Tim Hensley was born in 1966 in Bloomington, Indiana. Besides a familiarity with his comics, this is everything I knew about him before I spoke to him on September 2. He filled in the details: He moved to LA (where he still lives) at age 3. His father was a successful musician who had a psychedelic rock band in Indiana called Masters of Deceit. In LA he did session work for such unpromising acts as Pia Zadora and Pink Lady, but went on to become Neil Diamond’s piano player…

MOME Interview 5: Andrice Arp

This interview is reprinted in its entirety from MOME Vol. 5. Andrice Arp was born in 1969 in Altadena, California, where she grew up in the ’70s and ’80s. Her mother was an artist — a sculptor, performance artist and, most recently, a novelist — and probably influenced her future vocation. Her father is an astronomer, whose profession apparently did not influence her quite as much. She was by no means a comics geek. She remembers reading beautiful childen’s books when she was a little girl, as well as the work of Edward Gorey, Charles Addams, B. Kliban, and Tove…