Classic Interviews

Longtime friend of the site Jason Sacks wrote The American Comic Book Chronicles: the 1990s, available now from Amazon, TwoMorrows and all the other usual outlets. You can read a preview of the book here. I...

This continues our interview with Nick Cardy. Nick Cardy: You were asking about the material. I hope I answered it. Bryan Stroud for Comics Bulletin: Yes, that part. Can you tell me a little more...

Bryan Stroud for Comics Bulletin: Mr. Cardy, I wanted to begin by thanking you for your time. I’ve been lucky enough to speak with a couple of your peers and they had very fond memories of working with and...

Bryan Stroud for Comics Bulletin: First off I found one source online that said you were born in either 1925 or 1927, but they said there was a discrepancy. Jerry Grandenetti: 1927. CB: So it was...

Bryan Stroud for Comics Bulletin: What led you to Continuity in the first place, Howard? Howard Chaykin: I didn’t work there. I’d been Neal’s assistant before the studio was open. Many of us had...

Bryan Stroud for Comics Bulletin: How did you become interested in art? Angelo Torres: Growing up in the 30s with the great Sunday funnies being drawn at that time and with so many great comic book titles ...

Bryan Stroud for Comics Bulletin: That certainly seems to me like a much more viable method, particularly in an artistic environment. I noticed that you’re basically a one-man band. You write, do the art,...

Instead of a classic creator, this week we'll visit a contemporary one who was heavily influenced by the classic genre. He's a Kubert School grad - Thom Zahler. Bryan Stroud for Comics Bulletin: You...

Bryan Stroud for Comics Bulletin: Please tell me about your involvement with the National Cartoonist’s Society. Creig Flessel: I started the Berndt Toast gang with Walter Berndt. CB: Yeah, in fact...

Bryan Stroud for Comics Bulletin: Len Wein told me that both of you got into the business on the coattails of fandom and that you’d done some fanzines. Did you enjoy the transition? Marv Wolfman: It's...

Bryan Stroud for Comics Bulletin: According to my research you began at 16 in the industry. Was cartooning something that caught your imagination? Jose Delbo: Yes, I was 16 when I started drawing comic...

Bryan Stroud for Comics Bulletin: It looks like you had some art training. What sparked your interest in the field? Paul Kirchner: I was a comic book fan as a teenager. After high school, I moved to NY...

Here's the conclusion to our interview with Joseph Barney. Joseph Barney: Sometimes I wish I’d stuck with the comic book work. I tended to be a little too perfectionistic with it, and the advertising...

Bryan D. Stroud for Comics Bulletin: If my information is correct, you began at Continuity at the age of 19? Joseph Barney: Yes, I was hired in March of 1975. I was at the School of Visual Arts at the...

Bryan Stroud for Comics Bulletin: Which road led you to Continuity? Bob Wiacek: It was kind of an interesting process because I had just finished with my third year at the School of Visual Arts and what...