Subterranean Dispatch

We visit David Coulson in his Pittsburgh digs to converse about his wildly varied, eclectic, and fascinatin' career from being a teen wanting to break into the underground, adventures in the cartoonist world of Punk-era New York—where he even interned at Neal Adams' studio—work at Topps bubble gum cards, exquisite lettering/logo jobs at the Village Voice, and so much more, including current Highlights work!

Pittsburgh cartoonist, illustrator, and musician Wayno shares about the early years of mini-comics, his alternative comix experience, and current success as writer/artist on the syndicated comic panel Bizarro!

From his School of Visual Arts days being mentored by Will Eisner and Harvey Kurtzman to emergence as the quintessential Ramones artist to co-founding Punk magazine and so much more, John shares a frank and revealing look at his life as an ambitious artist in New York City.

In conversation with the great underground comix creator about his early success with his and Jay Kinney's rated-X Young Romance comics parody, evolution of his (ahem) unconventional syndicated comic strip character, Zippy the Pinhead (with mention of the Coneheads rip-off), and his recent achievements in the graphic novel realm. Plus there's focus on his fascination and reverence for the work of Ernie Bushmiller, whose much disparaged Nancy is, Griffy tell us, one of the greatest comic strips of them all. Yes, despite his insane work schedule of the present day, Bill is having fun...

Conversing with the creator of DiDi Glitz about her forthcoming new comix anthology, Drawing Power: Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival, featuring the work of 60 women cartoonists sharing tales of abuse. Plus we examine Diane's work and what DiDi means to her, as well as her achievements as editor of Lemme Outa Here and Twisted Sisters, each a ground-breaking anthology.

J.D. King was one of the punk-era cartoonist contingent who briefly ruled the New York City alternative comix world in the early 1980s, joining Peter Bagge, John Holmstrom, Kaz, and ohers, including the SVA crew of Drew Friedman, Mark Newgarden, Paul Jarasik, etc. Here he shares on his collaboration with novelist Alice Sebold, time as editor of the comics anthology Twist and, of course, work on Weirdo magazine, plus lots of discussion on his careers as musician and illustrator and (now) fiction writer!

The entertaining saga of Robert Armstrong, the creator of Mickey Rat and founder of The Couch Potatoes, which includes playing in old-timey bands with R. Crumb, attending the last Sex Pistols concert, and so very much more! This two-hour interview also includes talk of cartooning in the underground comix!

The Book of Weirdo panel at this year's Comic-Con International: San Diego has a BIG announcement plus the recollections of participants Mary Fleener, Krystine Kryttre, Ron Turner, Kaz, Carol & Gilbert Hernandez, and Bruce Carleton! This took place on Friday, July 19, 2019.

The author gives a talk with Last Gasp publisher Ron Turner about THE BOOK OF WEIRDO and museum founder Malcolm Whyte talks about his ART OUT OF CHAOS, a book of Maxon Crumb art. Numerous Weirdo contributors are in attendance with anecdotes a'plenty about Crumb and more!