Subterranean Dispatch

The comic book artist and editor discusses his vastly overlooked and long-running comics magazine (founded with childhood best friend Peter Kuper), WW3 Illustrated, and his relationship with the Greatest City in the World, and a lifetime of activism.

The author of the recent James Warren bio -- about the Warren Publications publisher of Creepy, Eerie, Vampirella, and Famous Monsters of Filmlandand -- and the renowned Harvey Kurtzman bio -- about the creator of MAD and "father-in-law" of underground comix -- discusses the roots of underground comix in HELP! magazine and more.

The author of Rebel Visions, the most thorough book to date on the history of underground comix, shares his take on the field, its major moments, and impact today. Rosenkranz also discusses subjects of some of his books, Spain Rodriguez and S. Clay Wilson, plus the writer makes a major announcement about his career.

The once-prolific cartoonist, a Seattle mainstay during the days of grunge, discusses life as a freelancer in the Emerald City when it was the epicenter of alternative comix during the late 1980s/early ’90s.

The author of The Book of Weirdo chats with the sublime cartoonist and wife of R. Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, about her years as WEIRDO editor and living in Winters, California -- and about the joys of being a grandmother today!

Author Jon B. Cooke visits the Crumbs' old neighborhood talking with the folks who were friends and participants in WEIRDO magazine, including the great cartoonist Robert Armstrong!

Jon B. Cooke joins Art Spiegelman, Drew Friedman, Kim Deitch, John Holmstrom, Mark Newgarden, and Glenn Head for a panel discussion on R. Crumb's legendary humor comics anthology.

Listen to The Book of Weirdo panel at East Coast ComiCon, May 18, 2019, where contributors come together and sing the praises of R. Crumb's legendary humor comics anthology.

In the veritable pop culture museum environs of the Kitchen estate in central Massachusetts, your hosts talks with DENIS KITCHEN and his longtime pal (and sometime coworker) PETER POPLASKI in part one of a two-part casual chat.

An interview with seminal Seattle graphic designer ART CHANTRY, art director of the legendary Emerald City monthly mag The Rocket during the rise and fall of the Grunge music explosion. Art discusses the "genius cluster" of cartoonists who, for a shining, brief time, ruled the GenX counter-culture.