Here's a good interview with Sam Gross from SPLAT #1, February 1987, published by Mad Dog Graphics and copyright 1987 Strnad Publishing.
SPLAT, a short lived comic from the B&W explosion of the late 1980s, was a collection of comics by such names as Jim Van Hise & Ron Wilber, Peter Bagge, Glenn Dakin, J.R. Williams, Phil Elliot, Hunt Emerson and others.
Great article - thanks for posting it. Seems cartooning has been "dying" for a very long time.
ReplyDeleteFYI though, page 16 seems to be omitted.
Jerry, you are correct! My mistake. Page 16 has now been put up. Mea culpa!
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this article. I've been looking for information about this man for quite some time, and this was an excellent addition. I was just about to give up!
ReplyDeleteWhat an interesting interview. I like what he says about the relationship between the caption and the drawing. The story about Cosmo is also interesting. Thanks for posting, Mike!
ReplyDeleteHi Mike - Great to see this old interview again. As the founding editor of Splat!, I feel obligated to mention that Strnad Publishing isn't the copyright holder. Everything in the magazine is creator-owned so everybody retained the copyright to their own work. I only acquired one-time publishing rights - even to the interview, which is © Wendi Lee, now a novelist and wife of Terry Beatty.
ReplyDeleteA later issue of Splat! (I believe it's #2, but my copies are filed away somewhere) features an interview with B. Kliban, also worth reprinting.
Love it. Do what you think is funny and the hell with everyone else.
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