Blockhead: Cartoonists talk Comics

Simon Beecroft, author of the brand new, “The Peanuts Book: A Visual History of the Iconic Comic Strip” from DK publishing is here to continue our conversation about Charles Schulz and  Peanuts! geoff: geoffgrogan.com on Instagram: @grogangeoff  & Geoff’s comics: @spikingthelens music: mining by moonlight by Kevin Macleod @incompetech.com Moody Breakfast by Dee Yan-Key @ freemusicarchive.org and C...

It’s holiday time, and what better gift for the “Peanuts” lover  in your life than the brand new”The Peanuts Book” by Simon Beecroft from DK publishing! Simon joins us from London to talk about the book and everything “Peanuts”

Travel to Japan with Geoff and Khalid Birdsong, cartoonist of “Fried Chicken and Sushi” in Part 2 of their globe-spanning interview about Khalid’s comics both here and there!   khalid birdsong: friedchickenandsushi.com on Instagram: @khalidbirdsong geoff: geoffgrogan.com on Instagram: @grogangeoff  & Geoff’s comics: @spikingthelens music: mining by moonlight by Kevin Macleod @incompetech.com Moody...

Cartoonist Khalid Birdsong , of the wonderful comic  “Fried Chicken & Sushi”  on GoComics.com, is finally here! Geoff and Khalid talk about comics and Khalid’s two-year sojourn in Japan, the inspiration for the engaging world  of “Fried Chick & Sushi”! geoff is @grogangeoff & @spikingthelens on Instagram and geoffgrogan.com khalid is @khalidbirdsong on Instagram and  friedchickenandsushi.com   

Part 2 of our latest discussion with Lex Fajardo, celebrating 70 years of Peanuts, the brand new “The Peanuts Book” and Lex’s new book, the latest in the Kid Beowulf series, “The Tarpeian Rock”!   Lex Fajardo: kidbeowulf.com “The Tarpeian Rock” newkidbbook.com geoff grogan : geoffgrogan.com on Instagram @grogangeoff also @spikingthelens  

To help celebrate the 70th anniversary of “Peanuts” debut, Lex Fajardo of  Schulz Creative Associates and “Kid Beowulf”  joins Geoff  for a wonderful conversation about his new Kickstarter and “the comics we love”.  geoffgrogan.com Instagram: @grogangeoff and @spikingthelens Lex Fajardo : Newkidbbook.com kidbeowulf.com

Our 50th episode! What better way to celebrate 50 episodes-and the 70th anniversary of “Beetle Bailey”- than part 2 of our interview with Brian Walker! We talk Beetle, Hi & Lois, Alex Raymond, Stan Drake and comics, comics, comics

Brian Walker! Need I say more?  The great comics writer, historian, curator, cartoonist, keeper of the flame and son of the legendary Mort Walker, is here for a long discussion about...EVERYTHING!  You’re gonna love this one! Part 1 of two. 

Kevin Mutch, part 2! In this wide-ranging conversation, Kevin Mutch, cartoonist of the critically-acclaimed graphic novel, “The Rough Pearl”, and Geoff get down to some nitty-gritty comics talk; “cartoony” or “realistic” comics? which is better? It’s a knock-down, drag-out battle for stylistic supremacy!

Kevin Mutch, cartoonist behind the great new graphic novel from Fantagraphics,  “The Rough Pearl”  is here for a wide ranging discussion about Canada, comics, and the coming zombie apocalypse. Part 1 of a two-part interview. 

Take a trip to Hootin’ Holler to visit Snuffy Smith, Loweezy, Barney Google and Sparkplug, with cartoonist John Rose, as “Blockhead” celebrates “Barney Google and Snuffy Smith’s”  101st birthday!

A frank and timely round-table discussion about race, the Black Lives Matter movement and events in  the wake of the murder of George Floyd with the great Ray Billingsley of “Curtis” and Khalid Birdsong, cartoonist of the wonderful “Fried Chicken and Sushi”.  The conversation ranges far and wide, and you bet we talk lots about comics! find Khalid Birdsong @ friedchickenandsushi.com and Ray Billing...

part 2 of Blockhead’s interview with Jan Eliot, cartoonist of the wonderful syndicated comicstrip, “Stone Soup”! Join Geoff and Jan for a relaxed and engaging discussion about Jan’s career, comics, and cartooning

This fall will mark 25 years in syndication for Jan Eliot’s warm and funny comicstrip, “Stone Soup”, about  two working-mom sisters living life and raising families just across the fence from each other! Jan’s here to help us celebrate in a relaxed, fun and engaging discussion about comics, cartooning, Charles Schulz,feminism, teaching and just about everything else

“Blockhead”’s “Dennis the Menace” celebration winds down with Part 2 of our interview with Ron Ferdinand, cartoonist of the Sunday “Dennis” since the early 1980’s!

”Blockhead”’s celebration of “Dennis the Menace” continues with Ron Ferdinand, longtime cartoonist of the “Dennis”  Sunday strip! Ron has a treasure trove of stories to tell about his years working with Hank Ketcham, about cartooning  and his work as standard-bearer for one of the longest-running and most popular comic strips in the world!

“Dennis the Menace” takes over “Blockhead”! The wonderful Marcus Hamilton, daily cartoonist of “Dennis the Menace”, is here to talk about Dennis, the Mitchells, Mr. & Mrs. Wilson, his career as a top-notch illustrator in the 1970s and how a  chance glimpse of a TV interview with Hank Ketcham revitalized his career and led him to a dream job drawing one of the most iconic characters in comics histo...

Small-press cartoonist (and former mailman)Terry Flippo has made a big splash with hit webcomic, “Deliver Me!” about life carrying the mailbag for the U.S. Postal Service! Terry and Geoff talk about “Deliver Me!”, small press, the early days of SPX and some of the challenges faced by mail carriers in the days of Covid-19.

Part 2 of the Lynn Johnston interview! Lynn talks about her friendship with Charles Schulz and his response to Farley’s death, as well as  some of the many other groundbreaking( & sometimes heartbreaking) storylines in her long-running comicstrip,”For Better or For Worse”!  for more about Lynn Johnston and “For Better or For Worse”: fborfw.com @fborfw_official on Instagram to support the podcast v...

Lynn Johnston on Blockhead! Need I say more? One of the greatest cartoonists of the last 50 years talks with Geoff about her life, career and her ground-breaking and beloved syndicated comicstrip, “For Better or For Worse”.  find “For Better or For Worse” at : www.fborfw.com @Fborfw_official on Instagram

Part 2 of our interview with Brian Gordon, creator of the hilarious “Fowl Language”; comics to raise your kids by! Find Brian Gordon at fowllanguagecomics.com and Instagram @fowllanguagecomics as well on GoComics.com  

Brian Gordon, comedic mastermind behind the hilarious webcomic about ducks & parenting, “Fowl Language” is here to talk about his career, the greeting card industry and how great cartooning and foul language combined for success just when he needed it most! 

Cartoonist Tim Jones of the successful self-syndicated comicstrip, “Sour Grapes” (sourgrapescomic.com) is here to talk about “Peanuts”, comics, self-syndication, life-and yes, near-death encounters of the heart-attack variety.

Rick Stromoski, Part 2! Cartoonist of  the hilarious syndicated strip “Soup to Nutz”, Reuben-winner and former President of the National Cartoonist’s Society in a wide-ranging discussion about comics, newspapers, religion and -yes-“Peanuts”!

Rick Stromoski, cartoonist of the hilarious family strip, “Soup to Nutz” talks about his career as a freelancer, gag cartoonist, President of the National Cartoonist’s Society as well as the ups and downs of syndication and what he-and “Soup toNutz”-are up to now! Part 1 of a wide-ranging interview!