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View our photo album from the 2007 NCS Reuben Awards!

In 1994, Charles Schulz spoke to a group of his cartooning colleagues at a meeting of the National Cartoonists Society. Read his remarks here.

Read our exclusive interview with animator J.J. Sedelmaier, who works with Stephen Colbert to produce the TEK JANSEN series on "The Colbert Report"!

Jack Cole is best known for his groundbreaking Plastic Man comic-book work, and his gorgeous Playboy cartooning. But he also created a daily comic strip, "Betsy and Me," a warmhearted look about a couple whose child is a prodigy. Renowned comics historian Ron Goulart places the strip in the context of Cole's remarkable career.
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Perhaps more than anyone else in America, Dilbert's Scott Adams is keeping wage-slaves amused as they sit under the humming fluorescent lights and deal with clueless managers. Read our insightful interview with the man who almost makes a nine-to-five existence tolerable! Adams is funny and candid as he talks about the experiences that led him to become the chronicler of the working man!

We gathered a group of four young cartoonists and turned on a tape recorder. The resulting conversation among Dave Coverly (Speed Bump), Jef Mallett (Frazz), Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before Swine) and Hilary Price (Rhymes With Orange) is a fascinating look into the cartooning profession.

View the Golden Age comic book exhibit curated by the legendary Jerry Robinson!

When David Silverman began working on animation's First Family, he thought it would occupy a little time before he left the animation field. Fifteen years later, he's still marveling at The Simpsons' success. In this interview, he discusses his career and what it's like to help build a cultural juggernaut.

IN JUST SEVEN DAYS...

You don't just "become" the World's Most Perfectly Developed Man...you have to be bullied and humiliated, and you have to exercise for seven whole days! Read this fascinating examination of the evolution of the Charles Atlas ad campaign, as well as the numerous homages and parodies it has inspired over the years!

The Rise (and Fall) of a Comics Company

The story of the Johnstone and Cushing studio is one of the most interesting yet least-known chapters in comics history. Revisit a time when comics and commerce were intersecting profitably at Madison Avenue, when America was discovering the power of the comic strip to sell products and influence opinion!

The Dan Piraro Interview!

The supremely talented man behind the Bizarro comic panel discusses his life and work in this long interview! Read about the unusual path Dan took to become one of the forces behind the rejuvenation of the comic panel. Dan is one of contemporary cartooning's most outspoken, candid professionals, and you won't want to miss his insights into the industry!

 



Bill Peet, who died in 2002, was one of Walt Disney’s
key animators. He worked on landmarks including Dumbo, Fantasia, Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland. When he got fed up with animating, he became a top creator of children’s books. Meet the man and the legend!

An interview with the legendary Will Eisner

In this wide-ranging and lively interview, the comics legend talks with his usual prescience about the continually evolving comics industry, the adaptability cartoonists will need to allow the form to thrive for another century, and, ironically, his own mortality.