Mike Lynch Cartoons (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
I laughed out loud at this onstage recitation of a Life in Hell comic by Matt Groening and Lynda Barry . This clip, which runs under a minute, is from the Chicago Humanities Festival, " Cartoonists in Conversation with Matt Groening and Lynda Barry ." My thanks to Sepcot for posting this.
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Lynda Barry has known Matt Groening forever. Since they were students at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., in the early 1970s. Groening heard about this woman who wrote to Joseph Heller, the author of "Catch-22," and asked him to marry her. Heller wrote back to politely decline (he didn't want to live in a dorm), but Groening thought that was so cool. Groening asked...
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The Chicago Humanities Festival this weekend presents the pen-ultimate panel, entitled “The Not-So-Funny Situation of Alternative Comix” and featuring Matt Groening, Lynda Barry, Jules Feiffer, and Chris Ware. Tickets are $5. We are likely living in the golden age of graphic novels and alternative comics, but the artists themselves are facing what may be the most significant...
The Daily Cartoonist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Several stories have been filed about last weekend’s Chicago Humanities Festival featuring several notable cartoonists. The Chicago Tribune writes about New Yorker cartoonists Pat Byrnes, Edward Koren, Roz Chast and New Yorker cartoon editor Robert Mankoff about cartooning humor for The New Yorker. The Tribune also write about Jules Feiffer, Chris Ware, Lynda Barry and Matt [...]...
