One of the nicest things to happen in any given week is for someone to request an interview. Who doesn't like to talk about themselves and the work they love?
Sarah Wagner, a PhD linguistics student at UT Austin and teacher in their Rhetoric Department, interviewed me for VIZ., a website devoted to visual culture. Sarah asked great questions... I really appreciate her interest in Stone Soup and the world of comic strips. To read her interview, go to:
On a more surreal interview front...
I was recently interviewed by a local TV station regarding a donation I made to a book sale, which will benefit a food bank. The book sale is organized by an 11-year-old named Taylor, who first created the event when he was SEVEN, so I was inspired to participate in some way.
(He's only 11 and he's already raised $29,000 for charity... that raises the bar for us adults, don't you think?)
My donation was a box of autographed books, 44 copies of my second Stone Soup collection, titled "You Can't Say Boobs On Sunday".
The title of this book comes from a rare moment of censorship. My syndicate editor rejected a Sunday strip I'd done, advising me that I could use the word "boobs" in my comic strip Monday through Saturday... but not on Sunday. The Sunday funnies being sort of... sacred, I suppose. No hard feelings, I got a great book title out of it.
But back to the TV piece, which was very nicely done I must say...
When they zoomed in on the book cover, they fuzzed out the word BOOBS. A visual "bleep" of the word.
And it was only a Tuesday.
Speaking of being interviewed...IF you're not too busy during the Reubens weekend, would you be willing to spare an hour for an interview? I'd love to conduct it (or a portion of it, anyway) face-to-face, since we'll both be in La La Land at the same time, and the opportunity wasn't there during ToonFest in Marceline. I want to do a Jan Eliot profile in an upcoming issue of STAY TOONED! MAGAZINE. Sorry to come at you this way, but I cannot find the card you gave me (at least, I think you gave me a card)when we met at ToonFest last September.
Posted by: John Read | May 14, 2009 at 11:16 PM
I love it... thanks for keeping us laughing Jan.
Posted by: Tiphenie Montes | June 21, 2009 at 06:32 PM