Darrin Bell, of the most excellent “Candorville” and “Rudy Park” joins me to talk about political cartooning, his early days of newspaper work, how he snuck into offices to get his cartoons seen, how 9/11 affected his comics and everyone’s approach, whether Lamont and Susan will ever get together, and his favorite “Star Trek” TV show. (Hint: It’s NOT “Enterprise.”) This was one of those interviews you know is going well because at 55 minutes in, I realized I’d barely hit half the questions in my notes!
Check out “Candorville” here, and see him take over the writing duties in the very near future for “Rudy Park” here. And cry with envy when you find out he can do a week’s worth of drawing in one day!
Candorville is one of my favorite syndicated comics and has been since the first book collection. It’s brilliant work.
I was listening to the show, as I often do, while walking my dog. Anyone watching me would’ve seen me come to a dead stop and get a horrified look on my face. They might have thought that I saw some pretty nasty roadkill.
No, that was the part of the interview when I learned that an editor suggested replacing the black characters with talking animals, possibly the worst editorial suggestion in the history of comics.
I’m normally opposed to violence, but there’s an editor out there who deserves to be sucker punched.
I want to be Pat Buchanan too!
This interview is very funny (and very smart) (and very funny).
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