Brad Diller of the very funny single panel comic, “Funday Morning,” is here to talk about his artistic journey, his years as a beach bum in Daytona, how a phone call from his mother changed his life, and his excellent comic. I have a deep love of the single panel, and Brad stands toe-to-toe with the best out there. His characters have a real depth to them, and he finds new ways to breathe life into classic situations that I envy! He’s got a book out that you can buy here, and he talks about his next one coming out this fall!
Great interview. I found the conversation about color to be most interesting.
Color is something I’ve always struggled with. I think having millions of colors to work with in Photoshop only makes things harder! Hopefully we can develop an eye for color the more we use it.
There are entire degrees in color theory, so you’re not alone.
Some of it is an innate sense, but really I’ve found that by looking at art I think is very well done, I learn a lot. I think Irma of “Imy” has great color sense, and Barb Jacobs “Xylia” is a master class. I was depressed when I found out several of my webcomics buddies who do great work are actually colorblind…sorta makes me need to work harder. 
Hi Tom –
When I clicked on Brad Diller’s Facebook link to listen to his talk with you on Tall Tale Radio episode 148, I immediately recognized your voice as the person who interviewed various attendees of the 2012 Reuben awards on You Tube. I enjoyed both the videos and Brad’s talk so much that I now find that – after 56 years of not knowing who Tom Racine is – I will be dedicating a good chunk of my free time listening to the other 147 episodes. I guess the Les Paul practice that I need in the worst way (literally) will just have to wait.
If you’re looking for an interesting topic for a future Tall Tale episode, may I recommend Jeffrey Page, the founder of Cartoonists at Large. I met Jeffrey in late 1993 in an AOL chat room called Toon Talk. (Please tell me 9600 baud was just a bad dream.) After chatting with, and learning more about several of the other cartoonists, discussing our projects and our struggles, Jeffrey had an idea to form a website consortium called Cartoonists at Large. The membership wasn’t huge (maybe 25 or so members at any given time) but we did have a few heavyweights among our midst – Ted Goff and Randy Glasbergen to name a few. Your listeners might enjoying hearing about what it was like in the early days of web cartooning, and some of the fun projects that our members participated in, such as our rendition of The Night Before Christmas, where each cartoonist drew a panel to collectively represent the various scenes.
http://www.cartoonistsatlarge.com/the_night_before_christmas/introduction.html
Not that you need any help developing topics for your show. Then again, I remember struggling to come up with 32 gags considered sufficient for submitting to the big eight newspaper syndicates.
Alan Rozanski
Franklin, WI
6/12/2012
Alan! What a nice post! Thank you so much. And I hope you do get to go through the archives…there’s gold in them thar hills that I do my best to stay out of the way of…he said ending his sentence with a preposition. I will definitely look into Jeffrey Page…I sort of get my guests willy nilly, so you never know! (And also, please…don’t let me interrupt your Les Paul time…that’s GOT to be more important!)
Brad is awesome and you are so right about the skill needed to make a funny in one lone panel. I know from experience.
It was fascinating to hear about Brad’s life and the journey he has been on.
Brad is also a huge supporter of other web comic artists, myself included.
If I’m ever in Reno, Brad – let’s do lunch and drag Mr. Crane along too!
ROLFE
Well Tom, tonight I printed out the episode list and the first one I had to listen to was your talk with Anne Hambrock concerning the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning. Are you kidding me? That’s literally “down the road” from me! I guess I’ll see you there! (Serendiptiy rules!)
– Alan
Darren! If you’re ever in Reno, I’m driving there! And Alan…darn tootin’ you better be there. I think there’s going to be quite the convergence of cartoonists there, both official guests and all sorts of midwestern cartoonists in print on the web. Gonna be a blast!