Cracked.com: You Might Be A Zombie! VIDEO INTERVIEW

Today's Guest: Jack O'Brien, editor, Cracked.com, You Might Be A Zombie   Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of obsessed Redbook magazine fact checkers who promise to confirm the veracity of everything my guest says before we’re done here today… in the new new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!... Continue Reading →

701 Cartoon Art Museum curator Andrew Farago speaks ‘Looney’! PODCAST INTERVIEW

Today's Guest: Andrew Farago, curator, Cartoon Art Museum, author, Looney Tunes Treasury My brother Ira was a Popeye fan. Me? Looney Tunes all the way. I lost hours of my youth watching Bugs, Daffy, Elmer, Porky, Tweety, the Road Runner, Sylvester and Marvin over and over again the way my son once watched The Bear... Continue Reading →

Historian Paul Buhle talks Kurtzman, Wisconsin comics scene! PODCAST INTERVIEW

  What’s so special about Wisconsin, anyway? My home state, New Jersey, has tomatoes, Sinatra, Springsteen, Atlantic City, the Turnpike and The Sopranos. What’s Wisconsin got? Cheese, the Green Bay Packers, cheese, comics, cheese—did I mention cheese? PAUL BUHLE podcast excerpt: "Al Capone vacationed and hid in Wisconsin. And was caught. That should tell you... Continue Reading →

Wednesday Comics gets different look by DC’s Mark Chiarello! PODCAST INTERVIEW

Today's Guest: Mark Chiarello, art director, DC Comics   When I was a teenager growing up in North Brunswick, New Jersey, I was one of three guys who organized a loose-knit band of like-minded comic book lovers into a club called the Fans of Central Jersey. We had monthly meetings, published a monthly newsletter, and... Continue Reading →

Writer Trina Robbins revives the art of Nell Brinkley’s Girls! PODCAST INTERVIEW

  This is my third year of being the ringmaster of the Mr. Media radio show and I’m starting to see previous guests return with new projects. And that is certainly the case tonight, as cartoonist and historian Trina Robbins returns to the show to talk about her new project about Nell Brinkley's Girls, The... Continue Reading →

African-American editorial cartoonists go ’round the table! PODCAST INTERVIEW

  Today's Guests: Tim Jackson, David G. Brown, Ron Rogers, Barbara Brandon-Croft, Dr. Yaounde Olu, editorial cartoonists These are days when the rules are being rewritten by the hour, a time when the old ways seem quaint and antiquated, a period in history when perhaps we can no longer rely upon history to guide the future.... Continue Reading →

22 GoGirl! writer Trina Robbins inspires tomorrow’s feminists! PODCAST INTERVIEW

  Trina Robbins, the author of the GoGirl! series of comics from Dark Horse, joins us today as our guest. Trina Robbins Website • Blog • Facebook • Wikipedia • Trina Robbins 2009 interview with Mr. Media BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: Trina, is the pre-teen and the teen girl, is that a new reader of comics?... Continue Reading →

4 Universal Press Syndicate editor Lee Salem on funny pages! PODCAST INTERVIEW

  Lee Salem is a guy I’ve admired for many, many years. As the president and editor of Universal Press Syndicate, he is the man responsible for recognizing a slew of creative talent that impacted American pop culture and the funny pages over the last 30-plus years. The origins of Garry Trudeau and “Doonesbury,” Gary... Continue Reading →

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