We're really honored to feature Craig Thompson. Craig is arguably one of the best cartoonists of his generation. In addition to having sold tons of books, he's also got a beautiful way with words and pictures and has garnered the appreciation of hundreds and thousands of people, including a lot of artists. So, it's wonderful to sit down with him, and it was really kind of a shock to hear him name me as one of his early inspirations; that's very kind. And Craig also expands the web by mentioning ...
May 04, 2025•35 min
Byron Black is a cartoonist known for his contributions to the National Fantasy Fan Federation, and for his own creation: The Steppenwolf Chronicles. The 90s Mini Comics Oral History aims to collect the stories of ANYONE who made self-published mini-comics in the roughly 10 years before the broad acceptance of the internet (the 90’s, give or take.)
Jan 26, 2025•25 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Eli Bishop is a writer, illustrator, and actor based in San Francisco. His stories center on regular life, monsters, healthcare, dreams, depression, and dinosaurs. You can find more of Eli at his website and Instagram: http://errorbar.net/ https://www.instagram.com/error.bar The 90s Mini Comics Oral History aims to collect the stories of ANYONE who made self-published mini-comics in the roughly 10 years before the broad acceptance of the internet (the 90’s, give or take.)
Dec 26, 2024•52 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Liz Prince is an American comics creator, noted for her sketchbook-style autobiographical comics. Prince initially started publishing on her own on the internet and later became a published author with Top Shelf Comics publishing her first graphic novel "Would You Still Love Me if I Wet the Bed?" which earned her an Ignatz Award. Thanks so much for listening! The 90s Mini Comics Oral History aims to collect the stories of ANYONE who made self-published mini-comics in the roughly 10 years before ...
Oct 30, 2024•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 22
Chetan Patel is a Toronto based creator who started his mini comics in the early 1990’s. And continues to create his own comics today. Links: www.tictoctom.com https://www.instagram.com/tictoctom https://youtube.com/@geekshop.2814?si=y0ok9eU17wz1R64g Thanks so much for listening! The 90s Mini Comics Oral History aims to collect the stories of ANYONE who made self-published mini-comics in the roughly 10 years before the broad acceptance of the internet (the 90’s, give or take.)...
Sep 28, 2024•28 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Vjeran Pavlaković is a historian and professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Rijeka. He received his doctorate in 2005 at the University of Washington. He lives in Zagreb, Croatia. In the 90s and early 2000s, Vjeran created mini-comics and zines under the name "Verno the Inferno". He is also a contributer to the alternative comics publisher Komikaze. Thanks so much for listening! The 90s Mini Comics Oral History aims to collect the stories of ANYONE who made self-pub...
Sep 16, 2024•58 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Jessica Abel is cartoonist, author, and creative coach known for her extensive contributions to the comics world. From mini-comics such as Art Babe, to longer format comics such as La Perdida, as well as two textbooks about making comics, Abel has been a notable name in the comics community since the 90s when she began making minis. The 90s Mini Comics Oral History aims to collect the stories of ANYONE who made self-published mini-comics in the roughly 10 years before the broad acceptance of the...
Sep 12, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Leela Corman is a painter, educator, and graphic novel creator, working in the realm of diaspora Ashkenazi culture. third-generation restorative work, and New York City history. Her books include the graphic novels Victory Parade, a story about WWII, women's wrestling, and the astral plane over Buchenwald (Schocken/Pantheon, 2024), Unterzakhn (Schocken/Pantheon, 2012), which was nominated for the Eisner, the L.A. Times Book Award, and Le Prix Artemisia, and won the ROMICS Prize for Best Anglo-Am...
Sep 05, 2024•53 min•Season 1Ep. 17
John Porcellino (born September 18, 1968) is an American cartoonist and creator of minicomics. Porcellino's self-published, photocopied, mostly autobiographical series King-Cat Comics is among the best-known and longest-running minicomics produced today. Porcellino created King-Cat in May 1989, and to date has self-published 79 issues. The 90s Mini Comics Oral History aims to collect the stories of ANYONE who made self-published mini-comics in the roughly 10 years before the broad acceptance of ...
Aug 29, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Robert Kirby is an American cartoonist, known for his long-running syndicated comic Curbside – which ran in the gay and alternative presses from 1991 to 2008 – and other works focusing on queer characters and community, including Strange Looking Exile, Boy Trouble, THREE, and QU33R. He has worked alongside critically acclaimed queer artists including Diane DiMassa and Alison Bechdel. Thanks for listening! The 90s Mini Comics Oral History aims to collect the stories of ANYONE who made self-publis...
Aug 19, 2024•59 min•Season 1Ep. 16
David Lee Ingersoll is a cartoonist and illustrator based in Seattle, United States. Born in Anchorage, Alaska soon after the 1964 earthquake, he spent most of his childhood and young adult years in northern California, specifically the then small town of Sebastopol. He started drawing at an early age, preferring to concentrate on dinosaurs and other monsters. He has primarily been active in small press publications, contributing illustrations to Factsheet Five and a variety of horror and sci-fi...
Aug 13, 2024•50 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Peter Kuper (born September 22, 1958) is an American alternative comics artist and illustrator, best known for his autobiographical, political, and social observations. Besides his contributions to the political anthology World War 3 Illustrated, which he co-founded in 1979 with Seth Tobocman, Kuper is best known for taking over Spy vs. Spy for Mad magazine, which he both wrote and drew from 1997 to 2022. Kuper has produced numerous graphic novels which have been translated into French, German, ...
Aug 12, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Larned Justin is a cartoonist who has produced numerous mini comics and small press comics throughout the decades. Steve Keeter is the founder and chairman of the revived United Fanzine Organization (or UFO). Both Justin and Keeter contribute to the Youtube Channel "Talking Small Press Comics" an archive that promotes small press comics. We are thrilled to have them participate in our archive! Please enjoy their interview! [continued] The 90s Mini Comics Oral History aims to collect the stories ...
Aug 08, 2024•43 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Andrew Coltrin is a writer, comics artist, and disabilities advocate when not at the day job as a paraeducator for a large urban school district. For decades Andrew thought he was just weird, anxious and unexplainably broken until the DSM finally had an update that caught up with lived experience. Andrew was diagnosed as autistic at the age of 37, and informally diagnosed with ADHD by his brother in 2023 (“your DHD is Advanced”). Andrew’s previous work include the glossary zine A is for Autistic...
Aug 05, 2024•55 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Donna Barr (born August 13, 1952) is an American comic book author and cartoonist. A Washington state native with a bachelor's degree in German and experience serving in the United States Army, Barr uses her background and wealth of experience to create works with a unique and compelling perspective as seen in her most well-known publications: The Desert Peach and Stinz. From self-publishing to small press publications, Barr is a well-rounded titan of the alternative comics scene and has plenty ...
Jul 25, 2024•48 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Sam Henderson (born October 18, 1969) is an American cartoonist, writer, and expert on American comedy history. He is best known for his ongoing comic book series Magic Whistle . He was a contributor to the animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants and Camp Lazlo. He has been making mini-comics since the mid-80s, and was the person who introduced mini-comics to me, host Tom Hart. Thanks for listening! https://www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org/90s-oral-history-project ------------------ 90...
Jun 07, 2024•22 min•Season 1Ep. 10
https://www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org/90s-oral-history-project Saša Rakezić (born 1963 in Pančevo, Serbia), better known by his pen name Aleksandar Zograf , is a Serbian cartoonist, who was working in the former Yugoslavia in the 80s and 90s. His was the main -and sometimes only- cartooning voice that many in the United States knew of from that region, and was very active in American mini-comics and underground publishing. Chris Lanier, on Zograf's website, writes, "Zograf's email dispatches...
May 16, 2024•32 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Enjoy this interview with Tom Motley who treated us to page by page review of an issue of the Fandom House catalog from the early 90s and showing us so many of the things that were available in the catalog. This is a very visual episode, but you'll also hear grat stories, giving us context and a few really interesting cultural threads in there too. I'm really happy Tom could come on and share with us. Tom is a kind soul and a really interesting creative thinker-- someone who's going to be experi...
Apr 13, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 8
https://www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org/90s-oral-history-project Joe Chiappetta is the creator of the much loved comic series, Silly Daddy. From his Wikipedia: Chiappetta began publishing Silly Daddy in 1991. A graphic novel collection of his work came out in 1994, featuring a decade of art. Chiappetta began posting Silly Daddy as a webcomic in 2004, and moved it to Blogger in early 2007.Born out of the American Independent Comics Movement, the comic started shortly after the birth of his firs...
Apr 03, 2024•56 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Peter S. Conrad is a cartoonist best known for Attempted Not Known, Vidrio Cafe, and This Was 2020. He has been making comics from the San Jose, California area for decades. You can find his online work at https://attemptednotknown.com/ and http://www.vidriocafe.com/ https://www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org/90s-oral-history-project 90’S Mini-comics oral history project Imagine… waiting two weeks to know if you got a LIKE. Imagine taking an all nighter, a bunch of stapling and two trip to the co...
Mar 29, 2024•26 min•Season 1Ep. 6
https://www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org/90s-oral-history-project Roberta Gregory is the legendary, groundbreaking cartoonist, the first woman to self-publish a full length solo comic, Dynamite Damsels in 1976 and she has continued to be involved in mini-comics and self-publishing through the 2000s. She's contributed to Gay Comix, Wimmen's Comix, Tits & Clits and is the solo author of Bitchy Bitch, Winging It, Sheila and the Unicorn and many more. Thanks for listening! ------------------ 90...
Mar 18, 2024•50 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Fred Noland's specialty is visual storytelling, whether in animation, comics, or illustration. Noland’s comics have appeared in the New Yorker, Popula and the East Bay Express. His illustrations have appeared in LA Weekly, Nickelodeon Jr., Xbox Magazine, Revolver, Canoe & Kayak and more. He was the chief artist on the animated short series “Priced Out” which has been shown world-wide. His graphic novel biography about turn-of-the-century champion cyclist Major Taylor is scheduled for release...
Mar 14, 2024•15 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Carol Tyler is the award-winning creator of Soldier's Heart, Late Bloomer, The Job Thing, Fab 4 Mania, and countless stories for 80s and 90s anthologies like Weirdo and Twisted Sisters. She is recognized as one of the greatest cartoonists of her generation. This interview was recorded on her farm in Kentucky in summer 2023. The 90s Mini Comics Oral History aims to collect the stories of ANYONE who made self-published mini-comics in the roughly 10 years before the broad acceptance of the internet...
Mar 13, 2024•57 min•Season 1Ep. 3
David Lasky is the creator of Boom Boom, Urban Hipster, The Carter Family and many more. He has worked as an artist, colorist, co-writer, teacher etc for many years. The 90s Mini Comics Oral History aims to collect the stories of ANYONE who made self-published mini-comics in the roughly 10 years before the broad acceptance of the internet (the 90’s, give or take.)
Mar 11, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Tom Hart is the founder of The Sequential Artists Workshop and the subject of our beta test of the 90s Mini-Comics Oral History Archives. He is the creator of Hutch Owen, Love Looks Left, Wodaabe and many mini-comics in the 90s and after. The 90s Mini Comics Oral History aims to collect the stories of ANYONE who made self-published mini-comics in the roughly 10 years before the broad acceptance of the internet (the 90’s, give or take.)...
Mar 11, 2024•39 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Imagine waiting two weeks to know if you got a LIKE . Imagine taking an all nighter, a bunch of stapling and two trip to the copy store and post office in the cold to make a POST . In the decade before the internet, people made comics, and reached out to each other. They shared, they liked and loved. They connected through the mail, and through meet-ups and festivals. This project aims to collect the stories of ANYONE who made self-published mini-comics in the roughly 10 years before the broad a...
Mar 11, 2024•3 min
