Interview w/ Wendi Koontz • Artist/Illustrator
SM: If you were to illustrate a silent windless grove of trees, what would you be sure to include? WK: A pirate. And a honey glazed ham...
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Interview w/ Packard Jennings • Artist
SM: When was the last time you were involved in a successful prank? PJ: A lot of my work can be called pranks, though I try to transcend..
Interview w/ Julie Klausner • Comedian/Comic Artist “Animal Party”
SM: What joke would you tell the devil at a party in heaven to make him feel more comfortable? JK: Is there anyone gayer than the devil?..
Interview w/ Ray Caesar • Artist
SM: Do you have anything you carry around for good luck? RC: I am not really all that superstitious Oh! yes there is a huge stuffed..
Interview w/ Ryan Greis • Artist
SM: If you were to illustrate a rainy street at night, what would you be sure to add? RG: I’d have to add deer. Out where I live,..
Interview w/ Isabel Samaras • Artist
SM: What do you like the best about your paintings? IS: That’s kind of a toughie — how do you answer that without sounding like..
Interview w/ Li-Young Lee • Poet “The City In Which I Love You” “Rose” “Book of My Nights”
SM: If the world is a place of portals and doors, where do the important doors go? LYL: I would guess that the “important..
Interview w/ Ellen Forney • Cartoonist/Illustrator
SM: If you were to draw a locomotive, what would you be sure to include in the portrait? EF: I wouldn’t attempt a locomotive without..
Interview w/ Glen E. Friedman • Photographer, “The Idealist” “Fuck You Heroes”
SM: Please describe the image you would choose If you wore a photograph as a face for a week. GEF: I could never do anything remotely like..
Interview w/ Thavius Beck (aka Adlib) • Writer/Producer/Musician “Decomposition”
SM: If whoever is guarding the passage from this life to whatever waits afterward asks you who you are, what will you tell them? TB:..
Interview w/ Michael Colton • Co-Creator of the “Modern Humorist” website.
SM: Please design a proper flag to sail over a captured fort, be it made of stone or couch cushions. MC: I believe this is the answer..
Interview w/ John Aboud • Co-Creator of the “Modern Humorist” website
SM: Please design a proper flag to sail over a captured fort, be it made of stone or couch cushions. John’s Flag. SM: When was the..
Interview w/ Greg Clarke • Artist
SM: If you took a fifteen minute walk in heaven, what would you bring with you? GC: My polarized Persols, a digital camera and somebody..
Interview w/ Greg Zeigerson • Comic Artist
SM: What’s your first reaction to a crowded city street? GZ: Right now, my reaction is usually, it’s beginning to look a lot..
Interview w/ Brian Sendelbach • Artist
SM: Given the global exchange rate, what is still not for sale under any circumstances? BS: My vinyl copy of Electric Light..
Interview w/ Mike McGee • Poet
SM: When was the last time you went on an unexpected detour? MM: April 4, 2002. It was the first time I hung out with the woman who would..
Interview w/ Christopher Baldwin • Comic Artist, “Bruno”
SM: If we gave you a sackful of money and a pointy hat made of newspaper, how would you spend the rest of the day? CB: Well, I want to be..
Interview w/ Brendon Small •Comedian, Writer/Co-Creator of “Home Movies”
SM: If we gave you a sackful of money and a pointy hat made of newspaper, how would you spend the rest of the day? BS: Oh that’s..
Interview w/ Todd Barry • Comedian
SM: What sort of pirate would you be? TB: Hmmm. I’ve never given this any thought. I don’t really know much about pirates, or..
Interview w/ Tim Heidecker
SM: If scarecrows are for scaring crows, what scares the scarecrows? TH: Why, Lions, Tigers and Bears, of course! SM: Barring yourself,..
Interview w/ David Rees • Comic Artist, “Get Your War On” “My New Filing Technique is Unstoppable”
SM: When was the last time you had on a set of headphones? DR: Election night 2004. SM: What was the last circumstance in which you found..
Interview w/ Taylor Mali • Poet
SM: When was the last time you took a big risk? TM: The last time I took a really big risk was today. I am writing you from a hotel bar in..
Interview w/ Glen Duncan • Author, “Weathercock” “I, Lucifer”
SM: Please tell us about the last time you risked your life. GD: Two days ago, by getting in the car to drive into central London. Nothing..
Interview w/ Adrian Tomine • Comic Artist, “Optic Nerve”
SM: What would we know if we didn’t know trouble? AT: I don’t know…boredom? These are hard questions. Can’t we talk..
Interview w/ Renee French • Artist
SM: When was the last time you looked over your shoulder at something important? RF: Yesterday I looked over my shoulder at a crow who was..
Interview w/ Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz • Poet
SM: When was the last time you were down on your luck? CA: How about right now? I spent about nine hours last night watching the election..
Interview w/ Matthew Francis • Author/Poet
SM: What do you do to remedy melancholy? MF: Go for long walks in the country. Cook a meal. Read. For really serious cases, I play chess,..
Interview w/ Jennifer Daydreamer • Artist
SM: If you were to paint a roomful of ghosts, what would you make sure to include in the portrait? JD: Blue ghosts. I would paint real..
Interview w/ Bwana Spoons • Artist
SM: Please recommend a phrase to mutter under one’s breath, moments after running out of bullets, crouched behind a rock, hearing the..
Interview w/ Steve Almond • Author, “The Evil B.B. Chow”
SM: If you were heard to exclaim, “There it is!”, what would you most likely be pointing at? SA: My masculinity. It’s always..
Interview w/ Derrick Brown • Poet
SM: Please describe an impressionable moment from your childhood. DB: My father was watching television when arguing with my mother. He..
Interview w/ David Heatley • Artist
SM: Up to this point, what has time done to you? DH: Time has made me humble and hopefully a little wiser. It’s definitely improved..
Interview w/ Visqueen (Rachel Flotard * Ben Hooker * Kim Warnick) • Band
RACHEL’S ANSWERS: SM: How would you recommend we recognize you in the afterlife? RF: Look for the puppy and kitten stampede. SM: Give..
Interview w/ Paul Feig • Creator, “Freaks and Geeks” • Author, “Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence”
SM: When was the last time you danced in a public setting? PF: Five minutes ago. I was at the grocery store and the theme from the 1980s TV..
Interview w/ Carol Lay • Comic Artist, “Way Lay”
SM: If you were to draw a rocket ship, what would you be sure to include in the portrait? CL: There are two basic types of cartoon..
Interview w/ Maria Bamford
SM: Please create a fantastical creature for you to ride around on, and give it a name befitting it. MB: A cloud of white Fur named Rajive...
Interview w/ Johnny Ryan • Comic Artist, “Angry Youth Comix” , “Shouldn’t You Be Working?”
SM: If you were heard to exclaim, “There it is!”, what would you most likely be pointing at? JR: My heterosexuality. SM: What..
Interview w/ Citizen Cope • Musician, “The Clarence Greenwood Recordings”
SM: If you had to square off against the devil in a competition based on some area of the creative arts (i.e. a fiddle contest), what would..
Interview w/ Dan Kennedy • Author, “Little People: Learning to See the World Through My Daughter’s Eyes” • Media Critic, Boston Phoenix
SM: When was the last time you had on a set of headphones? DK: Ten minutes ago. I was listening to Miles Davis’s “Bitches..
Interview w/ K. Thor Jensen • Artist
SM: When was the last time you climbed a really high ladder? KT: I climb a 10-footer every couple of weeks or so – I work in a..
Interview w/ Marc Anthony Thompson aka Chocolate Genius
SM: What would we know if we didn’t know trouble? MAT: Trouble? I don’t know trouble. Every time I think we’re getting acquainted..
Interview w/ Harry Shearer, Actor/Writer/Radio Personality
SM: Where are you at in your work right now? HS: The usual place, equidistant between hope and despair. SM: What color would you recommend..
Interview w/ Carson Ellis , Artist
SM: Where are you at in your work right now? CE: Trying to devote equal time to fine art, a picture book, a graphic novel, album art for..
Interview w/ Zoe Trope, Author – “Please Don’t Kill the Freshman”
SM: If you woke up one morning to find the citizens in the city where you live had vanished, what album would you like to hear that day?..
Interview w/Bob Odenkirk – Director, Melvin Goes to Dinner – Comedian, Mr.Show
SM: When was the last time you went on something you feel comfortable calling an adventure? BO: Last night when I went home tired as shit,..
Interview w/ David Cross, Comedian/Actor – Mr.Show, Arrested Development
SM: If you woke up one morning to find the citizens in the city where you live had vanished, what album would you like to hear that day?..
Interview w/ John Callahan – Cartoonist
SM: Where are you at in your work right now? JC: Well, I’m doing the cartoons for the different papers I’m in, and I’ve..
Interview w/ Frank Rich – Editor, Modern Drunkard Magazine
SM: Should they pour alcohol on a street-side curb to commemorate your death, what would you prefer they use? FR: Yes, except my homies..
Interview w/ Michael J. Nelson – Author, Comedian – Mystery Science Theater 3000
SM: If they had to play a song at your funeral, what would you like the bereaved to hear, and why? MN: Mahler’s 8th Symphony, the..
Interview w/ Stephen Elliott – Author, Happy Baby
SM: If you gambled with knowledge instead of money in poker, with the loser forgetting what he knows and the winner learning what the loser..
