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There are renaissance men then there is Jules Feiffer. Feiffer has become the cream of the crop in every field he has entered. He first gained fame for his comic book strips in The Village Voice and won a Pulitzer Prize for said strips. He has written the screenplays...

I finally got a chance to talk with Dave Foley and I just couldnt resist the chance to ask him what his favorite episodes were from both The Kids in the Hall TV show and Newsradio. Those are just two of the best comedies, in any medium, ever created. But Foley was most excited to talk about the...

I got on the phone with Aline Crumb and I expected to hear a very hardened woman talking back at me. I figured if youre the wife of R. Crumb, who everyone thinks is the worlds worst misogynist, she might be a pretty angry woman. But after speaking with Aline, about the new book The Sweeter Side...

Few filmmakers have had as interesting a career as Keith Gordon. Gordon first became known as actor in the 80s for films like Dressed to Kill, Back to School and Christine. After ten years in the business, Gordon took a deep plunge with adapting the classic The Chocolate War, which was just recently...

Gary Valentine is best known as a member of the rock band Blondie and penning the songs X-Offender and (Im Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear before leaving the band. Since then Valentine has become a popular writer out of London writing about such disparate topics as the dark side of the sixties...

Dame Darcy is best known for her Fantagraphics comic book series Meatcake. But now she has taken on the ambitious project of adding illustrations to the Charlotte Bronte classic Jane Eyre for The Illustrated Jane Eyre. I got a chance to talk with Dame as she was traveling...

No one was more surprised than Weird Al Yankovic himself when his new album, Straight Outta Lynwood, jumped onto the Billboard Top 10--a first for the prolific artist. Straight Outta Lynwood is powered by the hit single White and Nerdy. I spoke with Weird Al about his...