Cagle video interview with me and Jen on women, cartooning, lewd humor!

Cagle has a two-part video interview with me and Jen Sorensen (of Slowpoke fame) from the AAEC convention in Seattle last week. Even Editor & Publisher took note!

Me, Interviewed on InTheseTimes.com

InTheseTimes.com has an interview with me for their "20 Questions" feature. Apparently I am prone to overuse of the word "awesome" and over-name-checking of "Doctor Who" and "Dykes to Watch Out For."

"Anger and passion slipped inside a fun cartoon coating"

My book Attack of the 50-Foot Mikhaela is one of the premiums in In These Times magazine's fund drive (along with a magazine subscription and a Noam Chomsky book). As part of the campaign, they've done a nice little interview with me where I ramble on about what makes me mad and what keeps me drawing (it's certainly not the money or fame!).

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Mikhaela featured in new book about killed cartoons

Killed Cartoons: Casualties of the War on Free Expression by David Wallis (Editor).

Here's the promo text:

In KILLED CARTOONS: CASUALTIES FROM THE WAR ON FREE EXPRESSION (W.W. NORTON), which features nearly 100 cartoons and illustrations, editor David Wallis gives you the chance to see what major magazines and newspapers tried to suppress. The collection, heralded by cartoonist Gahan Wilson of the New Yorker as "amazing in its range," includes spiked art about everything from the Iraq War to teen fashion trends. Works by renowned contemporary artists such as Garry Trudeau , Steve Brodner, Edward Sorel, Doug Marlette, Ted Rall, Paul Conrad, Matt Davies and Anita Kunz are displayed alongside unearthed gems by legends like David Low, Herblock and Norman Rockwell.

It's a very cool collection, with killed gems from all over the ideological spectrum. And editor David Wallis also wrote a piece for Women's eNews focusing on killed prochoice cartoons ("Editorial Pages Nix Toons Mocking Abortion Foes"), here's some of his interview with me from that:

Last year, Reid, a self-syndicated cartoonist, created "Every Sperm Is Sacred," a strip about the morning-after-pill. In Reid's dystopian America of 2020, the Supreme Court has upheld a "Spermy Protection Act," a show of power by the "sex-cell rights movement." ... . The idea for the strip was formed in Reid's pro-choice knitting group, "which sounds hippie and granola but it's not," she says. "It's a mini women's think tank."

"Every Sperm Is Sacred" reflects Reid's anxiety about the crusade not only to overturn Roe v. Wade, but to limit the availability of contraception.

"They are saying that the morning-after pill is abortion, which it is not," says Reid. "RU-486 is the abortion pill; the morning-after pill is a contraceptive . . . They are saying that the rights of the sperm and the egg override the rights of the woman."