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What's keeping the comics industry together? Middle-aged men reading shitty comics. That is one of the best quotes regarding comics I've ever heard lol. Thanks for this one fellas!

So.. Clowes is next right? Followed by Charles Burns, Gary Panter, Art Spiegelman, Peter Bagge, and Chris Ware?

Drinking coffee, sorting comics and watching Cartoonist Kayfabe! Perfect Sunday morning!

I was there when the toilet exploded. The toilet came from the Fantagraphics office--an old toilet had been replaced, and I suggested to Gary that we blow it up. I spray-painted "the '80s" on it, a detail that Pete Bagge included in his story. It wasn't a stick of dynamite, it was a tennis ball with a fuse (loaded with some explosive). Otherwise, Gary's description matches my memory, including the shower of shattered bits of porcelain at the end.

We need a 2nd Groth interview!

Would you guys consider interviewing Mark Schultz and his Xenozoic series

I visited Jim Steranko while Gary was working for him. Other than being introduced to Gary downstairs, we spent the rest of the time upstairs.

“ ‘86 was the first Vortex collection” Jim is so in tune with what comics came out in 86! We need a weekly series on each month of 1986 in comics history from you guys!

I wish this interview was twice as long. Great job, guys.

The Groth/Kane discussions are so rich, especially the later two-part interview, which I hope you cover. Kane was always looking for new ways to do comics, but seemed more obsessed with form than content. For instance, he was interested in large blocks of copy almost as an aesthetic regardless of what the words said, and he was pitching different shapes, like paperbacks and adult magazines to expand the audience. What's also great is that he was a witness to the history of comics from the beginning and has so much to say about the artform and so much hilarious gossip. He must have been the perfect dinner companion for a comics fan.

I wish Segar’s Popeye was available to read online along with Krazy Kat dailies. Print is great, but somethings may never see the day of reprint.

Superb interview, as always, but this one is particularly close to my heart! Gary Groth is such a formative legend but seems to fly under the radar for the most. Thanks for this great, deep, conversation!

As someone who has asked about more Steranko coverage on this channel before... I'm good after Gary's story. He said all that needs to be said about him.

Loved being able to see this.  So much fun. (The prices on EBay are crazy though!)

1:14:50 Never thought about this.  I thought Marvel and DC always dominated the space but I guess the barriers to entry regarding publishing back then were more of an issue than actually the comics as competing products.  Basically if the TMNT dropped in early 90s as opposed early 80s we're talking about a different outcome.

*Just received my copy of Absolute Batman: Year One so thanks for that review and recommendation, fellas.

Great interview 👍 a year ago I started my own publishing company "Marlis Press, LLC" where I can self published my own graphic novel(s). Keep up the great work with your podcasts

Totally agree with Gary that comics should aspire to the heights of other forms of great art - like the best books, movies and TV shows. Rock on!

Been hoping for this!!! Thank you guys so much

Thanks for that. Felt the interview came up a little bit short, though, as surely The Comics Journal deserved more air-time. This magazine wasn't just a cataloguer of the late 70s and 80s comic boom, and the diversification of material, but played an instrumental part in making it all happen. Growing up, The Comics Journal was like a bible and gateway drug combined, and the lengthy interviews that Gary did, with a Who's Who of the comics industry were brilliant to read. Hopefully, we'll get to see a Gary Groth Interview Part Two sometime soon? I just feel this is a taster of what's to come in that regards. Anyway, another enjoyable listen all the same, keep on doing what you guys are doing.