This week’s Inside the Cartoonist’s Studio guest is 9 Chickwwed Lane and Pigborn creator, Brooke McEldowney!
Let’s get right to the questions!
1) If you were to cast a movie entirely with cartoon characters, what movie would it be and who would star in it?
Pibgorn. It would star Claudia Black as Drusilla, Shawnee Smith as Pibgorn, and I think I could be convinced to play Geoff.
2) You’re a syndicate editor launching a new comic strip. What’s the worst possible title you can think of?
My Favorite Vasectomy.
3) A light bulb over a cartoon’s head signifies an idea, while a string of random characters denotes swearing. Invent a new cartooning icon and what it means.
An equal sign, which would designate an abrupt shift from a Nietschean weltanschauung to something a little more Kierkegaardian.
Thanks a bunch Brooke! And stay tuned for my new strip “My Favorite Vasectomy” coming soon to a newspaper near you!
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See you next week for our next installment of Inside the Cartoonist’s Studio!
Concerning Pibgorn, you involve demons from Hell and fairies from Earth with humans. Have you considered introducing a representative of Heaven? Not for religious reasons, but as a matter of balance.
You might edit you website — the strip is "Pibgorn," not "Pigborn." Kind of embarassing when you misspell the new strip of a featured artist…
You know, three years later, I could go back, but what about all those people searching for "Pigborn"?! Should I alienate them just for the sake of accuracy? I think not.
But thanks for the heads up…
Are you sure it's not Bigporn?
Seriously, does anyone know why he named the character after a Welsh instrument?
I'm going to start a strip entitled PigPorn! That's a winner for sure!
Just a heads up, Pibgorn has been discontinued, anyone know why?
I blame my typos.