The Trial of Sisyphus

Sisyphus, as you likely already know, was a character in Greek mythology cursed to forever push a bolder up a hill, only to have the bolder roll back down at the last moment, forcing him to do it again and again. Kind of like setting up and taking down chairs in the cultural hall.

Hey, I was recently interviewed for the official podcast of my new publisher! If you've got 22 minutes to spare, check it out here (you can also find it on most of your favorite podcast providers, just look under Cedar Fort Publishing and Media: Behind the Scenes). It was fun.

Radio Interview

As many of you know, the Church runs a streaming radio station called the Mormon Channel. The station runs a number of programs including one called Everything Creative which interviews LDS artists of all varieties. Their latest program is on LDS cartoonists and they picked me along with Brian Crane (the award-winning creator of Pickles) and the prolific and talented Jon Clark to represent the Mormon cartoonist community.* I had a blast meeting and visiting with these two talents, although I'm afraid that I came off as a helpless fanboy a couple of times when talking to Crane in particular.

The interview was conducted by the talented singer/songwriter Nancy Hanson who, incidentally, happens to sing my favorite version of John Lennon's Grow Old with Me (with Peter Breinholt) and the classic Christmas carol Once in Royal David's City. Please check out her music, you won't be sorry.

If you have a spare hour, please listen. You can find a link here.

*I really shouldn't do this because inevitably I'll leave someone off, but here's an incomplete list of the extremely talented Mormon cartoonist community: Val Chadwick Bagley, Cal Grondahl, Pat Bagley, Adam Koford, Kevin Beckstrom, Rick and Ryan Goldsberry, Mike Allred, Ryan Stoker, Mark Harmon, Nick Perkins, Ty Harmon, William Fortune, and that kid that sits in the pew in front of you at church.