Print and Podcast Interview Requests

I will no longer be granting print or podcast interviews indiscriminately. If you are interested in an interview, please be advised of the following:

I have been active as a cartoonist and creator in comic books and graphic novels since 1984. I have conducted numerous print interviews in The Comics Journal, Amazing Heroes, and other publications, and have been the subject of articles in many more. Recently, I have conducted numerous online interviews and podcasts, many of which can be found here.

I am currently at work on a number of interrelated projects involving the Megaton Man IP, including a two-volume omnibus in production from Fantagraphics Underground and two graphic novels, all slated fro 2024-2025 release. I have also been creating work in prose that informs this new comics work.

If you are interested in conducting an interview for print or podcast, you must demonstrate a unique and interesting angle or interest in specific subject matter that does not merely repeat what has already been covered several times before. Do your homework.

Scholars, journalists, and others wishing to quote archival interviews must seek permission in writing; this includes social media and blog posts. Use of any such material without prior written authorization is strictly forbidden and the author will not cooperate with parties that make such unauthorized use in the future.

If your only or primary interest in my career are my collaborations with Alan Moore (“In Pictopia,” 1963), any number of recent podcasts, interviews, and reviews have for the most part exhausted the subject. I would refer you to the following publications, both of which include extensive text essays which, supplemented by various podcasts and interviews, I regard as my definitive and final statements on the matter:

Don Simpson, et al, In Pictopia (Fantagraphics Underground, 2021), ISBN-13 9781683964575.

Don Simpson, X-Amount of Comics (Fantagraphics Underground, 2023), ISBN-13 9781683963486.

For scholars and educators teaching graphic novels, the above edition of In Pictopia is to be considered the definitive remastered edition. The original publications of “In Pictopia,” both using the original color separations (in Anything Goes #2, 1987, and The Best Comics of the Decade, 1980-1990, Volume I, 1991, both published by Fantagraphics) should also be considered historically important original versions of the story.

The following two reprints of “In Pictopia” offer inferior reproduction or recoloring that significantly mars the collaborative art and does not represent the original story, and therefore should be avoided at all costs:

Marc Sobel, Brighter Than You Think: 10 Short Works by Alan Moore (Critical Cartoons, 2016).

Georg Khoury, The Extraordinary Works of Alan Moore (TwoMorrows, 2003).

I will no longer cooperate in any way with publishers seeking to anthologize “In Pictopia,” including for educational or scholarly purposes.

For commissions and original art sales, please go here.

For licensing, personal appearances (including educational workshops and lectures), textbook publishers seeking illustrations of works, and other queries, please email this blog. 

Donald E. Simpson earned his PhD in history of art and architecture from the University of Pittsburgh in 2013. For CV and other information, please visit here.