The complete Reglar Wiglar zine digital archives (2005-2024) of interviews with comics artists, zine makers, writers, bands, and musicians.
Interviews
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Brandon Lehmann
Brandon Lehmann may not see himself as a prolific mini-comics creator, but a look at his back catalog of titles tells a different tale. Brandon has created dozens of mini-comics in a style of deadpan humor, and sly satire.
Smoke Bellow
After catching this Baltimore band’s mellow yet dynamic set at Tone Def Records one sunny Saturday afternoon, I decided to reach out to dynamic duo Christian Best and Merideth McHugh and find out what makes Smoke Bellow tick.
Greg & Fake w/Marc Kopinarov
If you haven’t hipped yourself to the Santos Sisters yet, you better correct that post haste, girlfriend. With a style that harkens back to the innocence of Archie Comics but with a clever angle and a sense of humor to boot.
James Stanton
James “the” Stanton is a hardworking comics artist of the Pacific Northwest. He enjoys creating the many strange creatures you’ll find in the forest if you’re very, very lucky. Learn more about him by reading this interview.
Desmond Reed
Looks can be deceiving. Even innocent-looking comic characters with wavy arms and huge hair have bummer backstories. Such is the case with Desmond Reed’s Cola Pop Creemees. They’re a colorful pop band to be sure, but they’ve got baggage as we found out when we talked to comics artist Desmond Reed.
Liz Mason
Many zines have been brought forth unto the world since then and quite a few of those were created by Liz, who has also served as shop manager of Quimby’s for 20+ years.
Liz recently published #14 of her long-running zine, Caboose. Titled “Canadian Boyfriend,” which takes a deep dive into Liz’s adolescent fixation with Canadian rock star Corey Hart. Find out more!
Ben Snakepit
Ben Snakepit has produced dozen of books, zines and assorted comics collections. He’s been drawing a daily autobiographical comic strip for over two decades. After living in Austin, TX for almost 20 years, followed by a few years in San Francisco, Ben, his wife and dog Frankie have moved across the continent, back to Virginia where Ben grew up. The Reglar Wiglar caught up with Ben right before his move back east.
Thomas Comerford
Singer/songwriter and filmmaker Thomas Comerford has lived and worked in Chicago since 1999. During his nearly quarter of a century in town, he has released four solo albums in addition to the four albums he released with his previous band Kaspar Hauser, plus a handful of singles for both projects.
Corinne Halbert
Corinne Halbert is the creator of the terror-ific comic Acid Nun (recently published in a hardbound edition by San Franciso’s Silver Sprocket). The book is filled with colorful, lushly illustrated, horror-inspired images that tell the story of Annie, the Acid Nun, and her bad trip through a psyche crowded with trauma and pain. It’s a spiritual, psychedelic journey to be sure.
2005-2022
Band Interviews
This drunken post-show interview took place backstage at the Bottom Lounge with Chicago’s The Mediums.
Fort Collin, Colorado band Dinero answered the big money questions in this Q&A.
Star Reporter Carol Bales went figure skating (figuratively) with Coupleskate.
Star Reporter (and recent North Carolina transplant) Carol Bales took a few shots at Birds & Arrows.
Rebecca Sueng interviewed Nashville, Tennessee’s garage rock band Bad Cop then whipped up this tasty article for the citizens to enjoy.
Blasted Diplomats and Chris Auman walk into a Bucktown bar. That’s the setup for this interview with Chicago’s records store clerk supergroup.
I discussed the sweaty music scene in Charm City, of which Dope Body is a proud member of.
Tom Hauser, the mastermind behind local band Kaspar Hauser, sat down with me for some Persian cuisine and to talk about Cleveland, among many other topics.
T. Bux interviews old friend and fellow Virginian John Campbell of the mighty metal band Lamb of God.
Gag me with a spoon, Lollygagger may be the funniest heavy band in the Chicago music scene right now and that’s no joke!
I focused in on this edgy Chicago rock quartet and bounced a few questions of Radar Eyes.
Reading Rainbow is not just a literary meteorological phenomenon, it’s a great band duo too as I found out.
I was sure the Summer Girlfriends was an imaginary band from Canada, but boy, was I wrong. They’re a Chicago band!
When I heard the call of Voice of Addiction I just had to answer. Here is my interview with Ian from this great Chicago punk rock band.
Comics Artists/
Graphic Novelists
Derf Backderf talks about his graphic novel about his famous-for-the-wrong-reasons high school friend, Jeffrey Dahmer.
Box Brown created graphic novels about pop culture pioneers like Andy Kaufman and Andrew the Giant and was gracious enough to talk to me about his process.
Jeffrey Brown makes killer robots downright adorable. I found out a bit about his influences that are not Star Wars.
Indie-comics-hero-turned-kids-comics-hero, Jef Czekaj, explains just how in the hell you pronounce his name (spoiler alert: it’s check-eye).
I became aware of Simon Gane’s work when we used to trade zines across the pond way back in the day. I was finally able to track him down and interrogate him.
Andrew Maclean sure knows how to lop a head off a gnarly troll-looking dude. Or, I should say, he knows how to draw a dude who knows hot to lop a head of a… you get the idea.
One of the masterminds behind the cult hit Henry and Glenn Forever comics, Tom Neely got plenty of love for other projects too.
Ed Piskor likes delving into the histroy of things like hacking and hip hop and then creating graphic novels out of what he finds.
Mimi Pond has been sending ripples and making waves in comics for about five decades now. I asked her about her recent autobiographical work.
The king of King-Cat Comics, John Porcellino talked about his long-running comic King-Cat, of course.
Jesse Reklaw and I go way back in the underground zine/comic publishing world and I finally got to ask him a bit about his backstory.
For a truly bizarre experience, check out Hans Rickheit comics. They’ll make you feel a little weird in a really great way. I learned a little more about why that is.
Writers & Zine Makers
New for 2023: Read an interview with zine mover and shaker, Liz Mason.
Author and awesome slide lap steel guitar player, Zach Boddicker withstands a few questions about his latest novel.
Nick Sondy interviews sci-fi writer, English professor, total Dickhead (Phillip K. Dick], and former bandmate David Gill.
Jake Austen has been publishing his Roctober zine for decades, I found out why.
Author Caseen Gaines dug deep into one of the most bananas Saturday morning TV shows ever, Pee-Wee’s Playhouse.
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