Arf Lovers High Fives Mark Newgarden!
That’s not actually a picture of the cartoonist Mark Newgarden above but when I did a Google image search on Mark Newgarden that’s what I got. And, trust me, this dude is a heck of a lot better looking than the cartoonist Mark Newgarden. Mark DOES have a spiffy looking new book, We All Die Alone. I’ve been waiting for this baby for years—I love Mark’s work. The book has a unique furry black cover and is filled with creativity from that cover to every single page within. Patrick McDonnell comments, “Mark Newgarden is where Ernie Bushmiller and Marcel Duchamp meet. Great stuff.”
I first got to know Mark when I commissioned him to do a work of art for The Art Of Mickey Mouse way back in 1991. I’ve always been impressed by both his creativity and his great eye for comic collectables. Give me five, Mark…
1. What’s all this I hear that your new book has a fucked cover?
That’s flocked, not fucked. Actually it’s not even flocked, it’s mock-flocked, which is really is sort of fucked. True hand crafted old-world flocking would have pushed the cover price to $647. -and even more in Canada.
2. Oh…does that have anything to do with seagulls?
Lets keep religion out of this.
3. Patrick McDonnell says something about you used to hang with Marcel Duchamp and Ernie Bushmiller—how cool was that?!?
Well, yes it was on an operating table and I was out cold at the time.
4. Are you now or were you ever a member of The Bushmiller Society?
I do not recognize the authority of this committee to ask me questions of an asinine nature.
5. Frazetta or Boris?
Xavier Cugat or Desi Arnaz?
— C. Yoe (in the funny papers)
