Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg are well known to readers of Boing Boing, as we had the honor of publishing Ed’s epic comic history Hip Hop Family Tree and Jim’s brilliant Street Angel. Now they’ve launched a YouTube channel, Cartoonist Kayfabe, which you should subscribe to right away.
Ed writes:
Jim Rugg and I created this channel as an avenue for us to add a little meaty and sincere comics talk out there on Youtube and it really seems to be catching on as each episode goes live. Lots of show-and-tell is peppered throughout the episodes too.
We’ve been doing a series of episodes using the 1990’s speculator rag, Wizard Magazine, as a way to discuss the era that inspired us to become cartoonists in the first place.
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More interviews are on the horizon as we get our skype recordings to work perfectly:
I enjoyed this deep-dive on Akira creator Katsuhiro Otomo:
![Akira, Making a Masterpiece part 1: Fireball (1979), [Spoilers abound]](https://i0.wp.com/i.ytimg.com/vi/xn7zbVwbEvI/hqdefault.jpg?w=970&ssl=1)
Cartoonist Kayfabe [YouTube]