INTERVIEW WITH CHRISTOPHER STANGL

By Marz Richards

October 23, 2008

I was able to grab a moment or two with Chris right as Comedy Meltdown 11 prepares for launch.

Come by the Melt Gallery on Friday, October 24 at 8:30 p.m. for fun and frolic with Dana Gould, Stephanie Escajeda, Matt Peters, Ed Greer, Ron Lynch and your host for this evening, Fred Belford.

Thanks to Linda Pine and Gaston for putting me in touch with Mr. Stangl.

What are you working on now, personally and professionally?

I did the CD art for my friend Arlen Lawson’s alt-folk project Old Man Charlie [ http://www.myspace.com/oldmancharliemusic ], and more than just an album cover, the packaging is an 8 panel experimental apocalyptic narrative and theological essay. It’s not particularly recent, but I illustrated the book The Explosexuawesome Career Guide, available from all fine booksellers, and containing dozens of exciting drawings of people on fire, stuff exploding and Don Knotts being shot with an arrow.

In between illustration tasks I’m working on a comics adaptation of a Poe story, and a true crime book about kidnapping, devil cults, and government brainwashing. Continue reading »