I was briefly on TV tonight, in a documentary about New Zealand comics. I got a few seconds talking about Funtime Comics, and managed to say something completely incorrect in it (the seminal New Zealand anthology Strips ran for 22 issues, not my off-the-cuff stab of “26 or 27″). And I could have brushed my hair better, but I’m going to assume nobody noticed that. There was also some nice footage of a Funtime workshop at my place, and footage of Jared Lane and Jason Brice saying things that were insightful, salient and factually accurate. Oddly, they left out the interview they did with Bob Gibbons. I thought was a shame, because if a headmaster with a mohawk who draws comics about his model train set isn’t good television, I don’t know what is.
But apart from the lack of Bob, it was a fine documentary.
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