On our lunch break, Adam and I went over to the Texas Union and listened to a lecture by Hector Cantu, the writer for the comic strip Baldo. Honestly, I could care less about contemporary newspaper comics, (although Adam pointed out The Comics Curmudgeon, which makes me actually want to read the comic section), but it was interesting to hear from someone working within the form. I kept thinking how odd it would be for me to write a comic strip and not draw it. I asked Cantu who inspired him as a writer writing for comics. Funny enough, he said Harvey Pekar, and told a funny story about meeting Harvey while at a convention in Ohio. We had to go back to work, so I didn’t get to talk to him more. Seemed like a good guy. (And my drawings don’t really look anything like him.)
