Lion's Tooth co-owner Cris Siqueira revisits cartoonists she first interviewed in the late 1990s

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In the summer of 1997 Lion's Tooth co-owner Cris Siqueira traveled to the US from her native country of Brazil to interview some of her favorite American cartoonists. She visited 14 American cities in two months and talked to over 20 artists and industry professionals. She helped sell comics at the Drawn & Quarterly booth in San Diego and visited the Fantagraphics headquarters in Seattle. The trip resulted in countless articles and an award-winning anthology called Comic Book - O Novo Quadrinho Norte Americano, which featured stories by ten of the artists interviewed, most of them published for the first time in Brazil.
The anthology organized and translated by Cris Siqueira, with original cover by Jaime Hernandez, winner of the 1999 HQ Mix award
​Twenty years later, now living in Milwaukee, Cris started a new series of interviews with the same artists to find out what has changed in their lives, work and comics in general.
Dame Darcy and Cris Siqueira in 1997 and 2019
The new interviews are available in our blog, with previews in the Milwaukee Record.
This is an ongoing project and Cris is still reaching out and conducting new interviews with the folks she met in 1997.

Here's a complete list of the artists and publishers in this series:

1997

All photos by Carolina Pfister

2017-2020
  1. Adrian Tomine
  2. Kaz | COMING SOON
  3. Jason Lutes
  4. Ariel Bourdeaux
  5. Rick Altergott
  6. Eric Reynolds | READ NOW
  7. Chris Oliveros
  8. Gilbert Hernandez | READ NOW
  9. Lloyd Dangle
  10. Chris Ware
  11. Richard Sala*
  12. Daniel Clowes
  13. Joe Coleman
  14. Joe Sacco | COMING SOON
  15. Megan Kelso | COMING SOON
  16. Dame Darcy | READ NOW
  17. Debbie Drechsler
  18. Brian Biggs
  19. Peter Bagge (not pictured in 1997) | READ NOW
  20. Kim Thompson**
  21. Jaime Hernandez | COMING SOON
  22. Tony Millionaire
  23. Jessica Abel

* We lost the amazing Richard Sala in 2020 before we could start a remote interview.
** Legendary publisher Kim Thompson passed away in 2013.