George Alexopoulos: Art and Cartooning

0:00 – Intro: cartoonist George Alexopoulos, aka GPrime85
2:11 – Growing up as a Protestant Greek
5:06 – How George started drawing
6:42 – Game development, art school, and dropping out of SVA
8:41 – Artist or not? Dignity and empty seats in the arts
13:08 – R. Crumb and the underground comics movement
14:00 – The documentary Crumb and the Crumb brothers
17:40 – Current events strips from a center-right lens
18:59 – The Biden strip that took off
22:56 – Horror, humor, and the dancing nurses strip
23:55 – Punching up, punching down, and mocking the president
25:46 – SNL's Biden impression and safe comedy
27:09 – Norm Macdonald and edgy comedy
28:50 – JL Cauvin's Trump impression
31:49 – The Elmo and Waukesha strips Instagram removed
36:21 – Steve Salerno's "jump in a volcano" Twitter suspension
38:36 – Hiding the humor from the censors
40:21 – Philip Roth's The Breast and an "incel" insult
43:46 – Yes, and: comebacks you think of too late
45:52 – George's books: Mary Sue, Bad Dreams, and Paris
47:44 – Why George won't use a pen name
48:39 – Art, masks, and knowing yourself
51:41 – Seven Samurai and the wandering cartoonist
54:30 – Where to find George and wrap-up