CR Sunday Magazine It's hard not to get nostalgic around the end of the calendar year. The stamp of Christmas proves so indelible it allows easier-than-usual comparison across the years: the who you are now to who you were then, the people with whom you're surrounded today to those who may not be here any more, the romantic parties past and the homecomings and occasionally seeing new eyes take it all in.
None of that stuff has anything to do with comics, of course, except that sometimes I think in terms of comics I read at different points in my life and what has come from that same cartoonist since. Ten years ago, one of the most important comics I read in my development as a writer was Hutch Owen's Working Hard, by Tom Hart, who kindly accepted my request for a short interview.
It's hard not to get nostalgic around the end of the calendar year. The stamp of Christmas proves so indelible it allows easier-than-usual comparison across the years: the who you are now to who you were then, the people with whom you're surrounded today to those who may not be here any more, the romantic parties past and the homecomings and occasionally seeing new eyes take it all in.
