Conversations with ADD: The Comics Interviews of Alan David Doane

by Alan David Doane

Nearly 300 pages in length, Conversations with ADD compiles almost all of the interviews Alan David Doane has conducted with comic book writers, artists, editors and publishers since he started writing about comics ten years ago. The Foreword is by writer Christopher Allen, and the Afterword is by autobiographical cartoonist Jason Marcy.

The lineup of interviewees includes cartoonists Peter Bagge, Tom Beland, Charles Burns, Chester Brown, Colleen Coover, Renee French, Roberta Gregory, Paul Hornschemeier, James Kochalka, Jason Marcy, L. Nichols, Ted Rall, Johnny Ryan, Seth, Dave Sim, James Sturm, Walter Simonson, Ty Templeton, and Josie Whitmore; writers, artists, publishers and editors, including Brian Michael Bendis, Ed Brubaker, Kurt Busiek, Howard Chaykin, Steven Grant, Tony Isabella, Barbara Kesel, Ron Marz, Erik Larsen, Mark Millar, Denny O'Neil, Harvey Pekar, Sean Phillips, Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti, Greg Rucka, Rob Vollmar, Mark Waid, Mike Wieringo, Brett Warnock, Barry Windsor-Smith and Larry Young; comics retailers, including Jim Crocker, JC Glindmyer, and Robert Scott; and bloggers, including Dirk Deppey and Roger Green.

291 pages, ebook

First published August 31, 2009

About the author

Alan David Doane is the editor and publisher of Trouble With Comics, a website of commentary and criticism relating to the artform and industry of comics and graphic novels. Among his many contributions to TWC is the Alan Moore interview Emerging From the Narrative, which is also featured in Alan Moore's Yuggoth Cultures collection, published by Avatar Press.

His writing about comics has appeared in various publications, including World Literature Today, where he recently reviewed Palookaville #22, and The Comics Journal, including a profile of cartoonist Paul Hornschemeier in issue #259, and the essay A Future for Comics in issue #289. His interview with American Splendor writer Harvey Pekar was published in Harvey Pekar Conversations, edited by Michael Rhode (published by University Press of Mississippi). ADD also provided editorial input and contributed to the introduction of Barry Windsor-Smith's Young GODS and Friends (published by Fantagraphics Books). His comic book story, "Meeting the Marcys," appeared in Jason Marcy's collection My Day in the Life of Jay. Online, Alan has contributed to Newsarama, Silver Bullet Comic Books, and his own sites, Trouble With Comics, Comic Book Galaxy, and others. He also served as expert comics blogger for the website iTaggit.com.

Alan has compiled three ebooks to date, featuring his writing about comics as well as other subjects. You can download a single .RAR file containing Strange Whine, Anhedonia and Conversations with ADD by clicking this link: Download the ADD 3-Pak.

Alan lives in upstate New York with his wife Lora.