James Stanton, Comics Artist, Interview

James "the" Stanton is a hardworking comics artist of the Pacific Northwest. He enjoys creating the many strange creatures you'll find in the forest if you're very, very lucky. Some pundits have called his comics "trippy." Others have used the term "psychedelic." Some have even gone so far as to say that Stanton's work is "dense, adroit and textural." In other words, it's far out! 

When he's not brewing kombucha at his day job, James is hard at work migrating the inhabitants of his forest brain onto paper. 

Stanton's recent book Gnartoons (Silver Sprocket) is a collection of sketchbook pages, posters, one-pagers, and longer stories Stanton has created over the preceding decade and then some. It's populated with weird, funny creatures that are kinda cute but gnarly in their own special way. 

 James agreed to the Reglar Wiglar interview this summer (2023), but first, he had to get married, which he did. So, for your reading pleasure, here's the James Stanton comics interview. —Interviewed by Chris 

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