Oh, Baby! Blues cartoonist Rick Kirkman may be year’s best! VIDEO - Mr. Media Interviews by Bob Ande

Today's Guest: Baby Blues cartoonist Rick Kirkman 

You can watch Baby Blues co-creator and 2013 Cartoonist of the Year nominee Rick Kirkman sketch characters from the daily newspaper strip in the exclusive Mr. Media® video interview above! 

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of sleepless, brainless new parents who have given up their previous status as masters of the universe in exchange for being masters of the Diaper Genie… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

Know what I miss most about being a new dad?

Okay, okay -- very little.

But I do sorta miss those days when everything that happened in the newspaper comic strip "Baby Blues" was life as I knew it -- sticky, steamy and stinky!

More than any other strip I've read in my lifetime, reading "Baby Blues" while you're a new parent always made it seem like cartoonist Rick Kirkman and writer Jerry Scott had a collection of video cameras wired throughout our home. The things that happened to Darryl and Wanda always happened to Mimi and me, too!
RICK KIRKMAN audio excerpt: "I've never heard of a (Cartoonist of the Year) Reuben Award bump; I imagine it's probably something that just gives you job satisfaction that you're part of whatever this group is that's considered pretty good cartoonists. It really is an honor to be nominated." 

You can LISTEN to this interview with cartoonist RICK KIRKMAN, co-creator of BABY BLUES, by clicking the audio player above!

That, of course, is the brilliance of any great literature, whether it is Dickens or Schulz, Eisner or Spielberg. If it is applicable to our own lives, we love and appreciate it all the more.

I recently had the thrill of reading BBXX, a.k.a. Baby Blues Decades 1 & 2, a beautifully packaged collection of the best Baby Blues strips from the feature's first 20 years, chosen by the creators themselves. In addition, the individual comics are liber