{"id":7162,"date":"2010-11-26T20:29:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T01:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=7162"},"modified":"2010-11-26T20:29:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T01:29:47","slug":"tisserand-talks-sterrett-and-herriman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=7162","title":{"rendered":"Tisserand Talks Sterrett and Herriman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/polly-181124.gif\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7163\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/polly-181124.gif?resize=230%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Michael Tisserand, who is working on a biography of George Herriman, grew up in Alexandria, Minnesota. As it happens, Alexandra is also where, many decades before Tisserand arrived on the scene, Cliff Sterrett grew up. Michael was recently back home for the holidays and during his trip he was interviewed for a local radio station about his Herriman research and also about the upcoming <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/62-9781600107115-0\">Polly and Her Pals<\/a>,<\/em> which should be out shortly from IDW. You can listen to\u00a0the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiop1.com\/mediacenter.aspx?StationID=41&amp;programid=142879&amp;autoplay=y\">here<\/a>. To hear Michael talk, you have to fast forward till the 32nd minute or so of the hour long show (unless you wanted to hear about the local theater&#8217;s production of &#8220;Little Women&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Michael mentioned to me that he wasn&#8217;t\u00a0expecting to\u00a0answer the\u00a0questions about comic strip history that got thrown at him,\u00a0so he go a few things wrong because he was caught off guard (i.e., he forgot\u00a0the fact the color supplements preceeded the black and white strips). So I hope none of the nerds on this blog get too pedantic with him.\u00a0But the conversation is really rich in Alexandria lore relating to Sterrett and there are good tidbits about Herriman as well. I wrote the introduction to the new <em>Polly<\/em> book and I wish I had had some of these\u00a0bits of texture\u00a0when I was writing my introduction (I&#8217;ll put them in the next Sterrett book). So I encourage comics history buffs to listen. As a bonus, the whole interview is conducted in a lilt and lingo\u00a0strongly\u00a0 reminiscent of the movie <em>Fargo<\/em> (set, of course, in a neighboring state).\u00a0 Interestingly as Michael notes\u00a0this is the same neck of\u00a0the woods that\u00a0gave us not only Sterrett but also Frank King and Charles Schulz.\u00a0So give it a listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Tisserand, who is working on a biography of George Herriman, grew up in Alexandria, Minnesota. As it happens, Alexandra is also where, many decades before Tisserand arrived on the scene, Cliff Sterrett grew up. Michael was recently back home for the holidays and during his trip he was interviewed for a local radio station about his Herriman research and also about the upcoming Polly and Her Pals, which should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[248,490,898],"class_list":["post-7162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-cliff-sterrett","tag-herriman","tag-michael-tisserand"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}