In a slight variation from his usual Sunday interviews, Tom Spurgeon posts a conversation between Jam creator Bernie Mireault and … Bernie Mireault.

INTERVIEWER: What are you working on?

MIREAULT: I’ve got a lot of things going. First of all, way back in 2003 I received a Canada Council grant to make a graphic novel, and I’m still working on it and trying to get it finished! It’s called To Get Her and features Gordie and Janet, the main characters from The Jam, my chief narrative to date, chronicling the adventures of a low-rent version of a superhero with no superpowers complete with puzzled girlfriend and dog, in a “dystopian romantic comedy” to be about 150 pages long. I’m at pg. 102 right now and have to squeeze the work in between rent-paying jobs. This work has no publisher yet and is being represented by Kitchen, Lind & Assoc. LLC. Their web site is at www.kitchenandlind.com.

One of those current rent-paying jobs I referred to is a newspaper-style strip featured on a web site dedicated to the ribald computer-animated Sci-Fi comedy, Tripping the Rift” xhref=”http://www.trippingtherift.tv/” mce_href=”http://www.trippingtherift.tv/” >Tripping the Rift — check it out on the Space Channel in North America or SIC Radical in Portugal — produced right here in Montreal by Cinegroupe Animation, with a little bit of help from China. I’ve been contracted to produce 52 strips for them to feature on their web site weekly and have just completed # 26. Halfway done! Check it out at www.trippingtherift.tv. Click on comics/graphic novel.

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