Dorothy Gambrell Interview

Dorothy Gambrell is the creator of the long running and overly educated webcomic titled "Cat and Girl" that successfully straddles the line between knock-knock joke and philosophical dialogue. Gambrell also produces humorous/sad infographics at Very Small Array, keeps an ongoing document of how she spends other people's money at Donation Derby, and made another strip (now dead) called "The New Adventures of Death." One of her bands, The Basement Apartments, has a song about Jacques Cousteau. The other is called Jenny and the Holzers. What follows below is a Gmail Chat/interview from February 23rd, 2010.

(A version of this interview is at LADYDRAWERS, the Anne Elizabeth Moore-helmed blog of everything not-a-dude in comics.)

Ohio State University Press

                                   Two new books out on the Ohio State University Press.

I recently wrote a profile of the Ohio State university press for the Lantern. It's located somewhere out in the Siberia of west campus and diligently and unassumedly goes about its business of publishing fine fare for the literary critics of the world. The books above are departures for the lit-based press: "The Freshwater Mussels of Ohio" and a book of William S. Burroughs' unpublished papers straight out of OSU's special collections. My sister used to work at the press about a decade ago and from all accounts enjoyed it. I found the staff to be insightful, gregarious, hilarious, etc. The MP3 of our conversation is here. I speak with Malcolm Litchfield - the Director, Jennifer Forsythe - the Production Manager, Jason Gray - the Journals Manager, and Laurie Avery the Marketing Director.

The story is after "the jump." It begins with a "Hey, doesn't reading suck?" lead to properly connect with the OSU community.