Lio Creator Mark Tatulli in Online Chat - 1pm EST!

Lio creator Mark Tatulli will join Washington Post Comics page editor Suzanne Tobin today at 1pm EST for an online discussion. Click this link to follow the discussion and submit questions!

Comments

[Reader of the Comics]

Nice. The readers asked some good questions, and Mark was good enough to answer them. Many of the responses I found interesting, especially the update on the "Lio" movie process. I completely forgot that the writers' strike was affecting movies too because as it immediately pertained to viewers it was the TV that was hardest hit.

Interesting to find out that Mark's kids are artistically talented too. Maybe one of them could be the next Dean Meyers, Mason Mastroianni, or Jeff Keane. Or maybe not...

I also found the chat to be an interesting way of seeing a sort of retrospective on "Lio" so far. The thing about the Dad turning from just your typical baffled single father to a hard-drinking unemployed loser...good insight. Mark points out that he has cut back on the strip parodies so there won't be too much of a good thing, and also said that he doesn't ask the creators before using their characters. I thought that was interesting because Stephan Pastis asks the creators before using their characters in "Pearls," or so I've read. Of course, as Mark put it that would imply that something bad was going to be done to the characters, and Pastis always puts other people's characters through hell.

I hope the Post has more of these chats with cartoonists...last year there were hardly any.

[Jazz&Gigi]

Love this strip :-)