For those who are looking for a little extra insight into the guy behind the comic we all love to snark on… I’d like to share some video: an interview with Tom Batiuk: Prostate Cancer Survivor.
The full transcript of the interview is below the video, for those who don’t feel like watching, but it is worth watching, especially for glimpses of some art we haven’t seen before. TB actually comes across as a likeable guy. We see him doing what he does best, and I don’t mean cartooning: I mean justifying being such a self-important downer…here’s the interview, and Tom Batiuk, in a nutshell:
“I didn’t get the memo, you know, that you’re only supposed to be funny, but what I really owe my readers is to sort of challenge my expectations of myself, and challenge theirs as well.”
Son of Stuck Funky 
