Summary: Matt Furie is an artist, illustrator, cartoonist, zinester, and biker. His self proclaimed "children’s book illustrations for adults” combines traditional and modern mark-making for his ripe, cartoon-inspired characters. McSweeney's recently released his first children's book, The Night Riders - a wordless wonder about an unlikely group of characters on a road trip through nature. Four issues of his comic book series, Boys Club, have been published by Pigeon Press and Buenaventura Press. SHOW NOTES See more of Matt Furie's artwork at mattfurie.com and bigactive. In the course of this interview, we discuss Future Colors of America collaborators Aiyana Udeson and Albert Reyes, the children's book Grandpa's Ghost Stories by James Flora, film and creative collective Encyclopedia Pictura, Andy Rementer's webcomic Techno Tuesday, and Kyle Platt's Megaskull. IMAGES Top: drawing from Furie's website; middle: excerpt from comic book series, Boys Club; bottom: cover of The Night Rider
