Chris Muir's Day By Day cartoon started publishing almost exactly one year ago, on November 1, 2002. Since then, while it is still available only on the World Wide Web, it has stayed on a consistent daily schedule, and only grown more popular. It has recently received favorable notice on Tech Central Station, and I expect him to receive even more attention in the coming year. One can only hope so: this guy deserves a syndication deal!

I interviewed Chris Muir back in March of this year. That interview appeared on my weblog, Dean's World. Since the publication of that interview, his cartoons have stayed consistently good, or even improved. Given that Chris is now getting more attention than ever, it seemed like a good time to revisit this interview, and republish it here on Blogcritics. His strip is a witty and insightful look at what he calls "the other half of America," and alternates between the relationships between four office coworkers:

...and current events:

I got Chris to sit down and answer some questions about himself and his strip. He's quite an interesting fellow, and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if he one day becomes a rich and famous cartoonist. We can only hope so.

Here's our conversation:

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Dean Esmay: Tell us about yourself. When were you born, where did you grow up, where do you live, what do you do for a living at the moment?

Chris Muir: I was born on October 30, 1958 in Syracuse, New York. I live in a small beach town in Florida, between the ocean and the lagoon. I'm a consulting Industrial Designer at my own firm.

DE: How long have you been cartooning?

CM: About 5 years, though I sketched out some stuff when I was a kid.

DE: Would your work have appeared anywhere else where we might have seen it? If so, where?

CM: Not the Day By Day strip, but I've done a single panel called Altered States for about 5 years for Florida Today, a Gannett paper. It's good for mental exercise.

DE: Do you have any specific goals with Day by Day? You obviously have a point of view. Is grinding an ideological axe your main goal?

CM: I want to present the point of view that I never see represented in what I call Old Media: the papers, magazines, TV (until Fox News), etc. Where's the voice of the other half, the moderate-conservative half of America, on ethics, economy, politics and the age-old dynamic betwixt men and women?

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