Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charles M. Schulz | 2000 | Alison Bechdel | Buy |
| 2 | R. Crumb | 2004 | Alison Bechdel | Buy |
| 3 | Howard Chaykin | 2011 | Alison Bechdel | Buy |
| 4 | Alan Moore | 2011 | Alison Bechdel | Buy |
| 5 | Alan Moore: Conversations | 2011 | Alison Bechdel | Buy |
| 6 | Will Eisner | 2011 | Alison Bechdel | Buy |
| 7 | Chester Brown | 2013 | Alison Bechdel | Buy |
| 8 | Seth | 2015 | Alison Bechdel | Buy |
| 9 | Peter Bagge | 2015 | Alison Bechdel | Buy |
| 10 | Michael Allred | 2015 | Alison Bechdel | Buy |
| 11 | Ed Brubaker | 2016 | Alison Bechdel | Buy |
| 12 | Peter Kuper | 2016 | Alison Bechdel | Buy |
| 13 | Chris Ware | 2016 | Alison Bechdel | Buy |
| 14 | Jim Shooter | 2017 | Alison Bechdel | Buy |
| 15 | Alison Bechdel | 2018 | Alison Bechdel | Buy |
| 16 | Ben Katchor | 2018 | Alison Bechdel | Buy |
| 17 | Larry Hama | 2019 | Alison Bechdel | Buy |
| 18 | Larry Hama: Conversations | 2019 | Alison Bechdel | Buy |
| 19 | Steve Gerber | 2019 | Alison Bechdel | Buy |
| 20 | Jeff Smith | 2019 | Alison Bechdel | Buy |
| 21 | John Jennings | 2020 | Alison Bechdel | Buy |
| 22 | John Jennings: Conversations | 2020 | Alison Bechdel | Buy |
| 23 | Robert Kirkman | 2021 | Alison Bechdel | Buy |
| 24 | Jeff Lemire | 2022 | Alison Bechdel | Buy |
The Conversations with Artists series is an academic interview collection published by the University Press of Mississippi. Each volume gathers interviews with a single comics creator, drawn from magazines, newspapers, radio transcripts, and original conversations conducted for the book. The series has been running since 2000 and covers a wide range of artists from different eras and styles.
Early volumes focused on foundational figures like Charles M. Schulz and R. Crumb, while later entries brought in underground and independent creators such as Chester Brown, Seth, and Peter Bagge. More recent additions cover contemporary artists including Robert Kirkman and Jeff Lemire. The 2018 volume on Alison Bechdel collects interviews spanning her career from the Dykes to Watch Out For era through the success of Fun Home.
The series is useful for readers interested in how comics are made and how artists think about their work. Each volume provides context that is hard to find elsewhere, since the interviews are gathered from scattered sources and arranged chronologically to show how an artist’s perspective changed over time.