Mr. Media Interviews By Bob Andelman

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="235"] Order Syncopated: An Anthology of Nonfiction Picto-Essays, edited by Brendan Burford, available from Amazon.com by clicking on the book Today's Guest: cover above![/caption] Today's Guest: Brendan Burford, comics editor, King Features Syndicate If you read the comics in your daily newspaper, my guest today has probably touched your life. Spider-Man, Hagar the Horrible and Curtis all report to him at his day job as comics editor for King Features Syndicate. But by night—and weekends, no doubt—Brendan Burford is himself a cartoonist dedicated to the notion that comics are more than a 10-second entertainment. He believes in them as journalism, a different way of communicating the events of the day. Brendan Burford, creator of Syncopated, King Features Syndicate editor Burford recently published his fourth edition of Syncopated: An Anthology of Non-Fiction Picto-Essays. It is collection of illustrated stories that, at a few pages each, are longer than daily comics a