Michael Kupperman is an American cartoonist and illustrator. His work has appeared in publications ranging from The New Yorker to Screw. He has two books published, Snake’N'Bacon’s Cartoon Cabaret and[…]
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Despite being called the funniest man on the planet by Conan O’Brien, Kupperman says he wished he hadn’t become a comedian.
Question: What was your biggest career mistake?
Michael Kupperman: Oh, there have been so many career mistakes in my career, sometimes it seems like it's nothing but. I would say going into comics at all is a profound mistake and anything that follows that is just compounding it. But you know, now I'm stuck with it. As they say in the Godfather, "This is the life that I chose."
Recorded on December 19, 2009
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