VPM Focal Point interviewed me recently for a show they did on working artists in Virginia. You can see my segment in the player above. I’ve been so busy lately working on a big project I’m not yet allowed to discuss (more on that later!) that I really had no idea what I had said during the interview. I had to wait until it aired to find out if anything I said was even coherent! Thankfully, the good folks at VPM Focal Point picked a suitable clip. Coherency accomplished.

They also posted a nice blog article that covered a bit more, including a nice picture of my dad’s old sketchbook which was a major influence on my desire to become a professional illustrator.

DuBar is literally drawing on his past, saying he learned to love cartoons as a child, inspired by his father Jules DuBar’s depression-era doodling.  

”He created his own neighborhood newspaper,” DuBar recalls about his dad. “He would write stories and interview people in the neighborhood and he would do the comic strips as well. He still had a few of those and that was really, when I was a kid, that really blew my mind.” 

Angie Miles and Samantha Willis | VPM News

You can see the full article here: https://vpm.org/news/articles/31614/a-promising-future-for-virginias-professional-artists

A big thank you to Angie Miles, Samantha Willis, and Emanuel Tambakakis for including me and for doing such a great job! It’s not often that artists or illustrators get featured on tv, and I’m grateful to have been a part of that.