Syndicated cartoonist Jan Eliot talks with Eric Alan about her strip Stone Soup and the changing nature of the comics business. The tenth Stone Soup collection, It Seemed like a Good Idea at the Time, has just been published, and Jan Eliot will have booksignings in Cottage Grove and at Art and the Vineyard in Eugene.
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