If you want to hear the one hour interview with me on WGCU Florida Public Radio, here’s the link.

I will be interviewed on Florida’s WGCU public radio on Wednesday January 27, 12-1pm EST. You can listen in live through their website. This is in conjunction with my visit to Florida to address the Southwest Florida Speakers Assembly on Thursday, January 28.

I will be on the road addressing other groups in the weeks ahead. On February 12, I will one of the featured guests at the Generations Forum, an interesting conference sponsored by The Economist in Geneva, Switzerland. If you ever wanted to see behind the scenes about how The Economist is put together, this may be of interest to you.

On February 19, Kal will be a featured speaker at the Warwick Economic Summit at Warwick University, UK

I will be on WYPR”s Maryland Morning broadcast Friday morning discussing the great website USDemocrazy.com.

Here’s a link to the audio, we start at the 26:50 mark.

USDemocrazy is a project that I lead as Artist-in-Residence at the University of Maryland Baltimore County UMBC. The site is a current events/educational/entertainment site dedicated to making the news fun and interesting.

I have corralled an elite team of University student bloggers (I refer to them as my vagabonding Blogateers) to supply daily updates on current events.

We are also teaming up with High Schools around the country who are interested in using USDemocrazy in the classroom as a tool for discussing current events.

It’s a great project with enormous potential. To learn more, listen to the interview or contact me here!

For those Russian speakers you might enjoy this interview recently conducted by Maria Tabak
US Correspondent for RIA Novosti (Russian News and Information Agency). The conversation took place at the recent Art Soiree Cartoon exhibition in Washington DC. The only word I recognize is “Economist”. If any one can read it please let me know how I sound in Russian.

The local NPR station in Baltimore, WYPR (88.1FM) did a lengthy interview this week about the 2010 Illustrated wall Kalendar and other things related to The Economist. It’s long (15 minutes) and is the second leg of the hour long show which is called The Signal.

The show airs Friday, January 8 at noon and again at 7PM. But they have already released the show on the web. Here’s the link to the web audio ( my interview starts at the 15:30 mark).

This Just In!  Baltimore Breakfast TV WJZ interviews me today about the 2010 wall calendar. You can view the interview Here

Recently in Washington DC, The Economist held a fabulous event titled The World in 2010 Festival. It featured a diverse and exhilarating group of speakers speculating on the events and trends for the upcoming year.

Among the guest’s was John Oliver, correspondent for The Daily Show. He delivered a terrific performance  which included a stand up routine and a “Tonight Show” style interview session with Oliver acting as host (See video below). I had the assignment of capturing the day’s events in a cartoon sketchbook. You can see some of the sketches below.

Included in the program was a short talk by me chatting about caricature and Obama in 2010. (see video above)

The Festival also included a trip to the recording of “Meet The Press” where we saw the physically imposing David Gregory interview NYT columnist Tom Friedman.

I participated in a fun show at Baltimore’s Creative alliance on Saturday Night. It featured the Baltimore Improv Group (BIG) with myself joining them on stage for some interesting collaborative spontaneous tomfoolery. Above is the billboard from the Patterson Theater, home of the Creative Alliance. Kind of cool!…

Here’s a sneak peek at the March spread of the new 2010 Economist illustrated wall calendar. You can order the calendar through The Economist website here , via the Kaltoons bookstore or place a phone order at 1-800-456-6086.  Only $15.00.

In a special collaboration, Kal is to perform with the Baltimore Improv Company at their Thanksgiving weekend show, Saturday, November 28 at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore. Go here for more details and ticket information.