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In part one of a two-part interview, Australian cartoonist John Dixon traces his career from 1950s black-and-white comic books (*Tim Valor*, The Crimson Comet, Catman) through the creation and 28-year run of the internationally syndicated adventure strip Air Hawk and the Flying Doctors. Dixon discusses his cinematic, Caniff-influenced draftsmanship, his gruelling output of fifteen pages a week in the early years, the strip's cast of characters, and the research required to accurately depict the Royal Flying Doctor Service and Australian Outback settings.

Part two covering specific memorable Air Hawk storylines, the difficulties of maintaining creative freshness over decades on a single strip, the aborted Air Hawk TV pilot, his assistants, and his eventual burnout and relocation to Washington DC to work in defense publishing.

Power, a British-Australian cartoonist turned Hollywood storyboard artist and second-unit director, recounts his career path from working with John Dixon on the Australian syndicated strip Air Hawk and studying under Alex Toth at Hanna-Barbera, through to storyboarding major films for Spielberg (*Goonies*), Tony Scott (*Top Gun*), and John Hughes (*Pretty in Pink*). He shares colorful anecdotes including getting drunk with John Milius on the Red Dawn set and landing the Goonies gig after Spielberg noticed him as an extra. Power is a vocal advocate for creator rights and independent publishing, argues that Marvel owes Jack Kirby a pension, and promotes his own in-development project East Meets West.