By Bob Eckstein, possibly a self portrait. This is a big one: In this episode of "Strip Search" we welcome the great Bob Eckstein , best-selling author of "The History of the Snowman" and " Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores ," editor of the new compilation " The Ultimate Cartoon Book of Book Cartoons " and longtime cartoonist for the New Yorker and many others. We chat with Bob about his accidental cartooning career, an unexpected New Yorker meeting bound to make you jealous, his approaches to both writing and drawing, and, of course, snowmen. (We get in a few plugs for local bookstores too.) Oh, and don't worry if the intro sounds a little wonky: We're experimenting with the Zencastr app to record from separate locations, because frankly we've been spending a little too much time together. We're sure by next time those clicks and whirs you hear will be a thing of the past. Listen below, and visi