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A video of this interview is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsPqHTVz5R0&t=0s&list=PL_pXBtCqjKy9DJ7UWxUI0GI_JGcX1exh5. Nicole Addams (Artbydigits) is a comic artist and writer from the Bay Area. She attended APE (the Alternative Press Expo) to promote her characters and gain experience tabling at conventions. Soon you'll be able to find her work in her online shop.??You can find Nicole's work at artbydigits.com. This independent artist interview was conducted by Joseph Coco on behalf of Becca Hillburn's art process blog, Nattosoup (http://nattosoup.blogspot.com). It was conducted in the artist alley during the convention. If you would like to be interviewed at a convention or show support for the interviews, please contact Becca and contribute to her Patreon, https://patreon.com/Nattosoup.??Music credits: Steve Combs - Plug Me In --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/up-and-coning-artists/message
A video of this interview is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHAYMs_l-uQ&t=0s&list=PL_pXBtCqjKy9DJ7UWxUI0GI_JGcX1exh5. FANGRRLZ is a comic label which attended Alternative Press Expo to promote their comics, zines, shirts, charms, and washi tape. Their thesis work goes in depth with magical girl media and other anime. Metempsychosis. a thesis zine, explores the concepts of transmigration of souls without judgement in the Sailor Moon series. Their work often portrays some of the punk themes behind anime culture. Their zines, t-shirts, and washi tape can be found at https://fangrrlz.net. This independent artist interview was conducted by Joseph Coco on behalf of Becca Hillburn's art process blog, Nattosoup (http://nattosoup.blogspot.com). It was conducted in the artist alley during the convention. If you would like to be interviewed at a convention or show support for the interviews, please contact Becca and contribute to her Patreon, https://patreon.com/Nattosoup. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/up-and-coning-artists/message
A video of this interview is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm-GLstNMwg&t=0s&list=PL_pXBtCqjKy9DJ7UWxUI0GI_JGcX1exh5. Glenn Song (Albino Grimby) is a game developer and comic artist from the Bay Area. He attended APE (the Alternative Press Expo) to promote his comic, This Mortal Coil (mortalcoilcomic.com), his Lolita Fashion Coloring Book (http://www.mortalcoilcomic.com/lolita-fashion-coloring-book-press/) , and his visual novel, The Shrine (http://shrine.mortalcoilcomic.com/). ???????????????????This independent artist interview was conducted by Joseph Coco on behalf of Becca Hillburn's art process blog, Nattosoup (http://nattosoup.blogspot.com). It was conducted in the artist alley during the convention. If you would like to be interviewed at a convention or show support for the interviews, please contact Becca and contribute to her Patreon, https://patreon.com/Nattosoup.??Music credits:?Steve Combs - Plug Me In --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/up-and-coning-artists/message
A video of this interview is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lietiB6zMzs&t=0s&list=PL_pXBtCqjKy9DJ7UWxUI0GI_JGcX1exh5. Steven Russell Black (Black Market) is an illustrator and cover artist whose done work for . He attended APE (the Alternative Press Expo) to promote his fine art prints and his new book, Black Market. There are two currently available, and he is working on the third. You can check out Steven Russell Black's work at: ?His Instagram: @stevenrussellblack?His Facebook: facebook.com/stevenrussellblack???????????????????This independent artist interview was conducted by Joseph Coco on behalf of Becca Hillburn's art process blog, Nattosoup (http://nattosoup.blogspot.com). It was conducted in the artist alley during the convention. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/up-and-coning-artists/message
A video of this interview is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XgomctjaK8&t=0s&list=PL_pXBtCqjKy9DJ7UWxUI0GI_JGcX1exh5. Lonnie Mann is a comic artist and UX designer who is soon to be living in Seattle, WA. He attended Alternative Press Expo to promote his travel autobio comic Thoughts From Iceland, which can be purchased from his site http://www.lonniecomics.com/?page_id=452. His other comic projects include Stakeout, Meet In The Middle, The Art Assignment Intro, and Know Your Dragon – Tiamat.??He will be attending Locust Moon Comics Festival (Philadelphia, PA – Oct. 25, 2014), Jet City Comic Show (Tacoma, WA – Nov. 8, 2014), and Emerald City Comicon (Seattle, WA – March 27 – 29, 2015)??This independent comics interview was conducted by Joseph Coco on behalf of Becca Hillburn's art process blog Keep on Truckin', Nattosoup (http://nattosoup.blogspot.com). If you would like to be interviewed at a convention or show support for the interviews, please contact Becca. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/up-and-coning-artists/message
A video of this interview is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeqnHiHUA1s&t=0s&list=PL_pXBtCqjKy9DJ7UWxUI0GI_JGcX1exh5. Ben Costa is an comic artist living in the San Francisco area. He attended Alternative Press Expo to promote his latest comic Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo, http://ricketystitch.com/?latest, which he illustrates and James Parks writes. It is a fantasy adventure webcomic which is updated twice a week. He is also continuing to work on the third volume of the Xeric grant winning Pang, The Wandering Shaolin Monk which he has been publishing through his small press, Iron Crotch University Press, and distributing through Diamond. Please consider requesting your local book store stock his work. His comics, mini-comics, prints, and shirts can be purchased from his site, http://shilongpang.com.??This independent comics interview was conducted by Joseph Coco on behalf of Becca Hillburn's art process blog Keep on Truckin', Nattosoup (http://nattosoup.blogspot.com). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/up-and-coning-artists/message
A video of this interview is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8w06RMPkyg&t=0s&list=PL_pXBtCqjKy9DJ7UWxUI0GI_JGcX1exh5. Mike Hales is a comic book artist and game illustrator living in San Francisco, CA. He came to Alternative Press Expo to meet other creators and to sell his comics. Ofus N Stanch is a friendship story about a kids play. Squirrel Warz, https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/squirrelwarz/id874984986, is a real-time strategy tower defence iPhone game which Mike illustrated. His comics, illustrations, and video game art can be found on his web site, http://wobblyart.com.??This independent comics interview was conducted by Joseph Coco on behalf of Becca Hillburn's art process blog Keep on Truckin', Nattosoup (http://nattosoup.blogspot.com). If you would like to be interviewed at a convention or show support for the interviews, please contact Becca.??Music Credits: Andy Heller - "Prowl" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/up-and-coning-artists/message
A video of this interview is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFwMIKJbyBQ&t=0s&list=PL_pXBtCqjKy9DJ7UWxUI0GI_JGcX1exh5. Katie Longua is an illustrator and comic artist living in San Francisco, CA. She attended Alternative Press Expo to promote her latest comic Munchies, which is a playful horror story which started as a joke online. She’s also working on RoK, which is a horror all-ages story. A few more issues of RoK will be released until it is completed sometime in 2015. She also recently did an alternate cover for My Little Pony to be published soon. Katie’s comics can be purchased from her site http://klongua.com.??This independent comics interview was conducted by Joseph Coco on behalf of Becca Hillburn's art process blog Keep on Truckin', Nattosoup (http://nattosoup.blogspot.com). If you would like to be interviewed at a convention or show support for the interviews, please contact Becca.??Music Credits: Andy Heller - "Prowl" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/up-and-coning-artists/message
A video of this interview is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9ORwv8qzGI&t=0s&list=PL_pXBtCqjKy9DJ7UWxUI0GI_JGcX1exh5. Eddie Wright is a writer living in San Francisco. He attended Alternative Press Expo to promote the second installment of the comic he wrote, Tyranny of the Muse, http://tyrannyofthemuse.com, about finding inspiration through non-traditional means which was illustrated by Jesse Balmer.??He was also promoting the preview of his upcoming horror graphic novel Chrysalis, illustrated by Jamaica Dyer. He is the author of the cult novella Broken Bulbs. His comics, novels, and buttons can be found at his site, http://www.eddie-wright.com/shop.??This independent comics interview was conducted by Joseph Coco on behalf of Becca Hillburn's art process blog Keep on Truckin', Nattosoup (http://nattosoup.blogspot.com). If you would like to be interviewed at a convention or show support for the interviews, please contact Becca.??Music Credits: Andy Heller- "Prowl" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/up-and-coning-artists/message
A video of this interview is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no9kZsjcw3k&t=0s&list=PL_pXBtCqjKy9DJ7UWxUI0GI_JGcX1exh5. Rachel Dukes is living in Los Angeles, CA. She attended Alternative Press Expo to promote her latest comics, Frankie Comics, http://shop.mixtapecomics.com/product/frankie-comics, about her cat. She has worked on many comics in the past decade including Adventure Time with Fionna and Cake (Alt. Cover), Garfield #23, Stay With Me, Coffee Cats, Luminosity, and Analysis of Multiclassing. Her comics, original art, vinyls, and stickers can be purchased from her website, http://mixtapecomics.com.??She will be attending Comic Arts Los Angeles (Dec. 6, 2014) and STAPLE (Austin, TX -- Mar. 7-8, 2015). ??This independent comics interview was conducted by Joseph Coco on behalf of Becca Hillburn's art process blog Keep on Truckin', Nattosoup (http://nattosoup.blogspot.com). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/up-and-coning-artists/message
A video of this interview is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wcz0LxRu6E&t=0s&list=PL_pXBtCqjKy9DJ7UWxUI0GI_JGcX1exh5. Ruth Halloran is a comic artist and advertising art director living in San Francisco. She attended Alternative Press Expo to promote her I Saw You, an illustrated street fashion book. She also created Joy of Cooking People, a manual on torturing people, Paperlinks Vol. 1, and Resident Fatal Game.??She also contributes to the all-female Paperlinks (http://www.paperlinks.org) comic creators blog. Her comics, illustrations, and sketches are available through her website http://ohhalloran.com.??This independent comics interview was conducted by Joseph Coco on behalf of Becca Hillburn's art process blog Keep on Truckin', Nattosoup (http://nattosoup.blogspot.com). If you would like to be interviewed at a convention or show support for the interviews, please contact Becca.??Music Credits: Andy Heller- "Prowl" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/up-and-coning-artists/message
A video of this interview is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2wpw_9vA7U&t=0s&list=PL_pXBtCqjKy9DJ7UWxUI0GI_JGcX1exh5. Sabrina Cotugno is a storyboard artist, character designer, and comic artist living in Glendale, CA. She came to Alternative Press Expo to promote her artwork and latest comic Bleeding Heart, a steampunk-spiced short comic about an injured werewolf and an amateur mad scientist, which was successfully funded through Kickstarter in August 2014. She also had lots of Gravity Falls prints and postcards since she has been a storyboard artist during the second season of the Disney kids show.??Sabrina will also be Kickstarting the full color comic named The Glass Scientist, http://glass-scientist.tumblr.com, a tale of mad scientists and high society and a guy with a really intense identity crisis. Bleeding Heart was the prologue to this larger story. Her comics, illustrations, sketchbooks, bookmarks, prints, charms, and storyboards can be found at http://arythusa.tumblr.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/up-and-coning-artists/message
WEEK IN GEEK: D. Bethel doubles up this time to talk about a personally exciting moment he experienced meeting X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills artists, Brent Eric Anderson, while at this year's Alternative Press Expo in San Jose, CA, as well as seeing the new cinematic version of (half of) the Stephen King classic, It, while Andrew discusses playing SteamWorld Heist. RELEVANT LINKS: D. Bethel's comprehensive video recap of his time at APE 2017. RELATED EPISODES: Episode 116 - "Craftcraft": When Dan talked about X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills. INFO: Visit our website at forallintents.net and leave your thoughts as comments on the page for this episode. Join our Facebook page and follow both D. Bethel and Andrew on Twitter. E-mail: Andrew - andrew@forallintents.net, D. Bethel - dbethel@forallintents.net Subscribe to our YouTube channel. Subscribe to and review the show on the iTunes store. For all intents and purposes, that was an episode recap. FEATURED MUSIC: -"Thunder Busters" by Wax Audio
Way back in 2012 I was invited to join a panel at the Alternative Press Expo in San Francisco, entitled "Using Childhood Experiences to Create Adult Stories," featuring Jim Woodring(!), Miriam Libicki, Derek Kirk Kim, and mc'd by Andrew Farago from the Cartoon Art Museum. The panel stayed more on point than most and provides, as advertised, a slough of childhood tales, origin details, influences, inspirations, adventures and, naturally, misadventures. Despite some sound issues, which mostly clear up less than 15 minutes in, this is a terrific episode featuring and bunch of young upstarts (us) and a verified legend (Jim) sharing a thought provoking journey through our pasts, and our guts as artists. This episode is just as juicy as I like 'em! This episode was originally posted during the first run of this podcast in 2013, but since that feed is gone and the the sound was so awful, it's basically new to everyone including me this time out. Thanks very much to all the speakers! Follow Miriam Libicki on twitter @realgonegirl and her site realgonegirl.com. Follow Derek Kirk Kim on facebook and his site derekkirkkim.com. Follow Jim Woodring on twitter @woodring_jim, on instagram @jimwoodringcartoonist, and at his site jimwoodring.com. And last but not least, follow me on twotter and instagram @kraigcomx and keep your peepers peeled for more at monkeygong.com. Please rate and review this show, it helps us get more listeners:) Â
'American Born Chinese' by Gene Luen Yang (First Second) is our Thursday Throwback (yeah, yeah, it's Tuesday already...). Paul talks about the decade-old graphic novel, a landmark in comics and culture, a landmark in his own comics reading life. Paul had the chance to speak with Gene Yang at the Alternative Press Expo recently, and he discusses the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and MacArthur fellow's reflections on his breakthrough book a decade later. Find out more about the Paul List at http://thepaullist.com/ To find 'American Born Chinese' on the Paul List's Amazon Associates link: http://amzn.to/2dFE2kv (although we always encourage you to support local bookstores and comic shops) Let's dig deep.
For Small Press Saturday, Paul went to Alternative Press Expo http://alternativepressexpo.com/ , and while he didn't get to explore everything that interested him, picked up a pile of comics that caught his eye. Included in the discussion: Dan Vado and SLG http://www.slgcomic.com/ Jimmie Robinson https://imagecomics.com/creators/view/jimmie-robinson Latino Comics Expo http://www.latinocomicsexpo.com/ Daniel Parada's 'Zotz' http://www.zotzcomic.com/ Ben Seto and Skullbunnies http://www.blacksheepcomics.com/ Jen Hickman http://umicorms.com/ Society of Unordinary Young Ladies by Algarmi and Sigua http://souyl.blogspot.com/ Karate Petshop http://www.karatepetshop.com/ publisher of Rikki by Norm Harper and Matthew Folz-Gray http://www.foltz-gray.com/ Lee Marrs and 'Pudge' http://amzn.to/2emOEpB' Transcat by Knave Murdok http://parasomniacomics.blogspot.com/
Robot Kraken - Comic Cons, Film Reviews and News from the Depths
On this Episode of Robot Kraken, Kris and Thom go into deep waters reviewing the Alternative Press Expo 2015 (APE) they talk about their honey-whiskey fueled trip to the MARTIAN, donuts, new movies, remakes and more! NOTE: This is a re-release of an episode of Deeply Dapper Dispatches, exposing Robot Kraken's formative months before breaking off to it's own mad podcast. It was originally recorded on December, 2015 and released as episode 008 of 3D - You can find the rest of that show, featuring Kris and his rotating band of co-hosts on iTunes or at deeplydapper.squarespace.com ROBOT KRAKEN is a semi regular podcast by two indie artists, Kristopher McClanahan of Deeply Dapper and Thom Chiaramonte of the Third Rail Design Lab. We get together and talk about comics, movies, working the table at comic cons, life in this nerdy wonderland, and whatever mumblings from the deep we come across. You can find out more about us, contact us or follow along our journey at robot-kraken.com
This week, we discuss The Complete History of Doctor Who, Civil War 2, Superman's dick, new Black Widow comic, All-New All-Different Marvel: Week 1, Alternative Press Expo, Damage Control, Gotham Season 2 Episode 3, our Flash contest, and listener questions. Starring Ryan Higgins, Brock Sager, Toby Sidler, and Charlie West.
We continue our coverage of news from NYCC 2012, including Superman vs New 52 Superman, Snyder's Man of Steel, costume changes, Joe Mad back on Battle Chasers, Guardians of the Galaxy vs the Green Lantern Corps, David Goyer's DC event comic, Bendis/McNiven's Guardians of the Galaxy, Team 7, Alternative Press Expo 2012, Walking Dead and Arrow numbers, and some Random Picks of the Week! Starring Ryan Higgins, Bryce Larsen, Brock Sager, Toby Sidler, and Charlie West.
On this episode, the TSP crew discusses Anne's trip to Alternative Press Expo, the deep camerawork in Legend of the Overfiend, and Joss Whedon's best foray into comic books, Astonishing X-Men!
On this episode, the TSP crew discusses Anne's trip to Alternative Press Expo, the deep camerawork in Legend of the Overfiend, and Joss Whedon's best foray into comic books, Astonishing X-Men!
We're back for Part 2 of our DC Comics' New 52 #1 recap/review episode! We also talk a bit about Witchblade and the Alternative Press Expo in San Francisco, CA. Starring Ryan Higgins, Brock Sager, Charlie West, and Toby Xi.