Podcast appearances and mentions of brian maruca

Jim Rugg is the Ignatz and Eisner award-winning cartoonist behind Street Angel, (co-written with friend Brian Maruca) Afrodisiac, Rambo 3.5, SuperMag and The P.L.A.I.N. Janes, which is co-written by past Speech Bubble guest Cecil Castellucci. But these days he is best known as one half of the immensely popular Cartoonist Kayfabe YouTube channel with Ed Piskor (Hip-Hop Family Tree, X-Men Grand Design, and the upcoming Red Room) Though based in Pittsburgh, prior to COVID-19 and the proximity precautions that come with it, Jim was scheduled to attend The Toronto Cartoon Art Festival in May 2020 in support of Street Angel: Deadliest Girl Alive from Image Comics and The P.L.A.I.N. Janes from Little Brown and Company, but formerly published by DC Comics' now defunct Minx imprint. There, he was going to surprise attendees with his latest project, Octobriana 1976 -- the world's first black light comic book -- with AdHouse Books. In light of the pandemic, Jim has switched gears and he is now funding Octobriana 1976 on Kickstarter from now until June 18, 2020 at 5 p.m. EST. He comes to Speech Bubble in support of Octobriana where we talk about Octobriana's strange and controversial origin story, why Jim decided to print this comic with fluorescent ink and why rebellious women are characters he keeps coming back to. We also talk about his collaborators: Shelly Bond, Cecil Castellucci and Brian Maruca, while tracing his journey from self-taught comics fan to a professional cartoonist who has taught others at the School of Visual Art. For all you Cartoonist Kayfabe fans, we talk about the way the channel has suddenly become important to the larger comic book community and some very high-profile creators. We get behind what fans of the channel know as "The Cartoonist Kayfabe Bump" and Jim talks about his strategies for back issue diving and he speculates with Aaron about what the comic industry may look like post-pandemic. This episode is sponsored by Hairy Tarantula, which has supported us from the beginning. Please buy something from them in their time of need at their online store. Please also support Speech Bubble through our Patreon Page where for $3 a month you can hear audio blogs from Aaron and some process blogs from guests about some of their best comic book issues. @jimruggart Jimrugg.com Octobriana 1976 Kickstarter Page Cartoonist Kayfabe YouTube Channel The Making of Octobriana 1976 The books that influenced Octobriana 1976 The story behind Octobriana Sponsor Hairy Tarantula Support Speech Bubble on Patreon for $1 or $3 a month

Cette semaine, « Métal hurlant » s'apprête à renaitre de ses cendres, « Tony Hawk Pro Skater » 1 et 2 auront droit à une refonte, Jeik nous parle de « Joker : Killer Smile », la franchise préférée de Benoit connaitra une nouvelle série dérivée avec « Star Trek : Strange New Worlds » et nous avons la visite impromptue de l'autrice Axelle Lenoir. En dernière partie d'émission, nous discutons de « Street Angel: Deadliest Girl Alive » de Brian Maruca et Jim Rugg. Depuis 14 ans, les Mystérieux étonnants c'est votre balado (podcast) québécois dédié à la culture populaire. Diffusion originale : 18 mai 2020
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The Dam Keeper by Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi from :01 First Second, Image-O-Rama: Flavor #1 by Joe Keatinge, Wook Jin Clark, Tamara Bonvillan, and Rich Tommaso, Mark Millar and The Magic Order, The Gravediggers Union by Wes Craig, Toby Cypress, and Niko Guardia, Street Angel Goes to Juvie by Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca, The Black Monday Murders by Jonathan Hickman and Tomm Coker, Death or Glory by Rick Remender and Bengal, and Royal City by Jeff Lemire, Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction Volume 1 by Inio Asano from Viz Select, Deadpool 2, The Hunt for Wolverine, Bizarre Manga Artist Shintaro Kago's Pretty Girls Collection Super-Dimensional Love Gun from Fakku Books, Season of the Snake #1 by Serge Lehman, Jean-Marie Michaud, and Simon Roy from Titan Comics, plus a whole mess more!

Please welcome to the party floor, the excellent Jim Rugg! Jim is of course the co-creator of Street Angel and Afrodisiac, as well as artist on The Plain Janes and other books, and designer & curator of not just his own books but multiple zines and magazines. After a lengthy hiatus, Jim & co-creator Brian Maruca are producing a series of new, full color Street Angel hardcover albums through Image Comics. We get into the return of Street Angel, formatting considerations and all, but first we do a brief recap of Jim's long career in the trenches. From there, it's on to a variety of topics such as Clowes' Death Ray, favorite drawing tools, Jim's old and much missed podcasting days, and pro-wrestling and comics!

Please welcome to the party floor, the excellent Jim Rugg! Jim is of course the co-creator of Street Angel and Afrodisiac, as well as artist on The Plain Janes and other books, and designer & curator of not just his own books but multiple zines and magazines. After a lengthy hiatus, Jim & co-creator Brian Maruca are producing a series of new, full color Street Angel hardcover albums through Image Comics. We get into the return of Street Angel, formatting considerations and all, but first we do a brief recap of Jim's long career in the trenches. From there, it's on to a variety of topics such as Clowes' Death Ray, favorite drawing tools, Jim's old and much missed podcasting days, and pro-wrestling and comics!

It’s back! Thanks to our awesome Patrons, it’s the return of the Booksplode! What’s a Booksplode you might ask? It’s a bi-monthly special edition podcast in which we take a look at a single graphic novel or collected edition, something we really just don’t have time to do on the regular show. This month we are reviewing The Street Angel Gang by Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca. Running Time: 00:19:17 Music: “Theme from ‘The Warriors’” Barry De Vorzon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

C2E2, Dissolving Classroom by Junji Ito from Vertical, Jeff Lemire's Roughneck from Gallery 13, Monsters Unleashed #1 by Cullen Bunn, David Baldeon, and Marcio Menyz, Green Lantern #100-106 by Ron Marz and company, Street Angel After School Kung Fu Special by Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca from Image, The Flash #21: The Button Part 2 by Joshua Williamson, Howard Porter, and Hi-Fi, Duck Avenger: New Adventures Volume One by Alessandro Sisti and Ezio Sisto, Alberto Lavoradori, Claudio Sciarrone, Stefano Intini, and Disney Italia from IDW, Super Sons #2-3 by Peter J. Tomasi, Jorge Jimenez, and Alejandro Sanchez, East of West by Jonathan Hickman, Nick Dragotta, and Frank Martin from Image, plus a whole mess more!

Time Codes: 00:00:33 - Introduction 00:02:42 - We'll be at HeroesCon! 00:05:09 - Star Hawks, Vol. 1: 1977-1978 00:41:32 - Street Angel: After School Kung Fu Special 00:54:09 - Godshaper #1 01:07:23 - Wrap up 01:08:18 - Contact us On this week's episode Andy and Derek check out the old and the new. They begin with Star Hawks, Vol. 1: 1977-1978, a new collection of Gil Kane and Ron Goulart's classic newspaper strip. As the guys discuss, this isn't the first time that Star Hawks has been collected, but this new release from IDW's Library of American Comics imprint is probably one of the best. Next, they turn to Street Angel: After School Kung Fu Special (Image Comics). This is more of the Street Angel fun you've come to expect from Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca. Fans of action comics, especially the old 1970s style martial arts type, will appreciate this one-shot. Finally, the Two Guys wrap up with Simon Spurrier and Jonas Goonface's Godshaper #1 (BOOM! Studios). As with other Spurrier creations, the premise of this title is rather complicated, but it's not too top-heavy. The creators are able to pull off this inaugural issue with a satisfying coherency.

In this week's episode of Off Panel, cartoonist Jim Rugg joins the show to talk his upcoming one-shot with writer Brian Maruca, Street Angel: After School Kung Fu Special. He talks the origin story of Street Angel, why it's his home base book, how his art has evolved over the years, whether he thinks he has a core art style, why he likes to adventure with the format of comics so much, why he brought Street Angel to Image, the Pittsburgh comic scene, and more.

Andy and Derek are happy to have on the podcast the multifaceted Jim Rugg, whose new printing of Street Angel (created with Brian Maruca) was just released by AdHouse. The guys talk with Jim about the significance of the new printing -- a colorful discussion -- as well as the book's protagonist Jesse Sanchez, an "orphan of the streets and skateboarding daughter of justice" who "fights a never ending battle against the forces of evil, nepotism, ninjas, and hunger." The artist discusses the title's early days at Slave Labor Graphics as a serial and its final issue as the launching pad for another Rugg/Maruca creation, Alan "Afrodisiac" Driesler, the mysterious, irresistible, smooth dark chocolate brother of the streets who fights to protect his turf and his ladies. And of course, it's inevitable that the guys get into a discussion of 1970s culture and comics, including kung fu, TV cop shows, blaxploitation films, and Big Jim action figures. Derek and Andy also talk with Jim about his work on other titles, including Supermag (AdHouse), The Plain Janes (DC/Minx), and his art for titles as diverse as The Guild, Adventure Time, and Henry and Glenn Forever and Ever. It's a fun conversation, one with as much savvy and street smarts as the characters who populate Jim's stories.

Jim Rugg joins us to expound on Street Angel from AdHouse Books, Ed Piskor's Hip Hop Family Tree, Rob Liefeld, Brian Maruca, Gary Groth, Comics Comics (Frank Santoro, Dan Nadel, Tim Hodler, and more), PictureBox, Chris Pitzer, Supermag, Boulet, Mike Mignola and the Hellboy Goes to Hell Artist's Edition from IDW, Afrodisiac, Usamu Tezuka's Book of Human Insects from Vertical, Cable: Blood and Metal, Brian Lee O'Malley's Seconds, Jane, the Fox, and Me by Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault from Groundwood Books, Josh Bayer, Jason Karns and FUKITOR, Organ fanzine, SDCC, Tom Scioli, Fort Thunder, Copacetic Comics, Paul Pope, Pittsburgh Comic Con, Robin Williams, Wally Wood, social media, artistic influences, CAB, Howtoons [Re]ignition by Fred Van Lente, Tom Fowler, and Jordie Bellaire from Image, Magnus: Robot Fighter from Fred Van Lente and Cory Smith from Dynamite!, the Annihilation Omnibus and Guardians of the Galaxy, Farel Dalrymple's The Wrenchies from :01 First Second, and a whole mess more!

The publisher of this week's book, Adhouse, suggests that book, Street Angel, be filed under these categories: comedy, poverty, hero, and kung fu. Those terms both entirely describe and woefully undersell the breadth of pure comic booking contained in this 10th anniversary hardcover reprinting of Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca's breakout hit. The title character is homeless teenage girl Jesse Sanchez; she sleeps in abandoned buildings and prowls the streets of Wilkesborough on her skateboard, keeping it safe from ninjas, mad scientists, demons, time-displaced Spanish conquerors, more ninjas, and (with the help of an aged but still bad motherSHUT YOUR MOUTH Afrodisiac) racist gun-toting rednecks. This book may be Rugg's first but it still hits like a 100-megaton bomb of experimentation in the name of homage and homage in the name of truth. Listen to Mike and Greg talk about how many ways Street Angel is a little slice of comic book heaven for anyone who picks it up. Robots From Tomorrow is a weekly comics podcast recorded deep beneath the Earth's surface. You can subscribe to it via iTunes or through the RSS feed at RobotsFromTomorrow.com. You can also follow Mike and Greg on Twitter. Enjoy your funny books.

It’s Dyn-O-mite! Episode 18 - Afro-Dynamite. We’re talking three killer stories and our feature presentation: Black Dynamite!   For the lowdown Jeronimo rediscovers his love for Police Academy, Andrew teases the possibility of a future True Detective discussion, and Manga Matt does his thing. What’s that? Reading Manga & Comics.   We get to deep into the mix with three super dope works of fiction.   STORIES: 1. Jaguar in the Jungland Boogie - Michael A. Gonzales, in Black Pulp 2. Afrodesiac - Brian Maruca and Jim Rugg 3. Titty Titty Bang Bang - Chester Olden Earnest, discovered by Thomas Pluck, in Blood & Tacos #4   FEATURE PRESENTATION: Black Dynamite!

Come with us to the mean streets of Wilkesborough as we sing some sweet, baadasssss songs about Steve Ditko, Watchmen 2 and the possibilities of new stories set in Moore and Gibbons' universe, Parade with Fireworks from Shadowline, Jim Valentino, Siege #2 and the Sentry, Avengers (the forthcoming Avengers #1 by Bendis and John Romita JR, Dan Slott, and more), the Planet Hulk DVD and Fox's Human Target, Back Issue magazine, Ed Hannigan: Covered, Gene Colan, and Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca's phenomenal AFRODISIAC from Adhouse Books!