Podcast appearances and mentions of Cannon Busters

Send us a textJam Fam, you are in for a treat today!  Today's episode is one of living your best life, following your dreams, advocating for yourself and doing things that make you feel good.  We so lucky to have Kimberly Marable with us today, currently starring on Broadway in Chicago!Kimberly Marable has spent over 15 years as a working actor. Her Broadway appearances include CHICAGO (Velma Kelly), THE LION KING (u/s Nala, Shenzi, Sarabi) and SISTER ACT (u/s Deloris van Cartier). She was an original cast member of the TONY and GRAMMY Award winning musical HADESTOWN on Broadway where she understudied Persephone and a Fate.  Her National and International Touring credits include HADESTOWN (Persephone), THE BOOK OF MORMON, SISTER ACT (standby Deloris van Cartier), DREAMGIRLS, HAIRSPRAY, and THE WEDDING SINGER (u/s Linda). Kimberly has performed at regional theaters including The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, The Signature in Arlington, VA and Arkansas Repertory Theatre ("The Rep") in Little Rock, AR; and has participated in the pre-Broadway development of HADESTOWN, PAL JOEY with Marin Mazzie & Patina Miller, and THE WANDERER with NKOTB's Joey McIntyre, which made its world premier at Papermill Playhouse. She has appeared on CBS' FBI & BULL, NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concert series, and numerous television specials, including the 85th & 93rd Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parades and the 73rd Annual TONY Awards. Kimberly is the voice of Lorelai in the Netflix Anime series, CANNON BUSTERS and does promotional voice overs for various tv networks. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Kimberly earned a Bachelors of Arts degree in Theater modified with Sociology from Dartmouth College. She was an adjunct professor for the Theatre Program at Drexel University. In 2012, Kimberly co-founded Broadway Serves, an affiliate program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, which provides theater professionals with community service opportunities. She serves as the Vice Chair on the Advisory Committee for the Entertainment Community Fund's Looking Ahead program, is on the Entertainment Community Fund's Human Services Committee, and serves on the Board of Trustees for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.We hope you enjoy today's conversation with the incredibly talented, Kimberly Marable.Thank you for listening Jam Fam! Make sure you follow us across social media and don't forget to like and subscribe anywhere you listen to your favorite podcasts!Facebook: JAM Joe and Michelle's Dance PodcastInstagram: jam_dance_podcastTwitter: @jamdancepodcastEmail: jamdancepodcast@gmail.com

Cannon Busters Series Wrap Up Episode 8 "Turnbuckle Ex-Machina" Scorecard: 10/10   Episode 9 "Lullaby of the Stars" Scorecard: 6/10   Episode 10 "Squeaking Springs Afternoon" Scorecard: 8/10   Episode 11 "Innocence Lost Pt.1" Scorecard: 8/10   Episode 12 "Innocence Lost Pt.1" Scorecard: 8/10   Feedback : blackgirlcouch@gmail.com  (audio/written) Twitter: BlackGirl_Couch   Tumblr: slowlandrogynousmiracle

Cannon Busters: Episode 7 "Lady & the Kid" Masked fighters attack Kelby and Odin. Meanwhile, Lady Day continues to track Philly and dispatches a droid to locate a bounty hunter named Jojo.     Scorecard: 7.2/10     Feedback : blackgirlcouch@gmail.com  (audio/written) Twitter: BlackGirl_Couch   Tumblr: slowlandrogynousmiracle  

Cannon Busters: Episode 6 "Unfettered" Philly heads to Madura City with the droids to pay a bar tab, but when they arrive they find a ghost town -- and a very unfriendly threat.   Scorecard: 8.5/10     Feedback : blackgirlcouch@gmail.com  (audio/written) Twitter: BlackGirl_Couch   Tumblr: slowlandrogynousmiracle

Cannon Busters: Episode 5 "21 the Hard Way" As 9ine, Sam and Casey enjoy a night out on the town, Bessie breaks down and Philly finds himself communing with nature extremely closely.   Scorecard: 9.5/10     Feedback : blackgirlcouch@gmail.com  (audio/written) Twitter: BlackGirl_Couch   Tumblr: slowlandrogynousmiracle  

Cannon Busters: Episode 4 "9INE" In Happy Lucky Market Town, Philly sends Casey off to buy supplies as he goes after the legendary -- and very drunk -- ronin known as 9ine.   Scorecard: 8.9/10   Feedback : blackgirlcouch@gmail.com  (audio/written) Twitter: BlackGirl_Couch   Tumblr: slowlandrogynousmiracle

Cannon Busters: Episode 2 "Grifters Gonna Grift" When Bessie breaks down, the trio makes a deal with Mama Hitch for repairs. Meanwhile, Sam dreams of the last time she saw Kelby on the night Botica was attacked.   Scorecard: 8.8/10     Feedback : blackgirlcouch@gmail.com  (audio/written) Twitter: BlackGirl_Couch   Tumblr: slowlandrogynousmiracle

Cannon Busters: Episode 1 "High Risk, Low Reward!" Sam and Casey arrive in Balloon Town not knowing where to go next; they hope Philly the Kid can help them despite the bounty hunters on his tail. Review Begins at 8:15   Scorecard: 9.4/10     Feedback : blackgirlcouch@gmail.com  (audio/written) Twitter: BlackGirl_Couch   Tumblr: slowlandrogynousmiracle

Tony Weaver Jr is a man of many feats: on Forbes's 30 Under 30, CEO of his own media studio, hugely successful on TikTok, and creator of The UnCommons manga, and we got to have him on our latest episode! Our talk with Tony was filled with so many dope moments that you gotta check it out 1- Tony Weaver intro 5- comics or TikTok 9- The Uncommons comic 13- Black MCs 19- writing process 26- being a black creator 28- Yasuke anime and real person 33- Cool Japan process and samurai imagery 47- getting into writing 50- getting into education and talking with kids 52- representation matters with Black Panther 1:04- speaking well Special Guest: Tony Weaver Jr.

Nilah Magruder is an absolute joy and an uber-talented author and artist. She was the first Black woman to write for Marvel, illustrated all of the Heroes of Olympus covers for Rick Riordan's books, and worked extensively in animation. Not to mention the books that she is the sole creator of, which have proven to be legendary in my home.Jarrett: Nilah Magruder. How are you? [00:00:03] Nilah: I'm doing pretty good. How are you? [00:00:06] Jarrett: Hangin', it in there Nilah, you will forever and ever be iconic in my home because your picture book, "How to Find a Fox" has been read so many times. So many times. In our home that it is held together by like scotch tape and like bubble gum.[00:00:29] Our son, we must have read that so many times. [00:00:32] Nilah: Oh my God.[00:00:32] Jarrett: Huge home run pal and I remember we met at Comics Crossroads in Ohio and we were tabling next to each other and, like we just were chatting the whole day and I'm always looking for something to bring home to the kids to make up for being gone.[00:00:45] And wow that book, man, I'm telling you like, iconic like that, that we will read that. I will read that to my grandkids, my wife and I will be reading that to our grandkids someday. So thank you for stop and a chat with us. But of course I what the show is all about of [00:01:01] course is about getting to know how creative people in comics got to be doing what they're doing.[00:01:09] And so I like to start at the very beginning cuz I, I love the idea and I also love the idea of imagine. A young author, an artist and getting to, to hear those stories directly from some of your favorite creators. My first question for you and it might really be the only question I ask and then we're gonna get into a conversation, but what was life like for you as a kid?[00:01:29] What was your home like? What was your family set up? What kind of art and stories were you consuming? What sort of laid the groundwork to create Nilah Magruder? [00:01:39] Nilah: My home life as a child, I grew up in a house in the woods in a small community back in a time where it was largely forest and largely rural.[00:01:53] And I think that had a lasting impact on how. I think visually in how I view story, the sort of stories that I'm interested in. A lot of the things I was interested at interested in as a kid were very pastoral and natural. I loved anything featuring animals and, honestly, I was isolated for a lot of my childhood.[00:02:20] This is something that you and I have in common. I had an alcoholic parent and as a kid, I didn't like to bring friends home because then they would see my dad and, whatever state that my dad was in, it was really unpredictable. I never quite knew what I was bringing friends into. So I didn't, bring friends here very much.[00:02:44] And I didn't go to friends' houses very much. And so a lot of my time was spent at home, but we were surrounded by this woodland, all of these trees and animals and so much nature. And that's really where I spent my time as a kid. Now, what I was interested in, like what I was ingesting, we had a small video rental store in the community, and this was long before Netflix.[00:03:18] This was even before Blockbuster. We didn't have a Blockbuster within driving distance. I'm not even sure if Blockbuster existed back then. And so we had this local mom and pop rental store and they would bring in videos from all over the world. A lot of imported... movies and television series.[00:03:43] And as a kid, I was interested in anything animated. If it was a cartoon, if it was drawn, I was there. And so like any cartoon that they had, I'd be like, mom, can we get this please? And I remember once I showed her one video that I hadn't watched yet, and I was like, mom, can we get this? And she looked at it, she looked at the cover and was like, no.[00:04:05] And she put it back and we never spoke of it again. and years later, like I was an adult on the internet and I saw this title called when the wind blows and I was like, oh, that's familiar. And I looked at the summary. I looked at the art from the movie and I was like, oh my God, that's it. That's that one movie that my mom wouldn't let me watch.[00:04:27] And so when the wind blows is a British animated film about nuclear fallout, And it's about it's about this couple. I think it's like a rural couple and there's this big catastrophe in England. And the government sends pamphlets out to everyone and is every, they're just like, don't panic everyone. It's fine.[00:04:54] Just stay at home. And so basically this couple they're older, they're very trusting. They're like the government knows what's best. So we'll just stay home. And eventually radiation reach reaches them and they get sick and die. [00:05:11] So... [00:05:11] Jarrett: what a prude! What a prude! What a...[00:05:14] Nilah: I know wouldn't let me. And then another time she was also a teacher and one day she brought home the animated Animal Farm.[00:05:22] Jarrett: Wow. Yeah.[00:05:23] Nilah: And, my thing is animals, of course. And she looks at me and she's do not watch this. And then she leaves it out. [00:05:32] Jarrett: Oh... [00:05:33] Nilah: And so one day when she wasn't there, I popped it in the VCR and watched it. And I think I was like nine or 10 at the time. And I loved it. So all that to say when I was a kid, I would just watch anything.[00:05:49] And so I was, and we had this rental store that would bring over anything. And so I was getting to watch animated movies from Japan and England and Russia and Canada, like Canada had a really great experimental animation program that was supported by the government. [00:06:07] Jarrett: Yeah.[00:06:07] Nilah: And so they were producing just like wild animated shorts and half the time, I didn't understand what I was watching, but because it was moving pictures, moving drawings, I was fascinated.[00:06:21] And a lot of the stuff that I look back on that I loved as a small child, it's very experimental and dark. And then I lived in this woodland that was also creepy, a lot of animals lived here and also a lot of people in the community were like fascinated cuz our home was situated secluded.[00:06:45] And so people would come drive through late at night just to, see the house or they'd, walk through, like it was a public park here. [00:06:55] Jarrett: Oh. [00:06:55] Nilah: So I had this experience as a child of just like constantly our space just constantly being invaded by strangers. And it was like scary, you're in bed at night....[00:07:11] And headlights reflected on your wall. Yeah. And you're a little kid and you're just like, oh my gosh. [00:07:19] Jarrett: Yeah. [00:07:19] Nilah: I have this, like I have this just this little, knot from my childhood, that's very, just creepy and wild and mysterious. And then I write children's books. [00:07:34] Jarrett: Yeah. It's not easy to be a creative kid who then you when you have worries, because then your creativity, which I've only realized now as an adult, like your imagination really creates scenarios in your head.[00:07:50] Nilah: Yeah![00:07:50] Jarrett: And I wanna point out to the listeners that it's remarkable. That you had access to VHS tapes of cartoons from other countries in that time period. Sometimes when I'm book touring and I talk to readers and they said; "did you love anime when you were a teenager?" And I didn't really have access to it.[00:08:10] I grew up in a suburban, urban area and my rental shop, which was another mom and pop rental shop. They didn't have that creative, curated collection. So how remarkable that, whoever it was that was down the street from you who had this, you know, who had an appetite for this flavor of creative cartoons, because otherwise you would've just been seeing like just Disney and nothing else.[00:08:35] That's, this kinda was the only game in town back then. [00:08:38] Nilah: Yeah. [00:08:39] Yeah. It is like looking back on it. I think that too, it's very odd. [00:08:44] Jarrett: Yeah. [00:08:45] Nilah: Like, how we had so many dubs at the time, but also that this little, this little spot in rural, Maryland was getting all of these videos and yeah, it was pretty, and this was before cable too.[00:09:01] Like we didn't have cable at the time, a lot of my access to animation was through this little rental shop. [00:09:11] Jarrett: Wow. Wow. And so did you love to draw before or after? Can you, or was it simultaneous love of animation and drawing for you? [00:09:21] Nilah: I think the animation came before and I always tell people that I was.[00:09:27] Bad at art at that age. And I'm talking about when I was in kindergarten, so five or six , who's good at art at that age? But it was this I was really bad at coloring in the lines. [00:09:39] Jarrett: Oh, that showed, that did show - sorry to cut you off - but all that did was show promise.[00:09:44] Nilah: Yeah.[00:09:45] Jarrett: All that did was show promise in your work. So it sounds like you had someone somewhere to say, no, you're supposed to color in the lines. And then you're like, oh, what?[00:09:53] Nilah: It was my peers, I remember sitting at a table in kindergarten and I'm coloring. And one of the little girls next to me was like, "Nilah, do you want me to do that for you?"[00:10:04] And that, that devastated me. [00:10:07] Jarrett: Yeah. [00:10:08] Nilah: And so from a very young age, I was like, wow, I have to get better at this cuz that's embarrassing. And so from five or six years old, I was just making this conscious effort to study and practice and be better at art. And my first subjects were animals cuz that's what I was interested in.[00:10:30] We had this magazine series called ZooBooks. And it was full of photos and illustrations of animals. And I would copy these, copy this art and learn animal anatomy from that. Later we got cable and I would watch discovery channel. And then I could see like animals in motion, and I love the Peanuts.[00:10:53] I love Charlie brown and Snoopy taught me how to draw animal toes. As a kid, I was, I would draw them wrong. And I knew they looked wrong, but I didn't know why. And so I would look at Snoopy's feet and how Charles Schultz drew Snoopy's feet. And I started drawing my feet more like that.[00:11:15] And... eventually, I came to understand why the way I was drawing feet before was wrong, anatomically and like that really, that really helped me take my drawings to the next level.[00:11:30] Jarrett: Yeah. [00:11:30] Nilah: And so it wasn't until much later that I really made the connection between animation and my own drawing, I just like watching cartoons and, I also love to draw.[00:11:42] And so as I got older, I, I did process drawing as a storytelling tool and would start drawing, drawing my own stories. And much, much later I got into anime, and... Also Disney started putting out those, like "Making-Of" specials [00:12:07] Jarrett: Yes! [00:12:07] Nilah: Where they talked about how they made animated films.[00:12:11] And that's when I started to learn; " Oh, people are drawing these movies." And that made, that kind of bridged things for me that you can, like that people make comics, people make animated cartoons, like people make children's books. And, I didn't understand where those illustrations came from or anything, but like seeing the process helped me connect the dots like; "Oh, I, as a person can also do this. I can, create stories with art."[00:12:44] Jarrett: And so growing, coming up then. You had art supplies you were drawing and what were your parents' reaction to that? Do they, they thought it was cute and then you'll outgrow it? Or what was that? What was that dynamic like for you? [00:13:05] Nilah: Oh, they thought it was real cute. My dad actually was known as an artist for a while.[00:13:10] He was in the military and I think... I'll have to ask my mom this. I think the story is that he actually considered going to college for art and he went into the military instead. And...[00:13:27] Jarrett: Those are two vastly opposite things![00:13:29] Nilah: Yeah. [00:13:30] Jarrett: Right?[00:13:30] Nilah: Yeah. And so he could draw as a kid, I found some of his some of his old sketches.[00:13:36] And he had a life drawing book, and he did a mural down in the basement that terrifies my nieces, now! It's this pirate face on this cinder block wall in the basement. And I guess when my nieces were growing up, this terrified them and they still don't like it. But so my dad drew and that's something I learned a little later.[00:13:59] It's not really people saw me drawing and they were like; "Oh, your father drew too." And so I learned about it that way. [00:14:07] Jarrett: Wow. [00:14:07] Nilah: My mom was a teacher, and so she would bring home reams of paper for me, and pencils, and drawing was a way to keep me quiet. So when we're at church or when we're out in public, she would just hand me and my brother like drawing supplies and we would go to town and, we would...[00:14:30] Be behaved. And so she, she liked that aspect of it. And then I got a little older and I would keep drawing and that fascinated small children. So it also kept other children quiet.[00:14:49] Everybody, everybody was like; "Yeah, Nilah! Keeping the peace, keeping everyone disciplined!" And that's all, it was for a long time until I was in high school. And I said; "Hey, I think I wanna go to art school." And then things took a turn [00:15:02] Jarrett: And they were like; "Wait a minute."[00:15:03] No, exactly. That's always the interesting thing, where it's supported. And then and it, what I've come to, to learn since years have passed since I was that age, that it comes from love. It comes from fear. Which is love for the kid of how is this kid gonna grow up to support themselves?[00:15:24] Nilah: Yeah. [00:15:24] Jarrett: Especially if it's a world that the parent or caretaker doesn't fully understand or know. Where and maybe and could be read between the lines, but, I don't never knew your dad never didn't know his childhood, but he chose what you know, was more, would be a more practical path.[00:15:39] So while that, that, like history was echoing in you then getting to that age and you went to art school, did you went to college to study art? [00:15:47] Nilah: I did. Yeah. [00:15:48] Jarrett: What, and what was your study? What did you study when you were there? [00:15:51] Nilah: Computer animation. [00:15:53] Jarrett: Oh yeah. And so animation was your... animation was like, that was your goal then?[00:15:58] Nilah: Yeah. [00:15:58] Jarrett: Yeah. [00:15:59] Nilah: Yeah. That was ever since I was 13. That was the end game for me. [00:16:04] Jarrett: And then, so you went to, you went to college and then you graduate from college and I'm sure your parents were like; "And now do you go to work at an office? Do you get a pension? Do you get a, do you get a 401k?" [00:16:16] Nilah: Yeah they didn't understand it for a long time.[00:16:19] And it didn't really materialize for a long time. And my mother was always very honest that she could offer me no advice. Cause vice cause when she was growing up, a black woman in the forties and fifties and sixties, she would say there were three options for us. Be a nurse, be a house cleaner or be a teacher.[00:16:41] And she picked teaching. Nowadays women and black women in particular have so many more options. And I would call home about my internal struggle about what I should be doing. And she'd be like; "Yeah, that sounds hard." [00:16:57] Jarrett: But she's, " I have nothing for you because I haven't walked that path,[00:17:00] other than, being a black woman who's dealt with society." And so... Right. Exactly. And so there, so yeah, there must have been so much fear. Obviously eventually... Oh yeah. You assuage those fears because you became very successful.[00:17:13] You became the first... [00:17:14] Nilah: So... [00:17:15] Jarrett: Yeah. Oh, go ahead. Go ahead. [00:17:16] Nilah: Yeah. Yeah. [00:17:16] The thing, so basically, my, my parents could never stop me. From doing what I was gonna do. And they both knew that. So they put the pressure on, but ultimately, the reason I ended up going to art school is... So we, we tried an animation, like an art trade school, art institutes, and that didn't work out.[00:17:42] And so I went with my mom's plan and did the whole four year college thing. I actually studied journalism and public relations. And when I finally went to Ringling College and studied animation, like I was an adult, I, at that point had a job. I had my own money. I had my own credit. And at this point my parents couldn't stop me.[00:18:06] So I went to art school under my own power and they just had to sit back and wait and see how things turned out. And yeah, there was a lot of fear and totally legitimate fear because we live in this culture that really doesn't support the arts as a career. [00:18:26] Jarrett: Yeah. [00:18:26] Nilah: Even now it's really hard to be an artist because, it's hard to get paid what we're worth. We're, we're still fighting this like societal image of artists as poor and free loaders and just an unnecessary expense. We're in a society where the arts in schools and arts foundations are constantly being defunded, and people don't really understand how much art and design impacts their everyday lives.[00:18:58] And and then, on top of that I think when you're a marginalized person, like your parents are always looking at where, what are the jobs? Where are the careers that people that look like us are thriving. And. That was not entertainment for black people. You don't see, you didn't see black people in those Disney specials. You... And nevermind that I was growing up on the east coast and we really didn't have an entertainment culture here, at least not in TV and film. Yeah. It's different in if you're growing up in California and you're surrounded by studios, who's working in those studios, but here, like there was no window to see where somebody with an animation degree could get a job.[00:19:43] Jarrett: And it's all, it is also, different when you're white, like growing up, I never had a search for characters that looked like me. I never had a search for seeing those specials. And so even though I was on the east coast, I was like; "Oh that's something I can do."[00:19:57] Nilah: Yeah. [00:19:58] Jarrett: But when growing up obviously that's ingrained if you don't see it. And because of your parents lived experience, there were, so there was, so the odds were so stacked against their daughter's favor and they want you to be happy and they want you to be healthy and they want you to succeed.[00:20:13] But you were UN you were unstoppable, you were just kept at it. And you had this love of art and story and you said, you, you said you studied journalism as well. So was like, what was your first paid gig as someone who put words on a paper? Was it journalism? Was it for a newspaper.[00:20:31] Nilah: It was journalism. It was, I think it was a food review. I think it was a restaurant review. Yeah. I worked toward the arts and entertainment department of a Western Maryland newspaper chain, which no longer exists sadly. But I got this job while I was in college. They were looking for interns and I got the internship.[00:20:52] And while I was interning the, the editor who hired me was like; "By the way, do you wanna do some writing?" And, looking back I'm like, what was the other part of this internship? Cuz all I remember is the writing. Like they, they definitely asked me to write in addition to interning, but I don't remember what the interning part was.[00:21:15] I do remember. The early writing gigs. And she was just like; "Hey, why don't you try doing a couple of food reviews?" And that was really cool. I got to go to restaurants and review, write a review. [00:21:27] Jarrett: Yeah. [00:21:27] Nilah: And then that summer there was there, was like a regime change at the paper and my editor rage quit.[00:21:37] And I was like; " I guess that's it for that job!" And so I was like that was fun. I worked for the newspaper for a few months. And then the editor who took our place called me and was like; "Hey, so I found your name on this list of freelance writers. Do you wanna keep writing for us?" And I was like; "Yeah, sure!"[00:21:59] and so he kept feeding me jobs and I didn't review restaurants again, but he would send me out to review gallery openings and to talk to local musicians and I speak to like local, owners of dance companies and theater companies and just this wide array of things. And I, my mom bought me a car cuz it was freaking her out.[00:22:24] I was basically walking around town at night to get to these jobs. And so she bought me a car. So I wouldn't do that. And so I was driving all around, Maryland, reviewing, like writing for this paper. And I did that for two years, through my junior and senior year of college. And then after I graduated and I did it up until the point that I got a full time job and just didn't have time anymore.[00:22:49] And yeah.[00:22:51] Jarrett: Moms are gonna mom forever. Never not gonna be your mom. Never not gonna be your mom looking out for you. And so you know that - granted you were pursuing degrees, but... it sounds like that was also like a whole other master's degree in, in learning about the arts. So you were studying... [00:23:08] Nilah: Yeah.[00:23:08] Jarrett: You were studying the stories of so many people who were you self-employed or making a go at, making a living via a non-traditional means. It's true. You must have met so many interesting people. I can't even, I'm sure that just yeah. Soaked into the fabric of who you became.[00:23:24] So what was your fulltime job? You said you had a full-time you said you had a full-time job. So you left that. What was your full-time case? [00:23:30] Nilah: I was a marketing writer for a health nonprofit. [00:23:34] Yeah. Sounds exciting. Was that super exciting? [00:23:38] Yes... [00:23:39] Jarrett: No? [00:23:39] Nilah: It was amazing. No, it was. So it was in like the DC Metro area and the commute was very long.[00:23:47] It was 70 minutes, one way. Ooh. On the DC beltway. And I'd have to leave home at, what, 4:30, 5 in the morning to get there before rush hour. And it was, it was a fine gig. This nonprofit runs a trade show. I think they do it every other year in Chicago. So while I was there, I got to go to Chicago and help coordinate this giant trade show which was actually that part was really cool.[00:24:17] It was, it was a fine job. It taught me, about the corporate space. It was pretty close to what I went to school to do. And they paid me well for a nonprofit. Like I had a competitive salary. It was, it was my first taste of money. [00:24:36] Jarrett: Yeah. Which is important to pay for things.[00:24:39] Nilah: Yeah.[00:24:40] Jarrett: like your basic needs and enjoyment for sure. [00:24:44] Nilah: And, at the time I was outlining this future and marketing and PR and that was gonna be it. But wow. I still, I still had this bug where I wanted to draw and write and working in marketing wasn't fully fulfilling it. And so I decided I wanted to give it another go.[00:25:06] I wanted to, I started just like poking at, looking at art programs, just, experimentally and ended up applying a lot faster than I thought I would and ended up going a lot faster than I thought I would. [00:25:25] Jarrett: And is that for a master's degree? Is that...[00:25:28] Nilah: No, a bachelor's. [00:25:29] Jarrett: For oh, for a bachelor's![00:25:31] Nilah: I have two bachelors and it feels so pointless.[00:25:35] Jarrett: Oh, here I am thinking like... Oh, I, my, like I'm always concerned. I'm not being a good listener... No, you went and got a second bachelors. [00:25:43] Nilah: I went and got a second. No one needs two bachelors. [00:25:45] Jarrett: Nilah Magruder. How are you? [00:25:49] Nilah: I'm doing pretty good. How are you? [00:25:52] Jarrett: Hangin', it in there Nilah, you will forever and ever be iconic in my home because your picture book, "How to Find a Fox" has been read so many times. So many times. In our home that it is held together by like scotch tape and like bubble gum.[00:26:14] Our son, we must have read that so many times. [00:26:18] Nilah: Oh my God.[00:26:18] Jarrett: Huge home run pal and I remember we met at Comics Crossroads in Ohio and we were tabling next to each other and, like we just were chatting the whole day and I'm always looking for something to bring home to the kids to make up for being gone.[00:26:31] And wow that book, man, I'm telling you like, iconic like that, that we will read that. I will read that to my grandkids, my wife and I will be reading that to our grandkids someday. So thank you for stop and a chat with us. But of course I what the show is all about of [00:26:47] course is about getting to know how creative people in comics got to be doing what they're doing.[00:26:54] And so I like to start at the very beginning cuz I, I love the idea and I also love the idea of imagine. A young author, an artist and getting to, to hear those stories directly from some of your favorite creators. My first question for you and it might really be the only question I ask and then we're gonna get into a conversation, but what was life like for you as a kid?[00:27:15] What was your home like? What was your family set up? What kind of art and stories were you consuming? What sort of laid the groundwork to create Nilah Magruder? [00:27:25] Nilah: My home life as a child, I grew up in a house in the woods in a small community back in a time where it was largely forest and largely rural.[00:27:38] And I think that had a lasting impact on how. I think visually in how I view story, the sort of stories that I'm interested in. A lot of the things I was interested at interested in as a kid were very pastoral and natural. I loved anything featuring animals and, honestly, I was isolated for a lot of my childhood.[00:28:05] This is something that you and I have in common. I had an alcoholic parent and as a kid, I didn't like to bring friends home because then they would see my dad and, whatever state that my dad was in, it was really unpredictable. I never quite knew what I was bringing friends into. So I didn't, bring friends here very much.[00:28:30] And I didn't go to friends' houses very much. And so a lot of my time was spent at home, but we were surrounded by this woodland, all of these trees and animals and so much nature. And that's really where I spent my time as a kid. Now, what I was interested in, like what I was ingesting, we had a small video rental store in the community, and this was long before Netflix.[00:29:04] This was even before Blockbuster. We didn't have a Blockbuster within driving distance. I'm not even sure if Blockbuster existed back then. And so we had this local mom and pop rental store and they would bring in videos from all over the world. A lot of imported... movies and television series.[00:29:29] And as a kid, I was interested in anything animated. If it was a cartoon, if it was drawn, I was there. And so like any cartoon that they had, I'd be like, mom, can we get this please? And I remember once I showed her one video that I hadn't watched yet, and I was like, mom, can we get this? And she looked at it, she looked at the cover and was like, no.[00:29:50] And she put it back and we never spoke of it again. and years later, like I was an adult on the internet and I saw this title called when the wind blows and I was like, oh, that's familiar. And I looked at the summary. I looked at the art from the movie and I was like, oh my God, that's it. That's that one movie that my mom wouldn't let me watch.[00:30:13] And so when the wind blows is a British animated film about nuclear fallout, And it's about it's about this couple. I think it's like a rural couple and there's this big catastrophe in England. And the government sends pamphlets out to everyone and is every, they're just like, don't panic everyone. It's fine.[00:30:40] Just stay at home. And so basically this couple they're older, they're very trusting. They're like the government knows what's best. So we'll just stay home. And eventually radiation reach reaches them and they get sick and die. [00:30:56] So... [00:30:57] Jarrett: what a prude! What a prude! What a...[00:31:00] Nilah: I know wouldn't let me. And then another time she was also a teacher and one day she brought home the animated Animal Farm.[00:31:08] Jarrett: Wow. Yeah.[00:31:09] Nilah: And, my thing is animals, of course. And she looks at me and she's do not watch this. And then she leaves it out. [00:31:17] Jarrett: Oh... [00:31:19] Nilah: And so one day when she wasn't there, I popped it in the VCR and watched it. And I think I was like nine or 10 at the time. And I loved it. So all that to say when I was a kid, I would just watch anything.[00:31:34] And so I was, and we had this rental store that would bring over anything. And so I was getting to watch animated movies from Japan and England and Russia and Canada, like Canada had a really great experimental animation program that was supported by the government. [00:31:52] Jarrett: Yeah.[00:31:52] Nilah: And so they were producing just like wild animated shorts and half the time, I didn't understand what I was watching, but because it was moving pictures, moving drawings, I was fascinated.[00:32:07] And a lot of the stuff that I look back on that I loved as a small child, it's very experimental and dark. And then I lived in this woodland that was also creepy, a lot of animals lived here and also a lot of people in the community were like fascinated cuz our home was situated secluded.[00:32:30] And so people would come drive through late at night just to, see the house or they'd, walk through, like it was a public park here. [00:32:41] Jarrett: Oh. [00:32:41] Nilah: So I had this experience as a child of just like constantly our space just constantly being invaded by strangers. And it was like scary, you're in bed at night....[00:32:57] And headlights reflected on your wall. Yeah. And you're a little kid and you're just like, oh my gosh. [00:33:04] Jarrett: Yeah. [00:33:05] Nilah: I have this, like I have this just this little, knot from my childhood, that's very, just creepy and wild and mysterious. And then I write children's books. [00:33:19] Jarrett: Yeah. It's not easy to be a creative kid who then you when you have worries, because then your creativity, which I've only realized now as an adult, like your imagination really creates scenarios in your head.[00:33:36] Nilah: Yeah![00:33:36] Jarrett: And I wanna point out to the listeners that it's remarkable. That you had access to VHS tapes of cartoons from other countries in that time period. Sometimes when I'm book touring and I talk to readers and they said; "did you love anime when you were a teenager?" And I didn't really have access to it.[00:33:55] I grew up in a suburban, urban area and my rental shop, which was another mom and pop rental shop. They didn't have that creative, curated collection. So how remarkable that, whoever it was that was down the street from you who had this, you know, who had an appetite for this flavor of creative cartoons, because otherwise you would've just been seeing like just Disney and nothing else.[00:34:21] That's, this kinda was the only game in town back then. [00:34:24] Nilah: Yeah. [00:34:24] Yeah. It is like looking back on it. I think that too, it's very odd. [00:34:29] Jarrett: Yeah. [00:34:30] Nilah: Like, how we had so many dubs at the time, but also that this little, this little spot in rural, Maryland was getting all of these videos and yeah, it was pretty, and this was before cable too.[00:34:47] Like we didn't have cable at the time, a lot of my access to animation was through this little rental shop. [00:34:56] Jarrett: Wow. Wow. And so did you love to draw before or after? Can you, or was it simultaneous love of animation and drawing for you? [00:35:06] Nilah: I think the animation came before and I always tell people that I was.[00:35:13] Bad at art at that age. And I'm talking about when I was in kindergarten, so five or six , who's good at art at that age? But it was this I was really bad at coloring in the lines. [00:35:25] Jarrett: Oh, that showed, that did show - sorry to cut you off - but all that did was show promise.[00:35:30] Nilah: Yeah.[00:35:31] Jarrett: All that did was show promise in your work. So it sounds like you had someone somewhere to say, no, you're supposed to color in the lines. And then you're like, oh, what?[00:35:38] Nilah: It was my peers, I remember sitting at a table in kindergarten and I'm coloring. And one of the little girls next to me was like, "Nilah, do you want me to do that for you?"[00:35:50] And that, that devastated me. [00:35:53] Jarrett: Yeah. [00:35:53] Nilah: And so from a very young age, I was like, wow, I have to get better at this cuz that's embarrassing. And so from five or six years old, I was just making this conscious effort to study and practice and be better at art. And my first subjects were animals cuz that's what I was interested in.[00:36:16] We had this magazine series called ZooBooks. And it was full of photos and illustrations of animals. And I would copy these, copy this art and learn animal anatomy from that. Later we got cable and I would watch discovery channel. And then I could see like animals in motion, and I love the Peanuts.[00:36:39] I love Charlie brown and Snoopy taught me how to draw animal toes. As a kid, I was, I would draw them wrong. And I knew they looked wrong, but I didn't know why. And so I would look at Snoopy's feet and how Charles Schultz drew Snoopy's feet. And I started drawing my feet more like that.[00:37:01] And... eventually, I came to understand why the way I was drawing feet before was wrong, anatomically and like that really, that really helped me take my drawings to the next level.[00:37:15] Jarrett: Yeah. [00:37:15] Nilah: And so it wasn't until much later that I really made the connection between animation and my own drawing, I just like watching cartoons and, I also love to draw.[00:37:27] And so as I got older, I, I did process drawing as a storytelling tool and would start drawing, drawing my own stories. And much, much later I got into anime, and... Also Disney started putting out those, like "Making-Of" specials [00:37:52] Jarrett: Yes! [00:37:53] Nilah: Where they talked about how they made animated films.[00:37:57] And that's when I started to learn; " Oh, people are drawing these movies." And that made, that kind of bridged things for me that you can, like that people make comics, people make animated cartoons, like people make children's books. And, I didn't understand where those illustrations came from or anything, but like seeing the process helped me connect the dots like; "Oh, I, as a person can also do this. I can, create stories with art."[00:38:30] Jarrett: And so growing, coming up then. You had art supplies you were drawing and what were your parents' reaction to that? Do they, they thought it was cute and then you'll outgrow it? Or what was that? What was that dynamic like for you? [00:38:51] Nilah: Oh, they thought it was real cute. My dad actually was known as an artist for a while.[00:38:56] He was in the military and I think... I'll have to ask my mom this. I think the story is that he actually considered going to college for art and he went into the military instead. And...[00:39:12] Jarrett: Those are two vastly opposite things![00:39:15] Nilah: Yeah. [00:39:16] Jarrett: Right?[00:39:16] Nilah: Yeah. And so he could draw as a kid, I found some of his some of his old sketches.[00:39:21] And he had a life drawing book, and he did a mural down in the basement that terrifies my nieces, now! It's this pirate face on this cinder block wall in the basement. And I guess when my nieces were growing up, this terrified them and they still don't like it. But so my dad drew and that's something I learned a little later.[00:39:45] It's not really people saw me drawing and they were like; "Oh, your father drew too." And so I learned about it that way. [00:39:52] Jarrett: Wow. [00:39:53] Nilah: My mom was a teacher, and so she would bring home reams of paper for me, and pencils, and drawing was a way to keep me quiet. So when we're at church or when we're out in public, she would just hand me and my brother like drawing supplies and we would go to town and, we would...[00:40:16] Be behaved. And so she, she liked that aspect of it. And then I got a little older and I would keep drawing and that fascinated small children. So it also kept other children quiet.[00:40:35] Everybody, everybody was like; "Yeah, Nilah! Keeping the peace, keeping everyone disciplined!" And that's all, it was for a long time until I was in high school. And I said; "Hey, I think I wanna go to art school." And then things took a turn [00:40:47] Jarrett: And they were like; "Wait a minute."[00:40:49] No, exactly. That's always the interesting thing, where it's supported. And then and it, what I've come to, to learn since years have passed since I was that age, that it comes from love. It comes from fear. Which is love for the kid of how is this kid gonna grow up to support themselves?[00:41:09] Nilah: Yeah. [00:41:10] Jarrett: Especially if it's a world that the parent or caretaker doesn't fully understand or know. Where and maybe and could be read between the lines, but, I don't never knew your dad never didn't know his childhood, but he chose what you know, was more, would be a more practical path.[00:41:25] So while that, that, like history was echoing in you then getting to that age and you went to art school, did you went to college to study art? [00:41:33] Nilah: I did. Yeah. [00:41:34] Jarrett: What, and what was your study? What did you study when you were there? [00:41:36] Nilah: Computer animation. [00:41:39] Jarrett: Oh yeah. And so animation was your... animation was like, that was your goal then?[00:41:43] Nilah: Yeah. [00:41:44] Jarrett: Yeah. [00:41:44] Nilah: Yeah. That was ever since I was 13. That was the end game for me. [00:41:50] Jarrett: And then, so you went to, you went to college and then you graduate from college and I'm sure your parents were like; "And now do you go to work at an office? Do you get a pension? Do you get a, do you get a 401k?" [00:42:02] Nilah: Yeah they didn't understand it for a long time.[00:42:04] And it didn't really materialize for a long time. And my mother was always very honest that she could offer me no advice. Cause vice cause when she was growing up, a black woman in the forties and fifties and sixties, she would say there were three options for us. Be a nurse, be a house cleaner or be a teacher.[00:42:27] And she picked teaching. Nowadays women and black women in particular have so many more options. And I would call home about my internal struggle about what I should be doing. And she'd be like; "Yeah, that sounds hard." [00:42:43] Jarrett: But she's, " I have nothing for you because I haven't walked that path,[00:42:46] other than, being a black woman who's dealt with society." And so... Right. Exactly. And so there, so yeah, there must have been so much fear. Obviously eventually... Oh yeah. You assuage those fears because you became very successful.[00:42:59] You became the first... [00:43:00] Nilah: So... [00:43:00] Jarrett: Yeah. Oh, go ahead. Go ahead. [00:43:01] Nilah: Yeah. Yeah. [00:43:02] The thing, so basically, my, my parents could never stop me. From doing what I was gonna do. And they both knew that. So they put the pressure on, but ultimately, the reason I ended up going to art school is... So we, we tried an animation, like an art trade school, art institutes, and that didn't work out.[00:43:27] And so I went with my mom's plan and did the whole four year college thing. I actually studied journalism and public relations. And when I finally went to Ringling College and studied animation, like I was an adult, I, at that point had a job. I had my own money. I had my own credit. And at this point my parents couldn't stop me.[00:43:52] So I went to art school under my own power and they just had to sit back and wait and see how things turned out. And yeah, there was a lot of fear and totally legitimate fear because we live in this culture that really doesn't support the arts as a career. [00:44:12] Jarrett: Yeah. [00:44:12] Nilah: Even now it's really hard to be an artist because, it's hard to get paid what we're worth. We're, we're still fighting this like societal image of artists as poor and free loaders and just an unnecessary expense. We're in a society where the arts in schools and arts foundations are constantly being defunded, and people don't really understand how much art and design impacts their everyday lives.[00:44:44] And and then, on top of that I think when you're a marginalized person, like your parents are always looking at where, what are the jobs? Where are the careers that people that look like us are thriving. And. That was not entertainment for black people. You don't see, you didn't see black people in those Disney specials. You... And nevermind that I was growing up on the east coast and we really didn't have an entertainment culture here, at least not in TV and film. Yeah. It's different in if you're growing up in California and you're surrounded by studios, who's working in those studios, but here, like there was no window to see where somebody with an animation degree could get a job.[00:45:29] Jarrett: And it's all, it is also, different when you're white, like growing up, I never had a search for characters that looked like me. I never had a search for seeing those specials. And so even though I was on the east coast, I was like; "Oh that's something I can do."[00:45:43] Nilah: Yeah. [00:45:44] Jarrett: But when growing up obviously that's ingrained if you don't see it. And because of your parents lived experience, there were, so there was, so the odds were so stacked against their daughter's favor and they want you to be happy and they want you to be healthy and they want you to succeed.[00:45:59] But you were UN you were unstoppable, you were just kept at it. And you had this love of art and story and you said, you, you said you studied journalism as well. So was like, what was your first paid gig as someone who put words on a paper? Was it journalism? Was it for a newspaper.[00:46:16] Nilah: It was journalism. It was, I think it was a food review. I think it was a restaurant review. Yeah. I worked toward the arts and entertainment department of a Western Maryland newspaper chain, which no longer exists sadly. But I got this job while I was in college. They were looking for interns and I got the internship.[00:46:38] And while I was interning the, the editor who hired me was like; "By the way, do you wanna do some writing?" And, looking back I'm like, what was the other part of this internship? Cuz all I remember is the writing. Like they, they definitely asked me to write in addition to interning, but I don't remember what the interning part was.[00:47:01] I do remember. The early writing gigs. And she was just like; "Hey, why don't you try doing a couple of food reviews?" And that was really cool. I got to go to restaurants and review, write a review. [00:47:12] Jarrett: Yeah. [00:47:13] Nilah: And then that summer there was there, was like a regime change at the paper and my editor rage quit.[00:47:22] And I was like; " I guess that's it for that job!" And so I was like that was fun. I worked for the newspaper for a few months. And then the editor who took our place called me and was like; "Hey, so I found your name on this list of freelance writers. Do you wanna keep writing for us?" And I was like; "Yeah, sure!"[00:47:45] and so he kept feeding me jobs and I didn't review restaurants again, but he would send me out to review gallery openings and to talk to local musicians and I speak to like local, owners of dance companies and theater companies and just this wide array of things. And I, my mom bought me a car cuz it was freaking her out.[00:48:10] I was basically walking around town at night to get to these jobs. And so she bought me a car. So I wouldn't do that. And so I was driving all around, Maryland, reviewing, like writing for this paper. And I did that for two years, through my junior and senior year of college. And then after I graduated and I did it up until the point that I got a full time job and just didn't have time anymore.[00:48:35] And yeah.[00:48:37] Jarrett: Moms are gonna mom forever. Never not gonna be your mom. Never not gonna be your mom looking out for you. And so you know that - granted you were pursuing degrees, but... it sounds like that was also like a whole other master's degree in, in learning about the arts. So you were studying... [00:48:54] Nilah: Yeah.[00:48:54] Jarrett: You were studying the stories of so many people who were you self-employed or making a go at, making a living via a non-traditional means. It's true. You must have met so many interesting people. I can't even, I'm sure that just yeah. Soaked into the fabric of who you became.[00:49:10] So what was your fulltime job? You said you had a full-time you said you had a full-time job. So you left that. What was your full-time case? [00:49:15] Nilah: I was a marketing writer for a health nonprofit. [00:49:20] Yeah. Sounds exciting. Was that super exciting? [00:49:24] Yes... [00:49:24] Jarrett: No? [00:49:25] Nilah: It was amazing. No, it was. So it was in like the DC Metro area and the commute was very long.[00:49:33] It was 70 minutes, one way. Ooh. On the DC beltway. And I'd have to leave home at, what, 4:30, 5 in the morning to get there before rush hour. And it was, it was a fine gig. This nonprofit runs a trade show. I think they do it every other year in Chicago. So while I was there, I got to go to Chicago and help coordinate this giant trade show which was actually that part was really cool.[00:50:03] It was, it was a fine job. It taught me, about the corporate space. It was pretty close to what I went to school to do. And they paid me well for a nonprofit. Like I had a competitive salary. It was, it was my first taste of money. [00:50:22] Jarrett: Yeah. Which is important to pay for things.[00:50:25] Nilah: Yeah.[00:50:25] Jarrett: like your basic needs and enjoyment for sure. [00:50:30] Nilah: And, at the time I was outlining this future and marketing and PR and that was gonna be it. But wow. I still, I still had this bug where I wanted to draw and write and working in marketing wasn't fully fulfilling it. And so I decided I wanted to give it another go.[00:50:52] I wanted to, I started just like poking at, looking at art programs, just, experimentally and ended up applying a lot faster than I thought I would and ended up going a lot faster than I thought I would. [00:51:11] Jarrett: And is that for a master's degree? Is that...[00:51:13] Nilah: No, a bachelor's. [00:51:15] Jarrett: For oh, for a bachelor's![00:51:16] Nilah: I have two bachelors and it feels so pointless.[00:51:21] Jarrett: Oh, here I am thinking like... Oh, I, my, like I'm always concerned. I'm not being a good listener... No, you went and got a second bachelors. [00:51:28] Nilah: I went and got a second. No one needs two bachelors.  [00:00:00] Jarrett: So hold up, you went and got a second bachelor's degree. Like...[00:00:05] Nilah: I went and got a second bachelor's.[00:00:07] Jarrett: And in what? So your first bachelor, your first bachelor's was in computer animation. [00:00:12] Nilah: My first bachelor's was in... Communications. [00:00:17] Oh...[00:00:18] Yeah.[00:00:19] Jarrett: I see. Then yeah. Two bachelors, but they're completely different.[00:00:22] Nilah: Completely different. [00:00:23] Jarrett: And what a different experience too, of being, an older student you're not fresh out of high school, you I'm sure you, your approach to the academics and what you were learning were so different, right? [00:00:35] Nilah: Yeah. Honestly, I was an older student both times.[00:00:39] I, I skipped a year when I when I graduated high school, me and my mom fought over the art school thing. And then I ended up not going to college that first year. And so I was older when I went to that first four year college, hood college. It was actually a women's college at the time.[00:00:56] So I was entering, I think at 19 instead of 18. And then when I went to Ringling, I was 25. So I was... Much, not the oldest adult student there, but I was older than all the 18 year olds coming in. Yeah. And it, it definitely, it's a different perspec- perspective for sure. This was not my first career attempt, it wasn't, at 18, like there's so much pressure to choose a career, choose it now and go to college for that career and stay in that career.[00:01:28] So you can pay back those student loans. And I didn't have that. I, animation was like I had my plan B already. I had my fallback career. Like I had my degree in marketing that I could always fall back on if the animation thing didn't work out. So animation was just like a fully like personal choice that I was making.[00:01:52] Jarrett: Yeah. [00:01:53] Nilah: Everything I did at that point, I, I did it as, a fully consenting adult. [00:01:58] Jarrett: And you, so then you had your second graduation and your family; "Didn't we do this seven years ago?" And... [00:02:05] Nilah: Yeah. [00:02:05] Jarrett: So you're like launching into the world a whole second time. That's like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly twice.[00:02:12] Yeah. [00:02:13] Nilah: Yeah. It was very it was very interesting. [00:02:16] Jarrett: Yeah! [00:02:16] Nilah: But... [00:02:17] Jarrett: Yeah so you, but you wow, but amazing that you had the foresight to say; "Okay, let me reset. Let me really follow the passion." Like you...[00:02:27] Nilah: Yeah. [00:02:27] Jarrett: And you learned a lot in that corporate space too, because we're artists.[00:02:31] But we still have to deal with the corporations who publish the work or help promote the work. So what was your, so then what was your first paid gig after getting a degree in animation? [00:02:42] Nilah: My first paid gig was in publishing because I couldn't get an animation job. I entered Ringling at the start of the recession.[00:02:50] Leading up to 2006, 2007, all of the feedback coming out of Ringling was come to this school and you'll get a high paid job in animation and... [00:03:06] Jarrett: Speaking of marketing. [00:03:10] Nilah: Right. And then I entered Ringling that, that year, 2007, And like we're in school, we're just watching on the news, all the jobs dry up.[00:03:24] Jarrett: Oh. [00:03:24] Nilah: And so it was basically for all of us, it was like this three or four year, wait to see, will there be jobs when we get out. And for me there wasn't. So my first job out of Ringling, I graduated in 2010, was a publisher in Maryland. And I was falling back on my previous career for that, I had, because of my earlier experiences, I had the credentials for this job.[00:03:56] I stayed for seven months. It was, it was a position that ended up being, not as advertised. And... [00:04:06] Jarrett: Yeah, yeah. [00:04:07] Nilah: And during this year that I was home was, it was difficult. My aunt died that year. And so my family needed me at home, but also so it reignited that fear my mom had of me leaving.[00:04:24] And so I was really trying to stay in Maryland. And at the same time, like there was just this thought in my head that I hadn't given animation, like a full try. Like I was trying to find work while being at home. Cuz I, I had nowhere else to go knowing that all of the work was in California. And no one would hire me here in Maryland, because most places they wanted someone right away.[00:04:59] And like, why hire someone in Maryland and wait for them to move out when you can just hire one of these thousands of people hanging around LA looking for work. So I ended up just packing all my things into my car and moving to LA that summer 2000 that fall 2011. And so at this point I'd been out of school for over a year and still did not have a job in animation.[00:05:31] And I was writing completely on my savings and the savings. Once I got to LA the savings dried up very quickly, I was completely broke and I was applying everywhere. And getting, getting nowhere. I got so desperate that I was applying for retail and that wasn't working out either. I couldn't, it was so dry.[00:05:55] I couldn't even get a retail job. I applied for a, an unpaid internship and I didn't get that either. I couldn't even get a job where I worked for free. And I was ready to throw in the towel, but I didn't have enough money to afford to move back home.[00:06:20] Jarrett: You couldn't afford to even buy the towel to throw it at that point.[00:06:23] Nilah: Yeah. [00:06:24] Yeah. Like my mom start, my mom was paying my rent. [00:06:27] Jarrett: Yeah. [00:06:28] Nilah: And she could have barely afford that. Like my parents were both retired and in January, 2012, I... I happened to see a listing on Ringling's job website for a little company in Burbank. And I got an interview there. They were, they did mostly live action work, but they were hiring their first in-house artist.[00:06:58] And the company was run by Florida state alums. I think it's Florida state. I can't remember now wow it's been a while, but oh, that's embarrassing if they watch this. But they had this Florida connection. So they, when they were hiring for this position, they decided to put a listing on the Ringling job site because Ringling is also in Florida, and I got the job.[00:07:26] Jarrett: Yes![00:07:26] Nilah: And that was my first LA job. It was the company is called Soapbox Films. and at the time they were doing a lot of like marketing and live action production, mainly for Disney. So if you ever heard of like Movie Surfers in like the early two thousands, I think they, the Disney channel had this program called Movie Surfers and Soapbox, like back in that day, Soapbox was the one developing that.[00:08:01] Jarrett: Yeah. [00:08:02] Nilah: They do a lot of production with the Muppets. They're one of a handful of studios in LA that are equipped to work with the Muppets. [00:08:10] Jarrett: Whoa. That's not an easy thing to get.[00:08:13] Nilah: Yeah, and they do what is called toolkit for animated films. Toolkit is like just it's a package of assets that the studios will use to advertise their animated films and to develop toolkit.[00:08:32] You need a storyboard artist and that's what they hired me for. [00:08:39] Jarrett: That's fantastic. So now you're getting paid to draw pictures that tell stories. [00:08:44] Nilah: Yeah. [00:08:44] Finally getting paid, just draw pictures. [00:08:47] Jarrett: You're on your way moving right along Fozzie and Kermit saying as they're driving across country. [00:08:52] Nilah: Yeah. [00:08:53] Jarrett: Oh man. And so that must have, that must have led to other things, right? [00:08:57] Nilah: It allowed me to stay in LA. [00:08:59] Jarrett: Yeah. [00:08:59] Nilah: They were, this was this was the conflict My time at Soapbox was great. I stayed there for three years, but it wasn't, it allowed me to tread water in Los Angeles, but it wasn't a stepping stone really to the next thing, because everything that I did there was so specific to what Soapbox did.[00:09:24] It didn't translate well to other jobs at other studios. So I couldn't use anything I was doing there in my portfolio. So if I wanted to, if I wanted to work in TV and film, which was still the goal, I had to develop my portfolio pieces outside of work. At this time I was, I had my day job at [00:09:50] Soapbox, but I was also still figuring out what is my career though.[00:09:55] Yeah. And there were times like I'd go through this cycle at Soapbox where I would try really hard to get out. So I'd be submitting my storyboarding portfolio to other studios and nothing would materialize. And I'd give up after six months and I'd say, you know what, let me just hunker down and focus on my time here at Soapbox.[00:10:17] And maybe this can become a long term career. And so I would really like put all of my energy into being like the best Soapbox employee I could be. And then after six months, I'd be like; "I can't take this. I can't do this anymore. I have to get out." And so I'd re-up and put all of my energy into storyboard portfolio stuff and try again.[00:10:43] And I did this for three years and meanwhile I fell into comics in children's books a little bit. Cause at this point, I was so desperate for money I was so desperate. Like I was just like clinging on by my fingernails. And I just needed something to work. And so I was, utilizing the skills I had, which were basically writing and drawing.[00:11:11] And I started a web comic and I started, I joined society of children's book, writers and illustrators, so I could learn how to make children's books. And I was doing picture book dumies and trying to write novels and looking for an agent and drawing this web comic in my spare time outside of Soapbox.[00:11:34] And, also, putting storyboard portfolios together. And so I did this for three years and then finally in 2015, everything changed. I submitted my web comic to the Dwayne McDuffy award for diversity and won that. I... [00:11:55] Jarrett: And hold on. You were the inaugural winner too! [00:11:58] Nilah: I was the inaugural winner.[00:12:00] Jarrett: You were the first person ever to win that award. [00:12:02] Nilah: It was bonkers. Yeah. I, and I was so used to losing at that point that and the competition was so stiff. I was like, I got nominated. And I was like that was a fun experience, but I'm never gonna win a little web comic with a very small following is not gonna win against all these like actual comics.[00:12:28] I was up against Ms. Marvel, and I believe Shaft by David Walker, and Hex 11. And I was just like, that's the end of the road. And, but it won MFK one. [00:12:41] Jarrett: Yeah. [00:12:41] Nilah: And it, it was the start of a very different... It was the start of things for me. [00:12:47] Jarrett: Yeah. Yeah. And and I do think film, and graphic novels, they do have a lot in common.[00:12:53] I look to film to inspire how I, I write my graphic novels and yeah. I have to say so a couple months ago, I was just, just binge watching some shows on Disney plus and they have this show that's about the history of Marvel. And then there was one episode about the women of Marvel and the women who've written for Marvel and how certainly they were there in the beginning, but they weren't necessarily writing the stories.[00:13:18] They were, they, it was everything back then in the world of comics, like most of the world too, and most of the country was, chauvinistic. And so I'm just watching and I'm so fascinated hearing these stories of these pioneers. And then you pop up on the show. I was like, wait a minute.[00:13:36] I don't need to see the, I didn't need to see the little name at the bottom. Like I know that's Nilah. And you became the first black woman to write for Marvel comics. [00:13:47] Nilah: Isn't that bonkers, like... [00:13:50] Jarrett: It is bonkers! Tell me about that. Tell me about your mom's reaction because there is something you said in something you'd said in the show was something about your back in the day.[00:14:05] Was it like your mom's was your mom's friends giving her flack or something? [00:14:09] Nilah: Oh yeah. [00:14:10] Yeah. I don't even know if I've told my mom that I'm the first black writer for Marvel, because some things I say about my career just mean nothing to her. [00:14:18] So... But... [00:14:21] Jarrett: Like I said: moms are gonna, mom.[00:14:23] Nilah: Moms are gonna mom.[00:14:24] Jarrett: No matter what.[00:14:26] Nilah: But, I didn't realize the extent of this coming up, but when I decided to go down this path like my mom's older black lady, friends in, Maryland middle class, Maryland were really judgey about it. And like one of them once asked me because I, the art school thing had not yet materialized.[00:14:46] And she was like; "Oh, so are you finally over that art hobby yet?"[00:14:51] Jarrett: Oof. [00:14:53] Nilah: And I, I didn't realize this either, but there's this other family friend that we don't speak to anymore. And I thought that we just drifted apart, but turns out like going to art school was like a point of contention for her.[00:15:08] Jarrett: Wow. [00:15:08] Nilah: And. And it's such a weird thing to think about that she would distance herself from our entire family over, over a personal choice that I made. [00:15:17] Jarrett: It's not witchcraft! It's not witch... I mean like sacrificing rabbits on the full moon or something. I don't...[00:15:24] Nilah: Right.. It's, yeah, but... [00:15:27] Jarrett: Wow. Wow. [00:15:29] Nilah: So like my mother, wasn't telling me about this.[00:15:33] She wasn't telling me that like her friends were coming down hard on her and she had to defend me [00:15:41] Jarrett: Wow![00:15:41] Nilah: And defend my choices. But when I started working for Dreamworks and Disney, she finally got her vindication, cuz she would say; "Hey, my kid works at Disney now." And they understood that. [00:15:55] Jarrett: Yes they, they certainly did.[00:15:57] Nilah: Yeah. [00:15:57] Jarrett: And run us through some of your credits of, cause I know you from the book world and I know that you've done stuff for Dreamworks and Disney, but what kind of jobs have you done over these years? [00:16:07] Nilah: So I was a storyboard revisionist on Dino Trucks at Dreamworks, and Dino Trucks is a Netflix show.[00:16:17] You can watch it on Netflix. It's just what it sounds like. It's dinosaur trucks. And it's based on a children's book.[00:16:23] Jarrett: And it's based on a children's book. You can't escape now. We're bringing you over just the same. You're in this publishing game too! [00:16:32] Nilah: At Disney, I hopped onto Tangled, the series. [00:16:36] Jarrett: Oh.[00:16:37] Nilah: Which is based on the movie. [00:16:38] Jarrett: Yeah. We love that show in my house. What did you do then? [00:16:41] Nilah: Yeah. [00:16:41] Jarrett: What did you do on the show? [00:16:43] Nilah: I was also a storyboard revisionist there. And so storyboard revisionists... They're basically the support team for storyboard artists. So they, the storyboard artists do their thing and storyboard revisionists help make sure that the storyboards are ready for the next process in the pipeline.[00:17:04] Jarrett: Okay. [00:17:05] Nilah: So we it's a lot of drawing. It's a lot of support drawing just to, to tighten things up for the animators. God what happened next? I was a writer for Cannon Busters produced by LaSean Thomas. [00:17:21] Jarrett: Wow.[00:17:22] Nilah: I was a writer for Polly Pocket.[00:17:27] Jarrett: Nice. [00:17:27] Nilah: Which is based on... [00:17:29] Iconic!. [00:17:30] Yeah. Yeah. Poly pocket is still around [00:17:33] Jarrett: Iconic. That's wild. Yeah. And you illustrated the Rick Riordan and Heroes of Olympus books too. [00:17:42] Nilah: Yeah![00:17:43] Jarrett: Goodness like that is huge. For you, you don't get bigger in publishing than Rick Riordan. [00:17:50] Nilah: It's true. Yeah.[00:17:52] Jarrett: And, And animals and fantasy. And you illustrated the covers for our friend Daniel Jose Older, the Dactyl Hill Squad books.[00:18:01] Nilah: That was my first time drawing dinosaurs in my life. [00:18:05] Jarrett: Really? I, would've never known that. I had never known that. [00:18:08] Nilah: Aside from Dino Trucks, but that was a very different thing. [00:18:11] Jarrett: Yeah. Those are more trucks than dinosaurs, right? Yeah. [00:18:13] Nilah: Yeah. It was wild. Like I had to learn dinosaur anatomy. [00:18:18] Jarrett: And so where in, where did all of that did Marvel come calling? [00:18:21] Nilah: So back in 2016, I think it all happened very fast. This was after the Dwayne McDuffy award and I never got a clear answer on how they found me. It might have been Twitter, but an editor from Marvel reached out one day and said; "Hey, would you like to write a short story for us on this new series called the Year of Marvels?" And they pitched a Rocket Raccoon -Tippy-Toe Squirrel team up and of course animals.[00:18:59] Jarrett: Yeah. [00:19:00] Nilah: So...[00:19:00] Jarrett: It's your wheelhouse! [00:19:01] Nilah: Yeah. Yeah. So I took it of course. And that kind of got things rolling. Once you're, once you write for a Marvel you're in the Marvel family. So...[00:19:09] Jarrett: Yeah. [00:19:10] Nilah: I didn't, I did that and didn't, work with them for a long while after that. And so it just so happened. I didn't know this at the time I was completely unprepared. But that ended up being their first writing credit by a black woman. And so 70 years into Marvel's history and it was just this little short di

After a few weeks of personal shit getting in the way, we're back! It's Cowboy Bebop and Cannon Busters. We also have a lot of catching up to do, so: 3, 2, 1, Let's Jam.

Lucas Cantor is a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and speaker.He has worked in NBC's music department for the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Athens, Torino, Beijing, Vancouver, London, Sochi, Rio, and Pyeong Chang. He won two Emmys for the Olympics (2008 and 2012). Lucas co-produced Lorde's cover of Everybody Wants To Rule The World on the Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack.Lucas Co-Wrote the theme song for Major League Soccer on Fox with Dan MartinezLucas delivered a TEDx talk on the subject of Artificial Intelligence and creativityLucas is the Chief Composer at the Melbourne Deep Learning Group at the University Of Melbourne, AustraliaHe composed music for the Netflix Anime Cannon BustersHe finished Schubert's 8th Symphony (the unfinished symphony) with the help of AI. The full symphony was premiered in London at Cadogan Hall.He's the composer for Wu-Tang In Space. A collaboration between Impossible foods, and the Wu-Tang Clan.He currently writes music for DreamWorks Animation's Spirit: Riding Free and for Cannon Busters (coming in 2019), both on Netflix.He wrote the theme and background music for the LA Times Podcast: The Reel.In 2017, Lucas scored the A Rotten Holiday featuring Disney's Descendants.He was the orchestra composer and conductor for the Kenzo X H&M fashion show in October 2016.In 2014 and 2015, he was the musical director of The Lyric Project, a musical presented by ASCAP.In 2014, he was the executive producer of Score!, an orchestral concert of music for television presented by ASCAP and the Television Academy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to Toon Lore Done Right! You can call me Dave the Tutor and today I will be tackling Anime for the first time on the show, Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood! Well almost first, I did already do Cannon Busters, which was made by an African American man who has experience working in anime studios. At any rate, on this episode we dive into the dark, philosophical and action packed world of FMAB. Full Metal Alchemist is one of those anime, along with Samurai Champloo and Cowboy Bebop, that just has a way of connecting to traditionally non-anime watchers. FMAB takes us through an emotional journey of love, loss and sacrifice as the Elric brothers try to find the fabled philosophers stone! As we talk about there themes let's find out if you should skip it, try it, watch it or binge it! Be sure to follow me on the socials and leave a review! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ToonLoreDR Anchor support: https://anchor.fm/toonlore Leave a review online: www.ToonLoreDR.com/reviews Twitter: @ToonLoreDR Instagram: @ToonLoreDR Facebook: Facebook.com/toonlore Follow my blog where I sometimes post things at https://toonlore.wordpress.com/ Black light: Sean Tate Instagram - @Seantate_seanime Shirt designs - Happy 2nd Birthday To Us! - Blerd Extra links: The Philosophy of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood – Wisecrack Edition - YouTube Alchemy - Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood Narration - YouTube --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/toonlore/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/toonlore/support

Lucas Cantor is a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and speaker.He has worked in NBC's music department for the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Athens, Torino, Beijing, Vancouver, London, Sochi, Rio, and Pyeong Chang. He won two Emmys for the Olympics (2008 and 2012). Lucas co-produced Lorde's cover of Everybody Wants To Rule The World on the Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack.Lucas Co-Wrote the theme song for Major League Soccer on Fox with Dan MartinezLucas delivered a TEDx talk on the subject of Artificial Intelligence and creativityLucas is the Chief Composer at the Melbourne Deep Learning Group at the University Of Melbourne, AustraliaHe composed music for the Netflix Anime Cannon BustersHe finished Schubert's 8th Symphony (the unfinished symphony) with the help of AI. The full symphony was premiered in London at Cadogan Hall.He's the composer for Wu-Tang In Space. A collaboration between Impossible foods, and the Wu Tang Clan.He currently writes music for DreamWorks Animation's Spirit: Riding Free and for Cannon Busters (coming in 2019), both on Netflix.He wrote the theme and background music for the LA Times Podcast: The Reel.In 2017, Lucas scored the A Rotten Holiday featuring Disney's Descendants.He was the orchestra composer and conductor for the Kenzo X H&M fashion show in October 2016.In 2014 and 2015, he was the musical director of The Lyric Project, a musical presented by ASCAP.In 2014, he was the executive producer of Score!, an orchestral concert of music for television presented by ASCAP and the Television Academy.In 2013, he was the composer for The Devotion Project, a series of short films about LGBTQ couples.

Welcome to Toon Lore Done Right! You can call me Dave the Tutor and today I have something special. What do you get when you combine an appreciation for anime, a passion for animation, a love for the black experience and a Netflix deal? Well, in this case you get Cannon Busters! The brain child of Veteran animator LeSean Thomas, Cannon Busters has a storied production history before ultimately landing on Netflix. Come hang out as we take a dive to get the TLDR on a predominantly black and brown anime. So if you like nerdy, blerdy, anime and pop culture stuff both nostalgic and new then you are in the right place. Toon Lore Done Right drops bi-weekly with dope content so to keep up with everything, follow me on instagram and twitter at ToonLoreDR and join my Patreon at patreon.com/toonloredr. - Website: Toon Lore Done Right: podcast (toonloredr.com) -Patreon members get bonus episodes - Patreon link: Dave the Tutor is creating Podcasts | Patreon - The linguistics behind the southern accent: (5) A Quick Lesson on Southern Linguistics - YouTube - Filmation mini documentary :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IauV2h2d84U - Black light: Find Dr Norton Therapy on instagram @drnortontherapy - Host: David Devine Hughes --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/toonlore/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/toonlore/support

In this episode we review the disaster known as Cannon Busters as well as all the kickstarter drama that comes with it. As always we thank you for listening.   Be sure to follow us on Twitter and Facebook @shonenandsuds

The BOTCB Gang welcome Hollywood film composer Lucas Cantor to the show! Lucas Cantor is a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and speaker. He has worked in NBC's music department for the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Athens, Torino, Beijing, Vancouver, London, Sochi, Rio, and Pyeong Chang. He won two Emmys for the Olympics (2008 and 2012). Lucas co-produced Lorde's cover of Everybody Wants To Rule The World on the Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack. Lucas Co-Wrote the theme song for Major League Soccer on Fox with Dan Martinez Lucas delivered a TEDx talk on the subject of Artificial Intelligence and creativity Lucas is the Chief Composer at the Melbourne Deep Learning Group at the University Of Melbourne, Australia He composed music for the Netflix Anime Cannon Busters He finished Schubert's 8th Symphony (the unfinished symphony) with the help of AI. The full symphony was premiered in London at Cadogan Hall. He's the composer for Wu-Tang In Space. A collaboration between Impossible foods, and the Wu Tang Clan. He currently writes music for DreamWorks Animation's Spirit: Riding Free and for Cannon Busters (coming in 2019), both on Netflix. He wrote the theme and background music for the LA Times Podcast: The Reel. In 2017, Lucas scored the A Rotten Holiday featuring Disney's Descendants. He was the orchestra composer and conductor for the Kenzo X H&M fashion show in October 2016. In 2014 and 2015, he was the musical director of The Lyric Project, a musical presented by ASCAP. In 2014, he was the executive producer of Score!, an orchestral concert of music for television presented by ASCAP and the Television Academy. In 2013, he was the composer for The Devotion Project, a series of short films about LGBTQ couples. NOT AN EPISODE TO MISS!!! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cerealboxpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cerealboxpodcast/support

In Our Debut Episode we cover all things YASUKE!! Yasuke is the netflix adaptation of the historical figure known throughout Japan as the only black Samurai to exist that served under Oda Nobunaga during the Sengoku Period. In this episode we highlight LeSean Thomas, the creator of Yasuke who has worked on everything from The Boondocks Seasons 1 and 2, as well as another one of his own original anime series Cannon Busters. We will breakdown everything from the story within Yasuke as well as the Art and action scenes, to also discussing Oscar nominee Lakeith Stanfield making his voice over debut portraying the legendary samurai! We also touch on the slick soundtrack in Yasuke, executive produced by the Master Musician Otaku himself, Flying Lotus! We also don't forget to shoutout our favorite "Dragon Ball Durag" nerd Thundercat singing smooth vocals on the Intro track and definitely setting the vibe of the show for the rest of the ride! We'll be getting into all this and more Nerds! So WAKE UP! It's Time for ANIME SUNDAYZ! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anime-sundays-podcast/support

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Broadway star Kimberly Marable chats with Adrienne about her Broadway journey from Disney's The Lion King to Hadestown. More about Kimberly: KIMBERLY MARABLE is an original cast member of HADESTOWN on Broadway where she understudies Persephone and a Fate. Additional Broadway/Touring credits include THE LION KING where she understudied Nala & Shenzi, THE BOOK OF MORMON, SISTER ACT, DREAMGIRLS, HAIRSPRAY, and THE WEDDING SINGER. You can hear her as Lorelai in the Netflix Anime series, CANNON BUSTERS, and as a promotional voice for ABC, The CW, and CBS Sports. She has appeared on CBS' FBI & BULL, NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concert series, and numerous television specials, including the 85th & 93rd Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parades and the 73rd Annual TONY Awards. In 2012, Kimberly co-founded Broadway Serves, an affiliate program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, which provides theater professionals with community service opportunities. She serves on the Advisory Committee for the Actors Fund's Looking Ahead program, and recently joined the Board of Trustees for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. @misskimizzo

Our guest today is the amazingly talented Rolonda Watts. She ruled the airwaves in the late 90's on TV, and still does today, through podcasting, voice acting, teaching classes and so much more! We covered her entire career from tip to tail, how she started, her keys to success, what drives her, and how she brings all of that passion to everything she does, plus much more!For almost four decades now, her name, face, and distinctive voice have been known by audiences everywhere, thanks to her many award-winning works in television, radio, film, digital media, voice acting, stand up comedy, and her award-winning romance suspense novel, DESTINY LINGERS, endorsed by Dr. Maya Angelou.  Most know her by one name, Rolonda, under which she launched her own internationally syndicated talk show (1994-1998), produced by King World Productions and her company, Watts Works.  Before that, Rolonda was a news reporter and anchorwoman at New Jersey Nightly News before moving to New York City where she was an investigative new reporter and anchor woman for WNBC, WABC Eyewitness News, Inside Edition, and then TV mogul Roger King made Ro an offer she couldn’t refuse; her own internationally syndicated TV talk show, ROLONDA!, which you can still watch today on The Rolonda Watts Channel on YouTube!Ro’s deep, rich, and raspy voice is one of the most recognized in the business. Her clients include, Divorce Court, the Judge Joe Brown Show, CNN, Google, Tropicana, Wells Fargo, Alka Seltzer, Boeing, Orencia, Lego's City Adventure, Madagascar, Kulipari: Army of Frogs, Cannon Busters, The Proud Family, The Invincible Fight Girl, Tyler Perry's Medea's Tough Love, and for close to two decades now, Ro has voiced the role of Professor Wiseman on Curious George. In video games, Rolonda voices Kraken Warrior Priestess, Illaoi, in the billion dollar game, League of Legends.openmicguest@gmail.comBe sure to follow us on social media for all the latest podcast updates!Twittertwitter.com/@brettsopenmicIGinstagram.com/brettsopenmicFacebookFacebook.com/openmicpodcastwww.brettallanshow.com

Lucas Cantor is a two-time Emmy winning composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and speaker. He's composed music for the Olympics, Cannon Busters and Spirit: Riding Free on Netflix, and a variety of other TV and Film projects. He's collaborated with an AI to finish Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, and he co-produced Lorde's cover of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Soundtrack. Lucas is back and we talked about artificial intelligence and the music making process, among other things. You can find all of Lucas' stuff on his website: https://www.lucascantormusic.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/santiagoramones/support

Lucas Cantor is a two-time Emmy winning composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and speaker. He's composed music for the Olympics, Cannon Busters and Spirit: Riding Free on Netflix, and a variety of other TV and Film projects. He's collaborated with an AI to finish Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, and he co-produced Lorde's cover of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Soundtrack. Lucas and I talked about how he got into music, musical influences, morality, and more. Get to know Lucas! You can find all of Lucas' stuff on his website: https://www.lucascantormusic.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/santiagoramones/support

New episodes on the 2nd and 22nd of every month, with interstitial episodes released on the 12th.If you would like to contact us or recommend a series for us to watch/listen/play/otherwise interact with and review you can email us at CopilotsReview@gmail.com or reach us on Twitter at @copilotsreview, or join the Discord or find all of these options at copilotsreview.simplecast.com. Thanks again!Also, even though the social media hype has died down, protests have lessened in frequency and it's no longer "trending"; discrimination based on race is still an issue in our country. THIS is still one of the best places to start if you are trying to get involved and make a positive change.Lastly we want to thank Jessica Kuczynski! She designed our awesome podcast art. You can find her other work, her shop or commission her for original art at her website jessicakuczynski.com or at her twitter.

Yes, the episode title is a big Daft Punk reference, kind of obvious. But this is also a sendoff in a different way, as while we give our thanks to the acclaimed French electronic music duo for their years of excellence, we are also sending Andrew off on this show as he will be undergoing a bit of a “training arc” of sorts for a little while. But he wanted to be on for these last two shows we did, to both groan at the CR Anime Awards and also give a verbal smacking-down to Sentai for their “interesting” executive decisions as of late. And on top of that, we also take a little trip “around the world” to see how some countries are handling certain shows on the line (read: not very well), we discover who the new Kishibe Rohan is and how the old one reacted to it (read: not very well), and we also take a look at a pair of ComicFesta shows that serve as the answer to “well it’s somebody’s fetish I guess.” Make sure to watch High-Rise Invasion on Netflix and laugh at it, too. start – thanks for everything, Fry’s Electronics1:44 – intro7:47 – Daft Punk call it a career after 28 years12:40 – Demon Slayer S2 confirmed for 202120:52 – first look at Mamoru Hosoda’s new film Belle23:38 – the winner of the Rohan Bowl30:04 – Netflix March drops (B: The Beginning, DOTA)37:29 – Netflix and Wit Studio partner for animator academy41:24 – MyAnimeList getting big-name funding47:25 – preamble: American stupidity in 202150:14 – several anime series banned from internet platforms by Russian government55:16 – the wild rabbit hole of bilibili’s advertiser exodus59:51 – Seven Seas and their cold-feet editorializing1:05:52 – a pair of ComicFesta shows coming soon1:09:16 – Tokyo Mew Mew New coming 20221:11:21 – Viz Media books coming in the fall1:25:07 – Mr. Osomatsu dub cast re-announced1:31:54 – more soundtracks on vinyl up for pre-order1:37:47 – The Irresponsible Captain Tylor ultra edition delay1:39:06 – Sentai May home video slate1:43:17 – Sentai acquires BAKI (Netflix)… with a catch1:52:04 – Funimation May home video slate2:00:02 – Discotek April 27th releases2:04:19 – Tokyo Anime Film Festival Awards winners additional audio from:Daft Punk (1993-2021) – “One More Time,” “Human After All”Toonami Midnight Run Special Edition promo Apple Podcasts – https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/podcastona/id1348141210?mt=2Google Play – https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5wb2RjYXN0b25hLnN1cnJlYWxyZXNvbHV0aW9uLmNvbS9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3QSpotify – https://open.spotify.com/show/2JZLO3LfoeHepomejTw4TPiHeartRadio – https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-podcastona-43099114/TuneIn – https://tunein.com/podcasts/Podcasts/PodcastONA-p1249922/Stitcher – https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/podcastona/ Where to find us:Alex – @AuraOfAzureAndy – @MangaMan9000, youtube.com/DubTalkJet – @Divinenega, animationinfinity.comDuelist – @HeartofSword75, youtube.com/DuelistG As always, check out surrealresolution.com for more content, and follow @SurrealReso for more updates on the show, our continued news posts, reviews, and our fellow podcasts.

Gunslingers, Sorcerers, and Giant Mechs, what more can you ask for? The Nerds take a ride in a pink Cadillac named Bessie to the dusty roads of CANNON BUSTERS! The Netflix anime series that throws all the fun of 90’s anime that journeyed to South Korea and back to the Bronx in it’s creation. Bookending our month focusing on Black Artists and Black Art, find out our favorite parts and takeaways on this episode of NERD ON! Be sure to subscribe and follow the show for all future posts... Twitter - @nerdontv Facebook - @nerdontv Instagram - @nerdontv and on iTunes and YouTube BIG thank you to our wonderful partners! Check them out HERE Join The Nerd On! Nation powered by Patreon today to get exclusive content and much more! Donate to the show HERE via PayPal. Every little bit helps. Learn more about Nerd On! HERE

The cold snap in Texas won't stop us! Jasmin's working on borrowed Internet to get things done this week as we guested on Pop Culture Philosophers Live with Robbie! Be sure to check that out on YouTube and give it a thumbs up! This week, there's Star Girl news, we talk the Mortal Kombat trailer, Super Girl has been cast for the Flash film, and Wednesday Addams is getting a live action series on Netflix. Then we have a serious conversation about Black Cotton #1 before wrapping up our Castlevania rewatch with season 3.   Tracklist: 00:50 - Recap of the week: our appearance on Pop Culture Philosophers and Jasmin's trying times in the Texas freeze 13:47 - John Wesley Shipp will guest star on Star Girl 19:53 - Mortal Kombat trailer 24:49 - Sasha Calle cast as Super Girl in Flash film 27:15 - Wednesday Addams gets live action Netflix series, with Tim Burton set to direct 28:31 - Black Cotton #1 review 55:32 - Castlevania Season 3 review 1:28:42 - Mark's recommendation: Nice White Parents podcast 1:30:08 - Jasmin's recommendation: Cannon Busters anime on Netflix   You can follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. 

The crew starts off Black History Month with a breakdown of Cannon Busters. Another week another podcast because we really do this anime $#!t! f you have any recommendations or questions you want to be asked on the show Connect with us at: https://discord.gg/VEgsgxc rogueshogunate.com instagram.com/rogueshogunate facebook.com/rogueshogunate   myanimelist.net/profile/Latt myanimelist.net/profile/DinoPillow   twitter.com/LattXP twitter.com/dinopillow twitter.com/Pakitastic  

Lucas Cantor is a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and speaker. He has worked in NBC's music department for the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Athens, Torino, Beijing, Vancouver, London, Sochi, Rio, and Pyeong Chang. He won two Emmys for the Olympics (2008 and 2012). Lucas co-produced Lorde's cover of Everybody Wants To Rule The World on the Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack. Lucas Co-Wrote the theme song for Major League Soccer on Fox with Dan Martinez Lucas delivered a TEDx talk on the subject of Artificial Intelligence and creativity Lucas is the Chief Composer at the Melbourne Deep Learning Group at the University Of Melbourne, Australia He composed music for the Netflix Anime Cannon Busters He finished Schubert's 8th Symphony (the unfinished symphony) with the help of AI. The full symphony was premiered in London at Cadogan Hall. He's the composer for Wu-Tang In Space. A collaboration between Impossible foods, and the Wu Tang Clan. He currently writes music for DreamWorks Animation's Spirit: Riding Free and for Cannon Busters (coming in 2019), both on Netflix. He wrote the theme and background music for the LA Times Podcast: The Reel. In 2017, Lucas scored the A Rotten Holiday featuring Disney's Descendants. He was the orchestra composer and conductor for the Kenzo X H&M fashion show in October 2016. In 2014 and 2015, he was the musical director of The Lyric Project, a musical presented by ASCAP. In 2014, he was the executive producer of Score!, an orchestral concert of music for television presented by ASCAP and the Television Academy. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/askdpros-business-podcast/message

Today I interview Lucas Cantor of Lucas Cantor Music! Take a Listen! Lucas Cantor is a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and speaker. He has worked in NBC's music department for the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Athens, Torino, Beijing, Vancouver, London, Sochi, Rio, and Pyeong Chang. He won two Emmys for the Olympics (2008 and 2012). Lucas co-produced Lorde's cover of Everybody Wants To Rule The World on the Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack. Lucas Co-Wrote the theme song for Major League Soccer on Fox with Dan Martinez Lucas delivered a TEDx talk on the subject of Artificial Intelligence and creativity Lucas is the Chief Composer at the Melbourne Deep Learning Group at the University Of Melbourne, Australia He composed music for the Netflix Anime Cannon Busters He finished Schubert's 8th Symphony (the unfinished symphony) with the help of AI. The full symphony was premiered in London at Cadogan Hall. He's the composer for Wu-Tang In Space. A collaboration between Impossible foods, and the Wu Tang Clan. He currently writes music for DreamWorks Animation's Spirit: Riding Free and for Cannon Busters (coming in 2019), both on Netflix. He wrote the theme and background music for the LA Times Podcast: The Reel. In 2017, Lucas scored the A Rotten Holiday featuring Disney's Descendants. He was the orchestra composer and conductor for the Kenzo X H&M fashion show in October 2016. In 2014 and 2015, he was the musical director of The Lyric Project, a musical presented by ASCAP. In 2014, he was the executive producer of Score!, an orchestral concert of music for television presented by ASCAP and the Television Academy. https://www.lucascantormusic.com/ https://www.instagram.com/lucasdcantor/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/twopartypodcast/support

Netflix Binge of Cannon Busters Reaction & Review Season 1! Gotta catch up and give props to the man, the myth, the legend... LeSean Thomas. . LeSean Thomas' Netflix Cannon Busters Season 1 Reaction & Review | NERDSoul . Blerdover / Skip 88: https://www.instagram.com/blerdover Covering:. When your mom is your worst fear#NERDSoul #CannonBusters Also:Cannon Busters, Cannon Busters Reaction, Cannon Busters Review, Cannon Busters, Netflix Cannon Busters, Cannon Busters Wrap Up, Cannon Busters Recap, Cannon Busters Season 1, Cannon Busters Season 1 Reaction, Cannon Busters Season 1 Review, Cannon Busters LeSean Thomas, Cannon Busters Kenn Michael, Raising Kamali Minter, Cannon Busters Stephanie Sheh, Cannon Busters Graphic Novel, Cannon Busters Comic, NERDSoul Cannon Busters, ARCKATRON, NERDSoul, Street Geek, Le Ill Kid, OneYoungsta, KUROBrandhttps://kurobrand.com NERDSoulLe Ill Kid @OneYoungstaNERDSoul Online - http://ThatNERDSoul.comPodcast - http://NERDSoul.Podbean.com/On Twitch TV - https://Twitch.tv/ThatNERDSoulMerch - http://Shop.ThatNERDSoul.comContact - Hello@ThatNERDSoul.com Become a NERDSoul Patron!Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/ThatNERDSoul On Facebook - https://facebook.com/ThatNERDSoulOn Twitter - https://twitter.com/ThatNERDSoulOn Instagram - https://instagram.com/ThatNERDSoulOn Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/thatnerdsoul ABOUT NERDSoul:NERDSoul, by Le Ill Kid @OneYoungsta, is that intangible fresh--that 70's soul mixed with comics, some sci-fi fantasy, movie geekery, topped off with the Golden Era of Hip Hop. I've developed NERDSoul over the years as a StreetGEEK, unknowingly by loving Wu-Tang, Justice League, Star Wars, Stevie Wonder and playing D&D after school. NERDSoul comes from that StreetGEEK that can chop it up with the best, while being up on game around the block and Pop Culture. NERDSoul is created by Executive Producer Michael Young IIA/V Production by: A Full Tang Design http://afulltang.design Rest in Power Ali Thievez & Kleph Dollaz. Much Love My Brothas. ABOUT NERDSoul:NERDSoul, by Le Ill Kid @OneYoungsta, is that intangible fresh--that 70's soul mixed with comics, some sci-fi fantasy, movie geekery, topped off with the Golden Era of Hip Hop. I've developed NERDSoul over the years as a StreetGEEK, unknowingly by loving Wu-Tang, Justice League, Star Wars, Stevie Wonder and playing D&D after school. NERDSoul comes from that StreetGEEK that can chop it up with the best, while being up on game around the block and Pop Culture. NERDSoul is created by Executive Producer Michael Young IIA/V Production by: A Full Tang Design http://afulltang.design Rest in Power Ali Thievez & Kleph Dollaz. Much Love My Brothas.

Happy New Years listeners! We’re starting the year off with our first episode of a month of anime with Cannon Busters, Netflix’s original anime and pacing nightmare.

What do you get when you shake Mecha, Weird Western, and Afrofuturism? The gonzo fiction of Cannon Busters. We review the anime, Canon Busters, created by the Bronx-born and Japan-based Black creator LeSean Thomas. We don't know anime, so we get some help from, long-time anime fan,Carmilla.

Kimberly Marable is an original cast member of Hadestown on Broadway where she understudies Persephone and a Fate. Additional Broadway/Touring credits include The Lion King, The Book of Mormon, Sister Act, Dreamgirls, Hairspray, and The Wedding Singer. You can also hear her as Lorelai in the Netflix Anime series, CANNON BUSTERS. @misskimizzo In episode 110, Kimberly chats with NYC-based actress and host Maggie Bera about going from working as a company management intern, to traveling the world on both Equity and non-Equity national tours, booking her very first Broadway show, and developing the hit Tony Award-winning musical, Hadestown. Kimberly also let's us in on how she's staying sane and keeping positive during the pandemic shutdown. Coach with Kimberly by visiting https://www.artistsandbeyond.com/kimberlymarable. To join the Actor Aesthetic Alliance Facebook group, click here. Spread love and don't forget to rate, review and subscribe to the Actor Aesthetic Podcast on your favorite podcast app. Visit actoraesthetic.com for more info. Follow Maggie Bera on social media Instagram: @actoraesthetic / @maggiebera Facebook: www.facebook.com/ActorAesthetic/ Email: maggie@actoraesthetic.com

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Buenas Bros, nuevo programa en el que nos damos gustos hablando, el contenido del mismo es: Noticias: Nuevos personajes en la película de Nanatsu no taizai Promare, nuevo anime de studio Trigger Kanegan Ashura y Cannon Busters, nuevos anime de Netflix Fecha de estreno para la segunda temporada de la serie de Castlevania en Netflix El opening de la 3ra temporada de Shingeki no kyojin será interpretado por X Japan y Hyde. En la sección de qué estamos viendo hablamos de los animes que finalizaron la temporada de primavera 2018, e incluimos nuestras primeras impresiones de los nuevos anime de la temporada de verano que recién comienza. En la recomendación Takeo-kun nos trae Ninja Scroll, volvemos al pasado con un anime viejito pero bonito, una serie que su película se publicó allá por el año 1993 y junto con Basilisk dieron de que hablar en el mundo anime. Esperamos que disfruten el programa y nos comenten mucho. Síguenos en nuestras redes sociales: Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/OtakuBrosPodcast/ Twitter: @Jef_freak Twitter: @OtakuBrosCR Instagram: otaku_bros_podcast Spotify: Otaku Bros Podcast Email: otakubrospodcast@gmail.com

In our “Black Characters in Anime” episode, we talked about LeSean Thomas’ comic book turned anime “Cannon Busters”. This week we watched this nostalgic 90s inspired spaghetti western anime and gave our review of it! You can watch “Cannon Busters” on Netflix.

Welcome back to Anime Savants where we break down the intricacies of the anime you love while also discussing the latest in anime news. This time around we're tackling the psychological action hit Gleipnir and the ever controversial yet eye catching Cannon Busters. Have any feedback? Don't hesitate to let us know! We'd love to respond to some more listener letters! animesavants@gmail.com or Follow us on social media and let us know there! Instagram: @animesavants Twitter: @anime_savants -James: @NeuralHandshake -Jordan: @Jbonnter Youtube: Anime Savants

Today on the Anime Spectacular, Randy Andrews interviews Lucas Cantor.  Lucas Cantor is a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and conductor. He has worked in NBC's music department for the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Athens, Torino, Beijing, Vancouver, London, Sochi, Rio, and Pyeong Chang. He won two Emmys for the Olympics (2008 and 2012).  Lucas co-produced Lorde's cover of "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" on THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE soundtrack. He finished Schubert’s 8th Symphony (the unfinished symphony) with the help of AI. The full symphony was premiered in London at Cadogan Hall. He's the composer for WU-TANG IN SPACE; a collaboration between Impossible foods, and the Wu-Tang Clan. He currently writes music for DreamWorks Animation's SPIRIT: RIDING FREE and for CANNON BROTHERS He wrote the theme and background music for the LA Times Podcast, THE REEL. In 2013, he was the composer for THE DEVOTION PROJECT, a series of short films about LGBTQ couples. In 2014, he was the executive producer of SCORE!, an orchestral concert of music for television presented by ASCAP and the Television Academy. In 2017, Lucas scored the A ROTTEN HOLIDAY featuring Disney's Descendants. A few months back Randy Andrews chatted with Lucas Cantor his career, his introduction to CANNON BUSTERS and how he scored the series. Along the way, you’ll hear music from the anime. Enjoy! —— Check out our NEW Cinematic Sound Radio TeePublic Store! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/cinematic-sound-radio Cinematic Sound Radio Web: http://www.cinematicsound.net Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/cinsoundradio Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/cinematicsound Cinematic Sound Radio Fanfare and Theme by David Coscina https://soundcloud.com/user-970634922 Bumper voice artist: Tim Burden http://www.timburden.com

In light of recent events, the team will be using this episode to discuss some very real themes. Listener discretion is advised. We delve into black representation in anime and discuss our stances on racism, clashes of ideologies and genocides. Please note this episode may contain light spoilers. Be sure to rate and subscribe to the show & follow on our socials:  How to connect: Website: https://animefreshmen.com/ Email: hello@animefreshmen.com  Youtube: @AnimeFreshmen Instagram: @AnimeFreshmen Facebook: @AnimeFreshmen Twitter: @AnimeFreshmen TAGS: Black Lives Matter, Anime, Otaku, Manga, Anime Podcast, Anime Reviews, Pokemon, Black Clover, Attack On Titan, Dragon Ball, Demon Slayer, Bleach, Fire Force, Kengan Ashura, One Piece, Naruto, Dr Stone, Bleach, Hunter x Hunter, Jojo's Bizzare Adventure, Full Metal Alchemist, Vinland Saga, Seven Deadly Sins, Cannon Busters, Afro Samurai, Black Lagoon

We break down what is anime and its main genres. We also talk about the top animes in each category, as well as jump back in time to talk about our first times watching an anime. We also list our favorite animes and offer titles for newbies to check out. Check out the 3Hokages.com for our links for our suggested titles for newbies.

In this WakAnime Nation Podcast episode, listen in to Hisagi and Hooked as we have a discussion about Cannon Busters, one of the new anime's that debuted last year. This is the final episode dedicated to discussing black influences or shows in Anime. Also discussed is our reactions to the Crunchyroll Anime Award results! 

We got so much anime this year! From brand new shows to some great returning seasons and even a few movies, I give a quick recap of some of the best anime this year. This was originally supposed to be a Youtube video but I had some technical difficulties so please enjoy the last podcast episode of the year and thank you so much for sticking with me in 2019! Some Anime Mentioned: The Promised Neverland, Kaguya-Sama Love is War, Dororo, Fire Force, Dr. Stone, Carole and Tuesday, Cannon Busters, given, Vinland Saga Beats: Don't Fight and Fluff by Piklobeats https://soundcloud.com/piklobeats Support the Podcast! https://anchor.fm/animeteapod The Anime Tea Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theanimetea/

This week Jeff, Terrence and KC talk about Video games coming to the Olympics, Nintendo's weird new Ring Fit peripheral, and jump into a spoiler fueled discussion about Cannon Busters at the end of the show! Full video here: https://youtu.be/ml_xqWbChh0 Got questions or topics for us? Reach us at BBETGaming@gmail.com Intro and Outro music provided by Spooks McGhie Song: "Mission" from the Summertime EP

This week, Caleb returns to talk Cannon Busters, Unbelievable, and Girls with Balls.00:01:37 Intro00:09:51 News00:18:27 Quick Hits Ralph Breaks the Internet, Death Note, Cannon Busters00:32:58 Feature Review: Unbelievable00:55:30 Patron Review: Girls With BallsLet us know what you think of this week's show by contacting us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/netflixnswill/Twitter: https://twitter.com/netflixnswillEmail: netflixnswill@gmail.comWebsite: https://www.netflixnswill.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/netflixnswillApple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/netflix-n-swill/id1142744188?mt=2

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It's finally happened - We managed to completely and hilariously de-rail the conversation right in the home stretch of the new Ep! Even though this episode ends in utter disaster, we manage to cover a week's worth of news and reviews for all kinds of great content: Start: The Ronin Gents re-convene for Story Time 9:45 - The current state of Netflix Animation 18:00 - SPOILERS The Boys S1 Review, Part 2/2 52:15 - World of Warcraft Classic Launch 59:00 - FAR: Lone Sails on Nintendo Switch 1:04:30 - Cannon Busters Review 1:08:15 - Rocco's Modern Life returns... with some problems. 1:17:30 - Orna and Pathfinder Updates 1:33:30 - Fire Emblem: Three Houses aka Waifu Simulator 1:46:00 - The MELTDOWN 1:49:40 - Announcements! THANK YOU for any listens, likes and Subs! Please consider donating on Patreon at www.patreon.com/RoninGeekOfficial We are excited to announce our Partnership with SoundsTooth (www.soundstooth.com/) and Channel Four and a Half (www.channelfourandahalf.com/)! Make sure to check out the SoundsTooth App to discover new Comedy Podcasts and Productions. Special Thanks to Landry Miller for making this Partnership possible! Check out the Night Reader Podcast at www.stitcher.com/podcast/knight-reader Now featuring music from Enoch open.spotify.com/artist/13Ueqo1cyp5YLDZ1ZmGXns For more great RG Partner Content, Check out Season 4, Ep 3 of Happy Horror Coffee Break at podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/happ…ow/id1234014779 and Grief Burrito Podcast, Episode 21 at podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/grie…to/id1453899380 Artist I P Lobato on Instagram: www.instagram.com/iplobato/ Artist Loco Nathan on Twitter: twitter.com/maddawgnathan?lang=en We're on Twitter @roningeekery We're on Facebook.com/roningeeknews We're on YouTube at www.youtube.com/channel/UCahJJox3Ty4Bv55zArY4lxA Visit the Gents from RGOP at Windsor Comic Con! Sep 21-22, Caesar's Windsor. Tickets available at www.windsorcomicon.com/ The Podcast is now available on Spotify, iTunes, Google Play, SoundCloud, Castbox, and pretty much everywhere else! Feel free to write in with corrections, feedback and topics you'd like to hear about at roningeekofficialpod@gmail.com (Rob's NEW favourite email) Check out our partners below! SoundsTooth: www.soundstooth.com/ The Shit We Say Pod: @theshitwesay Audio Suplex Live Link: audiosuplexlive.podbean.com/ Ajax Roxx on Mixer at mixer.com/ajaxroxx Check out Grief Burrito Podcast at podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/grie…to/id1453899380 Geek Freaks Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/geek…1383153846?mt=2

The crowd at the Cannon Busters premiere at Otakon. Evan, Clarissa, Gerald, and Daryl are up in front. Evan and David went to Otakon 2016, but David got an early train out of town, so Evan had to settle for a huge supergroup of podcasters and bloggers in this post-Otakon show. Daryl Surat, Gerald Rathkolb, and Clarissa Graffeo from Anime World Order; Alain and Kate from the Reverse Thieves/Speakeasy; and Carl from Ogiue Maniax sit down to discuss their favorite and least favorite parts of Otakon 2016, and the future of the convention as it moves to Washington, DC in 2017. Topics include: accidentally winning eating contests, Koji Morimoto impersonators, and the presumed lowlight of the weekend, the GamerGate panel (“Politics in Video Games”). Direct Download – RSS Feed – iTunes – Send us Feedback! – More episodes Runtime: 1 hour, 25 minutes Show Notes Opening Song: “Blues Machine” by Scott Gratton Some of the guests we discuss include LeSean Thomas (creator of Cannon Busters), Koji Morimoto (producer of Under the Dog, not to be confused with the famous animator of the same name), and Muneki Ogasawara (head of studio Kinema Citrus). Masao Maruyama (founder of Madhouse, head of MAPPA) and Jiro Ishii (writer and creator of Under the Dog) had to cancel at the last minute. Daryl references Erin Finnegan briefly. She’s one half of the now-dormant (and excellent) Ninja Consultant Podcast, but people might not recognize her since they’ve been gone for so long! Twitter: Ani-Gamers, Evan, Gerald, Daryl, Clarissa, Kate, Carl, Alain Daryl, Gerald, and Clarissa host the Anime World Order Podcast. Al and Kate blog at Reverse Thieves and host anime podcast The Speakeasy. Carl blogs at Ogiue Maniax. Evan hosts the Crunchycast podcast on Crunchyroll. Evan, Daryl, Gerald, and Clarissa write for Otaku USA Magazine. Ending Song: “Blues Machine” by Scott Gratton