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Happy Earth Day! Listener favorite Sam Szabo (Comics Will Break Your Balls, The Enlightened Transsexual, The Onion) is back to look at the PG-13 porno comics of Poor Helpless Comics! by Ed Subitzky (NYRC, 2023). Topics include, Heather McAdams' Cartoon Girl, going to the movies, National Lampoon, David Letterman, and so very much more. Sally was minutes away from finding out she had covid while recording AND editing this episode, thank you for bearing with us regarding the sound quality. Thank you kindly to our Elite Cathies, Starscruch and Drawn & Quarterly for supporting this show at the $20/month level- you can access 50+ additional episodes for $5/month over at our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thicklinespod You can read many many MANY comics by Sam over at her patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brainbooger Poor Helpless Comics!: https://www.nyrb.com/products/poor-helpless-comics Heather McAdams info: https://summerpierre.wordpress.com/2015/03/19/where-art-thou-heather-mcadams/
Full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod. What says "Happy 420, Two Days Late" like host and guest favorites, Akbar and Jeff? Sally and Sam Szabo find out what it means to be gay in Regan's America with Akbar and Jeff's Guide to Life by Matt Groening (Pantheon, 1989). This strip continued beyond the book's publication date for another TWENTY THREE YEARS so there's lots more of our favorite couple beyond this episode. Topics include: where the elite meet, American Psycho, Working Girl, learning about color cartoons, fezzes and more. Sally was minutes away from finding out she had covid while recording AND editing this episode, thank you for bearing with us regarding the sound quality. Thank you kindly to our Elite Cathies, Starscruch and Drawn & Quarterly for supporting this show at the $20/month level- you can access 50+ additional episodes for $5/month over at our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thicklinespod You can read many many MANY comics by Sam over at her patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brainbooger Akbar and Jeff's Guide to Life: https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780679726807
Absolute Flash #1 by Jeff Lemire, Nick Robles, and Adriano Lucas, One World Under Doom #2 by Ryan North, R. B. Silva, and David Curiel, El Fuego by David Rubin from Oni Press, Absolute Batman, Assorted Crisis Events #1 by Deniz Camp, Eric Zawadzki, and Jordie Bellaire, Holy Lacrimony by Michael DeForge from Drawn & Quarterly, Thundercats: Lost #1 by Ed Brisson, Rapha Lobosco, and Roshan Kurichiyanil from Dynamite, Gilt Frame, Beat It, Rufus by Noah Van Sciver from Fantagraphics, plus a whole mess more!
Tokyo Alien Bros. Volume 1 by Keigo Shinzo from Viz, The Retirement Party by Teddy Goldenberg from Floating World Comics, Cinder and Ashe by Gerry Conway, Jose Luis Garcia Lopez, and Joe Orlando, Void Rivals, Arcudi O-Rama: Lobo/Mask by Arcudi, Alan Grant, Henry Gilroy, Doug Mahnke, and Ramon Bachs, and Convert by Arcudi, Savannah Finley, and Miguel Go, Plastic Man No More by Christopher Cantwell, Alex Lins, Jacob Edgar, and Marcelo Maolo, Milk White Steed by Michael D. Kennedy from Drawn & Quarterly, Libby & Holly by Winton Kidd, Lady Mayhem by Jenna Lyn Wright and Karl Slominski from Calculated Rebellion, plus a whole mess more!
Processing: 100 Comics That Got Me Through It by Tara Booth from Drawn & Quarterly, New Gods, Absolute Batman, Absolute Superman, Happyland, Rocketfellers, G. I. Joe, Transformers, Batman & Robin: Year One, Illustrators Super Special: The US Warren Artists, Barfly, The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born, Milo Manara's Caravaggio, plus a whole mess more!
Uncle Scrooge and the Infinity Dime by Jason Aaron and a host of supremely talented Italian artists, Cormac McCarthy's The Road adapted by Manu Larcenet from Abrams, Warren Ellis' Scars, Love Addict: Confessions of a Serial Dater by Koren Shadmi from Top Shelf, Destro #1 by Dan Watters, Andrei Bressan, and Adriano Lucas, TMNT: Black, White and Green and Gavin Smith, Second Hand Love by Yamada Murasaki from Drawn & Quarterly, plus a whole mess more!
Image-O-Rama: Ice Cream Man #39 by M. Maxwell Prince, Martin Morazzo, and Chris O'Halloran and G.I. Joe + Destro + Scarlett, Blood Hunt and Union Jack the Ripper: Blood Hunt, Kneel Before Zod by Joe Casey and Dan McDaid, Eden II by Kay Wroten from Fantagraphics and The Great Beyond by Léa Murawiec from Drawn & Quarterly, Ms. Tree, Action Comics, Bea Wolf by Zack Weinersmith and Boulet from :01, plus a whole mess more!
Katie and Sally discuss Love that Bunch by Aline Kominsky-Crumb (Fantagraphics, 1990 / Drawn & Quarterly, 2018). Topics discussed include Amy and Jordan, Heather McAdams, B. Kliban, George Harrison, Lynda Barry, Diane Noomin, Raina Telgemeier, Samantha Irby, Debbie Drechsler, and lots more. Join Katie and Sally for a live show at Partners and Son in Philadelphia, PA on Friday, February 16: partnersandson.com Support the show and get bonus episodes at patreon.com/thicklinespod. Follow us on Instagram @thicklinespod.
Book of the Month: World Without End by Jamie Delano and John Higgins, Image-O-Rama: Duke #1 from Joshua Williamson, Tom Reilly, and Jordie Bellaire, Gunslinger Spawn and Todd McFarlane, and Local Man by Seeley and Fleecs, Danger Street by Tom King, Jorge Fornes, and Dave Stewart, Wesley Dodds: The Sandman #3, Wonder Woman #4, Roaming by Jillian and Mariko Tamaki from Drawn & Quarterly, plus a whole mess more!
Image-O-Rama: Bloodrik #1 by Andrew Krahnke, Petrol Head #2 by Rob Williams and Pye Parr, and Edenwood #2 by Tony S. Daniel and Leonardo Paciarotti, plus X-Men Blue: Origins #1 by Si Spurrier, Wilton Santos, Marcus To, Oren Junior, and Ceci de la Cruz, Inside the Mind of Sherlock Holmes: The Scandalous Ticket by Cyril Lieron and Benoit Dahan from Titan Books, DC-O-Rama: Alan Scott: Green Lantern #2, Wesley Dodds: The Sandman #2, and Birds of Prey #4, The Cliff by Manon Debaye from Drawn & Quarterly, more Midnite Show, plus a whole mess more!
Local Man Tony Fleecs returns to blabber on about Rick & Morty Vs. Cthulhu by Jim Zub, Troy Little, and Leonardo Ito from Oni Press, Longbox Roulette: Action Comics Annual #1 by John Byrne, Art Adams, and Dick Giordano, Stormwatch #44 by Warren Ellis and Tom Rainey, and Leave it to Chance FCBD 2002 by James Robinson and Paul Smith, plus Why Don't You Love Me? by Paul B. Rainey from Drawn & Quarterly, The Tick: The Complete Edlund by Ben Edlund from New England Comics, Almighty #2 by Laroche and Simpson from Image, The Snowcat Prince by Dina Norlund from Oni Press, We Live from the Miranda Brothers and company out of Aftershock, Once Upon a Time at the End of the World, plus a whole mess more!
With his fantastic new graphic novel, Why Don't You Love Me? (Drawn & Quarterly), cartoonist Paul B. Rainey has crafted a deeply human story out of a deeply weird premise, taking the reader from bleak, black humor to the most heartfelt moment of connection. We get into the challenges of serializing this story over 6-plus years, the ways in which science fiction can help us reframe our day-to-day lives, the midlife meltdown that led to the creation of My Imaginary Band, and the ways Why Don't You Love Me? explores what it's like to look at one's life and ask, "How did I get here?" We also talk about the perils of writing a story with such a great twist that it's difficult to talk about (spoiler alert!), the amazing experience of being published by D&Q after years of self-publishing his comics, the amazing experience of getting a blurb from Neil Gaiman, why he's never watched Groundhog Day, how Planet of the Apes either ruined or fulfilled his life, how he finally came around on Krazy Kat, and a lot more. Follow Paul on Twitter and Instagram and check out his shop • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal and via our Substack
Full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod. Sally is joined by autobio cartoonist and illustrator Keiler Roberts on the heels of two her recent Drawn & Quarterly releases: "Creepy" by Lee Sensenbrenner and "The Joy of Quitting." Topics discussed include quitting comics, the illusion of permanence, puppy training, Barbies, and more. See Roberts's Simple Wardrobe video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11Ob0SB_XKU Find more of Roberts's work at keilerroberts.com and on Instagram at @keilerjean. Thank you to our Patreon subscribers for making this episode possible!
Thrud the Barbarian by Carl Critchlow from Titan Comics, the Death, Destruction, Vice, and Sleaze series by Jake Kelly, Dynamite Diva: One Eyed Wild Ride by Jasper Jubenvill from Strangers Fanzine, Simon Hanselmann, Crime & Punishment: Marshal Law Takes Manhattan by Pat Mills, Kevin O'Neill, and company from Epic, Tekno Comix, Manga-O-Rama: Look Back by Tatsuki Fujimoto from Viz and Dandadan Volume 1 by Yukinobu Tatsu from Shonen Jump, Always Never by Jordi Lafebre from Dark Horse, Back Issue #137 from TwoMorrows, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton from Drawn & Quarterly, plus a whole mess more!
Nick Drnaso, acclaimed author of Sabrina, is back with Acting Class, his third book on Drawn & Quarterly. A tapestry of disconnect, distrust, and manipulation, Acting Class brings together 10 strangers under the tutelage of John Smith, a mysterious and morally questionable leader. The group of social misfits and restless searchers have one thing in common: They are all out of step with their surroundings and desperate for a change.With mounting unease, the class sinks deeper into Smith's lessons, even as he demands increasing devotion. When the line between real life and imagination begins to blur, the group's fears and desires are laid bare. Exploring the tension between who we are and how we present, Drnaso cracks open his characters' masks and takes us through an unsettling American journey.Like Sabrina—the first graphic novel short-listed for the Man Booker Prize—Drnaso's latest offering is an extremely sharp study of our everyday existence and how we live. His minimalist comic-drawing style is nevertheless awash in a cinematic haze of melancholy and the color palette is hued in a realism that is uniquely his. A friend handed me Sabrina, several years ago, knowing I was somewhat of an outsider in the realm of underground comic culture, telling me, “You will love the book in the same way you love certain novels.” And he was right.While Drnaso is revered all over the world for his bleak honestness and sly, dark humor, he grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. Although we are of different generations, the subtlety of his style is familiar to me as a fellow Midwesterner and Chicagoan.Notably, this is Big Table's first episode centered around a graphic novel. It's certainly a change from our focus on nonfiction books, but Drnaso's storytelling pulls so effortlessly from real life that one feels his characters are meta comics versions of people encountered in our everyday lives.Here's my conversation with Nick Drnaso discussing his new book, Acting Class.Music by Japan
Chained Soldier Volume 1 by Takahiro and Yohei Takemura from Yen Press, The Filth by Grant Morrison and Chris Weston, Star Trek: Below Decks from IDW, Ginka and Glüna by Shinpei Watanabe from Shonen Jump, Crazy Food Truck by Rokurou Ogaki from Viz, Acting Class by Nick Drnaso from Drawn & Quarterly, plus a whole mess more!
Fantastic Four: Full Circle by Alex Ross and Josh Johnson from Marvel/Abrams Comicarts, How to Make a Monster by Casanova Frankenstein and Glenn Pierce from Fantagraphics, Come Over Come Over by Lynda Barry from Drawn & Quarterly, Batman Vs. Robin, Kali by Daniel Freedman and Robert Sammelin from Dark Horse, The Changeling Volume 1 by Tina N. Lugo from Silver Sprocket, The Least We Can Do by Iolanda Zanfardino and Elisa Romboli from Image, Robin and Batman, plus a whole mess more!
In this episode, we wrap up our True Stories miniseries on nonfiction and autobiographical comics with a look at Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, published by Drawn & Quarterly! Writer and artist Chester Brown (Yummy Fur) chronicles the career of Riel, the Canadian political leader and freedom fighter, in a flat, dispassionate style that holds the reader at arm's length, blunting some of the story's natural drama. The result is nonetheless a fascinating portrait of an important figure in Canadian history. But is that enough to gain entry into that House of Commons known as ... The Comics Canon? In This Episode: The return of The Quizzical Canonical (Canadian bands edition)! Mr. X by Dean Motter The Revolutions podcast 2 versions of 1 song about Louis Riel We Stand on Guard Steve Skroce Join us in two weeks as we review Paper Girls Vol. 1! Until then: Impress your friends with our Comics Canon merchandise! Rate us on Apple Podcasts! Send us an email! Hit us up on Twitter or Facebook! And as always, thanks for listening!
Katie and Sally discuss "Miss Don't Touch Me" by Hubert and Kerascoët (2014, NBM ComicsLit). Topics discussed include Quentin Blake, Edmond Kiraz, The Hours, Schiaparelli, A Little Princess, Beautiful Darkness, Josephine Baker, and more. Special thanks to Drawn & Quarterly for sponsoring this episode. Our Canadian friends can take 40% off Dan Clowes's "The Death Ray" (coming soon on a special Patreon episode) by visiting mtl.drawnandquarterly.com and using code ThickLinesDeathRay at checkout. Support Thick Lines and get bonus episodes at patreon.com/thicklinespod, and follow us on Instagram @thicklinespod.
On today's episode, I talk to comics creator Kevin Huizenga. Originally from South Holland, a small town of Dutch immigrants in the suburbs of Chicago, he attended Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which is where he started drawing the influential mini-comic Supermonster. After moving to St. Louis, Kevin started the comic book series Or Else, the strip Leon Beyond with Dan Zettwoch, as well as his acclaimed series Ganges. Much of Kevin's work has been published by Drawn & Quarterly; he's won five Ignatz awards and been nominated for Harvey and Eisner awards; and he's constantly creating mini-comics which you can get on his website - one of my most recent favorites is his Rumbling series, but you'll never go wrong with anything he makes! This is the website for Beginnings, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, follow me on Twitter.
Milo Minara's The Golden Ass from Humanoids, Lightfall: Book One - The Girl and the Galdurian by Tim Probert from Harper Alley, 32 Stories by Adrian Tomine from Drawn & Quarterly, The Other History of the DC Universe, Solo by Oscar Martin from Titan, Disney Masters V18: Uncle Scrooge - Pie in the Sky by William Van Horn from Fantagraphics, I Am Gonzo My Dirty Italian Zines Fuck Serious Scientific Books from Viaindustriae Publishing, Bolero from Image, The Me You Love in the Dark by Skottie Young and Jorge Corona from Image, plus a whole mess more!
Mycelium Wassonii by Brian Blomerth from Anthology Editions, Trots and Bonnie from New York Review Comics, Destroy All Monsters: A Reckless Book by Ed Brubaker and Sean and Jacob Phillips, Newburn #1, Nocturnals Omnibus and Dan Brereton, The Heroes Union from Sit Comics, We Don't Kill Spiders by Joseph Schmalke from Scout Comics, Dark Knights of Steel #1, Cyclopedia Exotica from Drawn & Quarterly, plus a whole mess more!
In this episode, our Myth Takes miniseries concludes with a story that combines the mythic grandeur of America's pastime with Jewish folklore—The Golem's Mighty Swing by James Sturm, published by Drawn & Quarterly! In the early 1920s, money problems force a traveling Jewish baseball team to agree to a promoter's plan to increase ticket sales: Henry Bell, a Black player pretending to be Jewish, will take the field as a golem, an animated creature from Jewish legend! When racial tensions come to a head during an ugly game in an anti-Semitic town, will the Stars of David make it out alive? And will this powerful tale hit a home run and slide into that All-Star Game of graphic storytelling known as ... The Comics Canon? In This Episode: Sports nerds vs. comics nerds Casey at the Bat Yasiel Puig's hazardous journey to the U.S. The Golem in Marvel's Strange Tales Charley the Australopithecine The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay James Sturm's America: God, Gold, and Golems Jar of Fools by Jason Lutes The Der Golem episode of the Scream Scene podcast Reign of Terror Join us in two weeks as we look toward the Aug. 11 debut of What If ...? on Disney+ with a special What If episode! Until then: Impress your friends with our Comics Canon merchandise! Rate us on Apple Podcasts! Send us an email! Hit us up on Twitter or Facebook! And as always, thanks for listening!
In Pyongyang, Guy Delisle took you inside a North Korean animation studio. In the newly-released Factory Summers, Guy takes us inside the Quebec City paper mill where he worked in his youth. It's Delisle's most personal book to date, and maybe the only one that has something in common with Moby Dick! FOLLOW! Guy Delisle (Writer & Artist: Factory Summers) Web: guydelisle.com Drawn & Quarterly (Publisher, Factory Summers) Instagram: @drawnandquarterly Twitter: @DandQ Web: drawnandquarterly.com . . . BUY THIS COMIC! is the show where YOU keep the vital and vibrant medium of comics alive by infusing it with your hard-earned cash. Buy This Comic! Twitter: @buythiscomic Instagram: @buythiscomic Facebook: @buythiscomic Web: buythiscomic.net Jason Mojica (Host, Buy This Comic!) Twitter: @elmodernisto Instagram: @jasonmojicacomics Music: "You Are A Monster" by Monroeville Music Center, used under a Creative Commons Attribution License
On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum once again catch up on some news! Including the usual serialization news, some industry stuff, a bunch of cool anime and popularity poll news, and so many licenses that they had to pick a select few talk about, but they're all great nonetheless!! Even after all the news, they still take the time to talk about the first chapter of Choujin X, the newest series from Tokyo Ghoul creator, Sui Ishida, and boy was it a first chapter!! This episode of the podcast is dedicated to the passing of Shunsuke Kikuchi, Akira Ito, and Kentaro Miura. Thank you for everything you've given us, and rest in peace. For a complete list of links and Community Shout-Outs included in this episode, please visit this podcast's webpage at: http://all-comic.com/2021/manga-mavericks-ep-162-june-2021-news-simulpub-roundup/ PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:00 - RIP Shunsuke Kikuchi, Akira Ito & Kentaro Miura 12:40 - Intro 14:26 - New Manga from Chie Shinkyu 16:11 - Homura Kawamoto 17:24 - Izumi Miyazono 18:15 - Kazune Kawahara 19:17 - Welcome to the NHK gets sequel 22:01 - Jerome Alquie to draw Saint Seiya comic 22:51 - New Gundam 0080 manga centered on Chris 23:56 - Golden Kamuy enters climax 25:27 - Soloist in a Cage enters climax 26:20 - Tokyo Revengers enters final arc 28:16 - Smile Down the Runway ends with volume 22 28:50 - Zettai Karen Children nearing end 30:27 - Kaguya-sama goes on a one-month hiatus 33:28 - Dadadan will be released on Shonen Jump & Manga Plus starting in August/September 35:09 - Moriking now available digitally 36:33 - Drops of God now all available on comixology 38:15 - Drawn & Quarterly publishes Nazuno Saito short manga collection 42:36 - Floating World Comics to publish Tsuge Tadao's Boat Life 45:09 - Colton's List of Licenses 1:10:16 - Lum's List of Licenses 1:31:05 - Amazia launches Manga Flip app 1:35:03 - Kaiten Books partners with Pathway Book Service for physical distribution of manga 1:36:02 - Yen Press Audio Books 1:38:05 - Kadokawa acquires J-Novel Club 1:40:58 - AT&T to spin off Warner Media for a merger with Discovery 1:43:47 - eBay restrictions on adult anime and manga 1:46:54 - Anime Expo Virtual Event 1:48:24 - Komi Can't Communicate anime debuts this fall 1:50:37 - Lupin the Third Part 6 debuts in October 1:55:57 - '97 Dr Slump anime added to Tubi 2:01:00 - New Dragon Ball Super movie announced for 2022 2:05:38 - Demon Slayer: Mugen Train the 2nd highest grossing anime film in the US 2:11:21 - Japanese Poll Ranking Pokemon anime's Female Protagonists 2:17:28 - Way of the Househusband popularity poll 2:18:04 - Viz Boruto Popularity Poll 2:24:30 - Black Clover character popularity poll interim results 2:27:06 - 2nd Chainsaw Man popularity poll results 2:30:37 - 1st Undead Unluck Popularity Poll results 2:33:25 - One Piece World Popularity Results 2:39:22 - Choujin X by Sui Ishida 2:55:49 - Wrap-Up Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com, and on Youtube! You can also follow the hosts on Twitter at @sniperking323 and @lumranmayasha. If you'd like to help support the show financially you can pledge to our Patreon and receive some awesome rewards like our Patreon-exclusive Bonus pods! If one-time donations are more your speed you can donate to Colton's Ko-fi here and LumRanmaYasha's Ko-fi here, and if you want to support LumRanmaYasha's art and other projects you can follow them @siddartworks on Instagram and Twitter and donate to their personal Patreon. Don't forget to also like and subscribe to us on Youtube and iTunes and leave us reviews to help us curate the show and create better content! Music Featured: Planet Namek, Along with Hope, Vanishes by Shunsuke Kikuchi Tell Me Why by PENPALS Lum no Love Song by Yuuko Matsutani, composed by Akira Ito
A quarterly of reissues from Drawn & Quarterly has offered a fresh opportunity to reexamine King Cat. Not that there's every a bad time to revisit John Porcellino's work. The cartoonist has self-published nearly 80 issues of the series over the past 32 years. The black and white mini comic remains both deeply influential and extremely singular, built from a DIY ethos that informs all of his work, including the Spit and a Half comics distro, which dates back nearly as far. Porcellino's work is hailed for its deeply personal subject matter, coupled with simple line work that distills images down to only the most necessary markings.
Ultimately, The Contradictions serves as an important turning point for both its lead character and author — both, coincidentally, named Sophie. For the fictional Sophie (a college student with more than a few common traits with her creator), the road trip is a journey of self discovery. For Yanow, the book finds her hitting her stride as a storyteller and artist. Prior to the publication of her first book for Drawn & Quarterly, the cartoonist cut her teeth creating comics journalism for a wide range of outlets, including The Guardian and New Yorker. She joins us to discuss making comics, practicing leftist politics and where the two meet.
Sophie Yanow joins Kevin to talk about The Contradictions, her new graphic novel from Drawn & Quarterly. The ContradictionsSophie's Website
Our guest on this illustrative episode of the Popzara Podcast is cartoonist R. Sikoryak, whose work has appeared everywhere from The New Yorker, GQ, MAD Magazine, and The Daily Show, creator of best-sellers Masterpiece Comics and iTunes Terms and Conditions: The Graphic Novel, here to talk about his latest creation: Constitution Illustrated, now available from Drawn & Quarterly. Joining him is our own comics fan Nathan Evans, whose yet to publish any best-selling anything, but has been known to read a few from time to time.
This week, we're talking about the work of Kuniko Tsurita, recently collected and brought to English by Ryan Holmberg, Mitsuhiro Asakawa and Drawn & Quarterly.
Craig Yoe graces us with his presence to discuss the Eisner-nominated Life on the Moon by Robert Grossman from Yoe!/IDW, the upcoming Invisible Men: The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books by Ken Quattro, Unknown Anti-War Comics, John Stanley and Little Lulu, Carl Barks, Marvel, Jim Henson, Harvey Kurtzman, plus we take peeks at The Postman from Space by Guillaume Perreault from Holiday House and You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack: Cartoons from Tom Gauld from Drawn & Quarterly!
Black Lives Matter. Manga Mavericks stands in support of Black Americans and against the systemic racism and violence perpetrated by the police and the U.S. government. There are many ways to help the Black Lives Matter movement, be it engaging in the protests yourselves or by donating to those fighting on the front lines. We’ve included links in the description of this podcast for people to learn more about petitions to sign and places to donate. We’ve donated all of our Patreon earnings from this year and hundreds of our own dollars to Bail Funds and Charities supporting progressive movements for change across the country, and if you can give, we strongly encourage you to do so. Otherwise, you can even watch videos donating all their ad money to charities too. Again, there are many ways to help, and every bit counts. To quote a great moment from The Boondocks: "What do you do when you can't do nothing, but there's nothing you can do?" "You do what you can." In that spirit, we’re also supporting and amplifying Black creatives in our community. We’ll be leaving links to them and their work, and links of where to find other great Black creatives doing great work in this community. Please check all these fine folks out. We’ll also be leaving links to organizations, charities, and petitions to help support Black Lives Matter protests and victims of police brutality. There’s another tragic bit of news we also must address: Zac Bertschy passed away on the week of May 19th, 2020. Zac was the executive editor in chief at Anime News Network, overseeing its editorial department. He was the host of ANNcast, the writer of Vice and Luna, and the original Answerman. He was always, in my eyes, the face, voice, and heart of Anime News Network. We’ll be leaving links to various people’s tributes and memories of Zac, including the final ANNcast, and links to some of the work of his I really appreciated over the years, including Answerman, ANNcast, Vice & Luna, his reviews of Death Parade and Keep Your Hands off Eizouken, and many others. There’s so much to say about Zac Bertschy and the legacy he’s left. But right now, there’s just one thing that I must say: Rest in Peace, Zac. See you over the rainbow. This is a news episode that was delayed and made sort of out of date because of the above stories and others that happened almost immediately after we recorded it in mid-May. Please keep that in mind as you listen through that there’s a lot of parts re-recorded or added on after the fact. That said, we had a lot to cover, including the endings of some popular series, new license announcements, COVID-related delays, Netflix additions, and the titular question on everyone’s mind: Who Did Sesshomaru FUCK?! There’s plenty of news we don’t cover in this episode we’ll get to in a future installment, but it’s good to break these things up anyway lest we have another four-hour long podcast. You can be sure that this will also not be the last time we discuss Black Lives Matter and have conversations on important political and social topics on the show either. What’s going on matters way more than any of the manga we talk about, so while we hope to entertain with our podcast, we also want to make sure we don’t distract from what’s going on in the world and are amplifying voices and causes that matter. Please visit the webpage of this podcast for the list of links we included in this post: http://all-comic.com/2020/manga-mavericks-ep-121-who-did-sesshomaru-fck PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:00 - Black Lives Matter 03:35 - Community Shout-Outs: Black Creatives in our Community You Should Follow 14:14 - Intro & Patron Thank You News: 16:05 - New York Times May List 17:20 - April Bookscan list 22:44 - Demon Slayer’s Ending, Spinoffs, & Circulation Numbers 28:36 - Yuuna of the Haunted Hot Springs ends 30:02 - Bunta Kinami’s RWBY: The Official Manga ends 32:04 - Hinamatsuri ends on July 15th 32:45 - Oda’s One Piece update 34:57 - Boichi will draw an adaptation of One Piece: Ace novels 37:11 - Possible future Shonen Jump delays 39:18 - Golgo 13 goes on its first hiatus in 52 years due to COVID concerns 40:30 - Atsushi Okubo mentions that Fire Force is in its final stretch 41:22 - Akiko Higashimura’s new manga 42:27 - Ryoichi Ikegami’s new manga 43:27 - Fruits Basket The Three Musketeers arc manga launches 2nd season 44:08 - Yen Press will simulpub Fruits Basket: The Three Musketeers & Fruits Basket Another chapter 13 44:33 - Yen Press Star Wars licenses 46:18 - Jujutsu Kaisen & Demon Slayer Gaps Filled in Shonen Jump Vault 48:11 - Kodansha & Vertical release manga digitally on InkyPen 49:03 - Kodansha Comics licenses new manga for digital debut in June 54:36 - Kodansha drops Drops of God volume 12-22 on Comixology 55:38 - Cross Infinite World licenses Hello I Am a Witch and My Crush Wants Me to Make a Love Potion novels 56:40 - Drawn & Quarterly to Publish Yoshiharu Tsuge's Red Flowers, Shigeru Mizuki's Tono Monogatari Manga 59:57 - New Seven Seas licenses 1:15:00 - Tentai Books licenses 1:18:48 - Manga Planet licenses 11 new cat manga 1:24:44 - New Futekiya licenses 1:26:26 - Manga Rock shuts down with launch of INKR comics 1:28:16 - Former Viz exec moves to Netflix 1:28:50 - New Crunchyroll J-APAC Content Strategy Head 1:29:27 - Con cancellations & Virtual Cons 1:32:40 - Anime postponements 1:35:03 - New Prince of Tennis anime 1:36:06 - New InuYasha sequel series: Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon 1:42:48 - Hollywood’s Gatchaman film will tell an “original story” 1:43:44 - Sony developing One-Punch Man film with Venom writers 1:49:35 - Kingdom Live-Action film gets sequel 1:49:56 - Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop remake is already planning its second season 1:51:07 - Netflix Anime Announcements 1:53:47 - One Piece dub resumes 1:54:31 - Crunchyroll dubs resume 1:55:05 - Crunchyroll adds City Hunter 1:55:33 - Discotek licenses 1:58:36 - Shonen Jump Vault Opens Up Free Chapters Every Friday 1:59:21 - Shonen Jump+ Contest 2:00:07 - Tezuka Manga Award 2:02:17 - Goo’s Top 10 Shonen Sunday manga list 2:15:02 - Community Shout-Out: Anime Lockdown 2:16:37 - Wrap-Up 2:23:55 - In Memoriam: Zac Bertschy Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com, and on Youtube! You can also follow the hosts on Twitter at @sniperking323 and @lumranmayasha. If you’d like to help support the show financially you can pledge to our Patreon (patreon.com/mangamavericks) and receive some awesome rewards like our Patreon-exclusive Bonus pods! If one-time donations are more your speed you can donate to Colton’s Ko-fi and LumRanmaYasha’s Ko-fi, and if you want to support LumRanmaYasha’s art and other projects you can donate to their personal Patreon (patreon.com/LumRanmaYasha). Don’t forget to also like and subscribe to us on Youtube and iTunes and leave us reviews to help us curate the show and create better content! And as always, thanks for listening!
Black Lives Matter. Manga Mavericks stands in support of Black Americans and against the systemic racism and violence perpetrated by the police and the U.S. government. There are many ways to help the Black Lives Matter movement, be it engaging in the protests yourselves or by donating to those fighting on the front lines. We’ve included links in the description of this podcast for people to learn more about petitions to sign and places to donate. We’ve donated all of our Patreon earnings from this year and hundreds of our own dollars to Bail Funds and Charities supporting progressive movements for change across the country, and if you can give, we strongly encourage you to do so. Otherwise, you can even watch videos donating all their ad money to charities too. Again, there are many ways to help, and every bit counts. To quote a great moment from The Boondocks: "What do you do when you can't do nothing, but there's nothing you can do?" "You do what you can." In that spirit, we’re also supporting and amplifying Black creatives in our community. We’ll be leaving links to them and their work, and links of where to find other great Black creatives doing great work in this community. Please check all these fine folks out. We’ll also be leaving links to organizations, charities, and petitions to help support Black Lives Matter protests and victims of police brutality. There’s another tragic bit of news we also must address: Zac Bertschy passed away on the week of May 19th, 2020. Zac was the executive editor in chief at Anime News Network, overseeing its editorial department. He was the host of ANNcast, the writer of Vice and Luna, and the original Answerman. He was always, in my eyes, the face, voice, and heart of Anime News Network. We’ll be leaving links to various people’s tributes and memories of Zac, including the final ANNcast, and links to some of the work of his I really appreciated over the years, including Answerman, ANNcast, Vice & Luna, his reviews of Death Parade and Keep Your Hands off Eizouken, and many others. There’s so much to say about Zac Bertschy and the legacy he’s left. But right now, there’s just one thing that I must say: Rest in Peace, Zac. See you over the rainbow. This is a news episode that was delayed and made sort of out of date because of the above stories and others that happened almost immediately after we recorded it in mid-May. Please keep that in mind as you listen through that there’s a lot of parts re-recorded or added on after the fact. That said, we had a lot to cover, including the endings of some popular series, new license announcements, COVID-related delays, Netflix additions, and the titular question on everyone’s mind: Who Did Sesshomaru FUCK?! There’s plenty of news we don’t cover in this episode we’ll get to in a future installment, but it’s good to break these things up anyway lest we have another four-hour long podcast. You can be sure that this will also not be the last time we discuss Black Lives Matter and have conversations on important political and social topics on the show either. What’s going on matters way more than any of the manga we talk about, so while we hope to entertain with our podcast, we also want to make sure we don’t distract from what’s going on in the world and are amplifying voices and causes that matter. Please visit the webpage of this podcast for the list of links we included in this post: http://all-comic.com/2020/manga-mavericks-ep-121-who-did-sesshomaru-fck PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:00 - Black Lives Matter 03:35 - Community Shout-Outs: Black Creatives in our Community You Should Follow 14:14 - Intro & Patron Thank You News: 16:05 - New York Times May List 17:20 - April Bookscan list 22:44 - Demon Slayer’s Ending, Spinoffs, & Circulation Numbers 28:36 - Yuuna of the Haunted Hot Springs ends 30:02 - Bunta Kinami’s RWBY: The Official Manga ends 32:04 - Hinamatsuri ends on July 15th 32:45 - Oda’s One Piece update 34:57 - Boichi will draw an adaptation of One Piece: Ace novels 37:11 - Possible future Shonen Jump delays 39:18 - Golgo 13 goes on its first hiatus in 52 years due to COVID concerns 40:30 - Atsushi Okubo mentions that Fire Force is in its final stretch 41:22 - Akiko Higashimura’s new manga 42:27 - Ryoichi Ikegami’s new manga 43:27 - Fruits Basket The Three Musketeers arc manga launches 2nd season 44:08 - Yen Press will simulpub Fruits Basket: The Three Musketeers & Fruits Basket Another chapter 13 44:33 - Yen Press Star Wars licenses 46:18 - Jujutsu Kaisen & Demon Slayer Gaps Filled in Shonen Jump Vault 48:11 - Kodansha & Vertical release manga digitally on InkyPen 49:03 - Kodansha Comics licenses new manga for digital debut in June 54:36 - Kodansha drops Drops of God volume 12-22 on Comixology 55:38 - Cross Infinite World licenses Hello I Am a Witch and My Crush Wants Me to Make a Love Potion novels 56:40 - Drawn & Quarterly to Publish Yoshiharu Tsuge's Red Flowers, Shigeru Mizuki's Tono Monogatari Manga 59:57 - New Seven Seas licenses 1:15:00 - Tentai Books licenses 1:18:48 - Manga Planet licenses 11 new cat manga 1:24:44 - New Futekiya licenses 1:26:26 - Manga Rock shuts down with launch of INKR comics 1:28:16 - Former Viz exec moves to Netflix 1:28:50 - New Crunchyroll J-APAC Content Strategy Head 1:29:27 - Con cancellations & Virtual Cons 1:32:40 - Anime postponements 1:35:03 - New Prince of Tennis anime 1:36:06 - New InuYasha sequel series: Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon 1:42:48 - Hollywood’s Gatchaman film will tell an “original story” 1:43:44 - Sony developing One-Punch Man film with Venom writers 1:49:35 - Kingdom Live-Action film gets sequel 1:49:56 - Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop remake is already planning its second season 1:51:07 - Netflix Anime Announcements 1:53:47 - One Piece dub resumes 1:54:31 - Crunchyroll dubs resume 1:55:05 - Crunchyroll adds City Hunter 1:55:33 - Discotek licenses 1:58:36 - Shonen Jump Vault Opens Up Free Chapters Every Friday 1:59:21 - Shonen Jump+ Contest 2:00:07 - Tezuka Manga Award 2:02:17 - Goo’s Top 10 Shonen Sunday manga list 2:15:02 - Community Shout-Out: Anime Lockdown 2:16:37 - Wrap-Up 2:23:55 - In Memoriam: Zac Bertschy Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com, and on Youtube! You can also follow the hosts on Twitter at @sniperking323 and @lumranmayasha. If you’d like to help support the show financially you can pledge to our Patreon (patreon.com/mangamavericks) and receive some awesome rewards like our Patreon-exclusive Bonus pods! If one-time donations are more your speed you can donate to Colton’s Ko-fi and LumRanmaYasha’s Ko-fi, and if you want to support LumRanmaYasha’s art and other projects you can donate to their personal Patreon (patreon.com/LumRanmaYasha). Don’t forget to also like and subscribe to us on Youtube and iTunes and leave us reviews to help us curate the show and create better content! And as always, thanks for listening!
On this episode, Joe, Matt, Chris & Tucker talk at great length about Yoshiharu Tsuge's comics in English--both of which just arrived, courtesy of Drawn & Quarterly and the NYRC. The Swamp and The Man With No Talent are up for discussion, and yes, these are books they have a lot of affection for.
Tony Fleecs raids the EOC clubhouse once again, leading the charge through Stig and Tilde Volume 1 Vanishers Island and Volume 2 Leader of the Pack from Nobrow, Jack Kirby's Dingbat Love from TwoMorrows, Doctor Strange: Surgeon Supreme #1, con season OA tips and tricks, Fantagraphics-O-Rama: In a Glass Grotesquely, The Bloody Cardinal, and Violenzia by Richard Sala, Eric Haven's Compulsive Comics and Vague Tales, and Free Sh!t from Charles Burns, Hawkeye: Freefall #1, Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey by Akiko Higashimura from Seven Seas, Michael DeForge's Ant Colony from Drawn & Quarterly, Grendel: Devil's Odyssey and Matt Wagner, plus a whole mess more!
The Witcher, Manor Black from Dark Horse, Hill House: Daphne Byrne #1, TMNT #101 from IDW, Black Water Lillies from Europe Comics, Incoming from Marvel, Antarctic-O-Rama: Teether and B.A.D.A.S.S., Wonder Woman: Dead Earth, The Bad, Bad Place from Soaring Penguin Press, Rick and Morty #30 from Oni, Young Justice #12, The Hard Tomorrow by Eleanor Davis from Drawn & Quarterly, plus a whole mess more!
Book of the Month: Glenn Ganges in The River at Night by Kevin Huizenga from Drawn & Quarterly, Basket Full of Heads #1 by Joe Hill and Leomacs from DC/Hill House Comics, Scenes from an Impending Marriage by Adrian Tomine from Drawn & Quarterly, 2000AD prog 2155 from Rebellion and Judge Dredd's Crime Files, Spider-Verse, Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal, Marauders #1 and Excalibur #1, plus a whole mess more!
This week’s Comics Syllabus podcast features a discussion of Kevin Huizenga’s “The River at Night” (Drawn + Quarterly) ( 35:20 ) with good friend of the podcast Johnny Hall. Johnny and Comics Syllabus host Paul met up at Cartoon Crossroads (CXC) Columbus, had a chance to meet Mr. Huizenga, and talk about this collection of […]
On the return of the Comics Syllabus podcast, we talk about “Hot Comb” by Ebony Flowers (Drawn & Quarterly), a memoir in vignettes about Flowers coming-of-age in the Baltimore area black community as a young woman and her experiences surrounding hair, touching poignantly on race, gender, growing up, family, societal expectations, community, class, identity, and […]
In the first hour or so, we have some fun detailing our spur of the moment lists of Top Five Favorite Funny Animal Comics, plus, in the next hour and change, we go deep on Vérité: Comics For Adults #1 from Comix India/Studio Ekonte, Teen Titans and Deathstroke in The Terminus Agenda, Spider-Man Annual #1, Dark Knights Rising, Through a Life by Tom Haugomat from Nobrow Press, Action Comics #1011-1012, Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers from Drawn & Quarterly, The Walking Dead, plus a whole mess more!
Frank Frazetta, Carl Barks, record-setting art auctions, Mary Shelly Monster Hunter #1 from Aftershock, Gold Digger, LIGHTNING ROUND: Punisher Platoon, Snap Flash Hustle #3, Major X #2-3, Moonshine Volume 2, West Coast Avengers #10, American Carnage #5-6, plus Calamity Kate #2-3 from Dark Horse, DCeased #1, Batman and the Outsiders #1, Sabrina by Nick Drnaso from Drawn & Quarterly, Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt #3-4 from Dynamite!, The Girl in the Bay from Dark Horse/Berger Books, Amy and Jordan by Mark Beyer from Pantheon, Superior Spider-Man #4-5, plus a whole mess more!
After more than 20 years, Seth has completed Clyde Fans, his grand meditation on family, business, and art (Drawn & Quarterly), so let's celebrate with a double-episode! First, Seth & I talk at a live event hosted by the Strand Bookstore, where we get into how his approach to art and storytelling evolved over that 20-year span, the one element he hated keeping consistent throughout the process, why serializing most of the work helped with revision, and how comics have become a subset of his studio process. Then we follow up with a one-on-one conversation during Toronto Comic Arts Festival, discussing his next project, whether he likes organic projects like his Nothing Lasts memoir or more fully formed stories, whether he owns a pair of sweatpants, the realization that he wasn't writing about his father but about himself, the artist's responsibility at the signing table, his decision never to research the real Clyde Fans business, the maddening acceleration of contemporary culture, the one character of his he feels affection for, his dream of writing a play, and plenty more! • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal
The Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference features some of the biggest and best names in Poetry and Literary fiction. So where do Comics fit into that world? Enjoy a series of panels that discuss this very question. First, enjoy a panel sponsored by Drawn & Quarterly featuring award winning Cartoonists Craig Thompson (Blankets/Habibi), Rina Ayuyang (Blame This On The Boogie), James Sturm (Market Day), and Peter Bagge (HATE/Weird Magazine). Then we join a panel of professors who are teaching the craft of comics creation in their Creative Writing programs. Listen in as Sara Leavitt, Jennifer Mervin, and Sandy Longhorn describe their methodologies in the comics classroom.
In the 12th episode of the NüVoices podcast, Alice Xin Liu and Sophie Lu interview Shuilam Wong, who goes by Shui, a comic artist who partnered with Jinna Kaneko to create the Hole in the Wall Collective with Jinna Kaneko. The two high school friends met back up in the city and decided to create their own indie zines (self-published magazines). We talked to Shui about being born in Tokyo and raised in Beijing and London (where she went to Camberwell College of Arts, and where she feels like she belongs to no particular place). We also discussed her artwork, which utilizes broad brushstrokes and a free-form sketch style to depict scenes inspired by a variety of characters in everyday life. Shui notes that her style is partially inspired by Old Master Q (老夫子), a classic Chinese comic. For recommendations, Alice recommends Sexy Beijing (www.sexybeijing.tv), and especially its star and producer, Anna Sophie Loewenberg, a precursor to all the badass females in her life. Sexy Beijing was a project that Loewenberg created with Jeremy Goldkorn and Luke Mines. Sophie recommends Woman World, a graphic novel published by Drawn & Quarterly and based on an Instagram comic about a world without men. Our guest, Shui, recommends yoga and a très noir French Pinocchio comic book by Winshluss.
In 2014, Drawn & Quarterly published Over Easy. It was a story that had been percolating for decades in cartoonist Mimi Pond’s mind, but life, family and the daunting task of actually sitting down to write it got in the way. By the time the cartoonist was ready to pitch the story, the publisher insisted on breaking it up into two volumes. In 2017, the second part, The Customer is Always Wrong, arrived, wrapping up the tale of her time as a waitress in her 20s. These days, Pond is in the midst of researching a new book, having been liberated by the act of actually getting a massive two-volume graphic memoir into the world. This time, however, she’s sought inspiration outside of herself, in spite of her own fascinating history that involves writing the pilot episode of The Simpsons, penning a best-selling book on Valley Girls and writing for the 80s children’s classic Pee-Wee’s Playhouse alongside her puppeteer husband Wayne White.
Four Kids Walk Into a Bank from Black Mask Studios, The Kurdles Adventure Magazine from Fantagraphics, The Birth of Kitaro from Drawn & Quarterly, How to Think When You Draw from The Etherington Brothers, and remembering the great Marie Severin. Enjoy!
Ron writes graphic novels and comics. His works have been published in Highwater Books, Fantagraphics Books, Buenaventura Press, McSweeney's and Drawn & Quarterly and has also appeared in the New York Times, Vice Magazine, Canada's National Post, In this episode, we discuss: Skibber Bee~Bye (2000); The Awake Field (2006), The Cartoon Utopia (2012); Paschal Beverly Randolph, Jheronimous Bosch, Maja D'Aoust, gender fluidity, the Cathors, Western Occult practices, orgone energy, and much more. More Ron is located at http://ronregejr.tumblr.com/.
Another month, another “Previews” catalog to dissect! As always, Mike & Greg start things off with the diverse Green and Purple sections, covering the majority of publishers in one fell swoop. Find out what's coming to comic shops in November (or later) that catches the lads' fancies from publishers like Fantagraphics, Drawn & Quarterly, Viz, Oni Press, Sunday Press Books, and more. Definitely something for everyone in the top half of this two-part September “Previews” walkthrough! Robots From Tomorrow is a weekly comics podcast recorded deep beneath the Earth's surface. You can subscribe to it via iTunes or through the RSS feed at RobotsFromTomorrow.com. You can also follow Mike and Greg on Twitter. This episode is brought to you by Third Eye Comics. Enjoy your funny books.
We’re joined by lovely manga journalist Deb Aoki this week to talk about the changes in the Western manga industry, compare them to the problems in Japanese publishing that are addressed in Shuho Sato’s memoir Manga Poverty, and rejoice over the plethora of recent manga licensing news! Check out Deb’s twitter, professional site and Manga Answerman articles! Remember to send us emails! mangamachinations@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter! @mangamacpodcast Check out our tumblr! http://mangamachinations.tumblr.com Join our Discord server and come talk to us! http://discord.me/mangamac Time Stamps: 00:00:00 - Intro Song: “More One Night” by Chito & Yuuri from Girls’ Last Tour, Opening, getting to know Deb, Deb learning to draw from Dave Throne in Hawaii 00:08:36 - Questions: Deb explains how fans can help get manga localized, discussing what publishers consider when choosing what to publish 00:15:25 - Deb tells us how Japanese publishers still focus on Japan first despite the growth of worldwide manga sales 00:17:55 - darfox wonders what influence a series’ popularity in the west does for new series in Weekly Shonen Jump 00:22:10 - we discuss the grueling process of creating under deadlines and the effect it had the family life of Masashi Kishimoto & Hayao Miyazaki and the health of Osamu Tezuka and Shotaro Ishinomori, Deb talks about the franchising of manga series 00:30:37 - Deb gives her thoughts on the quality of user interface/experience for digital manga readers of comixology/cruchyroll/VIZ, we discuss the growth of comics adapting from a published page format to a more digital friendly layout 00:38:03 - Main Segment One Shot: Manga Poverty, Transition Song: “Shadow and Truth” by ONE III NOTES from ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept., we talk about Shuho Sato’s history with publishers, Sato providing an affordable rental work space for manga artist, the current interest into cultivating online manga stores in Japan, Cork agency, the amount of control manga artist get over their intellectual property, the debt that manga artists accumulate even after success, Felipe Smith having to finance his own assistant, the varying representation of manga artists within manga, how honest and accurate Sato is being about the manga industry, the Japanese version that comes with a manga foreword, how libraries are normalizing comics/manga to the current American society, the Manga Reborn project 01:13:26 - News: brand new manga publisher Denpa Books will be publishing Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji, Inside Mari, PEZ, Maiden Railways, and others 01:17:03 - Deb gives some insight on why the licensing of books like Urusei Yatsura, Baki, Devilman, and The Poe Clan have happened recently 01:23:04 - We talk about the business potential of bringing over Japanese theatrical adaptations of manga/anime, Deb’s says Haikyu!! over The Prince of Tennis 01:28:38 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST “Prologue”, Deb hated Shibuya Goldfish but is looking forward to Witch Hat Atelier 01:30:32 - dakazu clarifies his thoughts about Spicy Cafe Girl to darfox, darfox has become a mega fan of Kaiji 01:36:52 - Deb really likes Investor Z despite the ugly artwork, One Punch Man season 2 is coming in Spring of 2019 01:41:27 - Seamus has read a collection of Masahiko Matsumoto manga that has simple art but mature storylines, Deb suggests the upcoming Yoshiharu Tsuge book from Drawn & Quarterly 01:44:38 - dakazu finds the popularity of pretty boy serial killers of Satsukare a little disturbing 01:47:28 - Next Week’s Topic: One Shot of Nijigahara Holograph by Inio Asano, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “wish men” by sunbrain from Beet the Vandel Buster
Anime Expo and San Diego Comic Con happened as per the annual July tradition, and with them comes a ton of news we need to talk about. From major licensing acquisitions to remarkable industry achievements, this episode runs the gamut of every monumental piece of news to come out of this month. With the sheer quantity of things to talk about, we’re lucky this episode didn’t run four hours long like our previous news-focused episode did! PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:22 - Intro & LumRanmaYasha’s Brief AX Report 04:00 - June 2018 Bookscan list 9:10 - Dr. Stone popularity poll 18:45 - Comico cancels Recovery of an MMO Junkie due to author’s health 19:55 - Sweetness and Lightning ends 21:07 - Dorohedoro ends in September 22:42 - Kengen Ashura ends in August 24:07 - Citrus ends in August 25:10 - Atsuo Ueda launches Fairy Tail sequel 26:28 - Comixology offers first American comic to be simulpublished in Japan 28:57 - Comixology debuts BECK and Seven Shakespeares manga from Harold Sakuishi 31:05 - Fantagraphics licenses Moto Hagio’s The Poe Clan 32:32 - Media Do licenses Baki 38:33 - Drawn & Quarterly to publish collected works of Yoshiharu Tsuge 41:45 - Udon Licenses FLCL art book & Mega Man X manga 43:23 - Dark Horse licenses Elfen Lied 46:31 - Crunchyroll Manga AX licenses 48:31 - J-Novel Club’s AX licenses & Announcements 57:50 - Kodansha USA AX licenses 1:06:50 - Seven Seas AX Licenses 1:14:26 - Yen Press AX Licenses 1:27:55 - Viz Media AX & SDCC Announcements 1:42:42 - Rumiko Takahashi inducted into the Eisner Hall of Fame 1:45:40 - My Brother’s Husband wins an Eisner 1:47:30 - Otakon to host Shoji Kawamori 1:49:10 - Studio Trigger launches Patreon 1:51:28 - Kill la Kill: IF game news 1:53:05 - Ichigo, Rukia, & Aizen join Jump Force 1:55:10 - New Anime Song Streaming Service AniUta! 1:56:40 - Sunrise is making a live-action Gundam film 1:57:45 - Children of the Sea gets a movie 1:59:45 - Final Evangelion film finally has a release date 2:00:57 - Dragon Ball Super film is about BROLY, will debut in U.S. theatres in January 2:04:22 - MHA movie opens in the US in September 2:05:41 - I Want to Eat Your Pancreas will get theatrical screenings in the US 2:06:46 - 2nd Heaven’s Feel film screens in the US in 2019 2:07:26 - Fireworks grosses over 500,000 dollars in U.S. theatrical run 2:08:56 - Attack on Titan’s theatrical screening earnings 2:10:56 - Attack on Titan Season 3 premieres on Toonami on August 18th 2:11:15 - Bungo Stray Dogs gets season 3 2:12:42 - Crunchyroll Expo to premiere Rising of the Shield Hero anime 2:14:08 - Anime Fest @ NYCC 2:16:48 - Wrap-Up Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com,and now on Youtube! You can also follow the hosts at @sniperking323 and @lumranmayasha. If you’d like to help support the show financially you can donate to Colton’s Ko-fi here and LumRanmaYasha’s Ko-fi here. Don’t forget to also like and subscribe to us on Youtube and iTunes and leave us reviews to help us curate the show and create better content! We take your suggestions and feedback very seriously and want to figure out more ways to reach out and interact with you guys, so please leave some responses! On our next episode we’ll be discussing the classic Shonen Jump manga Shaman King by Hiroyuki Takei, celebrating its 20th anniversary! We’ll be joined once again by Maxy Barnard, who considers Takei’s magnum opus one of his all-time favorite manga! If you have any Shaman King-related comments, questions, or discussion topics you’d like us to talk about, please send them our way either in the comments below, in our Discord server, commenting in the Manga Mavericks thread on Animation Revelation, tweeting them to us, or by sending an e-mail to mangamavericks@gmail.com! And as always, thanks for listening!
Anime Expo and San Diego Comic Con happened as per the annual July tradition, and with them comes a ton of news we need to talk about. From major licensing acquisitions to remarkable industry achievements, this episode runs the gamut of every monumental piece of news to come out of this month. With the sheer quantity of things to talk about, we’re lucky this episode didn’t run four hours long like our previous news-focused episode did! PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:22 - Intro & LumRanmaYasha’s Brief AX Report 04:00 - June 2018 Bookscan list 9:10 - Dr. Stone popularity poll 18:45 - Comico cancels Recovery of an MMO Junkie due to author’s health 19:55 - Sweetness and Lightning ends 21:07 - Dorohedoro ends in September 22:42 - Kengen Ashura ends in August 24:07 - Citrus ends in August 25:10 - Atsuo Ueda launches Fairy Tail sequel 26:28 - Comixology offers first American comic to be simulpublished in Japan 28:57 - Comixology debuts BECK and Seven Shakespeares manga from Harold Sakuishi 31:05 - Fantagraphics licenses Moto Hagio’s The Poe Clan 32:32 - Media Do licenses Baki 38:33 - Drawn & Quarterly to publish collected works of Yoshiharu Tsuge 41:45 - Udon Licenses FLCL art book & Mega Man X manga 43:23 - Dark Horse licenses Elfen Lied 46:31 - Crunchyroll Manga AX licenses 48:31 - J-Novel Club’s AX licenses & Announcements 57:50 - Kodansha USA AX licenses 1:06:50 - Seven Seas AX Licenses 1:14:26 - Yen Press AX Licenses 1:27:55 - Viz Media AX & SDCC Announcements 1:42:42 - Rumiko Takahashi inducted into the Eisner Hall of Fame 1:45:40 - My Brother’s Husband wins an Eisner 1:47:30 - Otakon to host Shoji Kawamori 1:49:10 - Studio Trigger launches Patreon 1:51:28 - Kill la Kill: IF game news 1:53:05 - Ichigo, Rukia, & Aizen join Jump Force 1:55:10 - New Anime Song Streaming Service AniUta! 1:56:40 - Sunrise is making a live-action Gundam film 1:57:45 - Children of the Sea gets a movie 1:59:45 - Final Evangelion film finally has a release date 2:00:57 - Dragon Ball Super film is about BROLY, will debut in U.S. theatres in January 2:04:22 - MHA movie opens in the US in September 2:05:41 - I Want to Eat Your Pancreas will get theatrical screenings in the US 2:06:46 - 2nd Heaven’s Feel film screens in the US in 2019 2:07:26 - Fireworks grosses over 500,000 dollars in U.S. theatrical run 2:08:56 - Attack on Titan’s theatrical screening earnings 2:10:56 - Attack on Titan Season 3 premieres on Toonami on August 18th 2:11:15 - Bungo Stray Dogs gets season 3 2:12:42 - Crunchyroll Expo to premiere Rising of the Shield Hero anime 2:14:08 - Anime Fest @ NYCC 2:16:48 - Wrap-Up Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com,and now on Youtube! You can also follow the hosts at @sniperking323 and @lumranmayasha. If you’d like to help support the show financially you can donate to Colton’s Ko-fi here and LumRanmaYasha’s Ko-fi here. Don’t forget to also like and subscribe to us on Youtube and iTunes and leave us reviews to help us curate the show and create better content! We take your suggestions and feedback very seriously and want to figure out more ways to reach out and interact with you guys, so please leave some responses! On our next episode we’ll be discussing the classic Shonen Jump manga Shaman King by Hiroyuki Takei, celebrating its 20th anniversary! We’ll be joined once again by Maxy Barnard, who considers Takei’s magnum opus one of his all-time favorite manga! If you have any Shaman King-related comments, questions, or discussion topics you’d like us to talk about, please send them our way either in the comments below, in our Discord server, commenting in the Manga Mavericks thread on Animation Revelation, tweeting them to us, or by sending an e-mail to mangamavericks@gmail.com! And as always, thanks for listening!
This episode, Will, Zack, and Ben discuss Nick Drnaso's SABRINA from Drawn & Quarterly, Brian K. Vaughn and Marcos Martín's BARRIER from Panel Syndicate, Jason's LOST CAT from Fantagraphics, and Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki's THIS ONE SUMMER from First Second.
Image-O-Rama: Vs. #1 by Ivan Brandon, Esad Ribic, and Nic Klein, The Beef #1 by Richard Starkings, Tyler Shainline, Shaky Kane, and John Roshell, Slots #5 by Dan Panosian, and Savage Dragon #232 and #34 and 35 by Erik Larsen (with an assist from Mike Mignola), Bloodbourne #1 by Ales Kot, Piotr Kowalski, and Brad Simpson from Titan Comics, Hostage by Guy Delisle from Drawn & Quarterly, All-New All-Different Wolverine, Valiant's Bloodshot movie, Rob Liefeld's Extreme Universe and NetFlix, The Best We Can Do by Thi Bui from Abrams, Niourk by Stefan Wul and Olivier Vatine from Dark Horse, the 24 Stories anthology, plus a whole mess more!
In this episode, we speak with cartoonist R SIKORYAK about his latest book, THE UNQUOTABLE TRUMP, from Drawn & Quarterly. We discuss his career, his thoughts on activism, the variety of places he's been published, and the wide world of literature and comics he has managed to mush together, recontextualizing both in the process. TOPICS INCLUDE: Hostess Twinkies, X-Ray Specs, Picasso, and RAW. The CBLDF Podcast is part of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund's ongoing education program, made possible in part with a donation from The Gaiman Foundation, and member support. More information can be found at cbldf.org
Illustration, Professional Practices, the Hazards of Perfectionism and MORE with “Skim” & “This One Summer" co-author Jillian Tamaki. Check out her new book “Boundless” with Drawn & Quarterly. BONUS: series regular Morgan brings us some new & interesting foods to try.
Cartoon Utopia and What Parsifal Saw (Fantagraphics Books) Join surreal cartoonist Ron Rege Jr. (The Cartoon Utopia) and author Maja D'Aoust (The Secret Source) as they discuss alchemy, spirituality, and the blending of magic and science for modern audiences. They will read from The Cartoon Utopia as well as his new graphic novel, What Parsifal Saw, both of which include texts written by D'Aoust and illustrated by Rege. Bring a little magic into your life with this book release event. Ron Regé, Jr began self publishing & distributing his own comics in Cambridge, MA during the early 1990’s. His first Graphic Novel Skibber Bee~Bye was published by Highwater Books in 2000. Since then he has published books with Drawn & Quarterly, McSweeney’s, Buenaventura Press, and Fantagraphics Books. The Cartoon Utopia, originally released in 2012 is out now in paperback along with his newest collection What Parsifal Saw. He lives in Los Angeles. Maja D'Aoust is a practicing Witch who performs public rituals and gives educational lectures. Maja's interest in Alchemy, magic and the esoteric sciences spans her entire lifetime. After completing her Bachelors degree in Biochemistry, Maja studied oriental medicine, martial arts and acupuncture, later earning her Masters degree in Transformational Psychology. Maja worked for 11 years as the librarian of Manly P. Hall's Philosophical Research Society. Author of several books, journal articles and blog content Maja writes and is a visual artist. Currently Maja is starting a public educational non-profit 501 c-3 called The Well Wishers which focuses on teaching wellness and esoteric sciences to the community.
It’s the Comic Con Wrap-Up Special and Chris gets dives into all the collected edition and reprint Eisner Award Winners: Best U.S. Edition of International Material Winner: Moebius Library: The World of Edena, by Jean “Moebius” Giraud et al. (Dark Horse)Best Archival Collection/Project--Strips (at least 20 years old) Winner: Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy, Colorful Cases of the 1930s, edited by Peter Maresca (Sunday Press)Best Archival Collection/Project--Comic Books (at least 20 years old) Winner: The Complete Wimmen’s Comix, edited by Trina Robbins, Gary Groth, and J. Michael Catron (Fantagraphics)Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism Winner: The A.V. Club comics coverage, including Comics Panel, Back Issues, and Big Issues, by Oliver Sava et al., www.avclub.comBest Comics-Related Book Winner: Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and White, by Michael Tisserand (Harper) ...and even more news and announcements from San Diego including the new Berger Books imprint and The Originals Expanded Edition by Dave Gibbons at Dark Horse, Star Wars Adventure (IDW), more Bone books from Jeff Smith, Kevin Eastman is Kickstarting a semi-autobiographical comic, Drawn & Quarterly announced at Comic-Con this week plans to publish new editions of comics by Aline Kominsky-Crumb and Julie Doucet, Marc Guggenheim Attached to Swords of the Swashbucklers, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark Returning to Comics, The Shadow/Batman Volume 2 and DC’s new GN format, Superman by Frank Miller and John Romita jr., Moore, O’Neill to conclude ‘League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’ with The Tempest, Both Avery Hill Publishing and Breakdown Press, two respected UK publishers, have announced upcoming graphic novels and comics for the Fall, and the classic pulp Amazing Stories in digital format.
Images for this episode (starting 7/17, 9am EDT): http://wp.me/p42KN3-EDD On this week’s Comics Syllabus podcast, Paul and writer/poet/teacher/podcaster Rachelle Cruz talk about “Uncomfortably Happily” by Yeon-Sik Hong (translated by Hellen Jo), out recently from Drawn + Quarterly. After an introduction to Rachelle and her work, they delve into this autobiographical tale of a period of Korean manhwa artist Hong’s life when he and his wife moved out of big-city Seoul and into the mountains, maintaining their marriage, life in the countryside, and the travails and triumphs of a creative life together. Rachelle helps to shed light on why this deceptively simple work has been celebrated by Korean audiences and yet speaks to widely appealing themes. But first, in the opening “General Ed” segment, part 2 of this month’s “The Wait List” segment, where Paul discusses some of the hardcovers, trade paperbacks, and collections coming out over the next couple weeks with “trade-waiter” and casual comics fan Sonny (who also happens to be Paul’s brother). Paul and Sonny mention releases from the 3rd week of July (19th): “Mighty Thor Premium HC v3” ‘Asgard Shi’ar War’ (Marvel), “Ms Marvel v7” ‘Damage per Second’ (Marvel), “Palookaville” #23 by Seth (D+Q), and “Punisher v2” ‘End of the Line’ (Marvel); and releases from the 4th week of July (26th): “By Chance or Providence” by Becky Cloonan (Image), “Flash Rebirth Deluxe Collected HC” (DC), “Kill or Be Killed v2” by Brubaker and Phillips (Image), and “Street Angel Gang HC” by Jim Rugg (Image). MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Rachelle Cruz on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rawqeli Blood Jet Writing Hour: https://thebloodjet.wordpress.com/ Newsarama Interview with “Uncomfortably Happily” translator Hellen Jo: https://www.newsarama.com/35041-hellen-jo-gets-uncomfortably-happily-translating-korean-graphic-novel-for-d-q.html I’m Paul, and I’m inviting you to join us for another episode of The Comics Syllabus, a comics analysis podcast. Our mantra is, we read widely and we dig deep. Each week, we choose one work from a wide breadth of current and classic comics, including superhero fare, comics from independent publishers and small presses, global comics, newspaper strip archives, and various collected editions. We spend time digging deep into the work from various perspectives, sometimes in actual live conversation with others, sometimes with just me on a mic surrounded by a pile of comics studies and academic books. It’s like a comics seminar, where the only prerequisite is that you love comics. NEXT WEEK on the Comics Syllabus: Paul is joined by comics scholar and #BlackComicsChat podcaster Grace Gipson to talk about “Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur” and “Black Panther: World of Wakanda” from Marvel. Subscribe to the podcast or keep it locked here at Multiversity for that conversation. You can find the podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, or Soundcloud, or copy this RSS feed to your podcatcher: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:235183739/sounds.rss or find archives for this podcast (previously named “Study Comics with Paul”) here: http://studycomics.club/ A rating, review, or star on whatever podcast source would help a lot and would be greatly appreciated! Follow Paul on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TwoPlai Thanks for listening!
Mario Muscar and Zack Kruse join us to discuss The Strain, Noah Van Sciver's Disquiet from Fantagraphics, Predator Vs. Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens by John Layman, Chris Mooneyham, Michael Atiyeh, and Glenn Fabry from IDW and Dark Horse, Big Kids by Michael Deforge from Drawn & Quarterly, Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? by Alan Moore and Curt Swan, Dave Gibbons, Rick Veitch, George Perez, Kurt Schaffenberger, Al Williamson, Gene D'Angelo, Tom Ziuko, and Tatjana Wood, Superman Vs. Spider-Man, Superman Family #181 by Cary Bates, Jose Delbo, and Vince Colletta, Dark Knight III: The Master Race #5 by FRANK MILLER, Brian Azzarello, Andy Kubert, and Klaus Janson, Blue Beetle: Reborn #1 by Keith Giffen, Scott Kolins, and Romulo Fajardo Jr., Generation Zero #1 by Fred Van Lente and Francis Portela from Valiant, Unflattening by Nick Sousanis from The Harvard University Press, Eric Powell's Hillbilly from Albatross, Frank Miller's Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism by Paul Young from Rutger's University Press, Cage by Brian Azzarello, Richard Corben, and Jose Villarubia, plus a whole mess more!
Valiant and the Harvey Awards, Action Comics 957 and 958 and Superman 1 and 2 by Dan Jurgens, Patrick Zircher, Tomeu Morey, Pete Tomasi, Patrick Gleason, Mick Gray, and John Kalisz, Batman 1 and 2 by Tom King, David Finch, Matt Banning, Danny Miki, Jordie Bellaire, and John Workman, Green Arrow #2 by Benjamin Percy and Otto Schmidt, Flintstones #1 by Mark Russell, Steve Pugh, and Chris Chuckry, Justice League 51 and 52, Giant Days by John Allison and Max Sarin from BOOM!, Super Mutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki from Drawn & Quarterly, Voltron, Avatar-O-Rama: Code Pru 1 and 2 by Garth Ennis and Raulo Caceres and Cinema Purgatorio #2 by Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill, Garth Ennis, Raulo Caceres, Max Brooks, Michael DiPascale, Christos Gage, Kieron Gillen, Ignacio Calero, and Gabriel Andrade, Predator: Life and Death by Dan Abnett, Brian Thies, and Rain Beredo from Dark Horse, Jacked by Eric Kripke and John Higgins from Vertigo, Doctor Strange, Bolts #1 by James Whynot from Action Lab Danger Zone, The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye by Sonny Liew from Pantheon, The Dark Night: A True Batman Story by Paul Dini and Eduardo Risso, Matt Wagner and The Shadow: The Death of Margo Lane from Dynamite!, plus a whole lot more!
Thursday's Throwback is the Walt and Skeezix collection by Frank King, edited by Jeet Heer, Chris Oliveros, and Chris Ware, from Drawn + Quarterly, as well as the Sunday Press Books 'Sundays with Walt and Skeezix.' The Paul List is a daily podcast of comics analysis and discussion by @TwoPlai.
Drawn & Fleerackers! Listen to the sultry tones of our beloved (former) web editor before she leaves for an internship with Drawn & Quarterly in Montreal. We discuss garden chic, working with creative people, and the privilege of working for free. Dope track by Mac Demarco and Jon Lent "Fool To Care". Visit us at sadcast.ca
It's not often that Chester Brown comes out with a new book, but his latest, Mary Wept over the Feet of Jesus, was released last month from Drawn & Quarterly...giving the Two Guys with PhDs an occasion to celebrate. And compounding that celebratory spirit is the fact that the artist is now appearing on The Comics Alternative podcast! In this episode, Andy and Derek are pleased to have Chester as their guest, where they talk with him about his new book, the research that went into it, and the reaction he's been getting from readers and critics. Mary Wept over the Feet of Jesus is a series of adaptations of Old and New Testament texts as they relate to prostitution and religious observance. In it, Chester interprets the stories of Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba, Mary of Bethany, and Mary, mother of Jesus, along with other narratives that surround Book of Genesis, the Gospel of Matthew, and the Parables of the Talents and the Prodigal Son. What all of these explorations have in common, and what Chester makes clear during the interview, is how all inform a reading of scripture surrounding sex workers. The guys talk with their guest about these issues and how his previous works -- Paying for It as well as his earlier comics adapting the Gospels of both Mark and Matthew -- may have laid the groundwork for the current study. Much of the conversation is spent on Chester's almost-lifelong research into biblical scholarship, especially as it comes out in the extensive notes he includes in Mary Wept...hand-written annotations that take up almost a third of his book! But Andy and Derek also ask Chester about his earlier comics, such as Ed the Happy Clown, The Playboy, and Louis Riel, the death of serialization within small-press comics, and his single-panel method of composition. In other words, the guys cover a lot of ground during this interview. But as Derek and Andy point out toward the end of this episode, there was some interesting conversation that took place after the guys turned off their recording devices. But fret not; Derek was able to capture some of that talk once they realized how appropriate it would have been in their recorded interview. So if you listen all the way through to the very end of this episode, after the closing theme music, you'll be able to hear a few comments as an extra added bonus. Much thanks, not only to Chester Brown, but to Sook-Yin Lee who helped to make this interview possible by providing her Skype account (and who can be heard in the background toward the end of the podcast preparing dinner).
The Beauty by Jason Hurley and Jeremy Haun from Image, Valiant-O-Rama: Bloodshot Reborn: The Analog Man bu Jeff Lemire, Lewis Larosa, Brian Reber and Dave Lanphear, and Faith by Jody Houser, Francis Portela, Marguerite Sauvage, Andrew Dalhouse, and Dave Sharpe, Black Knight #5 fro Frank Tieri, Luca Pizzari, and Kev Walker, Weirdworld, Uncanny Avengers, Moon Knight, Namor, Malibu Comics, Clerks: The Lost Scene by Kevin Smith, Phil Hester, and Ande Parks from Oni Press, The Infinity Entity by Jim Starlin, Alan Davis, Mark Farmer, and Jordan Boyd, Snowblind by Ollie Masters and Tyler Jenkins from BOOM!, Silver Surfer, C2E2 tips and tricks, Puke Force by Brian Chippendale from Drawn & Quarterly, plus a whole mess more!
On the February manga show, Shea and Derek look at a new title and an older title. They begin with a discussion of School Judgment 1, recently released by VIZ Media. Written by Nobuaki Enoki and with art by Takeshi Obata -- perhaps best known for his work on Death Note -- this is the first book in a series that has a unique premise. In fact, the guys comment several times on the wacky setup of School Judgment: a legal arbitration system established in Japan's elementary schools, where the students themselves try criminal cases serving as judge, prosecution, and defense. In this first installment, the protagonists Abaku Inugami (for the defense) and Pine Hanzuki (prosecution) battle over three strange cases, with the book ending by setting up a fourth. Shea and Derek discuss the weirdness and the social pertinence of the storylines, including arbitration concerning both drug use and pedophilic voyeurism. After that, they look at at Yoshihiro Tatsumi's A Drifting Life (Drawn & Quarterly). With an original English publication of 2009, this is Tatsumi's slightly veiled autobiography and a look at his growth as a manga artist. In fact, Derek points out that the book can best be read as a künstlerroman, a narrative about an artist's growth to personal and creative maturity. This is a hefty book of over 830 pages, a marked difference from the kind of short-form manga that Tatsumi is best known for. Indeed, both Shea and Derek contrast reading A Drifting Life to their experiences with his short-story collections, such as The Push Man and Other Stories, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, Good-Bye, and Fallen Worlds (also published in English by Drawn & Quarterly). While the shorter slice-of-life narratives are clear examples of gekiga, an alternative manga form advocated by Tatsumi himself, this autobiographical work is more conventional. And being a retrospective look back at his early life, Tatsumi brings into his story the real-life artists that inspired him and served as his companions and competitors, including Osamu Tezuka, Masahiko Matsumoto, Takao Saito, and Susumu Yamamori. As the guys conclude, this is an outstanding book and the perfect introduction to the world of Yoshihiro Tatsumi.
Harrow County by Cullen Bunn, Tyler Crook, Owen Gieni, and others from Dark Horse, The Walking Dead, 10 Cloverfield Lane, the Deadpool movie (Rob Liefeld, Fabian Nicieza, Joe Kelly, and more), Superman: American Alien, by Max Landis, Tommy Lee Edwards, and Joelle Jones, Devolution by Rick Remender Jonathan Wayshak, Jordan Boyd, and Jae Lee from Dynamite!, Spider-Man/Deadpool by Joe Kelly, Ed McGuinness, Mark Morales, and Jason Keith, Adrian Tomine's Killing and Dying from Drawn & Quarterly, Gisele Legace, ComicLink, Vision by Tom King, Gabriel Hernandez Walta, and Mike Del Mundo, Gail Simone and Secret Six, Bloodshot: Reborn - The Analog Man by Jeff Lemire, Lewis Larosa, and Brian Reber from Valiant, and a whole mess more!
Welcome to January! As the guys do at the beginning of every month, they use this time to discuss the solicits in the latest Previews catalog. And there's a lot packed into the January issue, starting with a rundown of the 50 titles that will be featured this coming Free Comic Book Day. Gene and Derek are particularly looking forward to the FCBD comics coming out from Fantagraphics, Archie Comics, First Second Books, Image Comics, Drawn & Quarterly, Top Shelf, VIZ Media, and Nobrow. After that brief detour, they get into the catalog proper, highlight upcoming releases from publishers such as Dark Horse Comics - Death Follows, The Massive: Library Edition, Vol. 1, Bird Boy, Vol. 1: The Sword of Mali Mani, and Trump: The Complete Collection DC/Vertigo - Kingdom Come: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition and Suiciders: Kings of HelL.A. #1, IDW Publishing - Star Trek: The Classic UK Comics, Vol. 1, Johnny Boo, Book 7, and Paracuellos Image Comics - Circuit Breaker #1, The Discipline #1, and The Rattler Abrams ComicArts - The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded and Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads Alternative Comics - Compulsive Comics, Bartkira, Ohio Is for Sale, and Power Button #0 American Gothic Press - Lost in Space #1 Amulet Books - Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales, Vol. 6: Alamo All-Stars Bliss on Tap - Future Proof #10 BOOM! Studios - Turncoat #1 and The Baker Street Peculiars #1 Canton Street Press - Eerie Comics #1: Replica Edition Devil's Due/First Comics - Delete #1 Digital Manga - Captain Ken, Vol. 3 Dynamite Entertainment - Vampirella (Vol. 3) #1 Drawn and Quarterly - The Birth of Kitaro and Carpet Sweeper Tales Fantagraphics Books - Patience and Outer Limits: The Steve Ditko Archives, Vol. 6 First Second - Delilah Dirk and the King's Shilling and The Glorkian Warrior, Vol. 3: The Mustache of Destiny NBM - Thoreau: A Sublime Life One Peace Books - Belushi: On a Mission from God Overground Comics - Oh, Hell #1 Pantheon Books - The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (Regular Edition) SelfMadeHero - H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow over Innsmouth Simon & Schuster - The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks: Life and Death under Soviet Rule Titan Comics - Loan Sloane: Delirius 2 Viz Media - Goodnight Punpun, Vol. 1 and One-Punch Man, Vol. 5 Youneek Studios - E.X.O.: The Legend of Wale Williams, Vol. 1 Time Out - Time Out Shortlist: Gotham and Metropolis Guidebook All in all, Gene and Derek have a fun time thumbing through the January Previews catalog, making their checklists for comics they want to read, titles they'd like to discuss on the podcast, and creators they want to interview in the coming year.
I first encountered Ed Piskor’s work through the cartoonist’s collaborations with the legendary Harvey Pekar. The duo released the book Macedonia in 2007, highlighting The American Splendor author’s work to push non-fiction storytelling forward in the medium by highlighting cultural struggles in the Republic of Macedonia in comics form. It was no doubt a formative experience for the cartoonist who would rise to even greater fame in the indie comics community half a decade later with the release of the first volume of Hip-Hop Family Tree, a sweeping on-going series highlighting the music’s rise from the streets of the Bronx to the driving force of international popular culture. Also recorded at San Diego Comic Con back in July, part two is a chat with cartoonist and fine artist Marc Bell, who hilariously explains why his attempts to tell a straight forward story with his latest book, the delightful Stroppy on Drawn & Quarterly, went so horribly wrong.
The indie comics booths present a perfect sort of eye in the middle of the Comic Con storm. Top Shelf, Drawn & Quarterly and Fantagraphics form a perfect sort of triangle where the costumed self-madness of the show takes a momentary reprieve. This is where Not Funny Ha-Ha has its unofficial debuts. A few week later, Leah Hayes will present the book more formally, reading from the abortion-themed graphic novel in front of a crowd at Los Angeles independent bookstore. For now, however, she discusses the story with curious parties who pass through the Fantagraphics booth. The stories have already begun flooding in, she explains as we sit down in a shady spot behind the San Diego Convention Center. The subject matter is nothing if not a conversation starter. Thus far, she’s already have several strangers describe their own abortion experience or the the experience of someone close to them. Others have discussed different difficult moments — heck, over the course of our conversation, I find myself relating a story about recently losing a pet. It’s just that sort of book. Hayes and I discuss the impact of debuting such an intimate book in boisterous environment on a small patch of grass as cosplayers ride in the backs of rickshaws on either side of our little green island.
Gabriel Hardman and Corinna Bechko join us to discuss Invisible Republic from Image, The Crooked Man from Image/Shadowline, Aliens/Vampirella from Dark Horse/Dynamite!, Fresh Romance, Planet of the Apes, High Crimes, Deep Blue Goodbye, Twin Peaks and David Lynch, Mad Max: Fury Road, Avengers: Age of Ultron, the Doom Patrol, Dark Horse Presents and other anthologies, The Shadow, Sheltered by Ed Brisson and Johnnie Christmas from Dark Horse, Warren Ellis and Jason Howard's Trees, Tadao Tsuge's Trash Market from Drawn & Quarterly, Convergence: The Question by Greg Rucka and Cully Hamner, Dark Reign: Zodiac by Joe Casey and Nathan Fox, Alan Moore's Providence and Neonomicon, J. Gonzo's La Mano del Destino from Castle and Key Publications, Heavy Metal, and a whole mess more!
Jimmy is joined in studio by The Beat's own Heidi MacDonald and frequent co-host/pal Jon Hoche! They dive in deep and have a lengthy/lively discussion on their 2014 favorites in comic books, TV, animation, film, video games and more. So much love shown to a lot of the people and things we loved in 2014. Did we leave anything out? You'll have to tune in for that answer and let us know your picks of the year! We do cover some news as well that includes: Image Expo announces massive slate of titles to be released, Emerald City Comic Con partners with ReedPop, animated Vixen series coming to the CW Seed, and Kate Beaton's new collection Step Aside, Pops will be released from Drawn & Quarterly this September. Leave your iTunes comments! 5 stars and nothing but love! Thanks for listening!
I’d spoken with John Porcellino not all that long ago for Publishers Weekly feature discussing The Hospital Suite, the indie cartoonist longest self-contained work to date. Published by Drawn & Quarterly, the book is deeply personal, exploring long standing health concerns that caused Porcellino to be hospitalized numerous times over the years. Toward the end of that conversation, I asked the artist whether he’d be willing to meet up again for yet another interview when his book tour brought him to New York City. He’d only be in town for a couple of days for the Brooklyn Book Festival and would only have a couple of hours to spare, but he happily agreed to devote one of them to sitting down with me in front of a microphone yet again. Porcellino greeted me in the lobby of his Brooklyn hotel a few weeks later in a white t-shirt bearing the visage of celebrity cat, Lil Bub. He recognized me before I recognized him. He looked different than the last time we’d met, when I’d interviewed him on-stage at the Minneapolis Indie Expo a few years prior. Back then, he’d been in the throes of the health concerns at the center of his new book. “I’ve put on a little weight,” he said proudly. “I just turned 46, after all.” He didn’t look overweight, he just looked, well, healthy. He offered me an English muffin and apologized for tucking into the hotel breakfast that had only just arrived. He was making the most of his limited time as I set up the recorder. After five ten minutes of discussing the relative niceness of various hardcore frontmen (Ian MacKaye, Kevin Seconds and Keith Morris all get gold stars), any concerns I harbored about our ability to fill yet another hour’s worth of SD card with conversation melted away. For episode 75, here’s a wide ranging one with one of the most fascinating and longest lasting figures in the world of self-published comics. Punk rock, buddhism, nature, health and art all abound.
John Porcellino and Dan Berry get together to talk about 25 years of King-Cat Comics and Stories, punk rock, style, sickness and health. John also has a new book coming out imminently from Drawn & Quarterly entitled The Hospital Suite and a US tour, so check both out quick as you can! Also check out the Patreon campaign to help support the show. Every one of your dollars helps in the production of this show a great deal.
Fairy Tale Comics: Classic Tales Told By Extraordinary Cartoonists (First Second Books) Join us as Vanessa Davis ("Puss in Boots"), Gigi D.G. ("Little Red Riding Hood") and Bobby London ("Sweet Porridge") discuss their contributions to this fantastic guide to some of your favorite fairy tales. From favorites like "Puss in Boots" and "Goldilocks" to obscure gems like "The Boy Who Drew Cats," this volume has something to offer every reader. Seventeen fairy tales are wonderfully adapted and illustrated in comics format by such noted artists as Raina Telgemeier, Brett Helquist, Cherise Harper, and others. Edited by Nursery Rhyme Comics' Chris Duffy, this jacketed hardcover is a beautiful gift and an instant classic. Praise for Fairy Tale Comics: "A quirky and vibrant mix of visually reinterpreted fairy tales compiled by the editor of the Eisner-nominated Nursery Rhyme Comics."-- Kirkus Reviews "Nineteen cartoonists re-envision the world of “once upon a time” in this collection of 17 fairy tales . . .These adaptations are sure to enchant devotees of comics and those who like a fresh and distinctive approach to fairy tales." -- School Library Journal Vanessa Davis' first book, Spaniel Rage was published by Buenaventura Press in 2005. Her newest book, Make Me A Woman, was published by Drawn & Quarterly. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Psychology Today, Dissent, The Jewish Daily Forward, Saveur, Lucky Peach, Vice, Spongebob Comics, Seven Stories Press, Chronicle Books, and First Second. She is also a contributing editor over at Tablet. Gigi D.G. is the writer/illustrator of Cucumber Quest. She lives in California and her passions are colors, sweets and cute video games. Bobby London is the creator of the comic strip character Dirty Duck. He was a founding contributor for National Lampoonfrom 1972-1980. His illustrations have appeared in Esquire, Rolling Stone, New York Times, Punk Magazine, Village Voice and many more. He was nominated for a grammy in 2005 for his comic book insert in the Rhino Records box set, "Weird Tales of the Ramones."
Lisa Hanawalt and Dan Berry talk process, comedy and leaning in to a career. Lisa's new book My Dirty Dumb Eyes is out from Drawn & Quarterly.
Ales Kot and Riley Rossmo's Wild Children from Image, Walt Simonson's The Judas Coin, Public Education Volume 2 from Jonathan O'Briant, John Byrne's Legends, Incredible Hulk #13, Spider-Men, Dan Slott and Amazing Spider-Man rumors, Matt Fraction and David Aja's Hawkeye, the Alan Davis Annuals: Fantastic Four, Daredevil, and Wolverine, Abrams Comicarts and Topps' Mars Attacks 50th Anniversary Collection hardcover, The Strange Talent of Luther Strode by Justin Jordan, Tradd Moore, and Felipe Sobreiro from Image, Legends of the Dark Knight #16 by Jeff Parker and Gabriel Hardman, woman colorists, Dorothy and the Wizard in OZ by Eric Shanower and Skottie Young, Parker and Hardman's Secret Avengers, Cable and X-Force, Avengers: Arena by Dennis Hopeless and Kev Walker, Declan Shalvey, SpongeBob #12 and Ernest Borgnine, Tony Millionaire, Brandon Graham and PictureBox, Hayao Miyazaki's Nausica of the Valley of Wind, Ed the Happy Clown from Chester Brown and Drawn & Quarterly, Double Barrel #4 from Top Shelf, Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap by Ice-T, Young Justice, Revolution, Transformers Prime, the Covered blog, and much more!
We spend another huge chunk of time discussing the new titles pouring out of the new DC Universe in September (Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, Jeff Lemire and Frankenstein, Demon Knights, Justice League Dark, Rob Liefeld, Firestorm, Birds of Prey, Teen Titans, the Legion, Animal Man and family, Swamp Thing, Resurrection Man and DnA, and more), then move on to Charlton horror comics and the Ghosts of Doctor Graves (via Gabe Hardman, with Tom Sutton, Pat Boyette, Steve Ditko, and others), KIRBY: GENESIS #0 from Kurt Busiek, Alex Ross, and Jack Herbert from Dynamite!, bribing children with comics, Batman: Knight of Vengeance #1 by Azzarello and Risso, Fear Itself and Flashpoint, Oceanverse, Fear Itself: Youth in Revolt #1, Chester Brown's Paying for It from Drawn & Quarterly, Ron Marz and Lee Moder's Shinku #1 from Image, Top Shelf's Liar's Kiss, United States of Tara, Image's 50 Girls 50, 2000 A.D., and a whole mess more!
Proving King DAP very, very wrong, three years and still going strong! Throwing our nets far and wide, we drag the bottom for banter on Jim Rugg and Afrodisiac, 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking by Paul Levitz and Taschen Books, Wednesday Comics, the lack of Marvel archival editions, Annihilators #2, Devil Dinosaur, Teen Titans: Games by Wolfman and Perez, the upcoming Kamandi Omnibus, Marvel Fanfare #7 and Bill Mantlo, Neal Adams, Being John Byrne, Lucifer: Devil in the Gateway by Mike Carey, Chris Weston, Scott Hampton and company, Death: The High Cost of Living, Bucky and Bachalo, Cinderella: Fables are Forever, American Vampire, Onward towards Our Noble Deaths from Drawn & Quarterly, the 11 O'C Tarot, Avengers Prime by Bendis and Alan Davis, Sym-Bionic Titan, Ben Jones' Problem Solverz on Cartoon Network, Shadowland: Power Man, Fables, The Girl and the Gorilla, Monkeyman and O'brien, Studygroup 12, and much more!
Make Me a Woman (Drawn & Quarterly) Vanessa Davis will discuss and sign her new graphic novel, Make Me a Woman. "In fact, if you don't like [Vanessa Davis], you don't like anything good." —Vice "What distinguishes Davis's take is a reflective hunger for meaning and connection in the very mundane." —Bust "Vanessa Davis's autobiographical slice-of-life drawings are both totally relatable and sweetly surreal." —Bitch Vanessa Davis is the award-winning cartoonist of the graphic novel and minicomic, Spaniel Rage. Her new Drawn & Quarterly book Make Me A Woman was serialized online for Tablet Magazine and will confirm Vanessa's spot as one of the leading cartoonist and humorists of her generation. Using beautiful watercolors, refreshing honesty and humor, her comics made an immediate impression and have appeared in such anthologies as Kramers Ergot, Best American Comics, Stuck in the Middle, Papercutter and An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons and True Stories. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS OCTOBER 13, 2010.
Chris plays hooky yet again, so we double-time it with a rousing roster of comic talk, featuring the last word on Jim Rugg's Rambo 3.5, Dan Clowes' Wilson from Drawn & Quarterly, a Cartoonist Profile on Mike Zeck, Secret Wars, the Mortal Kombat short, Joe the Barbarian #4 and #5 and Sean Murphy, Spider-Man: Fever, the Act-I-Vate Primer, Pilot Season: Stealth from Top Cow, Milestone Forever, Captain America/Black Panther: Flags of Our Fathers, Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors from Udon and Capcom, Green Lantern: Willworld and Seth Fisher, Marvel U.K. Magazine, Skaar: Son of Hulk, 120 Days of Simon from Simon Gardenfors and Top Shelf, Avengers Forever, Nemesis #2 by Millar and McNiven, and a whole steamin' pile more!
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