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We are on episode 50! Thank you all for listening along over the last couple of years. This one is special as it features a book published by Hat & Beard Press, one of Big Table's main partners in cultural pursuits.dublab: Future Roots Radio is the long-awaited book telling the story of the pioneering online radio station through interviews, photos, art, and more.The dublab universe springs to life from these pages, unveiling the ethos that has guided the storied station since 1999.We celebrated the release of the book with a live event at Neuehouse in downtown Los Angeles this past winter. The evening featured a panel moderated by DJ Mamabear with dublab DJs Rachel Day, Hoseh, Frosty, and Langosta.dublab: Future Roots Radio, out now on Hat & Beard Press, is an ode to the boundless power of creative music and community building in Los Angeles and beyond.Here's an excerpt from the conversation recorded at NeueHouse earlier this year. Music by Pharaohs

To Photograph Is To Learn How To Die: An Essay with Digressions by Tim Carpenter is a book-length essay about photography's unique ability to ease the ache of human mortality. It's also a book about photography theory, literary criticism, art history, and philosophy. Drawing on writings and poems by Wallace Stevens, Marilynne Robinson, Vladimir Nabokov, Paul Valery, Virginia Wolff, and other artists, musicians, and thinkers, Brooklyn-based photographer Tim Carpenter argues passionately―in one main essay and a series of lively digressions―that photography is unique among the arts in its capacity for easing the fundamental ache of our mortality; for managing the breach that separates the self from all that is not the self; for enriching one's sense of freedom and personhood; and for cultivating meaning in an otherwise meaningless reality. Printed in three colors that reflect the various “voices” of the book, the text design, provided by publisher and editor Mike Slack, follows several channels of thought, inviting various approaches to reading. To Photograph Is To Learn How To Die is a unique and instructive contribution to the literature on photography, and is as enthralling as other genre-melding photography books, The Ongoing Moment by Geoff Dyer, Robert Bresson's Notes on Cinematography, and more recently, Stephen Shore's book Modern Instances: The Craft of Photography, among others.Carpenter's research offers both a timely polemic and a timeless resource for those who use a camera.Tim and JC caught up recently to discuss this fascinating book, now in its second printing. Reading by Tim CarpenterMusic by Talk Talk

Film and TV Quantumania, Barbarian, The Gray Man, Alias, Walking Dead, Ash VS Evil Dead, The Greatest Beer Run Ever, Tusk, Twin Peaks, Last of Us Comics One Eight Hundred Ghosts, Righteous Thirst for Vengeance, Manifest Destiny, Ballad of Halo Jones, I Hate This Place, Invisible Republic, City of Others, Brownsville, Blood, Clash, All My Ghosts, Brody's Ghost, Batman and Robin, Ordinary Gods, What's the Furthest Place from Here, Retro Book Club Mind MGMT Vol 2

THE INTERVIEW:After 100 books on design, Steven Heller has given us a coming-of-age memoir. The award-winning designer, writer, and former senior art director at the New York Times has included 100 color photographs in Growing Up Underground: A Memoir of Counterculture New York, a 224-page visually inspired tour of the center of New York City's 1960s and '70s youth culture.Steven Heller's memoir is not simply a chronological trek through the hills and valleys of his comparatively "normal" life, but rather a tale of growing up, whereby with luck and circumstance, he found himself in curious and remarkable places at critical times during the 1960s and '70s in New York City. Heller's delightful account of his life between the ages of 16 and 26 depicts his ambitious journey from the very beginning of his illustrious career as a graphic designer, cartoonist, and writer. Follow his path as he moves from stints at the New York Review of Sex, to Screw, and the New York Free Press, on to the East Village Other, Grove Press, and Interview until becoming the youngest art director (and occasional illustrator) for the New York Times Op-Ed page at the of age 23.Having followed his work for years, JC Gabel was glad to sit down and talk with him about his start.THE READING: Heller reads from his Growing Up Underground. Music by Cluster. 

It is fitting that Bruce Adams's new book, the sardonically-titled You're with Stupid: kranky, Chicago and the Reinvention of Indie Music, begins at Jim's Grill off Irving Park Road in the Ravenswood neighborhood on the North Side: It was the first place I remember seeing a promotional poster for this new band, The Smashing Pumpkins, who were regular customers of Bill Choi's Korean-inspired restaurant, when they were first starting out.But let's back up a few years, to set the scene of what was to come. After attending college at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, in the mid-1980s, Adams worked at a record shop and wrote for the fanzine Your Flesh. He caught the indie rock bug, as it were, inspired by the then burgeoning independent music industry that had grown out of labels like Dischord in Washington, DC, Sub Pop in Seattle, and Touch & Go in Chicago, who presented a more artist-friendly path for bands to make a living selling records, CDs and cassettesAdams found his way to Chicago, where, by the mid-1990s, there was a golden age of independent businesses thriving in unison: records labels (Drag City, Thrill Jockey, Atavistic, Bloodshot, Carrot Top), distributors (Ajax, Cargo, Southern), records shops (Reckless, Dusty Groove, Wax Trax, The Quaker Goes Deaf), underground press (the Chicago Reader and New City, but also Lumpen and Stop Smiling), and venues (Cabaret Metro, Lounge Ax, the Empty Bottle, and Double Door). As Adams documents, it was a near-perfect eco-system for creativity and experimentation in a pre-digital age.You're with Stupid is both a cultural history of the Chicago music world at that time, as told through the record labels and distributors that Adams worked for but also a how-to roadmap to founding a DIY operation.  This is my conversation with Bruce Adams about his book and those times.Reading by Bruce AdamsMusic by Labradford

Feeling severed from the world? Trapped inside your own hundred acre wood? Tie your shoes. On this tour, we go in circles around a city where nothing is lost that can't be found, where nothing is erased without imprint. We wander story-laden streets, peek down literary alleys, poke our heads into sing-song pubs. We navigate inconvenient sympathies. We recognize a tune. To signal traffic in the narrative chaos, we trust the time-honored cues of the theater. We discuss a movie about a real place that doesn't exist. We go bump bump bump, and begin to construct a fresh map of reality, out of tea leaves long unread...   With Yeerk, host of Bistro Californium   For the SECRET CHAPTER from this adventure and a spiritually relevant SIDE QUEST episode, plus over 30 other exclusive episodes, subscribe to us at Patreon.com/filthyarmenian for only $5 a month.   Follow us on twitter/instagram @filthyarmenian Please rate, review, and spread the word.   Sightings: Beowolf, Edmund Spenser, Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Arthur Conan Doyle, Max Beerbohm, D.H. Lawrence, Ian Fleming, Evelyn Waugh, Charles Dickens, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Rabindranath Tagore, Somerset Maugham, Agatha Christie, David Suchet, Philip Larkin, H.L. Mencken, London, Orbitals, The Perfume Nationalist, I'm So Popular, Ambrose Bierce, Noel Coward, P.G. Wodehouse, Michael Morecock, Captain Beefheart, Katherine Mansfield, William Blake, Invisible Republic, The Armenians

Known best for her exuberant, often large-scale sculptural works celebrating the abundance and complexity of female desire, imagination, and creativity, Niki de Saint Phalle viewed making art as a ritual, a performance―a process connecting life to art. In this unconventional, illuminated biography, Nicole Rudick, in a kind of collaboration with the artist, has assembled a gorgeous and detailed mosaic of Saint Phalle's visual and textual works from a trove of paintings, drawings, sketches, and writings—many previously unpublished or long unavailable–that trace her mistakes and successes, her passions and her radical sense of joy.Born in France, Niki de Saint Phalle (1930–2002) was raised in New York and began making art at age 23. Along with her celebrated large-scale projects―including the Stravinsky Fountain at the Centre Pompidou, Golem in Jerusalem, and the Tarot Garden in Tuscany―Saint Phalle also produced writing and works on paper that delve into her own biography: childhood and her break with family, marriage to novelist Harry Mathews, motherhood, a long collaborative relationship with artist Jean Tinguely, and her productive years in Southern California.Nicole Rudick is a critic and an editor. Her writing on art, literature, and comics has been published in The New York Review of Books, the New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, and elsewhere. She was managing editor of The Paris Review for nearly a decade. She is the editor, most recently, of a new edition of Gary Panter's legendary comic Jimbo: Adventures in Paradise.In the interviewer's chair this episode is writer and curator Yann Perreau, who organized some exhibitions of works by Saint Phalle. Originally from Paris, Yann now lives in Los Angeles.Here's Yann Perreau discussing the life and work of Saint Phalle with writer, critic, and biographer Nicole Rudick. Reading by Nicole RudickMusic by Grace Jones

For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amid the political turmoil and violence of 1980s and '90s Colombia, in a house bustling with her mother's fortune-telling clients, not much surprised her as a child. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero–a community healer gifted with what the family called “the secrets”, or the power to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. As the first woman to inherit those secrets, Rojas Contreras' mother was just as powerful.This legacy had always felt like it belonged to them, until, while living in the U.S. in her twenties, Rojas Contreras suffered a head injury that resulted in amnesia. As she regained partial memory, her family told her that this had happened before. Decades ago, her mother had suffered a fall that left her with amnesia too. When she recovered, she had gained access to the secrets.Interweaving family stories more enchanting than those in any novel, as well as resurrected Colombian history and her own deeply personal reckonings with the bounds of reality, Rojas Contreras writes her way through the seemingly incomprehensible. The Man Who Could Move Clouds is a testament to the healing power of storytelling and an invitation to embrace the extraordinary.Here's my conversation with Ingrid, discussing her new memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds (Doubleday, 2022).Reading by Ingrid Rojas ContrerasMusic composed by Ennio Morricone

The Interview:In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken—his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity—is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream. For Hua, the son of Taiwanese immigrants, who makes 'zines and haunts Bay Area record shops, Ken represents all that he defines himself in opposition to. The only thing Hua and Ken have in common is that, however they engage with it, American culture doesn't seem to have a place for either of them. But despite his first impressions, Hua and Ken become friends, a friendship built on late-night conversations over cigarettes, long drives along the California coast, and the successes and humiliations of everyday college life. And then violently, senselessly, Ken is gone, killed in a carjacking, not even three years after the day they first meet.Determined to hold on to his memories—all that was left of one of his closest friends—Hua turned to writing. Stay True (Doubleday, 2022) is the book he's been working on ever since—for over 20 years by Hua's estimation. A coming-of-age story that details both the ordinary and extraordinary, Stay True is a bracing memoir about growing up, and about moving through the world in search of meaning and belonging. It is also a book about friendship, race, grieving and recovery.I first came to know Hua's work through his music writing—first in the hip-hop column he wrote for The Wire, the British experimental music magazine, and more recently, in The New Yorker, where he is a staff writer. Hua teaches at Bard College, and lives in Brooklyn. He grew up in the Bay Area, where most of the book takes place while he is an undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley.Hua and I have known each other loosely for many years—we have many mutual friends and are roughly the same age. I've always admired his work, and his beautifully written second book is a highpoint, jam-packed as it is with descriptive detail, a light and easy spare prose, and a meaningful account of an unlikely friendship.Here's my conversation with Hua Hsu, discussing his new memoir, Stay True.The Reading:Hua Hsu reads from Stay True, which was part of an audio zine he made to accompany the book's release. Music by Mobb Deep 

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

In her latest book, Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me (Grove Atlantic, 2022), Ada Calhoun traces her fraught relationship with her father, New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl, and their shared obsession with the poet Frank O'Hara. The book features exclusive material from archival recordings of literary and art world legends, living and dead.Having stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father had conducted for his never-completed biography of O'Hara, Calhoun set out to finish the book he had started 40 years earlier. As a lifelong O'Hara fan who grew up amid his bohemian cohort in the East Village, she thought the project would be easy, even fun, but the deeper she dove, the more difficult it became: Calhoun had to confront not just O'Hara's past, but also her father's and her own.The result is a kaleidoscopic memoir that weaves compelling literary history with the moving, honest, and tender story of a complicated father-daughter bond. In reckoning with her unique heritage, as well as providing new insights into the life of one of our most important poets, Calhoun has offered a brave and hopeful meditation on parents and children, artistic ambition, and the complexities of what we leave behind. For the Reading, Ada Calhoun reads from Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me.Music by Ryuichi Sakamoto**Other audio:Frank O'Hara reads Ode to Joy:Frank O'Hara Reads His Poems 

In this 2008 episode of The Vault, Greil Marcus reads from a Three Penny Review essay about the death of his father, who went down with the USS Hull in 1944, six months before Marcus was born. Marcus is a music journalist and cultural critic. His books include Mystery Train, Lipstick Traces, and Invisible Republic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In The Design of Childhood, acclaimed writer, architecture critic, and historian Alexandra Lange uncovered the histories of toys, classrooms, and playgrounds. Lange now turns her sharp eye to another subject we thought we knew. Chronicling the invention of the mall by postwar architects and merchants, Lange reveals how the design of these marketplaces played an integral role in their cultural ascent. Meet Me By the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall (Bloomsbury, 2022) is Lange's perceptive account of how these shopping centers became strange and rich with contradiction. In it, Lange describes America's malls as places of freedom and exclusion—but also as places of undeniable community, and rampant consumerism.Few places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as shopping malls. Since their birth in the 1950s, they have loomed large as temples of commerce. In their prime, they proved a powerful draw for creative thinkers such as Joan Didion, Ray Bradbury, and George Romero, who understood the mall's appeal as critics and consumers. Yet today, amid the aftershocks of financial crises and a global pandemic, as well as the rise of online retail, the dystopian husk of an abandoned shopping center has become one of our era's defining images. Conventional wisdom holds that the mall is dead. But what was the mall, anyway? And have rumors of its demise been greatly exaggerated?Here's Episode 40: The Big Table conversation with architecture critic, writer, and historian Alexandra Lange, discussing Meet My by the Fountain.Reading by Alexandra LangeMusic by OMD

A 170-plus years ago, Henry David Thoreau began his legendary hermit walks in New England. Many of these walks were published later as some of his most cherished works as a naturalist: Walden, The Maine Woods, and Cape Cod.Artist, writer and New England native Ben Shattuck does the same in Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau, published by Tin House Books, which charts six journeys taken by Shattuck, each one inspired by a walk once taken by Thoreau. With little more than a loaf of bread, brick of cheese, and a notebook, Shattuck sets out to retrace Thoreau's path through the Cape's outer beaches, from the elbow to Provincetown's fingertip.After the Cape, Shattuck walks down the coastline of his hometown, and then through the Allagash. Along the way, he encounters unexpected characters, landscapes, and stories, seeing for himself the restorative effects that walking can have on a dampened spirit. Shattuck finds himself uncovering new insights about family, love, friendship, and fatherhood, and understanding more deeply the lessons walking can offer through life's changing seasons.Shattuck splits his time between Los Angeles and Coastal Massachusetts, where he also runs a Davoll's General Store in Dartmouth. We caught up during the Spring to discuss his first book, Thoreau and the therapeutic nature of walking.Reading by Ben ShattuckMusic by Jürgen Müller

To write about Tony Wilson, aka Anthony H. Wilson, is to write about a number of public and private characters and personalities, a clique of unreliable narrators, constantly changing shape and form. At the helm of Factory Records and the Haçienda, Wilson unleashed landmark acts such as Joy Division and New Order into the world as he pursued myriad other creative endeavors, appointing himself a custodian of Manchester's legacy of innovation and change.To writer, broadcaster and cultural critic Paul Morley he was this and much more: bullshitting hustler, flashy showman, aesthetic adventurer, mean factory boss, self-deprecating chancer, intellectual celebrity, loyal friend, shrewd mentor, insatiable publicity seeker. It was Morley to whom Wilson left a daunting final request: to write this book.From Manchester with Love, then, is the biography of a man who became one with his hometown of Manchester, England—the music he championed and the myths he made, of love and hate, of life and death. In the cultural theatre of Manchester, Tony Wilson broke in and took center-stage.Morley has written about music, art and entertainment since the 1970s. He wrote for the New Musical Express from 1976 to 1983. A founding member of the Art of Noise and a member of staff at the Royal Academy of Music, he collaborated with Grace Jones on her memoirs and is the author of a number of books about music, including The Age of Bowie, his history of classical music A Sound Mind, and a biography of Bob Dylan, You Lose Yourself, You Reappear.Our man in London, Dermot McPartland, fills in for interviewing duties and helps Morley unpack the many minds and lives of Tony Wilson. Here's Dermot's conversation with Paul Morley. Reading by Paul MorleyMusic by Joy Division

Mark Rozzo's astute and engaging new book Everyone Thought We Were Crazy: Dennis Hopper, Brooke Heyward, and 1906s Los Angeles, published by Ecco Press, documents the lives of Hopper and Hayward in the heyday as New Hollywood's It couple but also paints a panoramic landscape of the Los Angeles scene in the Sixties.Rozzo poignantly captures the vivacity of the heady days in the early 1960s, just as the underground culture of the Beat Generation was about to explode into the mainstream counterculture of the latter part of the decade—the sex, drugs and rock ‘n' roll mantra was born in the late 1960s.Sixties Los Angeles was a new center of gravity in culture; there was a new consciousness, a West Coast symmetry between art, underground cinema, music and civil rights that had never happened before, and has never happened since. Hopper and Hayward were not only up-and-coming actors in the early 1960s, they were also cross-cultural connectors who brought together the best of underground Los Angeles art, music and politics, under one roof—literally—1712 N. Crescent Heights in the Hollywood Hills. This modest Spanish Colonial was the meeting ground, as Rozzo illustrates, for a who's who of that time: Jane Fonda, Andy Warhol, Joan Didion, Jasper Johns, Tina Turner, Ed Ruscha, The Byrds and the Black Panthers.Their art collection, showcased at this house on Crescent Heights, as well as the house itself, is the backdrop of Everyone Thought We Were Crazy. Rozzo tells the story in a straight-forward, dual narrative, that helps fill in large parts of Brooke's story, which compared to Hopper's, hasn't been as well documented or explored in other books. Rozzo finds the right balance.As a decade-ending benchmark, Hopper's directorial debut Easy Rider became the emblematic proto-New Hollywood independent film, alongside Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool. These films help illustrate the promise and loss of that generation and that era. There isn't a happy ending in those films or in Hopper's marriage to Heyward, unfortunately—the couple divorced in 1969 just at Easy Rider was about to make cinematic history.After the divorce, Brooke eventually sold the house, broke up the art collection and moved back to New York, where she still resides. Hopper died in 2010.Rozzo's wide view of Los Angeles in the 1960s is essential reading for anyone interested in the unvarnished history of that period.Here's my conversation with Mark Rozzo discussing the life and times of Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward.Reading by Mark Rozzo.Music by Love.

The EpisodeJ Dilla—aka James Dewitt Yancey or Jaydee as he was previously known—was a musical genius who was hardly known to mainstream audiences during his brief life. In Dilla Time—equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history—hip hop historian and NYU professor Dan Charnas chronicles this musical outlier who changed popular music behind the scenes, working with renowned acts like D'Angelo and Erykah Badu and influencing the music of superstars like Michael and Janet Jackson.Dilla died at the age of 32, and in his lifetime never had a pop hit. Since his death, however, he has become a demigod of sorts: revered by jazz musicians and rap icons from Robert Glasper to Kendrick Lamar; memorialized in symphonies and taught at universities. And at the core of this adulation is innovation: a new kind of musical time-feel he created on a drum machine, one that changed the way “traditional” musicians play. Charnas echoes the life of James DeWitt Yancey from his gifted childhood in Detroit, to his rise as a Grammy-nominated hip-hop producer, to the rare blood disease that caused his premature death. Charnas also rewinds the histories of American rhythms: from the birth of soul in Dilla's own “Motown,” to funk, techno, and disco.Dilla Time (MCD/FSG, 2022) is a different kind of book about music, a visual experience with graphics that build those concepts step by step for fans and novices alike, teaching us to “see” and feel rhythm in a unique and enjoyable way. It's the story of the man and his machines, his family, friends, partners, and celebrity collaborators. Culled from more than 150 interviews about one of the most important and influential musical figures of the past hundred years, Dilla Time is a book as delightfully detail-oriented and unique as J Dilla's music itself.Filling in for interviewing duties this episode is Charnas' NYU professor colleague and Hat & Beard Press editor Vivien Goldman, who is the author, most recently, of Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot.Here is Vivien's conversation with Dan Charnas, discussing the life and times of J Dilla.Reading by Dan Charnas from Dilla Time.music by J Dilla

The InterviewIt's not hyperbole to say that Steve Keene has produced more original artwork than most (if not all) American artists, having painted more than 300,000 works in the last 30 years.Raised and educated in Charlottesville, Virginia, he first came to my attention in the mid-1990s, when I was working for the indie record label Drag City. Keene had done the cover art for the Silver Jews' Arizona Record as well as Pavement's Wowee Zowee on Matador. He had gone to college with David Berman (Silver Jews) and Stephen Malkmus (Pavement) in the 1980s, and they remained friends and collaborators afterward.Although he is known to many for his indie rock album covers, he has a much bigger audience today outside of the music scene of downtown NY from another era. Not only is he now collected in museums but he is still lovingly known for making affordable art: most of Keene's work retails for under $70; in the 1990s heyday, it was only $5 or $10 a piece. Steve continues to crank out 50 paintings at a time, day-in and day-out, from his converted auto body shop home/studio in Brooklyn, where he has lived and worked with his architect wife and family for decades.The Steve Keene Art Book—originally conceived during his sold out show at Shepard Fairey's LA Gallery Subliminal Projects in 2016—is the first art book dedicated exclusively to his work as a fine artist. For this episode, I spoke with the book's editor Daniel Efram, a photographer, producer, and long-time manager of the Apples in Stereo—for whom Keene also created the cover art on Fun Trick Noise Maker 25 years ago—about Steve Keene and his lifelong artistic journey.I've been a long-time fan and collector of Keene's work. Twenty years ago, I spent a day with him, profiling him in the pages of Stop Smiling, “The Magazine for High-Minded Lowlifes,” which I published from 1995 to 2009 from Chicago and New York. Hence, this was a nice circle of life moment. The Steve Keene Art Book is published through Hat & Beard Press and Tractor Beam, Efram's New York City-based press. The ReadingEditor Daniel Efram reads from his essay in The Steve Keene Art Book.Music by The Apples in Stereo

Adam Clair was barely out of undergrad when he began the manuscript for Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery (Hachette Books, 2022).The book is a definitive history of the 1990s underground musical movement known as the Elephant 6 Collective. Founded by Robert Schneider, Bill Doss, Will Cullen Hart, and Jeff Mangum, who grew up as friends in the small town of Ruston, Louisiana, the Elephant 6 was initially centered around three bands—the Apples in Stereo, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Olivia Tremor Control—whose records were expertly produced in home studios in Denver and Athens, Georgia, by Robert Schneider, who wouldn't mind being referred to as the Brian Wilson-like engineer extraordinaire of the collective. (Schneider is currently a professor of math in Georgia, having earned a PhD in his post-rocker years.)By the late-1990s, the Elephant 6 had exploded onto the musical scene in a way that hasn't really been felt since—their '60s psychedelia-inspired, almost utopian mindset of a better world with their music as the soundtrack was as intoxicating then as it is now.Rock ‘n' Roll stardom was something that seemed to frighten and elude the collective's founders, however, who were more focused on the art of the music than on the business side.By the turn of the century, relentless touring and recording schedules led Neutral Milk Hotel's front man Jeff Mangum to retreat from performing—and even from doing interviews. The Olivia's disbanded for a time, the Apples changed line ups, and the second-generation bands, like Of Montreal and Beulah, began to build their own audiences. In 2013, the original members of Neutral Milk Hotel reunited for a year or two of touring. Then Bill Doss from Olivia Tremor Control passed away suddenly, thwarting their comeback.All the while, Adam Clair was gathering reportage. He conducted over 100 interviews over 13 years to complete Endless Endless. Although the reclusive Jeff Mangum did not speak to him for the book, Clair was able to carve in Mangum's voice from past interviews (more than I remember taking place, having been around to see it unfold in real time the first time around). Clair and I spoke recently about Endless Endless and how it came to be. Tune in for all the details.For the Reading this episode, Adam Clair reads from his introduction to Endless Endless.Music by The Olivia Tremor Control

José Vadi grew up in California's Inland Empire, but his roots go back to Puerto Rico and Mexico. His abuelo, or grandfather, was an Okie who hopped freight trains west to Nebraska and then on to California, the promised land. Like many immigrants, he worked for a time as a migrant worker in the salad bowl of California's agriculturally rich central valley, before settling down in the San Bernardino Valley to raise a family. Vadi's second book, Inter State: Essays from California (Soft Skull Press), is an innovative collection of interconnected essays. Each piece appeared elsewhere previously, in slightly different form, but together, they create a prismatic picture of California's sprawling nooks and crannies—from the agricultural lands to the gentrifying urban culture of the bay area. Vadi's routines, including commuting to his old job in San Francisco, are a common thread that weave these essays together. Although they were all written between 2015 and early 2020, as Vadi notes in the afterword, “connecting California, then the COVID-19 pandemic, police violence, and 2020's record-breaking fire season grabbed and pulled at the seams as hard, quickly and destructively as possible.” Inter State is a valuable book in understanding the California of today, a state rife with stubborn issues: neo-liberal fantasy-land economics, a housing crisis, an ill-prepared bureaucracy for managing climate change and natural disasters, and largely tone-deaf leaders who may say the right things but who are just as compromised as some of the swamp creatures in Washington, DC. And yet… Vadi's book is hopeful. He left the Bay Area for Sacramento and now has more time to write poems, essays, plays, take photos, and skateboard (another undercurrent in the book). He seems to have successfully removed late capitalism as a hinderance to his life, at least for now. His new surroundings in Sacramento have renewed his creativity and purpose. We caught up recently to discuss Inter State and what he's up to next.The Reading: Jose Vadi reads from his title essay, "Inter State."Music by Pharaohs

The Interview:Although he did experience some fanfare in his lifetime, German writer, academic, and novelist W.G. Sebald—Max to his friends and colleagues—died 20 years ago in a car crash near his adoptive home in Norwich, England. He was only 58.His postmodern novels—Vertigo, The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn and Austerlitz—were written in quick succession in a period of less than 10 years, and they were all published in English translations in less than five years, making him one of Germany's biggest authors, almost overnight. Before his death, Sebald had taught in the British university system for decades, mainly at the University of East Anglia, where he helped found the literary translation department. He really did not begin writing in his signature style—a mix of travelogue, memoir, historical fiction with embedded pictures and ephemera—until middle age, however. Walter Benjamin famously opined that any great writer creates their own genre; Sebald accomplished this with just a brief collection of books. Through his unique, poetic prose style of writing, his books grab hold and immerse readers in a world of memory and loss like no other novelist. Trauma runs through his work and his characters seem so real because, like most fictional creations—at least in part—they are based on real people. Sebald's distinctive style got him into trouble, both when he was alive and certainly posthumously. Some readers have taken issue with his re-purposing of Jewish folks' true-life stories. He has been accused, in some cases, of exploiting these stories for personal gain through novelization. When I first began to read his work, shortly after his death in 2001, I interpreted his work to be an homage to the Jewish lives he chronicled, written by a German who grew up in the shadow, silence, and shame of the horrors of WWII. Sebald's father was a military man—a Nazi officer during the war and a member of the re-constituted German army in the post-war years. Sebald grew up in the beatific surroundings of Bavaria in Germany and had a deep hatred for the Nazi regime and his own family's complicity. The fate of the Jews—and other minorities targeted by the Nazi war machine—is a mournful thread that Sebald tears at throughout all of his novels. He also wrote a nonfiction study of the bombings of German cities, entitled On the Natural History of Destruction.Enter biographer Carole Angier, whose previous books include studies of novelist Jean Rhys and Italian physicist and writer Primo Levi. Angier, who grew up in Canada before returning to the UK, is of Viennese descent. She is also Jewish and roughly the same age Sebald would have been had he lived. It took her seven years to finish Speak, Silence (Bloomsbury, 2021). The title, of course, a nod to Nabokov's famous memoir, Speak, Memory, one of Sebald's favorite books. Angier and I caught up recently to discuss her 600-plus-page doorstopper of a book. One of the reasons I wanted to talk with her about it—apart from my longtime love of Sebald—was to ask for her thoughts on the controversy his work still seems to generate, even 20 years after his death. A great deal of the reviews of Speak, Silence, in the States at least, were hyper-critical of Sebald playing fast and loose with some facts in his fiction. But all great fiction writers pluck characteristics and facts to shape their fictional worlds and, so, while Sebald's use of real photographs and ephemera in his work for visual effect made his narrative style offensive to some, it also made it more potent for others. In this interview, Angier speaks to this subject, and many more.The Reading:For the reading, we pulled audio from an event at the 92nd Street Y from 2001, where Sebald read from his then newest novel Austerlitz. He was tragically killed in a car crash later that year. Music by Tangerine Dream92Y Reading link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccMCGjWLlhY&t=1620s 

That Episode Was… amazing, insane, ugh-terrible, glorious, delightful, sooooo disappointing, the best thing I've ever seen, ... *chef's kiss*! We all want our thoughts to be heard about the newest episode of whatever show it is we're watching. Social media is a deluge of quick opinions and hot takes. That Episode Was… is our series of watercooler deep-dive discussions about currently airing TV shows, this time focusing on Season 6 of Amazon's THE EXPANSE. THE EXPANSE is a series created by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby and run by Naren Shankar. It's based on the book series of the same name written by James S.A. Corey, a pen name for writing team Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. This installment covers the show's fifth episode of season six, "Why We Fight", this time with Hugo award nominee Corinna Bechko as our guest. Listen as we extol all praises on Cara Gee, really dig into where the crew of the Rocinante stands as they learn to trust once again and pour one out for Josep's Deadpool arm. POPSKL brings their professional creative backgrounds to this lively and thoughtful examination. Opinions fly and spoilers abound so be sure to watch each episode before tuning in! Find us here when you're ready, and let us know what you thought That Episode Was... SPECIAL GUESTS Corinna Bechko (@CorinnaBechko): In addition to writing for THE EXPANSE comic series for Boom! Studios, Corinna is the author of the graphic novel HEATHENTOWN and has also worked on such titles as STAR WARS: LEGACY, SAVAGE HULK, ALIENS/VAMPIRELLA, ONCE UPON A TIME, COURT OF THE DEAD: THE CHRONICLE OF THE UNDERWORLD and the Hugo-nominated series INVISIBLE REPUBLIC. Your POPSKL Hosts Justin Peniston (writer, Sonic Prime, Hunter Black Comix): @hunterblackcomix Lisa K. Weber (artist, HEX11): @lkatweber Kelly Sue Milano (writer, HEX11): @kellysuesays Claire Thorne (author, A Geek's Guide to Cross-Stitch: Journeys into Space): @unexpectedhobby Phillip Kelly (actor, writer, filmmaker): @phillipcreates Music POPSKL Punk Theme and Through the Ring Theme by Zach Pyke: @therealzachpyke Punk Funk, Composer: Richard Bodgers Punk Funk ~ Background Music #45094336 | Pond5 In Memoriam dirge by Rob Steiner and Erica Meadows ••• New episodes of That Episode Was... The Expanse are released every Monday and available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Podcasts. Follow us across social media @popsklpod and visit our website at www.popsklpod.com where you can join our newsletter. If you like what you hear, don't be rude: share, subscribe, and leave a positive review!

An interesting conversation with Robbie Smyth about the future of journalism, and the new postgraduate diploma in trust, safety and content moderation management. Robbie Smyth is Deputy Head of the Journalism Media Communications Faculty at Griffith College. More about Robbie Smyth He has lectured across all undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the faculty. As a journalist, he has been writing in the republican paper An Phoblacht since 1991 and is now editor of the magazine and online website. Robbie was also a board member of InterTradeIreland, an all-Ireland economic development agency set up under the Good Friday Agreement, from 2000 – 2007. Robbie's PhD from Queen's University Belfast, focused on the quality and accuracy of news media opinion poll reporting. His current research interests include how the media report politics, climate issues as well the general area of how the media business is being transformed in the digital era. Upcoming publications include The Invisible Republic, published by Palgrave Macmillan, which is about the economics and politics of Irish Republicanism in the 21 st Century. He is also collaborating with a colleague on a Public Relations textbook, due for publication in 2022. Griffith College, has launched a new postgraduate diploma in trust, safety and content moderation management. The first of its type in the world, it has been developed in partnership with Kinzen to meet the needs of industry in what is a rapidly expanding sector. The course will provide a postgraduate qualification for professionals working in internet trust and safety, a rapidly expanding sector of the economy. It will equip people working at social media platforms and business processing outsourcing (BPO) companies with the skills to think about, design and enforce policies that define acceptable online behaviour.

Today Melissa is joined my writer and zoologist Corinna Bechko! This one is a lot of fun! Comics and zoo’s!

Zet hem aan over Dylan, en Lucky Fonz III, dichter en singer-songwriter, filosoof en taalgeleerde, is zomaar niet uitgepraat. Als student al dook hij diep in de Dylanologie, de verklarende Dylan-kunde, waarvan het object zijn grote inspirator is. Hij schreef zijn scriptie over de maner waarop Dylan zelf , in zijn Chronicles, op zijn werk reflecteert. In de bespreking van die scriptie waren we de vorige keer, na ruim een uur spreken, terecht gekomen. En via die scriptie in de Invisible Republic, het mythische oord waar Dylan rondzwerft tussen de Amerikaanse archetypen die het oude muziekrepertoire bevolken. Met liefde, moord en doodslag. Laat u andermaal aan de hand nemen door Lucky Fonz III.

With travel adventures limited due to COVID-19, Cal Poly adjunct journalism professor Katya Cengel takes us on a different sort of trip – to a country that does not technically exist. Reality may seem surreal at present, but in the former Soviet Union where Cengel lived earlier this century there were enclaves such as Trans-Dniester—and even though the little country was complete with its very own president, according to the surrounding countries, the little country does not exist.

La Sélection Comics de ce lundi 03 décembre 2018, c'est Invisible Republic publié par Hi Comics.

In this episode of the show, hosts Seed and Ninja Dave discuss Invisible Republic and Invincible, both published by Image Comics. Check out Invisible Republic here: https://www.comixology.com/Invisible-Republic/comics-series/36621?ref=c2VhcmNoL2luZGV4L2Rlc2t0b3Avc2xpZGVyTGlzdC90b3BSZXN1bHRzU2xpZGVy Check out Invincible here: https://www.comixology.com/Invincible/comics-series/684?ref=c2VhcmNoL2luZGV4L2Rlc2t0b3Avc2xpZGVyTGlzdC90b3BSZXN1bHRzU2xpZGVy Or order them from your local comic books store!

So glad to welcome Gabe and Corinna back to praise their latest efforts. Green Lantern Earth One is a great new spin on the GL origin, with real surprises suspense and a great launching point tpo tell future stories. We also get into their first 3 volumes of Invisible Republic a great complex political sci-fi story that despite first coming out in 2015 resonates more in today's US climate. 

So glad to welcome Gabe and Corinna back to praise their latest efforts. Green Lantern Earth One is a great new spin on the GL origin, with real surprises suspense and a great launching point tpo tell future stories. We also get into their first 3 volumes of Invisible Republic a great complex political sci-fi story that despite first coming out in 2015 resonates more in today's US climate. 

Dans ce sixième numéro, nous nous penchons sur les sorties comics et manga de février ! Plein de belles choses, dans plein de genres différents ! Bonne écoute, et n'hésitez pas à donner votre avis dans les commentaires ou sur notre twitter, nous serions ravis de débattre avec vous ! Au programme de ce numéro :04:38 : "Black Torch", de Tsuyoshi Takaki - Ki-oon10:40 : "Lyla et la bête qui voulait mourir", d'Asato Konami (scénario) et Ejiwa Saita (dessins) - Ki-oon18:25 : "Kedamame, l'homme venu du chaos", de Yukio Tamai - Glenat29:10 : "Groom Lake", de Chris Ryall (scénario) et Ben Templesmith (dessins) - Delcourt32:37 : "Monkey Peak", de Kôji Shinasaka (scénario) et Akihiro Kumeta (dessins) - Komikku39:35 : "Yûna de la pension Yuragi", de Tadahiro Miura - Pika45:20 : "Le bonheur, c'est simple comme un bento de Yuzu", d'Umetarô Aoi - Nobi Nobi !55:55 : "Banale à tout prix", de Nagamu Nanaji - Kana1:02:29 : "Love under arrest", de Maki Miyoshi - Delcourt/Tonkam1:15:18 : "Destins parallèles" (Elle et Lui), de Daisuke Imai - Komikku1:28:28 : "Renato Jones, les un%", de Kaare Kyle Andrews - Akileos1:43:31 : "Ballistic", d'Adam Egypt Mortimer (scenario) et Darick Robertson - Glenat Comics1:52:25 : "Kuhime", de Hideo Takenaka - Panini1:58:47 : "Gleipnir", de Sun Takeda - Kana2:09:58 : "Invisible Republic", de Corinna Bechko (scénario), Gabriel Hardman (scénario et dessins) et Jordan Boyd (couleurs) - Hi Comics2:17:35 : "B.E.K. Black Eyed Kids", de Joe Pruett (scénario), Szymon Kudranski (dessins) et Guy Major (couleurs) - Snorgleux2:24:35 : "Eclat(s) d'âme", de Yûki Kamatani - Akata2:46:10 : "L'atelier des sorciers", de Kamome Shirahama - Pika Suivez nous aussi sur le compte twitter de l'émission :https://twitter.com/Cases_sur_Table N'hésitez pas à regarder les let's play (pleins d'esprit du sport, de courtoisie et de respect entre adversaires) de la chaîne twitch "Gamer's bizarre adventure" :https://www.twitch.tv/gamers_bizarre_adventure On parler aussi de cinéma dans "La guerre des claps" !Podcloud : https://podcloud.fr/podcast/la-guerre-des-clapsYoutube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPKAKSeNytgTwitter : https://twitter.com/guerredesclaps Vous pouvez retrouver Alex sur Twitter :https://twitter.com/Greensuro Ainsi que le Nécronomi-Core :https://twitter.com/NecronomiCore Ce podcast est enregistré chez Chris, à la librairie "Au gré des bulles", 44 rue du Jard à Reims, et sur twitter :https://twitter.com/Cases_sur_TableDes fois, les autres chroniqueurs y traînent, aussi. La chaîne youtube d'Issam, l'Archiviste du cinéma :https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCntDC5Hp_XYNy-7shfkUtnwEt son twitter : https://twitter.com/cinemarchiviste

Images at Multiversitycomics.com at http://wp.me/p42KN3-JIR Welcome to the Comics Syllabus podcast, where we read widely and we dig deep. Your host Paul, a literacy researcher and English teacher, introduces curious readers to a range of current and classic comics, and then engages in closer discussion and analysis of particular comics works. First, (at 0:00) a walk through the Syllabus, a reading list of comics Paul invites you to read along with him in the weeks to come. See the Syllabus full list below. This episode’s Close Read (at 32:20 ) is with Rachelle Cruz, as we dive into two graphic novels from Filipina/o creators, “Duran Duran, Imelda Marcos, and Me” by Lorina Mapa (Conundrum, 2017) and “Elmer” by Gerry Alanguilan (SLG, 2010). We start by catching up with Rachelle about her forthcoming comics textbook, “Experiencing Comics,” and then examine Alanguilan’s moving and vexing fable of chickens who acquire consciousness and Mapa’s moving autobiography about growing up in the Philippines and Canada, noticing powerful similarities in the two stories. IMAGES TO GO WITH OUR DISCUSSION OF “ELMER” AND “DURAN DURAN, IMELDA MARCOS, AND ME” are at http://wp.me/p42KN3-JIR In the discussion, Rachelle also mentions the documentary Komeriko Chronicles ( http://www.facebook.com/Komikero-Chronicles-1602564500070445/ ), Budjette Tan’s TRESE anthology (found at http://www.mervstore.com/products/kabuwanan ), and the comics work of Arnold Arre ( http://arnold-arre.com/ ), so check those out! Finally, in the Discussion Section (at 1:35:00 ), the Discussion Section, with mentions of interviews with Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen at Multiversity http://www.multiversitycomics.com/interviews/descender-27-preview-interview/ and other podcasts, and shout outs to the #ComicsSyllabus community. Next Time: "Concrete Park" by Tony Puryear and Erika Alexander (Dark Horse). “The Syllabus” for 1/30/2018. (Read along wherever you choose, throw in your comments via #ComicsSyllabus) Manga (Mondays): “Hatsune Miku Future Delivery” by Hugin Miyama and Satoshi Oshio (Kodansha). Alt TPB (Tuesdays): MANY IMAGE SERIES including “Invisible Republic,” “Shutter,” “Autumnlands,” “Rocket Girl,” “No Mercy,” “Monstress,” “East of West,” and more! (There are so many!) World/BD (Wednesdays): “Jerome K Jerome Blouche” by Alain Dodier,‎ Pierre Makyo,‎ and Serge Le Tendre (IDW Euro Comics) Throwback (Thursdays): “Fourth World Omnibus” by Jack Kirby (DC) Family (Fridays): Kamikaze by Alan Tupper, Carrie Tupper, and Havana Nguyen (at http://kamikazeanimated.com/ ); Future release: “The Cardboard Kingdom” by Chad Sell and others Superheroes (Saturdays): “Black Panther,” anyone? Sequential/Small Press (Sundays): “Slasher” by Charles Forsman (Floating World), “Queen Street” by Emmanuelle Chateauneuf (Chapterhouse), and “Alienation” #1-6 by Inés Estrada ( http://inechi.com/alienation.html ) Subscribe and follow the Comics Syllabus podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Soundcloud, or copy this RSS feed to your podcatcher: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:235183739/sounds.rss or you can find archives for this podcast (previously named “Study Comics with Paul”) here: http://studycomics.club/ Join the discussion on the Comics Syllabus Facebook page: http://facebook.com/ComicsSyllabus or Follow Paul on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TwoPlai or leave your comments here on the showpage. Thanks for listening!

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is: Invisible Republic, Vol. 1-3 Story by Corinna Bechko and Gabriel Hardman Art by Gabriel Hardman Color Art by Jordan Boyd From Amazon: Arthur McBride???s regime has fallen. His planet has been plunged into chaos, his story shrouded in mystery, until reporter Croger Babb discovers [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is: Invisible Republic, Vol. 1-3 Story by Corinna Bechko and Gabriel Hardman Art by Gabriel Hardman Color Art by Jordan Boyd From Amazon: Arthur McBride’s regime has fallen. His planet has been plunged into chaos, his story shrouded in mystery, until reporter Croger Babb discovers […]

WHAT WHAT, MY POP ROCKS! Gary Lactus hosts an epic mash up lash up* starring hard boiled gritty pre-Giuliani New York cop just two weeks away from retirement, Johnathan Dick and a hypnotic robotic Spare 5 who returns like the monster from an ever diminishing horror franchise! Better than that though is the explosive entrance of crime fighting duo The Beast Must Die and Mini-Beast, ready to deliver a 200+ megaton purple nurple right on the left boob of the London Underworld! Wanna know what we talk about? There was loads and load and plenty of it not comics. Here’s a list of words! 2000AD Titan Editions, akira, Animal Man, Beneath, Blair Witch, Cry of the Werewolf, Curse Words, Dennis Potter, Doom Patrol, Found Footage, Found Footage Films, Gabriel Hardman, Gi Joe Vs Transformers: The Movie, Hitman, horror, Invisible Republic, Johnathan Dick, Judge Dredd Deviation, Junji Ito, Justice League Trailer, Kong: Skull Island, Larry Cohen, Larry Fessenden, Lone Wolf and Cub, Manga no Manben, Mini Beast, Naoki Urasawa, Nemesis, Not Quite Hollywood, Roger Corman, Romaction, Romance of a different name, Sandman: Overture, Scratched Live!, Silence! Because the Film’s Started, Slaine Choose Your Own Adventure Comics, Stray Bullets, TBMD, The Beast Must Die, The Belfry, The Origin of Spare 5, walking dead FEAR THE NIGHT! *made you look! @silencepod @frasergeesin @thebeastmustdie @bobsymindless @theQuietusFilm @kellykanayama silencepodcast@gmail.com You can support us using Patreon if you like.

Gabriel Hardman on his upcoming one-shot The Belfry, ongoing series Invisible Republic and Kinski all published by Image Comics.

In this episode, Chad and Patrick catch up on comics from the past couple weeks, including two election-centric ones. They also discuss their favorite type of annuals, what works and doesn't about "Invisible Republic," and the oddly compelling Antarctic Press. Here's the complete list of titles featured this week: Batman Annual #1 Faith #5 Ms. Marvel #13 Invisible Republic #13 Saga #40 Flintstones #6 Unfollow #14 Cannibal #3 Savage #1 Island #13 Batman #12 This week's music is "Run to Your Mama" by Goat. Contact us with comments, questions and suggestions @32Pages2Staples or 32Pages2Staples@gmail.com.

Thanks the iFanboy Patrons...Talksplode is back on a monthly release schedule! And we couldn’t be happier to kick things off with the creative team of Corinna Bechko and Gabriel Hardman. Longtime collaborators in both life and comics, Bechko and Hardman moved into creator owned success with their sci-fi/political epic Invisible Republic. Josh Flanagan chats with them about working on licensed properties, their own original works and of course...pets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Crossed +100 by Alan Moore and Gabriel Andrade from Avatar, Dynomite-O-Rama: The Shadow by Cullen Bunn, Giovanni Timpano, and Marco Lesko, Re-Animator by Keith Davidsen, Randy Valiente, and Jorge Sutil, and The Spirit by Matt Wagner, Dan Schkade, and Brennan Wagner, more on Mad Max: Fury Road, Frank Miller's mini-comic cover to Dark Knight III: The Master Race, Image-O-Rama: Southern Bastards by Jason Aaron and Jason Latour, Island by Brandon Graham, Emma Rios, Simon Roy, and company, and Invisible Republic by Gabriel Hardman, Corinna Bechko, and Jordan Boyd, Godzilla in Hell #3 by Ulises Farinas, Erick Frietas, Buster Moody, and Ludwig Laguna Olimba from IDW, Mark Waid and Fiona Staples' Archie, Jason announces the winner of the Omega Men contest, and a whole mess more!

The Two Guys are happy to have as their guests Gabriel Hardman and Corinna Bechko. Their first collected volume of Invisible Republic has just recently been released, and the guys talk with the creators about the origins of this project, its initial incubation period, and their efforts in bringing the series to Image Comics. Invisible Republic is a science fiction narrative, taking place on a distant moon in the Gliese system in the twenty-eighth century, but it's much more of a story of political intrigue set against a backdrop of journalistic investigation. The first trade collects issues #1-5 of the series, and the next narrative arc begins later this month with issue #6. Derek and Andy W. also ask Corinna and Gabriel about their collaborative relationship, their work on Invisible Republic as well as other series (including the Planet of the Apes franchise), and how it may complement -- or perhaps even challenge -- their personal partnership. The guys also use the opportunity to talk with the two about their other creator-owned projects, such as Kinski, Heathentown, and the upcoming The Crooked Man. The topics of beekeeping, pet ownership, and even Donald Trump (unfortunately) make their ways into their conversation, making this a well-rounded talk. There is a lot packed into this interview, and the discussion that unfolds is one of the most thought-provoking you'll hear in any comics podcast.

Rick Remender joins us to discuss Tokyo Ghost with Sean Murphy and Matt Hollingsworth from Image, Doctor Voodoo, Frankencastle, Venom, Black Science, Deadly Class, Fear Agent, Low, Last Days of American Crime, and a whole lot more, plus, we have some time left over to ramble on Fear the Walking Dead, Ryan Browne and Blast Furnace, The 6 Voyages of Lone Sloane by Philippe Druillet from Titan Comics, C.O.W.L. #7-11 by Kyle Higgins, Alec Siegel, Rod Reis, and Trevor McCarthy from Image, Christopher Mitten, Waid and Samnee's Daredevil, Invisible Republic by Gabriel Hardman and Corinna Bechko from Image, Mike Norton's scrotum, and a whole mess more!

Bookrageous Episode 81; Gamerageous [show note links tk] Intro Music; Gerudo Valley - Koji Kondo What We're Reading - Write Bloody Publishing - Go Set A Watchman - State of Play - Undermajordomo Minor - It - Star Wars Dark Disciple - Heir to the Empire (comic) - Invisible Republic - 7 SARAH DESSEN BOOKS - Along for the Ride - Uncanny X Men - Beginning of Everything - Me Earl and the Dying Girl - The Outsiders - True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle --- Intermission; Talk Dirty (To Me) - 8 Bit Universe --- - Hearthstone - World of Warcraft - The Sims - Shovel Knight - Mario Kart (new) - Nidhogg - Uncharted - Tomb Raider - Papers Please - Westport Independent - Watch_Dogs - The State of Play - Rust - Rust not pick gender - Fallout 4 - Fast and the Furious 6 - Never Alone - Mario Maker - Kieron Gillen new games journalism - Level One - Penny Arcade - Scott Pilgrim - Seconds - Danny O Dwyer (GameSpot) - Austin Walker (Giant Bomb) - Phil Kollar - Leigh Alexander - Laura Hudson - Shadow of Mordor / Otherness - Clipping Through - Offworld - Extra Lives - Super Mario - Jacked - Console Wars - Rise of the Video Game Zinesters - Boss Fight Books - Yoshi's Island - Streets of Rage - Ocarina of Time - Game of Thrones - Gone Home - Tacoma - Eternal Darkness - Stanley Parable - The Last of Us - Ready Player One - Armada - Ender's Game - The Other Normal - The Infinity Ring - 39 Clues - Minecraft - Ocarina of Time Manga - Hyrule Historia - King's Quest --- Outro; Gerudo Valley - Koji Kondo --- Find Us! Bookrageous on Tumblr, Podbean, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, and leave us voicemail at 347-855-7323. Find Us Online: Josh, Paul, Preeti Get Bookrageous schwag at CafePress Note: Our show book links direct you to WORD, an independent bookstore. If you click through and buy the book, we will get a small affiliate payment. We won't be making any money off any book sales -- any payments go into hosting fees for the Bookrageous podcast, or other Bookrageous projects. We promise.

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!

A new week, a new podcast featuring all kinds of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey comic book discussions and more. Lightning Round Batgirl: Endgame, Divinity, Chrononauts #1, Copperhead Vol. 1, The Fade Out Vol. 1, Captain America & the Mighty Avengers #6, Storm #9, Silk #2, Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #3, Batgirl #40, Invisible Republic #1, and Spider-Woman #5, Eig8t #2, Rat Queens #9, Shaper #1, Frankenstein Underground #1. Book of the Week Geoff Johns/Romita Jr. Superman #32-39, Giant Days #1, Sensation Comics #8, and  The Fourth Planet Vol. 2. Shared Book of the Week Red One #1 by Xavier Dorison, Terry Dodson, and Rachel Dodson. Oh, and if you're interested in attending Stephanie's panel at ECCC on Saturday March 28, the info is below: FYI: the crew have gone all superhero on the world, thanks to the wonderful  Hanie Mohd. Like them? Make sure to follow her and let us know what you think of our superhero pictures. The Comic Book Podcast is brought to you by Talking Comics (www.talkingcomicbooks.com), a blog dedicated to covering the latest and greatest in comic book releases. The editorial staff is composed of Editor-in-Chief Bobby Shortle (Fanboy Remix, Doctor Whocast), Stephanie Cooke ( Misfortune Cookie) and Steve Seigh (JoBlo.com contributor) who weekly dissect the releases and give you, the consumer, a simple Roman yay or nay regarding them. Our Twitter handle is @ TalkingComics and you can email us at  info@talkingcomicbooks.com.

Stephen, Jay and Austin explore the controversies surrounding Erik Larsen and J. Scott Campbell's comments on Wonder Woman's new costume, June's proposed Batgirl #40 Joker variant by Rafael Albuquerque and accusations against X-Men '92 writer Chris Sims from fellow blogger Valerie D'Orazio before getting caught up on two weeks of Comics at the Table! As if that wasn't enough, Jermaine and Val also bring you a road report on Wizard World Raleigh! Show Notes: "Are DC & Marvel Placating a 'Vocal Minority' of Fans With Practical Female Character Costumes?" at the Mary Sue.com. "J Scott Campbell Redesigns Wonder Woman His Way" at Bleeding Cool.com. "Exclusive: Wonder Woman's New Costume is Fierce, Fabulous, and Deadly" at Hit Fix.com. "Albuquerque Was Asked to Make Batgirl Cover More Extreme" at Bleeding Cool.com. "Valerie D'Orazio Accusses Chris Sims Of Past Cyber-Bullying" at Bleeding Cool.com. "A Statement Regarding Chris Sims and His Harassment of Valerie D'Orazio" at Comics Alliance.com. "Marvel's Axel Alonso Addresses Harassment of Valerie D'Orazio By Chris Sims" at Bleeding Cool.com. "Ronald Wimberly's Must-Read Commentary on Race in Comics" at Comics Alliance.com. Clarification on Stephen's Howard the Duck/ Lucasfilm/ Apple/ Pixar Anecdote courtesy of About.com. Comics at the Table! - Chrononauts #1, Invisible Republic #1, Frankenstein Underground #1, Giant Days #1, Red One #1, Howard the Duck #1, Southern Cross #1, Hellbreak #1 and Bill & Ted's Most Triumphant Return #1!

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- Chrononauts #1. Mark Millar y Sean Murphy. (Image). - Invisible Republic #1. Corinna Bechko y Gabriel Hardman (también artista). (Image). - Red One #1. Xavier Dorison y Terry Dodson. (Image). - Divinity #2. Matt Kindt y Trevor Hairsine. (Valiant). - Princess Leia #2. Mark Waid y Terry Dodson. (Marvel). - Secret Identities #2. Jay Faerber, Brian Joines e Ilias Kyriziakis. (Image).

- Chrononauts #1. Mark Millar y Sean Murphy. (Image). - Invisible Republic #1. Corinna Bechko y Gabriel Hardman (también artista). (Image). - Red One #1. Xavier Dorison y Terry Dodson. (Image). - Divinity #2. Matt Kindt y Trevor Hairsine. (Valiant). - Princess Leia #2. Mark Waid y Terry Dodson. (Marvel). - Secret Identities #2. Jay Faerber, Brian Joines e Ilias Kyriziakis. (Image).

[audio http://archive.org/download/Episode40TheCreativeTeamShuffle/Episode_40-The_Creative_Team_Shuffle.mp3] Join us for another episode of the Heck Yeah Comics! Podcast. This week: We talk about Chrononauts #1, Moon Knight #13, Invisible Republic #1, iZombie, The Flash, Arrow, John Cassaday and Stuart Immonen trading shifts on Star Wars, Morena Baccarin being Copycat, first look at returning characters and new costumes at DC, the Batgirl … Continue reading →

Marc Laming and Antony Esmond join us to talk about Tony Fleecs, the London Super Comic Con, Secret Wars: Planet Hulk, Neal Adams, Thought Bubble, Kings Watch from Dynamite, Avengers, 2000 A.D., Convergence, Captain Britain, Master of Kung-Fu (Paul Gulacy, Gene Day, Mike Zeck, and more), Slaine: The Brutania Chronicles by Pat Mills and Simon Davis, Adam Sandler, Wasteland by John Ostrander, Del Close, Don Simpson, George Freeman, William Messner-Loebs, David Lloyd, Lovern Kindzierski, and company, All-New Hawkeye #1 by Jeff Lemire and Ramon Perez, Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick, Michael Moorcock's Elric: The Ruby Throne by Julien Blondel, Didier Poli, Robin Recht, and Jean Bastide from Titan Comics, P. Craig Russell, Killraven, the Mister Miracle Artist's Edition from IDW, Frank Thorne, Chrononauts by Mark Millar, Sean Gordon Murphy, and Matt Hollingsworth from Image, The Man Without Fear by Frank Miller, John Romita Jr., and Klaus Janson, The Spectators by Victor Hussenot from Nowbrow, Sheltered by Ed Brisson and Johnnie Christmas from Image, Invisible Republic #1 by Gabriel Hardman, Corinna Bechko, and Jordan Boyd from Image, Man-Thing, and a whole mess more!

Another Previews catalog showed up on their doorsteps, so it's time to gaze into the tomorrow of March 2015 and see what catches Mike and Greg's eyes. Archie #666 (maybe?)! The Complete Eightball (possibly?)! Wuvable Oaf (definitely!)! The Light & Darkness War! Frankenstein Underground! Halogen! Giant Days! Angry Youth Comix! 60's Soul! The absolute gauntlet of new Image books (Chrononauts, Descender, Invisible Republic, Red One, and more)! Miami Vice Remixed! Find out what new Marvel Star Wars book actually cracks a smile on Mike's face, which 2000AD strip the gents think would make a good candidate for the next US-Format miniseries, why Dan Abnett is ten types of unappreciated, and if we should be worried that DC's Convergence is a death sentence for some burgeoning classics. 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.

As we ring in 2015 we discuss the IDW acquiring Top Shelf news as well as the new upcoming books announced at the latest Image Expo. In this weeks comics we put the spotlight on the comic work of Gabriel Hardman & Corinna Bechko. Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman Chapter 16-18 "Dig for Fire" part 1 of 3! Wonder Woman accepts a covert mission from Queen Hippolyta: infiltrate Apokolips, find a group of Amazons imprisoned there by Darkseid, and bring them home alive. SAVAGE HULK (2014) #6-7 HULK VS DOCTOR STRANGE! • An inter-dimensional race against oncoming ARMAGEDDON!!! • Will HULK destroy an entire city to get revenge on DOCTOR STRANGE? STATION TO STATION (ONE-SHOT) Something terrible has happened to the Bay Area. A pipeline explosion has totaled Treasure Island and destroyed the Bay Bridge. At least, that’s the official story . . . An interdimensional monster has been brought to San Francisco, and only the men responsible can fight it off, but can they resist its brainwashing? From the pages of Dark Horse Presents! INVISIBLE REPUBLIC #1 IMAGE COMICS (W) Gabriel Hardman, Corinna Bechko (A/CA) Gabriel Hardman Breaking Bad meets Blade Runner. Arthur McBride's planetary regime has fallen. His story is over. That is until reporter Croger Babb discovers the journal of Arthur's cousin, Maia. Inside is the violent, audacious hidden history of the legendary freedom fighter. Erased from the official record, Maia alone knows how dangerous her cousin really is... Item Code: JAN150568 In Shops: 3/18/2015 http://thetaylornetworkofpodcasts.wordpress.com/ Follow us on twitter: @jkshappyhour

As we ring in 2015 we discuss the IDW acquiring Top Shelf news as well as the new upcoming books announced at the latest Image Expo. In this weeks comics we put the spotlight on the comic work of Gabriel Hardman & Corinna Bechko. Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman Chapter 16-18 "Dig for Fire" part 1 of 3! Wonder Woman accepts a covert mission from Queen Hippolyta: infiltrate Apokolips, find a group of Amazons imprisoned there by Darkseid, and bring them home alive. SAVAGE HULK (2014) #6-7 HULK VS DOCTOR STRANGE! • An inter-dimensional race against oncoming ARMAGEDDON!!! • Will HULK destroy an entire city to get revenge on DOCTOR STRANGE? STATION TO STATION (ONE-SHOT) Something terrible has happened to the Bay Area. A pipeline explosion has totaled Treasure Island and destroyed the Bay Bridge. At least, that’s the official story . . . An interdimensional monster has been brought to San Francisco, and only the men responsible can fight it off, but can they resist its brainwashing? From the pages of Dark Horse Presents! INVISIBLE REPUBLIC #1 IMAGE COMICS (W) Gabriel Hardman, Corinna Bechko (A/CA) Gabriel Hardman Breaking Bad meets Blade Runner. Arthur McBride's planetary regime has fallen. His story is over. That is until reporter Croger Babb discovers the journal of Arthur's cousin, Maia. Inside is the violent, audacious hidden history of the legendary freedom fighter. Erased from the official record, Maia alone knows how dangerous her cousin really is... Item Code: JAN150568 In Shops: 3/18/2015 http://thetaylornetworkofpodcasts.wordpress.com/ Follow us on twitter: @jkshappyhour

The dynamic duo of Gabriel Hardman and Corinna Bechko join us to discuss a multitude of things, including The Hulk, Jeff Parker, Kinski, Star Wars: Legacy, Dark Horse Presents, Invisible Republic and Image Comics, the Kirkman Manifesto, Heathentown, Planet of the Apes, Marc Laming, Lord of the Rings, Lovecraft, Richard Corben, The Strain, Twin Peaks and David Lynch, Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët from Drawn and Quarterly, Aaron Conley and Sabertooth Swordsman, Naoki Urasawa's Pluto, Mark Millar, Icon, Moonhead and the Music Machine by Andrew Rae from Nobrow Press, Neonomicon, Marv Wolfman and Keith Pollard's run on Amazing Spider-Man, Hellboy, The Multiversity #1, Self-Made Hero, All-New Ghost Rider by Felipe Smith, Tradd Moore, and Val Staples, Grayson by Tim Seeley, Tom King, and Mikel Janin, Wonder Woman, Petty Theft by Pasca Girard from Drawn and Quarterly, dumb bunnies, and a whole mess more!