Podcast appearances and mentions of jesse reklaw

For the Love of Indie #94 is here for your small press comics needs. We have space terror from Tyler Landry, the childhood of Jesse Reklaw, colorful fighters from Josh Hicks and a the struggles of a toxic relationship from Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary Valero-O'Connell. Take a listen and hear all about: The Glorious Wrestling Alliance Vile #1: Coward's Hole Couch Tag Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me Cold Blood Samurai Unnatural vol. 2 Fairlady Faithless Notes: www.fortheloveofindie.com Email: ftlindie@gmail.com Twitter: @ftlindie

Will talks about the alternative rock songs of December 1988, including "The Great Commandment" by Camouflage, "Angel of Harlem" by U2, "What I Am" by Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians, and "Ana Ng" by They Might Be Giants. Featuring special guest host Jesse Reklaw.

Dave Jordan, Daniel White, Dave Wachter, Heroes, Image-O-Rama: Plastic #1 by Doug Wagner, Daniel Hillyard, and Laura Martin and Redneck #1 by Donny Cates, Lisandro Estherren, and Dee Cunniffe, The Wild Storm by Warren Ellis,  John Davis-Hunt, and Steve Buccellato, Superman Reborn by Peter Tomasi, Patrick Gleason, Mick Gray, Dan Hurgens, Doug Mahnke, Jaime Mendoza, Christian Alamy, Trevor Scott, and more, Batman #21: The Button by Tom King, Jason Fabok, and Brad Anderson, Terry Moore's Motor Girl, Goatherded by Charlo Frade by Avery Hill Publishing, Walt Disney's Comics and Stories Featuring Mickey and Donald: The Persistence of Mickey from IDW, LOVF by Jesse Reklaw from Fantagraphics, Vigilante by Marv Wolfman Volume 1, X-Men: Gold #1, plus a whole mess more!

LOVF (Fantagraphics) LOVF is the sketchbook companion of a man literally losing his mind. Homeless and broke after giving all his stuff to punk rock heroin dealers, he ends up off his meds and on a secret quest from Portland to Brooklyn, DC, LA, San Francisco, and Seattle. He throws himself into every experience like it was his last; like it should be his last. With wild energy, promiscuity, criminal activity, and substance abuse, this becomes a full-blown manic episode... all of it captured by LOVF, the trusty sidekick. Jammed with cartoons, mad schemes, psychedelic portraits, and notes from the road, LOVF is a travel journal, and a mirror of the post-traumatic dreamworld its author can’t escape from. After losing his house, his job, his partner, and his best friend, he is triple-diagnosed with bipolar mood disorder, PTSD, and crippling chronic pain. As a self-professed over-achiever, he made sure things only got worse from there. Getting beat up in the street, running from the law, getting dragged out of a creek and into a mental hospital… it’s a Kerouacian meltdown of cross-hatching, spattered marker, crayons, glitter, tape, nail polish, white-out, fingerpainting, rain, wine, stickers, and word balloons, like the found diary of a homeless crazyman, turned into a comic book. "Equal parts confounding, bleak, psychedelic, and beautiful. I'm ever grateful to Jesse and Fantagraphics for preserving and sharing such intimate vulnerabilities with the world." --Craig Thompson [Blankets, Habibi] Jesse Reklaw grew up in Sacramento, studied at UC Santa Cruz, and completed a master’s degree in computer science at Yale University. In 1995, while pursuing a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence, he began self-publishing comics and dropped out of Yale to be a cartoonist. His other books includeCouch Tag, Applicant, and The Night of Your Life.

Joe and Joshua discuss LOVF by Jesse Reklaw and Hot Dog Taste Test by Lisa Hanawalt.

  Jesse Reklaw joined me to talk about his latest book, Couch Tag. It’s a really interesting autobio work covering some really difficult points in time in Jesse’s childhood and adolescence. You can also see his latest work, published by Paper Rocket … Continue reading →

From self-published mini-comic zines to traditional comic books, manga and graphic novels, comics are a seriously big deal in our community, home to big-time publishers, small presses and independent artists. Speakers Dylan Williams, of Sparkplug Comics, Dark Horse Executive Editor Diana Schutz, PSU Special Collections Librarian and Archivist Cris Paschild, and independent comics creator Julia Gfrorer discuss the cultural and economic significance of comics. The panel discussion was followed by Julia Gfrorer reading her comics Too Dark to See and Ariadne auf Naxos, with the assistance of Jesse Reklaw. Recorded live at Central Library, U.S. Bank Room, April 14, 2011. Target Audience: Adult