Podcasts about Octopus Pie

Meredith Gran (she/her) is a comics artist and game designer, best known for her webcomic, Octopus Pie and the adventure game Perfect Tides. She sat down with me to talk about her experience coming to games from a comics background, how Perfect Tides' mechanics where influenced by teenage naivety, and why the 00s are such a rich period for coming of age stories. Finally, we wrap up with a teaser for the upcoming sequel, Perfect Tides: Station to Station. You can learn more about Meredith's games and comics on her website. Meredith's Cool Things to Share- Having a VHS collection with Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff, 2001) Things Discussed- Perfect tides (Three Bees, 2022)- Octopus Pie (Meredith Gran, 2007-2017)- King's Quest (Sierra, 1984)- I Like Movies (Chandler Levack, 2022)- PEN15 (Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, and Sam Zvibleman, 2019-2021)- Perfect Tides: Station to Station (Meredith Gran, upcoming) Kritiqal Care is produced by me, Nathalie, with music by Desired. It's available on Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts, and wherever else you get podcasts. If you enjoyed the show, consider leaving a review or rating, sharing it with a loved one, and supporting KRITIQAL on Ko-Fi.

We're back from the holiday with our second annual Best Of roundup! Find out what our favorite books of the year were, and enjoy discussions with Sarah Horrocks, Austin English, Jason T Miles, Keren Katz, Sloane Leong, Eric Grissom, Ed Luce, Carta Monir, & Sammy Harkham as they detail their picks. Books discussed include Golden Kamuy, Alienation, The Interview, Anti-Gone, Doom Patrol, Shit & Piss, Diana's Electric Tongue, Variations, Pretending Is Lying, Street Angel, You & a Bike & a Road, Tarantula, Octopus Pie, Yours, Zanardi, and more!

We're back from the holiday with our second annual Best Of roundup! Find out what our favorite books of the year were, and enjoy discussions with Sarah Horrocks, Austin English, Jason T Miles, Keren Katz, Sloane Leong, Eric Grissom, Ed Luce, Carta Monir, & Sammy Harkham as they detail their picks. Books discussed include Golden Kamuy, Alienation, The Interview, Anti-Gone, Doom Patrol, Shit & Piss, Diana's Electric Tongue, Variations, Pretending Is Lying, Street Angel, You & a Bike & a Road, Tarantula, Octopus Pie, Yours, Zanardi, and more!

Ceci n'est pas une podcast! This week Kyle, Matthew and Natalie sit down with comedian Kevin Macias to talk about Art History, as they discuss their favorite time periods and artists through the ages. Natalie likes cave paintings and ancient art, Kevin and Kyle share their mutual love of fascist artwork, and Matthew phones a friend (Laura) to learn why Greek/Roman nudes weren't "packing heat." They also talk graffiti, performance art and give a lot of great recommendations for contemporary artists you should totally check out!  Weekly Rads:  Our new website thisisradpodcast.com, The Limestone Comedy Festival and radsters in Bloomington, Indiana; Teen Witch Fan Club, David Cook aka Bonethrower, Octopus Pie by Meredith Gran, Bernie Wrightson's The Amazing Spider-Man Hooky, Slowdive, Day of the Dead Raddendums: Nat Geo WILD, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Picasso, Rothko, Mondrian, Yves Klein, Keith Haring, Robert Arneson, Cindy Sherman, Pecker, De Chirico, Neo Rauch, Cake/Cake 87, The Artist Is Present, Narcissister, Basic Instinct, Frida Kahlo, Destino, Basquiat, Blank City, Yue Minjun, Bosch, Goya, Koontz, Ed Ruscha, Damien Hirst, Richard Serra, Walter De Maria, James Turrell, Oskar Kokoschka, Geoff McFetridge, Pettibone, Patrick Martinez, Banksy

This week Meredith Gran, the Ignatz Award winning creator of long-running webcomic Octopus Pie, joins us to talk about her creative history and process as well as the release of Octopus Pie in trade form from Image Comics, out February 26th. … Continue reading →

It’s a new episode in a new Act! 2 down, 4 to go. (This one’s Act 3.) Look alive!This week: It’s Jade! A bubbly oracle with a bent for remarkably dangerous hobbies. Meanwhile, Rose discovers a big pulsating underground server grid, Jade receives our first in-story trolling, and Dave gets wrecked by a literal puppet. Pages 2660 to 2769.Here’s a bunch of other stuff that comes up:Listen to Jade’s homemade music on page 2730.A YouTube upload of “[S] Jade: Play a hauntingly relaxing bassline.”Read the line “Jade is beginning to regret breaking the fourth wall for this ill advised escapade” and all subsequent narration in the voice from this video. [note: i have no idea what this is meant to link to because our shownotes broke]We got asked for webcomic recs! Check out Octopus Pie by Meredith Gran and Cucumber Quest by Gigi D.G.We also got asked for book recs! Go read the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson, or Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.Next week is Episode 10! Bad news: Lydia screwed up the teaser text again and we won’t properly see Bec until Ep 11. Good news: John confronts his father’s room, Jade confronts her grandfather, and a familiar-looking carapace agent confronts an enormous pointing finger and a very silly hat. 2770 – 2879.Ask us questions on Tumblr, Twitter or hamsteakpodcast@gmail.com!This fresh, organic, streaming audio content has been delivered to your door by Alex and Lydia.Intro music: “Showtime (Original Mix)” – Malcolm BrownOutro music: “Showtime (Piano Refrain)” – Malcolm Brown, arranged and performed by Kevin RegameyBoth from Homestuck Vol 1-4, listen and purchase on Bandcamp!Homestuck, as always, is created by Andrew Hussie.

Welcome to Episode 3 of Hamsteak Podcast! We read and talk about Homestuck, a webcomic by Andrew Hussie, which you can read for free at www.mspaintadventures.com.This week we read pages 2148 to 2207 – the beginning of Act 2! John “texting” on page 2168 vs. Flint “typing” in Cloudy with a Chance of MeatballsFallingwater (Alex called it “Waterfall”), by Frank Lloyd Wright, which Rose’s house is based on.Octopus Pie by Meredith Gran Your hosts have been Alex and Lydia.Find the show on Twitter! Find the show on Tumblr! Find the show on LinkedIn! (Just kidding) E-mail the show at homesteakpodcast@gmail.comIntro music: “Showtime (Original Mix)” – Malcolm Brown Outro music: “Showtime (Piano Refrain)” – Malcolm Brown, arranged and performed by Kevin Regamey Both from Homestuck Vol 1-4, listen and purchase on Bandcamp!Thanks as always to Andrew Hussie.

Dave joins us again, to talk about WEBCOMICS - what we like, love, and dislike about the format, why we’re not reading them as much as other comics, and why they can be great for someone starting out with the medium. In a very wide-ranging conversation, we cover Subnormality, XKCD, The Wormworld Saga, The Abaddon, Octopus Pie, Achewood, Oh Joy Sex Toy, and Fascist Friends!

Schools in, again. The downside of perpetual education is the repeatition of that sentiment. It seems like each year the semester starts a bit harder, a bit more madness, a bit more severity. A dance that features the elbows up style of a mosh-pit to juxtapose the circuitous spaciousness given to fire poi at a massive.And since that is my only complaint then I am a lucky man.--- Vibezz - Heloise & The Savior Faire Easin'In - Edwin Starr Consumers - Terry Lynn Atomic Bomb - William Onyeabor I Love The Sound of Breaking Glass Pay the Price - Deltron 3030 The Heat - Jungle Broken Bones - Greta Svabo Bach Son of a Bitch - Highasakite O Mexico - Dosh, Andrew Bird, Erik Applewick Tailor - Julie Doiron Suku Suku Bam Bam - King Sunny Ade Forerunner Foray - Shabazz Palaces Eccentric Ditch - Ruins Are Animals - Au I Saw the Light From Heaven - Delaney Davidson Inquiring Minds - Hamell on Trial License to Drive - Work Drugs Left Hand Free - alt-J Madan (Remixed by Gekko) - Salif Keita The Pill - Loretta Lynn Baby Wants to Ride - Frankie Knuckles, Jamie Principle My Neck, My Back (Live) - Elle King Sweet Seek (Original Mix) - Riktam Bansi Ooh Child - The Five Stairsteps I Wanna Get Married - Nellie McKay Sincere - Roger Sellers Whole New Dude - William Tyler --- image from Octopus Pie

Here for your audio pleasure good people of the internets is dun dun duuuuuuuuuuuhhhh; Episode 24 of Small Press Big Mouth for all your small press and indie news, reviews and comedy accents! This week we review The Lagoon, Spacegirl, Judenhass, Masked Manor, Octopus Pie and Find Comet, Hit Comet, Watch Comet, Sleep. We also get up in your grille with a shitload of news! You know you want it so what are you waiting for?  

I'm very excited to welcome Meredith Gran onto the podcast to talk about her new videogame project Perfect Tides, what it means to take your creative process to gaming, and, of course, some Octopus Pie for good measure.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/no-cartridge-audio/donationsWant to advertise on this podcast? Go to https://redcircle.com/brands and sign up.