Podcast appearances and mentions of Spike Trotman

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Hello rum runners and cat lovers! This week, Josh sits down with Tracy Butler, Fable Siegel, & Spike Trotman to discuss the $1.2 million-dollar Backerkit campaign for their animated series Lackadaisy. Join them as they discuss the comics, the origin story for the animated series, the challenges of animating the comic, the timeline for the series, the Backerkit campaign, Brendan Frasers 1999 film The Mummy, and much more.  The Backerkit campaign goes until August 24th. Head over to Lackadasiy Backerkit today to donate and grab your merch before the campaign ends.   Follow Lackadasiy: Twitter/X @LackadaisyFilm Read on WEBTOON Watch the pilot on YouTube & lackadaisy.com   Follow Tracy: Instagram @lackadaisycats Twitter @LackadaisyCats   Follow Fable: Twitter/X @fablepaint & fablepaint.com   Follow Spike: Twitter/X @Iron_Spike Iron Circus @ironcircuscomix & ironcircus.com   Special Thanks to this week's sponsor Wild Bill's Soda! Enjoy crisp unique olde fashioned soda flavors anytime with Wild Bill's. Head over to drinkwildbills.com and use code FANDOM10 to get 10% off your purchase!    Do you have suggestions for the show? Do have specific voice actor or creator that you would like us to interview? We would love to hear from you! Feel free to shoot us an email HERE. Be sure to head over to our website AnimationStationPodcast.com to check out both What's Up, Fandom & Animation Station Podcast episodes.  If you enjoy the show, please rate and review!   Follow the show on: Instagram @WhatsUpFandom Twitter @WhatsUpFandomPC YouTube What's Up, Fandom Podcast   Follow the Anime Book Club on: Instagram @Anime_Book_Club Twitter @AnimeBookClubPC   Follow Josh @JoshLCain Follow Graham @GrrrAHamT Follow Astra Nyx @AstraNyx Follow Luke @tatted_triceratops   Tags: podcast, podcasts, movies, tv, comics, popculture, fandom, anime, webcomic, webtoon, cats, lackadaisy, prohibition, animation

Media mogul and award-winning indie comics publisher and comic book writer, C. Spike Trotman drops by on Nerds, Erbs and Words to talk cash money $hit about the comic book industry, making art people believe in, and video games. We talk about her latest projects, including DELVER V2, building a media empire, and the importance of Black girls loving comics. Spike doesn't consume marijuana but Erika and Keisha might have been a little lit.  Support the showJoin our newsletter to read, learn, win free books, and check out what we are reading. Subscribe here: http://eepurl.com/gLuJeXFollow on Instagram: @nerdserbswordsTikTok: @nerdserbsandwordsTwitter: @nerdserbswords

In this week's episode of Off Panel, the publisher of Iron Circus Comics, C. Spike Trotman, joins to talk about going her own direction in crowdfunding The Poorcraft Cookbook. Trotman discusses mid-campaign feelings, advertising, differences between crowdfunding efforts, previous expectations for Iron Circus' path, reactions to Kickstarter's plans, building out her own platform, The Poorcraft Cookbook, the process of moving platforms, biggest concerns, serving niches, Nero Villagallos O'Reilly's work, big learnings from the campaign, how the industry has shifted since her first Kickstarter, and more.

C. Spike Trotman is the founder and owner of Iron Circus Comics, which has grown since 2007 to become the region's largest comics publisher. Since, 2009, with Iron Circus' first crowdfunding project on Kickstarter, Spike and Iron Circus have raised nearly 2.5 million dollars over more than 30 projects. Spike and Iron Circus have now switched gears and launched a crowdfunding campaign for The Poorcraft Cookbook. With 2 weeks left in the campaign, Spike sat down with Comic Book Yeti's Jimmy Gaspero to discuss the early days of Iron Circus, crowdfunding then and now, and the wonderful diversity of recipes in The Poorcraft Cookbook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Erica Friedman (@okazuyuri), lesbian icon, LGBTQ tastemaker, yuri expert, librarian, manga editor, blogger, lecturer… what can't she do? Listen to her heartfelt takes on fandom, grassroots publishing, and empowering listeners to Do The Thing!   Okazu Blog ALC Publishing Erica on Patreon By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga (coming June 2022) Yuri Studio YouTube Channel Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie (Trailer) 2022 Librarians of the Year Iron Circus Comics   Fresh Picks Rose of Versailles Volume 3 (Volumes 1 and 2 getting hard to find…) I'm In Love With The Villainness (light novels) (manga) Gideon The Ninth (prose) Terra Ignota (prose series)   Find a comics shop near you Secret Stacks artwork by Severin Piehl, creator of Tove Theme song by Julie Jurgens, who blogs at Hi, Miss Julie! and is on twitter as @himissjulie

Cartoonist and publisher Spike Trotman publishes books she considers “strange and amazing.” Her company Iron Circus specializes in “underrepresented voices, underrepresented themes, stuff that has not got a big audience quite frankly or a lot of people catering to it right now.” Sounds like a recipe for struggle. Yet they're KILLING it. “For the first time in my career, it feels limitless. It feels like I have so many possibilities.” Spike is a Kickstarter All-Star champ, and Iron Circus has gone from self-publishing her webcomic collection to putting out up to 15 books a year, riding a wave of pandemic-fueled popularity into new ventures (animation) and big plans for more growth. Spike does everything her own DIY way and is making it work (and then some), so give this fun episode a listen and find out why you're better off better off making pineapple-anchovy pizza. Top takeaways: Despite reasonable competition for the hardest-working publisher and loving her work, Spike's got hit with major burnout. feeling overwhelmed: "The answer isn't to work harder. The answer is to take a break." The importance of delegating tasks and asking people for help. You don't have to (and shouldn't) do it all. More from the episode... How the pandemic affected comics publishing (spoiler alert: 40% GROWTH.) Spike's struggle to shift her mindset from DIY indie comic to business owner: "I was still in that headspace where no one can do it correctly but me." The ins and outs of Kickstarter, including how the platform has evolved since Spike's first campaign in 2009. What is Spike's "cheese pizza" theory of mainstream media? And why are anchovies so awesome? "You do not have to be a New York Times best seller to make a living." — Why it only takes a thousand true fans. How sometimes, small indie creators can do better than mainstream authors. "There's still room for functioning independently." "We love our erotica and we love the people who make it." — How Iron Circus nurtures (one of) its niche audience(s). Spike describes her first vacation in over 10 years. The value of intentionally reserving some elements of life to be non-monetized in avoiding burnout. Balancing business and the need to be creative, Spike shares her low-stress method for making her own comics even while running an active publishing company. The value of NOT learning to do everything yourself...learning to accept help and delegating tasks within her small business: “I remember with crystal clarity the day I decided, oh wait, maybe it would be more efficient to hire someone who's been doing this for 20 years, than try and teach myself an entirely new system and do it myself.” More from Spike Trotman C. Spike Trotman is a cartoonist and publisher. She started an imprint called Iron Circus to self-publish her own webcomic Templar, AZ back in the late aughts, and then built that little publishing effort into the largest indie comics publisher in the Midwest! Trotman is also known for the webcomics Lucas and Odessa (with Meg Gandy), Sparkneedle (with Matt Sherridan), and Blikada. Iron Circus now publishes a slate of a dozen or more new books every year. They're even getting into the animation game with a short by Tracy J. Butler's Lackadaisy that Iron Circus just Kickstarted for $330,000. Spike is also incredibly generous in helping younger and less-established creators figure out how to make this all work (check out her eBook, Let's Kickstart a Comic). Connect with Spike Trotman https://ironcircus.com https://twitter.com/Iron_Spike https://twitter.com/ironcircuscomix https://facebook.com/ironcircuscomics instagram @ironcircus pillowfort @iron_spike Additional Links https://law-arts.org https://mynoise.netThe Autonomous Creative is brought to you by Authentic Visibility: marketing for creatives who (think they) hate marketing. Learn more here!

This episode we're talking about Erotica! We discuss the relationship between erotica and porn, the differences between erotica and romance fiction, fanfiction, and much more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Thirty by Jill Emerson   Super Fun Sexy Times by Meredith McClaren La technique du périnée by Florent Ruppert and Jérôme Mulot Kink: Stories edited by R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell Permission by Saskia Vogel Neon Gods by Katee Robert Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic edited by Tobi Hill-Meyer Oglaf by Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne (NSFW) Little Cat by Tamara Faith Berger Other Media We Mentioned Penthouse Letters The Fermata by Nicholson Baker Discards by Nicholson Baker Sex Criminals: Volume One: One Weird Trick by Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky Nymph by Francesca Lia Block Small Favors: The Definitive Girly Porno Collection by Colleen Coover Chester 5000 by Jess Fink We Can Fix It: A Time Travel Memoir by Jess Fink Smut Peddler Presents: My Monster Boyfriend edited by C. Spike Trotman Yes, Roya by C. Spike Trotman and EA Denich Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Series by Laurell K. Hamilton The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James Links, Articles, and Things Episode 070 - Erotic Romance Manga in Libraries: Spooky & Scary Manga (registration link!) #31SpookyManga Our Bookshop.org shop Erotica: Full-Frontal Shelving | Genre Spotlight @arkhamlibrarian (Librarian who posts pulp/smut covers fairly regularly) Chuck Tingle (Wikipedia) Jessica Bird (J.R. Ward) (Wikipedia) Sherrilyn Kenyon (Wikipedia) Anne Bishop (Wikipedia) Sex magic (Wikipedia) Literotica Archive of Our Own ALA's GNCRT's Best Graphic Novels for Adults Reading List Bluebeard (fairy tale) (Wikipedia) Lemon Demon - Two Trucks Salt N Pepa - Let's Talk About Sex Creepypasta (Wikipedia) Monster erotica (Wikipedia) 18 Erotica books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. The Lover, the Lake/L'amant du lac by Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau Taking on the Billionaire by Robin Covington The Other Woman by Eric Jerome Dickey Garden of Flesh by Gilbert Hernandez In Her Closet by Tasha L. Harrison Lord of the Senses by Vikram Kolmannskog Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel by Walter Mosley The Almond: The Sexual Awakening of a Muslim Woman by Nedjma Hood: An Urban Erotic Tale by Noire Play With Me by Alisha Rai Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh Yes, Roya by C. Spike Trotman, illustrated by Emilee Denich Haven by Rebekah Weatherspoon So Sweet by Rebekah Weatherspoon The Carnal Prayer Mat by Li Yu The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth by Zane A Taste Of Sin by Fiona Zedde Every Dark Desire by Fiona Zedde Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, October 19th when we'll be playing a spooky game for Halloween! Then on Tuesday, November 2nd we'll be discussing the non-fiction genre of Music! 

C. Spike Trotman runs the midwest's biggest comics publisher, Iron Circus Comics. She has run 28 Kickstarters with $2 mil raised. She is an indie powerhouse full of success stories, knowledge and opinions that you MUST follow and believe. I can't tell you how excited I am to have her on the show today. FOLLOW SPIKE: https://twitter.com/Iron_Spikehttp://ironcircus.com/Read Spike's Current Comic!: https://www.pillowfort.social/ironspikehttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ironspike/lackadaisy-the-animated-short-filmRESOURCES MENTIONEDSpike's comic about running a Kickstarter:https://ironcircus.com/?product=let-s-kickstart-a-comicSlackBackerkit: https://www.backerkit.com/http://www.superfanpromotions.com/MEDIA MENTIONED:CAKE Chicago: https://www.cakechicago.com/Hazbin Hotel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlmswo0S0e0

This episode was originally broadcast on August 5, 2020. C. Spike Trotman is one of the most successful comics publishers in today's market. Her company, Iron Circus Comics, has bestrode Kickstarter like a colossus, generating nearly two million dollars in revenue from twenty-six successful campaigns (and counting) stretching back to the initial launch of Poorcraft in 2009. From Smut Peddler's lady-centric porn to The Harrowing of Hell's biblical drama, from anthologies to animation, Iron Circus continues to defy expectations of content and exceed expectations of quality. Today's episode has Greg chatting with the Iron Circus Comics ringleader for a peek behind the curtain at how she balances creativity and productivity, the motivational power of "no", paying creators for their work, and much more! 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. Stay safe and enjoy your funny books.

Lucy Bellwood, adventure cartoonist and artist extraordinaire, has accomplished significant feats for someone still so young, including developing a loyal and devoted fan base. She is currently working on a book project with Kate Milford about a seafaring adventure graphic novel series with kind and cuddly capybaras. We talk about the eternal artistic hustle, about Kant's admonition "to not number voices, but instead weigh them." Lucy talks about the famous blog post from Kevin Kelley's "1,000 True Fans," and how to develop and sustain enough people who will stick with an artist through thick and thin and allow them to achieve artistic freedom. We talk about earlier pre-Patreon and Kickstarter artists, Robert Musil and Harry Partch, who were free to create as they chose through the patronage of a small but dedicated group of fans. Featured in a prior issue of the Ojai Quarterly by Kit Stolz for her "100 Demon Dialogues" book, Bellwood has just signed a contract for 750 pages of drawings over the next six years. An Ojai native, Lucy talks about connectedness and being known through several generations, an experience rarely duplicated outside your hometown, even as she's been in Portland, Oregon for the past decade. Always innovative and forward-thinking, one of Lucy's news projects is the "Right Number," an anonymous confessional phone line where callers can leave messages and know that only one person will hear them. Her experience at Reed College was formative and unusual, prompted by an influential teacher in Ojai, and which has led to her prolific and unusual career path. We conclude with Lucy's perceptive insights into the social unrest in Portland, and how it does not line up with right-wing narratives, because the protests are limited to a small, six-block downtown zone and whatever rare acts of violence happens can be laid at the feet of police overreach. We did not get around to talking about the 1908 Tunguska explosion, Sumerian cuneiform or the Antarctic expeditions of Ernest Shackleton. A partial list of references is herein ... - 100 Demon Dialogues (100demondialogues.com) - XOXO (xoxofest.com) - C. Spike Trotman of Iron Circus Comics (https://ironcircus.com, and her XOXO talk: https://xoxofest.com/2015/videos/c-spike-trotman) - Dialup (https://dialup.com) - Danielle Baskin's service that pairs random people. - My Patreon page (patreon.com/lucybellwood) - My general website (lucybellwood.com) - The Right Number (therightnumber.tel) — Lucy's project - PostSecret (https://postsecret.com) - Reed College (reed.edu) - Bookends (http://www.bookendsbookstore.com) - Rebecca Solnit's River of Shadows (https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780142004104)

C. Spike Trotman is one of the most successful comics publishers in today's market. Her company, Iron Circus Comics, has bestrode Kickstarter like a colossus, generating nearly two million dollars in revenue from twenty-six successful campaigns (and counting) stretching back to the initial launch of Poorcraft in 2009. From Smut Peddler's lady-centric porn to The Harrowing of Hell's biblical drama, from anthologies to animation, Iron Circus continues to defy expectations of content and exceed expectations of quality. Today's episode has Greg chatting with the Iron Circus Comics ringleader for a peek behind the curtain at how she balances creativity and productivity, the motivational power of "no", paying creators for their work, and much more! 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. Stay safe and enjoy your funny books.

This episode we’re talking about Historical Fiction! We discuss how far in the past something has to be before it counts as historical fiction, whether reading fiction is supposed to be enjoyable, anachronisms and inaccuracies (both purposeful and accidental), and historical pandemics. Plus: Someone’s power goes out half way through the recording! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Things We Read The Shape of the Ruins by Juan Gabriel Vásquez Review in The Guardian Stage Dreams by Melanie Gillman An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole Cut to the Quick by Kate Ross Tom Thomson, esquisses du printemps by Sandrine Revel Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin Lavinia (Wikipedia) Tidelands by Philippa Gregory Other Media We Mention Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein Fire in the Streets by Kekla Magoon After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson Yes, Roya by C. Spike Trotman and Emilee Denich Pachinko by Min Jin Lee The Alice Network by Kate Quinn The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (Wikipedia) Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell The Sky Is Falling by Kit Pearson The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman The Sharpe Series by Bernard Cornwell Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game) (Wikipedia) Sally Heathcote: Suffragette by Mary M. Talbot, Bryan Talbot, and Kate Charlesworth The Witches of New York by Ami McKay  HHhH by Laurent Binet Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen Links, Articles, and Things Why people are turning to pandemic fiction to help process the Covid-19 crisis Crash Course in Historical Fiction (Webinar) Webinar Slides Plagues, Witches, and War: The Worlds of Historical Fiction (Coursera course) Historical Novel Society - Defining the Genre COVID-19 Myths, Debunked (comics!) by Whit Taylor and Allyson Shwed Why historians should write fiction Suggest new genres or titles! Fill out the form to suggest genres! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, April 21st when we’ll let you know about Other Media We’ve Been Enjoying! Then on Tuesday, May 5th it’s our 100th episode and we’ll be discussing the non-fiction genre of Libraries and Information!

In this week's episode of Off Panel, Iron Circus Comics' C. Spike Trotman joins the show to chat about her publisher and current Kickstarter for Lackadaisy: The Animated Short Film. Trotman discusses how she and Iron Circus are handling the current crisis, being a multimedia company, why she started Iron Circus Comics, the power of Kickstarter, the story behind Lackadaisy: The Animated Short Film, the rewards for the Kickstarter, what made this project appealing, the value of stretch goals, launching during a crisis, what she looks for in projects, the impact of production value, differentiating yourself, and more.

Iron Circus Panel at C2E2 2019, featuring founder C. Spike Trotman, creators Kel McDonald, Blue Delliquanti, Emily Riesbeck, Lisa Naffziger and moderator and assistant editor, Andrea Purcell, 

Hi, folks! This episode is about Castle Waiting by Linda Medley, a cool comic we liked a lot. It's also the last episode we're doing for a while - Comic Adventures is going on an indefinite hiatus. Thank you so much for your support over the last two years!   Other things we talk about:   Assassination Classroom by Yūsei Matsui Captain Marvel: Earth’s Mightiest Hero by Kelly Sue DeConnick Barbarous by Yuko Ota & Ananth Hirsh Delver #1 by Spike Trotman, MK Reed, and Clive Hawken The “G” Word Isn’t for You: How “Gypsy” Erases Romani Women   Find us online at: twitter.com/thecomiccast twitter.com/widewildblue (Melissa) twitter.com/AndrewDLarkin (Andrew)   Questions or comments? Email us at comicadventurescast@gmail.com.   Comic Adventures is a project of Let’s Make Comics, a Chicago-based comics collective, and produced by Andrew Larkin and Melissa Sayen. Our theme song is Adventure Music! by Munchybobo.

Cartoonists Dave Kellett and Brad Guigar are talking shop! They discuss what percentage of your readership you can expect to become Patreon backers. That leads into a fascinating trip down Memory Lane as they recall a disgruntled "How To Make Webcomics" reader. Then, they make suggestions on how many tiers a first-time Kickstarter campaign should have. And finally, they make suggestions on Kickstarter stretch goals and add-ons. BUT FIRST, was a part of Stan Lee's success based on his iconic Look? Show notes 00:00 — Stan Lee's iconic Look 07:54 — Brad's 19th anniversary in comics 21:01 — Dave looks back on Emerald City and Comic Con International 24:43 — Shipping books on a Greyhound Bus 27:34 — Fed Ex Freight Box 29:15 — Spike Trotman: "Don't fight success." 32:45 — Kenny Rogers' face 36:39 — What percent of your audience are Patreon backers? 40:06 — A story from the "How To Make Webcomics" book 44:22 — The danger of "Magic Number" thinking 49:02 — Superstitions 51:38 — How many Kickstarter tiers should a first-time creator have? 01:01:54 — Effective Kickstarter stretch goals and add-ons Great rewards when you support ComicLab $2 — support the show $5 — submit a question for possible use on the show AND get the exclusive ProTips podcast $10 — record an audio question for possible use on the show AND get the exclusive ProTips podcast $50 — Sponsor the show! We’ll read a brief promo for your comic/product and read it twice during the show AND you get the exclusive ProTips podcast Brad Guigar is the creator of Evil Inc and the editor of Webcomics.com Dave Kellett is the creator of Sheldon and Drive.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day we’re reading Erotic Romance! We discuss how to talk about erotica without getting too personally revealing, the physics of perpetual boners, BDSM, and goth-shaming. Plus: We really need to buy pop shields! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Suggest new genres! Fill out the form to suggest genres! Books We Read This Month Hidden Away by Maya Banks At the Stroke of Midnight by Tara Sivec Worked Up by Tessa Bailey Cream of the Crop by Alice Clayton Hate to Want You by Alisha Rai Small Favors: The Definitive Girly Porno Collection by Colleen Coover Off the Clock by Roni Loren Goodreads review Matthew mentioned Pleasure for Two by Pamela Yaye Other Media We Mention Chester 5000 by Jess Fink Yes, Roya by C. Spike Trotman and Emilee Denich Nymph by Francesca Lia Block Oglaf by Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic edited by Tobi Hill-Meyer Don’t Bang the Barista! by Leigh Matthews The Devil's Submission by Nicola Davidson Little Sister's vs. Big Brother The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro and  Daniel Kraus Hurts to Love You by Alisha Rai The Firework Exploded by Tara Sivec Palmerino by Melissa Pritchard Links, Articles, and Things What is Erotic Romance? by Sylvia Day Do Not Mess with the Happy Ever After: defining the romance novel by KJ Charles You Will Take My Fluff From My Cold Dead Hands by KJ Charles Historical Romance: Who Gets the HEA by KJ Charles My 2018 Year in Reading: Favourite Books of the Year, Most Memorable Character, Best Cover, and More! By Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian RITA Award - Romance Writers of America List of nominees for Best Erotic Romance An Ode to the Romance Novel (Feat. Lindsay Ellis) Growing-up for goths "It's a relatively middle-class subculture, so despite … all the going out and being into the music, goths have always had a fairly positive view of people who are also achieving academically." Fill out the form to suggest genres! Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts, follow us on Twitter, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, February 19th we’ll be talking about Canadian Content! Then on Tuesday, March 5th we’ll be discussing the genre of Occult/Mysticism/New Age (non-fiction)!

Welcome to our first weekly episode! It's a long one, since we had about three weeks of stuff to catch up on. But in addition to all the things we've been up to, we're sharing our favorite things of 2018, as well as some of yours! A nice, warm, pleasant episode to start of 2019 strong. What Missy's Been Up To:Watching:Salt Fat Acid Heat Mary Poppins Returns Sailor Moon Crystal AquamanReading:My Brother's Husband by Gengoroh TagameWhat Merri's Been Up To:Watching:Harry Potter Nailed It The Great British Bake-Off AggretsukoReading:The Steel Prince by V. E. Schwab, Andrea Olimpieri, Enrica Angiolini Our Favorites of 2018:Missy:Crazy Rich Asians Becoming Dangerous by Katie West and Jasmine Elliot Dirty Computer The Good Place Crazy Ex-GirlfriendMerri:Theme Parks Women in Star Wars V. E. Schwab's Shades of Magic Series Fan Fiction Lore OlympusYour Favorites of 2018:The Haunting of Hill House - @allyxstuart Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - @brit_brooks and @angRiewords Black Panther - @hey_joon Crazy Rich Asians - @hey_joon The Good Place - @hey_joon The Good Place the Podcast - @hey_joon The Captain Marvel Trailer - @hey_joon The Dragon Age Teaser - @hey_joon Sadie by Courtney Summers - @nancyfrancovic Dash Dearborne by Claire Napier - @nolapfau Dungeons & Dragons - Alena, Emily, and Chantel Bird Box - Emily and Melissa Get Out - Emily Dumplin' - Melissa Love, Simon - Melissa Aggretsuko - Melissa I Feel Pretty - Melissa Nailed It - Melissa She-Ra - Melissa Maneaters by Chelsea Cain, Kate Niemczyk, Rachelle Rosenberg, and Joe Caramagna - Melissa Squirrel Girl by Ryan North, Erica Henderson, Rico Renzi, and Travis Lanham - Melissa Luna the Vampire by Yasmin Sheikh - Melissa Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku by Fujita - Melissa Giant Days by John Allison, Lissa Treiman, and Max Sarin - Melissa Smut Peddler edited by Spike Trotman, Johanna Draper Carlson, and Trisha L. Sebastian - Melissa Heartstopper by Alice Oseman - Melissa My Boyfriend is a Bear by Pamela Ribon and Cat Farris - Melissa Some Links You Might Find Interesting:Shipping Without an End Game by Magen CubedOur Website | Twitter | Facebook | Tumblr | Patreon | Merch

The holidays approach! Distract yourself from the hustle and bustle with tales of Japanese ghosts, classic cartoons, transformative horror, AND a chat with Spike Trotman! Yes, quite a show. Listen in to discover: Off My Meds Onibi: Diary of a Yokai Ghost Hunter Beast Meat Iron Circus Comics Templar, Arizona Smut Peddler Liphook Livewire The Cabinet Flem Notes: www.fortheloveofindie.com Email: ftlindie@gmail.com Twitter/Insta: @ftlindie

More than just about any other creator I can think of Spike Trotman has demonstrated a roadmap to independent success, creating the kinds of comics you’d have a hard time finding anywhere else. From the massive sum she’s raised on Kickstarter to the lessons she’s learned as she’s transitioned from self-publishing to full-fledged publisher, we discuss all that & more in this massive extra-large episode of the show.

In this inaugural episode #100, the return of the podcast to regular production, I'm pleased as punch to have C. Spike Trotman as my guest. Spike founded Iron Circus Comics in 2007, and it's risen through her hard work and excellent curatorship to become the Chicago area's leading comics publisher. A cartoonist and writer herself with a long-running series, Spike has raised over a million dollars through Kickstarter across more than a dozen projects, and created a sustainable and repeatable funding method. (You can read her book on Kickstarting comics for advice!) For her success, she was named one of Kickstarter's Thought Leaders. Support the podcast: The crowdfunding campaign brought back The New Disruptors, but I could produce more episodes and keep the show running after July 2019 with your help! You can contribute monthly via Patreon or become a yearly subscriber directly on this site—and get nifty bonuses and rewards. Support the podcast here! Show notes: Spike suggests you watch the movie E-Dreams (2001) about Kozmo.com. Boy, do I miss Kozmo. Randy Milholland, Something Positive Lucy Bellwood, adventure cartoonist, and our live bookstore podcast episode Spike's first Kickstarter, Poorcraft MC Frontalot's “Indier Than Thou” Girls with Slingshots by Danielle Corsetto Pictures of Danielle in her garage with a zillion of her books Consortium Book Sales & Distribution

It's Denver Comic Con time!! This is part ONE of a three part series, on all of our Denver Comic Con coverage!! As always, for interview driven episodes, the following interviews are featured, with our interview with Matty Cardarople featured at the end! 2:05 - Nightshade Comics 5:22 - Y Comics 9:05 - Fried Pickle Noir 13:40 - Hero Tomorrow Comics 17:22 - Tim Petro Illustrations 20:32 - Comics With Cultural Conscience (Amy Chu, Sanya Anwar, Gene Ha, Tony Medina) 1:09:56 - Jen Vaughn 1:23:50 - Diverse Comics Creators (Georges Jeanty, Spike Trotman, Ron Wilson, Greg Neri, Jose Pimienta) 2:12:56 - Matty Cardarople Part 1 was amazing!! Go check out all of these interviewee's, maybe you'll find something new that you fall in love with!! Remember, you can ALWAYS let us know what you think! We can only think of so many things to talk about every other week, and would LOVE to get some feedback and ideas from all of you out there who are listening!! You can send mp3s and email to our email address. Also, join the conversations on our Facebook Page and Twitter Page. Also, if you have good feedback, please leave it for us on iTunes and Stitcher!! That's one way to help us climb the ranks into podcast glory!! You can ALSO leave us voicemail!!! Call the Michael Kuyrk memorial 970-573-6148 and leave us a hilarious message!!! Hall of Justice Comics & Collectibles Our Stitcher Our iTunes Patreon Amazon Credit - Jonthan Garnett, Juan Muro, Gabe Llanas

Author & publisher C. Spike Trotman joins merritt to talk hustle, high school, and erotic content.

This week marks the first occasion we have both been in the same city at the same time. To celebrate we recorded this very special episode of Good Point in front of a live audience at Kickstarter’s offices in Greenpoint during their annual PWL Camp. The topic, Reproduction, was suggested by the audience. China ends one child policy after 35 years https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/29/china-abandons-one-child-policy Having children is one of the most destructive things you can do to the environment http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/children-carbon-footprint-climate-change-damage-having-kids-research-a7837961.html Preterna, Jeremy and Kristen’s VR pregnancy startup https://creators.vice.com/en_au/article/3d53kk/you-can-be-pregnant-in-virtual-reality-finally JODI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodi_(art_collective) Eva and Franco Mattes https://0100101110101101.org/ Exonemo http://www.exonemo.com/ Ubermorgen http://ubermorgen.com/UM/index.html New Parents more sleep-deprived than we thought – “nearly half of all parents with children six months or younger get just one to three hours of uninterrupted sleep a night.” https://www.fitpregnancy.com/baby/baby-care/new-parents-more-sleep-deprived-than-we-thought Audience commenter 1, Spike Trotman - founder of Iron Circus Comics https://ironcircus.com/ Bringing your kids to Comic-con https://www.wired.com/2010/07/comic-con-report-bringing-the-kids/ Audience commenter 2, Stephanie Pereira - Director of Creator Engagement at Kickstarter https://twitter.com/happeness?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor iGen http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/iGen/Jean-M-Twenge/9781501151989 Audience commenter 3, Lori Adelman, runs the website http://feministing.com/ Mother! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpICoc65uh0 Gerhard Richter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF6EluMNR14 Audience commenter 4, Sophi Kravitz, Art-engineer, works at Hackaday, attempting to be on sabbatical The Devastator http://devastatorpress.com/

If you're fan of indie comics, then you've no doubt heard of C. Spike Trotman. The cartoonist and best-selling author is the founder of Iron Circus Comics, Chicago's largest comic book publisher. Aside from this, Spike is a master when it comes to crowdfunding. To date, she's raised over $750,000 between 13 successful Kickstarter campaigns, and there's no signs of stopping. As a matter of fact, her 14th campaign begins today! It's a fact: if there's anyone who is making comics a better and more approachable place, it's her! Spike talked about her first foray into comics and how taking a nontraditional route ended up with the creation of some of her first successful works and setting a new standard for comics publishing today. We also spent some time talking about college time in the AUC (hey, it is HBCU Month!) Spike is blazing a trail and changing the game for comic creators everywhere! C. Spike Trotman on Twitter C. Spike Trotman on Kickstarter Iron Circus Comics Iron Circus Comics on Facebook Iron Circus Comics on Twitter Dirty Old Ladies: The Podcast Revision Path is proud to sponsor the 2017 Black in Design Conference! This event takes place at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design October 6-8. This event will sell out, so get your tickets today! https://ticketbud.com/events/b314eb1c-7635-11e7-bcd8-4fe2a306c1ad Help support Revision Path by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon! For just $5 per month, you’ll receive behind-the-scenes access to Revision Path, including special patron-only updates, early access to future episodes, and a lot more! Join today! This month, we're donating 100% of sales from our store to the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund from the Greater Houston Community Foundation. Threadless is also coming through with free shipping for orders over $45! Get your shop on and help out a great cause. The more we raise, the more we can give to those in need. Shop today! http://revisionpath.com/store We're on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher as well! Visit http://revisionpath.com/iTunes or http://revisionpath.com/stitcher, subscribe, and leave us a 5-star rating and a review! Thanks so much to all of you who have already rated and reviewed us! Revision Path is brought to you by Facebook Design, MailChimp, Hover, and SiteGround. Save 10% off your first purchase at Hover by visiting hover.com/revisionpath! Get 60% off all hosting plans at SiteGround by visiting siteground.com/revisionpath! Follow Revision Path on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram!

Almost time for Rose City Comic Con! We talk with Wonder Woman's Greg Rucka, David F. Walker on Luke Cage, Kurt Busiek and Ben Dewey discuss their fantasy adventure Autumnlands. Plus C. Spike Trotman on making the comics she wanted to read.

Sam chats with Spike Trotman about Iron Circus, the new comic book golden age, and the latest Kickstarter campaign. Oh, and politics. Lots of politics. And while we're on the subject of Kickstarter, support Melanie Gillman's 'As The Crow Flies': https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ironspike/as-the-crow-flies-volume-one

Gene and guest host Glen Weldon (our play cousin from Pop Culture Happy Hour) explore how comics are used as spaces for mapping race and identity. Gene visits Amalgam Comics and Coffeehouse in Philadelphia, and chats with proprietor Ariell Johnson who is reclaiming the comic book store, which once made her uneasy as a black fan. Meanwhile, C. Spike Trotman, another black woman, has made a name for herself as an online comics publisher of Iron Circus Comics in Chicago. We also talk to artist and designer Ronald Wimberly for his perspective as a black creator who has worked for Marvel and DC, the titans of corporate comics.

Time Codes: 00:00:27 - Introduction 00:02:25 - Set up of episode 00:03:36 - Interview with Jessica Campbell 00:18:04 - Interview with Molly Ostertag 00:23:19 - Interview with Pranas T. Naujokaitis 00:33:59 - Interview with Luke Healy 00:41:54 - Interview with Kel McDonald 00:47:51 - Interview with Dakota McFadzean 00:55:23 - Interview with C. Spike Trotman 01:02:21 - Interview with Cheese Hasselberger 01:06:21 - Interview with Keiler Roberts 01:12:54 - Wrap up 01:13:38 - Contact us In this second in a three-episode series of on-location interviews conducted at Small Press Expo this past weekend, Derek talks with Jessica Campbell, Molly Ostertag, Pranas Naujokaitis, Luke Healy, Kel McDonald, Dakota McFadzean, C. Spike Trotman, Cheese Hasselburger, and Keiler Roberts.

C. Spike Trotman of Iron Circus and Dan Berry get together to talk about being The Man, developing and trusting your taste and digital dollars vs meat money. A few links you may want to check out - Creators for Creators, Iron Circus submissions and Yes Roya. Get clicking'. You may also want to help support Make It Then Tell Everybody with your own digital dollars. Head over to Patreon and give a dollar an episode.

00:52 How a white guy from Indiana tricked his way past northwest poet Sheman Alexie, to get published in Best American Poetry 2015.04:05 XOXO Fest welcomes C. Spike Trotman to town this weekend. 13:05 Dreamy, resonant sounds from Natasha Kmeto. She gives us a taste of her new release, "Inevitable" 16:30 Novelist Patrick DeWitt sharpened his knives on fairy tale archtypes for his new novel, "Undermajordomo Minor". 23:28 An opbmusic session with Bed, a slo-fi trio that's coming off well-received gigs at Treefort and PDX Pop Now.28:02 Sounds from Holcombe Waller's newest composition, a requiem commissioned by PICA for this year's Time Based Art Festival. 35:23 Oregon Art Beat sits down with poet Primus St. John. 39:44 Hats off: Lou Watson is a finalist for th Seattel Art Museum's Betty Bowen prize! 42:56 Hector Tobar talks about weaving the narrative of the 33 Chilean miners who spent 69 days trapped underground

C. Spike Trotman got her start in comics with the web series “Templar, Arizona,” about a slightly irregular town filled with junkies, millionaires, strange subcultures, and weird religions. After realizing that no one was publishing the kind of stories she wanted to read — stories about people of color, queer people, people dealing with the everyday issues of being human — she decided to start her own publishing house, Iron Circus Comics. She has since used Kickstarter to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for a half dozen graphic novels and comic anthologies, including two collections of erotica comics written by women ("Smut Pedler"), a horror anthology ("The Sleep of Reason"), and two books about living life with less called "Poorcraft."Producer Aaron Scott spoke with Trotman about the growth of webcomics, the state of diversity in comics, and her love of “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” We asked her to recommend several webcomics for anyone interested in wading into their world. You can find her recs at: http://www.opb.org/news/article/c-spike-trotman-gives-voice-to-underrepresented-characters-in-web-comics

The soft reboot to Dirty Old ladies is live! Get reacquainted with C. Spike Trotman, Kel McDonald and Amanda Lafrenais, along with what they've been up to that's been SO DANG IMPORTANT that they neglected Dirty Old Ladies!

Comics as we know it is wide and fractured. There’s Direct Market comics, bookstore comics, webcomics, indie comics, manga, Eurocomics, and several more subcultures. I’m curious about what working under the broad umbrella of “comics” is like for creators, publishers, … Continue reading →

Crowdfunding! Kickstarter! Self-Publishing! Getting the Word Out! //www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJquIvm1rwg Hooray! Thanks to services Kickstarter and Indiegogo, we finally have a mechanism to fund our dream project! But is it as easy as just asking your friends or audience to support your thing? It sounds like a lot of work. And how do you avoid annoying everyone […]

The creator of Templar, Arizona, writer of Poorcraft and editor/contributor to Smut Peddler, C. Spike Trotman, is our guest this week! We have the Ajaxest interview ever with her, talking about wrestling, porno, doing things on the cheap, white tigers, college, Achewood and more! Plus, a not-particularly-thematic installment of the War Rocket Ajax Love Haters!

Finances, Poorcraft, Polterguys, Mini-Comics, and more! //www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNn3bKSHu8Q The hard fact of it is, few people make a ton of money at this comics jazz. And while we’ve talked about creating various streams of income in past shows, we’ve yet to talk about how to get more out of less of our financial resources! We’re joined […]