Comics for Grownups
89 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsReviews and discussion of comics and graphic novels, everything but the big superhero comics.
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Episodes
Episode 51
August 27, 2015 10:00 - 22 minutes - 10.5 MBWe review Fütchi Perf by Kevin Czapiewski, If You Steal by Jason, and SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki.
Episode 50
August 10, 2015 09:00 - 28 minutes - 13 MBIn this episode we review The Boat by Matt Huynh (adapting a story by Nam Le), Fante Bukowski by Noah Van Sciver, and Loop de Loop comics by Ryan Cecil Smith.
Episode 49
July 27, 2015 11:44 - 19 minutes - 8.9 MBReviews of Poetry Is Useless by Anders Nilsen, Ghetto Brother by Julian Voloj and Claudia Ahlering, and An Entity Observes All Things by Box Brown.
Episode 48
July 10, 2015 09:00 - 27 minutes - 12.6 MBIn this episode: Unflattening by Nick Sousanis, BORB by Jason Little, Mowgli's Mirror by Olivier Schrauwen, and Day Glo Ayhole by Ben Passmore.
Episode 47: Josh Bayer returns part 2
May 19, 2015 10:00 - 1 hour - 26.3 MBThe conclusion of our interview with Josh Bayer, plus reviews of The Sculptor by Scott McCloud, Displacement by Lucy Knisley, and several comics by A.J. Poyiadgi.
Episode 46: Josh Bayer returns
April 01, 2015 10:00 - 1 hour - 24.7 MBIn this episode we talk with Josh Bayer once more and also review 566 Frames by Dennis Wojda, Mimi and the Wolves by Alabaster, and Soppy by Philippa Rice.
Episode 45
February 03, 2015 11:00 - 32 minutes - 11 MBIn this episode we review Lynda Barry's Syllabus, Monte Beauchamp's Masterful Marks: Cartoonists Who Changed the World, Pascal Rabate's Street View, Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen by Dylan Horrocks, FUNGUS: The Unbearable Rot of Being by James Kochalka, and The Palace of Ashes and When We Were Kids by Andy Warner.
Episode 44: Best of 2014
December 22, 2014 01:40 - 40 minutes - 14 MBIt's our 10 favorite books of 2014, plus a few leftovers from 2013 we didn't know about in time for last year's list.
Episode 43
December 04, 2014 00:16 - 29 minutes - 10.3 MBThe Late Child and Other Animals by Marguerite Van Cook and James Romberger, Flocks #4 by L. Nichols, Bow-Wow's Nightmare Neighbors by Mark Newgarden and Megan Montague Cash, and Isä by Hanneriina Moisseinen.
Episode 42
November 05, 2014 13:02 - 49 minutes - 17.1 MBReviews of Pretty Deadly by Kelly Sue Deconnick and Emma Rios, A Cat Named Tim and Other Stories by John Martz, Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant by Roz Chast, BUMF! Vol. 1 by Joe Sacco, Doctors by Dash Shaw, Hospital Suite by John Porcellino, and Earthling by Aisha Franz.
Episode 41
September 22, 2014 09:30 - 34 minutes - 24 MBIn this episode we discuss Jim: Jim Woodring's Notorious Autojournal, Hip-Hop Family Tree Vol. 2: 1981-1983 by Ed Piskor, A Cabbage in a Nutshell by Tin Can Forest, Hockey Ops #1 by Sam Page and Molly Brooks, The Second in Line by Mattias Adolfsson, Cringe: An Anthology of Embarrassment from Birdcage Bottom Books, and Vile Decay Ritual Three by Malachi Ward.
Episode 40
September 02, 2014 10:00 - 45 minutes - 15.5 MBIn this episode we review It Never Happened Again by Sam Alden, This One Summer by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki, How to Be Happy by Eleanor Davis, God and the Devil at War in the Garden by Anders Nilsen, Demon by Jason Shiga, and How the World Was by Emmanuel Guibert.
Episode 39
August 11, 2014 09:00 - 55 minutes - 19.1 MBIn this episode Alex, Andrea, and Josh review Pictures That Tick vol. 2: Exhibition by Dave McKean, The River by Alessandro Sanna, Truth Is Fragmentary by Gabrielle Bell, Irene #3, s! #17, Darwin Carmichael Is Going to Hell by Sophie Goldstein and Jenn Jordan, and Red and Other Me by Ada Price.
Episode 38: Mike Dawson
July 21, 2014 09:00 - 1 hour - 43.4 MBMike Dawson joins Alex, Andrea, and Josh for a conversation about his work (including Angie Bongiolatti, which Alex raved about last episode), followed by reviews of Julie Delporte's Everywhere Antennas, Kyle Baker's Nat Turner, Tom Beland's Chicacabra, Adrian Tomine's Optic Nerve #13, Edwin Vazquez's The Werewolf of NYC, Nick Bertozzi's Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey, and Lorenzo Mattotti's Vietnam.
Episode 37: Pat Dorian
June 04, 2014 10:00 - 1 hour - 32.1 MBIn this episode we are joined by Pat Dorian, who talks about his work, his varied artistic background, and the Grand Comics Festival. We also review Box Brown's Andre the Giant: Life and Legend and Number 1, Mike Dawson's Angie Bongiolatti, Talya Modin's Blumpakind: Drinking Buddies, Nobrow #9: It's Oh So Quiet, Jesse Jacobs's Safari Honeymoon, Josh Bayer's Suspect Device #4, and Abel Lanzac and Christophe Blain's Weapons of Mass Diplomacy.
Episode 36: Josh Bayer
May 01, 2014 10:00 - 1 hour - 43.3 MBAndrea Tsurumi joins Josh and Alex as a permanent cohost, and the three of them talk with Josh Bayer about his work, his teaching, and the new upcoming issue of Suspect Device. Also the four of them review Philippe Squarzoni's Climate Changed, Rachel Hope Allison's I'm Not a Plastic Bag, Dash Shaw's Cosplayers, Carey Pietsch and Christopher M. Jones's Written in the Bones, Matt Lubchansky's Nature Show, Kriota Willberg's Pictorial Anatomy of 007, Sophie Yanow's War of Streets and Houses, Noa...
Episode 35: Liana Finck
April 23, 2014 10:00 - 1 hour - 36.5 MBLiana Finck joins for a great conversation about her new book A Bintel Brief and her other work. Also reviewed: Danica Novgorodoff's The Undertaking of Lily Chen, Keren Katz's Fire Theater, Sonatina Anthology, The Sleep of Reason: An Anthology of Horror, and Edie Fake's Memory Palaces.
Episode 34
March 17, 2014 03:08 - 41 minutes - 18.9 MBAlex and Josh review Persimmon Cup by Nick Bertozzi, Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoet, Pimo and Rex by Thomas Wellmann, Gandhi: My Life Is My Message by Jason Quinn and Sachin Nagar, Basewood by Alec Longstreth, Nijigahara Holograph by Inio Asano, and Drive: the SciFi Comic by Dave Kellett.