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Hawkeye Squared: from Comics to Disney+
January 20, 2022 02:00 - 1 hour - 74.1 MBHawk-guy John Arminio guests host our discussion of the iconic Hawkeye comics series created by Matt Fraction and David Aja AND the new Hawkeye TV series on Disney+. With Arminio are guests Scott Thorough and Kat Overland. They also get into how to create a comic that has a real sense of place, what New York smells like, Clint Barton's terrible personal life, and Kate Bishop's LA vacation with... Elliot Gould?! PLUS: John learns how to pronounce "David Aja" and everyone gives some great reco...
Deep Space Dive: a Star Trek Deep Space 9 Podcast: Gul Dukat
January 11, 2022 01:30 - 1 hour - 63.8 MBAttention Bajoran Workers: This is Now a Gul Dukat Podcast. Gul Dukat is more than a scenery-chewing space lizard war criminal who looks like Mitt Romney - he’s Star Trek's most complex villian. Talking about Dukat means talking about colonialism, fragile masculinity, and the interplay between mental health and morality. And Deep Space Dive is a Star Trek Deep Space Nine podcast all about topics like those. So join Sarah Daniel Rasher and Elana Levin for a deep dive into the text and subtex...
Marvel's The Eternals with filmmaker Brandon Wilson
December 29, 2021 22:00 - 1 hour - 60.5 MB“I hate to spoil a good evil overlord narrative but… “ - Brandon Wilson. Because our take on Marvel's The Eternals isn't a refernedum on diverisity in corporate movies (dear lord can you imagine if it freaking was?! ) Joiin us for a nuanced analysis of the movie. Filmmaker Brandon David Wilson returns to talk about The Eternals from his perspective as a filmmaker, lecturer and lifelong Marvel comics fan (which an eye for criticism). Follow him at https://twitter.com/Geniusbastard Brandon ...
SFSX (Safe Sex) author Tina Horn: Our Sexbots, Ourselves Vol. 2
December 21, 2021 02:30 - 1 hour - 86.9 MB“I’m thrilled that the book got you laid” - Tina Horn author of SFSX (Safe Sex). Tina Horn returns to talk about her sci-fi sex rebel comic book series. Writer TINA HORN and artist G Romero-Johnson's SFSX (SAFE SEX) Terms of Service is a cyberpunk thriller graphic novel. "After their previous adventures in sex, love, and torture left them separated and traumatized, the Dirty Mind heroes must face the totalitarian Party’s latest “social program” ― one involving uncanny sexpots and a twisted m...
Holiday Gift Guide to your Local Comic Book Store!
December 04, 2021 18:30 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBComic book retailers give advice on buying the right gift -- from games to toys to books-- for your friends and family while supoorting local comics businesses. Hear their tips on the things that are far better to buy at a LCBS than anywhere else. "A great gift is a gift that a person won’t by for themselves. No one would buy a 100-sided die for themselves but they wouldn’t mind owning one "- Dimitrios, Anyone Comics in Crown Heights Brooklyn. "I like to get people to try new art. That's a...
Doom Patrol Season 3 Goes Dada w/ Lux Alptraum & Christiaan Perez
November 08, 2021 20:30 - 1 hour - 83.9 MBDoom Patrol Season 3 asks some big questions about the purpose art and the purpose of a time machine. Lux Alptraum is a writer and podcast host whose smart commentary has been featured in a wide variety of outlets including The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, and Hustler. She’s tackled the thorny topics of leaked celebrity sex tapes and public apologies as the host of the second second season New York Magazine’s Tabloid and Audible’s Say You’re Sorry, and helped shape the Peabody-nominated TV ...
Eternals the Comics! Jack Kirby Museum's Rand Hoppe & Karen Charm of Comics XF
October 21, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 73 MB“When [Jack Kirby] came back to Marvel he was making Kirby comics, he was not making Marvel comics. And we’re the richer for it” -Rand Hoppe, Jack Kirby Museum Jack Kirby’s 1977 comics series is a witty psychedelic saga about the Day of Judgement. Join Eternals experts for a look at Kirby's underrated series historical context. Plus hear which other Eternals series we enjoy (and which you can skip). Rand Hoppe had the idea for a non-profit devoted to Jack Kirby in 2004. Thanks to John Morro...
Body, Horror, Comics with Author Jude Doyle
October 16, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour - 62.1 MB"Engaging with my demonic sea-monster tendencies has made me a lot healthier just as a dude" - Jude Doyle. I'm joined by award-winning journalist, opinon writer, comics fan--now horror comic author Jude Ellison S. Doyle to talk about his new series Maw. A provocative five-issue horror series by Doyle (Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power) and artist A.L. Kaplan (Full Spectrum Therapy) that explores the anger of women trapped by society’s expec...
Deep Space Dive, a DS9 pod. Worf: Star Trek's 1st Jew of Color
September 21, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour - 70.1 MB"We’re ALL ambassadors." - RafaelShimunov. Artist and organizer Rafael Shimunov’s family ofBukharian Jewishrefugees from Uzbekistan learned English by watching Star Trek. Raf’s read on Worf as a fellow Jew of color is eye opening. We talk all things Worf, but especially about his depiction as a Jewish person of color, directly within Star Trek’s coding of his background and metaphorically as an individual who finds meaning in his multiple identities. We answer listener questions on everyt...
Whistle: a New Gotham City Hero. writer E. Lockhart
September 14, 2021 03:00 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBDC comics new Jewish teen girl superhero and activist is fighting to save a VERY Lower East Side Gotham neighborhood from gentrification. Of course I had to have the co-creator of this new character, Whistle, on my podcast-- New York Times Best Selling author E. Lockhart! Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero, is a young adult graphic novel from DC written by New York Times best-selling author E. Lockhart (Genuine Fraud, We Were Liars) with art by Manuel Preitano (The Oracle Code). Featuring the ...
The Suicide Squad w/ Journalists Spencer Ackerman & Arturo Garcia
September 04, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 78.2 MBIf Corto Maltese is Cuba is Starro is the Embargo? Or is it Nicaragua and Project Starfish is the CIA drug smuggling? Join journalists / DC comics nerds Spencer Ackerman (Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump) and Arturo Garcia (TruthOrFiction) as we talk about James Gunn's new uber violent political satire movie based on some of my favorite comics. Buy Spencer's book Reign of Terror and follow him at https://twitter.com/attackerman Keep up with Arturo'...
Black Widow Meets The Abortion Access Front
August 22, 2021 01:30 - 1 hour - 62.4 MB"Every woman we meet in this story has been sterilized without consent." - Moji Alawode-El "When they can make choices they choose compassion" - Kat Green Two professional feminists who are basically superheroes themselves join me to discuss Marvel's Black Widow movie. We talk espionage, fight choreo, reproductive justice and a good jumpsuit. Kat Green is the Managing Director and Chief Mechanic at Abortion Access Front. Before joining AAF, Kat worked as a producer, editor, and shooter fo...
Deep Space Dive: a Star Trek DS9 pod Sends Miles & Keiko To Couples Counseling
August 09, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBWe love Keiko and Miles so much that we're sending them to fictional couples counseling. Joining us is Scott Thorough, a lifelong Trekkie with a Masters in Social Work. Scott did his internships for social work school with narrative focus. He's the perfect guest to join us to determine if the O'Briens' marriage can or should be saved. Scott is also the co-host of the excellent Zebras in America Podcast https://twitter.com/ZebrasPod. Keep up with Scott's podcast and music here https://tw...
A New Day for Evan Narcisse, Writing WWE & Black Panther
July 28, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 55.4 MB"Being a Black fan means loving media that doesn’t necessarily love you back" -- writer Evan Narcisse. Evan joins me to talk about his new comic about the groundbreaking and radicaly fun wrestling stars, New Day, race, creativity and change in the wrestling industry as well as his work on Rise of the Black Panther. No wrestling knowledge necessary for this episode. Evan Narcisse is a writer and consultant who works in video games, comic books, and TV, often focusing on the intersection of ...
Loki with Julia Serano & Tea Fougner: Queers, Alligators and Kangs
July 21, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour - 71.9 MBTHE Julia Serano explains why Loki and Sylvie have no time for your gender essentialism, Tea Fougner delves into Loki's gender fluidity in comics and we all wish the queer showrunner would stick around another season. Julia Serano is an Oakland, California-based writer, performer, biologist, and activist. She is best known for her nonfiction books Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity and Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive....
Living Heroes & Marvel's Voices Writer Stephanie Williams
July 06, 2021 22:00 - 1 hour - 67.9 MB"After a year worrying about Marvel emailing me from their legal team with a cease and disist — I get an email from Marvel asking me to write a story for an upcoming comic!" - Stephanie Williams Stephanie Williams is a comics historian and pop culture critic for notable publications such as SYFYFANGRRLS, Marvel, The A.V. Club, Nerdist, Den of Geek, and Rotten Tomatoes. She is currently a content producer for What To Watch. Stephanie is also a comic creator with three ongoing webcomics, Pare...
Pride Decoded: With S.E. Fleenor of Bitches on Comics
June 24, 2021 01:30 - 1 hour - 70.6 MB"As a boundary defying human I found myself looking for ways to engage with the stories that made me feel alive. When I watched a superhero movie or read Octavia Butler I was talking about real things in a way that felt more fruitful" - S.E. Fleenor, writer/editor/podcaster. S.E. Fleenor joins us to talk about the queer speculative fiction anthology they co-created for Pride Month, http://DecodedPride.com. Decoded is a story-a-day anthology of queer science fiction, fantasy, and horror by qu...
Queer gamers write a queer graphic novel about queer gamers: Renegade Rule
June 07, 2021 03:00 - 49 minutes - 44.5 MB“One of the goals of Renegade Rule was to present a book and world that allows for queer joy” - Ben Kahn “The closer it is to trope-y fan fiction the more I like it” - Rachel Silverstein Meet the writers of a new original graphic novel published by Dark Horse, Renegade Rule! "The Manhattan Mist have beaten the odds to land themselves in the national championships for Renegade Rule, one of the hottest virtual reality games in existence. But they’re in for competition fiercer then they ever...
The Good Asian comic w/creators Pornsak Pichetshote & Alexandre Tefenkgi
May 18, 2021 03:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBPolicing and the model minoirty myth are deconstructed through a noir genre lens in this hardboiled detective series created by today's guests, sak Pichetshote and Alexandre Tefenkgi. A new Image Comics series, The Good Asian stars detective Edison Hark—a haunted Chinese-American detective—on the trail of a killer in 1936 San Francisco's Chinatown. The series explores Chinese American identity, US immigration policy and the brutal contradictions inherent in being the first Chinese American ...
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier with Spencer Ackerman and Brandon Wilson
May 04, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour - 86.3 MB"Zemo is the only character with an ideology" - Brandon Wilson "A real Captain America looks to the rest of the world like The Joker" - Spencer Ackerman Talking about Disney's latest Marvel TV show, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier with two of my favorite Marvel experts. Spencer Ackerman award winning national security journalist and author of REIGN OF TERROR: How The 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump, out August 10 from Viking. https://twitter.com/attackerman Brandon Wils...
Deep Space Dive: a Star Trek Deep Space Nine pod: Dr Julian Bashir & Section 420
April 24, 2021 22:00 - 1 hour - 74.1 MBDoctor Julian Bashir is Deep Space Nine’s resident physician, humanitarian, James Bond cosplayer and disaster bisexual. We are joined by Ali Nagib, Assistant Director of Illinois NORML, an organization that was key to ending cannabis prohibition in Illinois. In this episode, Ali helps us discover why Dr. Bashir was so important for representation, why he’s such a headcanon magnet, why he’s a great role model for health equity activism efforts like cannabis legalization, and why he’s the Anti-...
WandaVision: Marvel Magical Refugee Girl Origin Stories
March 18, 2021 03:30 - 1 hour - 71.2 MBTraumatized people processing loss by watching TV sure do connect with a TV show in which a traumatized person processes loss via the medium of television. Disney+ newest Marvel TV show is a timely hit. I'm joined by three fascinating guests for a nuanced and necessary conversation. "When someone tells a Black woman she’s not supposed to be there it goes from being uncomfortable to being dangerous" - comics critic Niki J. Occasional voice actress and constant Marvel fan, Niki J posts about...
Comics Artist/Writer Michel Fiffe of COPRA. Taking risks & making monsters
March 03, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour - 77.5 MB"Realism is unfortunate"- Michel Fiffe Michel Fiffe is the creator / writer /artist of the action series COPRA. He’s worked with Marvel and DC on top of fully producing Panorama for Dark Horse, Bloodstrike: Brutalists for Image Comics and Zegas for Fantagraphics. We talk about the development of comics art styles in depth and a graph he made attempting to chart where some of his favorite artists' style fall on a scale of realistic to cartoony, messy to clean. So get artsy with us! "It's a ...
True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee with biographer Abraham Riesman
February 13, 2021 03:00 - 1 hour - 71.7 MB"I'm not damning Stan Lee, I'm living with ambiguity" says Abraham Riesman of his essential new Stan Lee biography True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee. No matter where you stand on the debate of who gets credit for Marvel comics, you MUST read this book. It's past time for a serious work of history like this one examining the conflicting stories behind one of most imporant cultural forces of the 20th century. Abe has done completely new research into the Lieber familiy's history in ...
Deep Space Dive: a Star Trek Deep Space Nine podcast. Ep 3rd Wave Feminism
February 08, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 65.9 MBDS9 premiered at the height of third wave feminism. In this episode, we’ll look at how Star Trek Deep Space Nine incorporated feminist thought of the ‘90s into its depictions of women and gender. Also, how that explains why Major Kira is always wearing a full face of makeup even when she’s roaming caves with a phaser rifle. And how the real villian isn't just the Dominion, it's Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Got questions? Recommendations? Deep Space Dive now has our own email addres...
Kieron Gillen: The Eternals, Die RPG, Peter Cannon, and Canon
January 29, 2021 02:30 - 1 hour - 70.8 MBHow are The Celestials and The Eternals like Diana Ross & The Supremes? Find out as Kieron Gillen (obviously) returns to discuss his new series for Marvel Comics, a relaunch of The Eternals, in which he and artist Esad Ribić interpret Jack Kirby's classic "powerchord of a visual". We follow up with his critically aclaimed re-imagining of Peter Cannon Thunderbolt as well as his current indie series Once and Future, which polliticizes Arthurian legends in powerful new ways. Plus, catch up on ...
Jay Edidin; From X-Plaining to Writing the X-Men
January 21, 2021 22:30 - 1 hour - 74.4 MBX-Pert podcaster Jay Edidin wrote his 1st Marvel comic X-Men: Marvels Snapshots, and I love it! So of course I had him on my show to talk about the obvious topics like DC Comics, Victorian Literature, and Fun Home. And yes, of course, his take on Cyclops in this highly personal yet accessible comic. You can hear Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-men at https://www.xplainthexmen.com/ and read his tweets at https://twitter.com/NotLasers. He's been on Graphic Policy Radio before to talk about stop...
Deep Space Dive: a Star Trek Deep Space Nine podcast. Ep 2: Unionize Quark's!
January 12, 2021 03:00 - 1 hour - 60 MBRom quotes Karl Marx and organizes a labor union at Quark's Bar-- of course this merits a full episode of our new DS9 podcast. Join our guest, labor unionist & Trekkie Asher Huey for a close look at Bar Association, Season 4 episode 9. This is the second episode of our podcast spin-off series, "Deep Space Dive" a Deep Space Nine podcast hosted by Elana Levin and Sarah Daniel Rasher. In each episode we do a deep dive into the text and subtext of this most political of Star Trek series, oft...
Mark Trail cartoonist Jules Rivera: Nature Dad's environmentalist roots & future
January 06, 2021 03:00 - 1 hour - 56.4 MB"I reverse engineered Mark Trail"-- Jules Rivera is the new cartoonist for the classic syndicated comicstrip Mark Trail. You know, the nature guy in the plaid! Jules gives Mark Trail a look and a new environmetal justice spin on his LONG STANDING mission of conservation education. Plus a diverse cast for soap opera hijinks and humor. Jules is the second Latina woman to become a nationally syndicated comic strip cartoonist. Jules brings her background in engineering and lifelong interest in...
Deep Space Dive: a Star Trek Deep Space Nine podcast. Ep 1: Garak
December 31, 2020 02:00 - 59 minutes - 53.7 MBDS9 is the Star Trek with the greatest focus on political concepts like colonialism, feminism, queerness and post-scarcity economics. Join hosts and guests who aren’t just Trekkies but activists, academics, artists, therapists and more as we do a deep dive into the text and subtext where few Star Trek podcasts have gone before. We're discussing Deep Space Nine’s themes and characters-- not doing recaps. Also: spoilers. Co-Hosts: Elana Levin, also the host of Graphic Policy Radio, has wo...
Writer Alex de Campi: Veterans, Vampires, Truth & Fiction
December 21, 2020 03:00 - 1 hour - 54.8 MB"If you can do comedy you can do horror"- writter and letterer Alex de Campi returns to the show to talk about her latest comics Vintage pulp horror graphic novel Dracula, Motherf**ker (Image Comics) with Erica HendersonSci-fi thriller Madi: Once Upon A Time in the Future co-written by filmmaker Duncan JonesVeteran action/buddy comedy Bad Karma -- read it online http://panelsyndicate.com/comics/badkarma True War Stories, an anthology of soldiers’ deployment tales by soldiers themselves. Foll...
The Venture Bros Podcast: S 2; Ep 5: 20 Years to Midnight
December 01, 2020 03:30 - 42 minutes - 38.3 MBIGNORE ME at your perril! Professor Steven Attewell and I, (Elana Levin) walk you through one of the most quotable episodes of The Venture Bros show. We're here to help you understand the history, context and pop culture references within. From the most important chair of the mid 20th century to the 1991 MTV Music Video Awards (that was a wierd one indeed). 3rd image our slide show is Arishem the Judge by Jack Kirby-- a massive inspiration for The Grand Inquisitor. Follow Steven here: http...
Daredevil: Inferno. Comics of Marvel's New York
November 17, 2020 04:30 - 1 hour - 67.6 MBIn 1989 Daredevil's Inferno storyline from Ann Nocenti and John Romita Jr offered some pointed social commentary about NYC. It's return in Chip Zdarsky, Marco Checchetto & Mattia Iacono's current series made for some uncanny reading for New Yorkers today. Join Leslie Lee III of Struggle Sessions podcast & Scott Thorough of Zebras in America podcast as we swing into; Classic Daredevil #260-266 Current Daredevil issues #18-20 Also discussed: Scott's lived experience of Hells Kitchen in t...
Matt Fraction, Elsa Charretier: November is Coming and Jimmy Olsen too
October 08, 2020 23:30 - 1 hour - 86.2 MBNovember isn't just the election it's also the hit hardboiled graphic novel series from Elsa Charretier and Matt Fraction. A special commentary edition of the book is on it's way and Elsa has the scoop! Fraction and I also chatted about Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, his series with Steve Lieber- and there are some interesting connections between the two very different works! Support the massively popular kickstarter for the November art book here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elsachar...
Role-Playing Games: Dungeons and Dragons, Lasers and Feelings and beyond
September 29, 2020 01:00 - 1 hour - 68.8 MBTabletop roleplaying games are a hot social activity. Many have played for decades, but some have always wanted to try but haven't found a group to join yet. This episode features a diverse crew of TTRPG experts answering your questions on everything from how to get started, how to make your games more inclusive, how to adapt your offline games to online AND recommend awesome games you haven't heard of yet (those may involve neither dungeons nor dragons). Jess Ross is an editor, writer, and...
Matt Perpetua talks X-Men, music and being a critic
September 17, 2020 03:00 - 1 hour - 97.1 MB“disrupting the idea of superhero vs super villains and more about what happens within any community”-- Music critic Matt Perpetua is writing about X-Men comics on his new site https://www.houseofx.org. He is also the sole writer of the independent music site Fluxblog since 2002, more recently expanding beyond the site itself to playlist curation on Spotify. In addition to the site, has also contributed to Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, NPR, and New York Magazine, and was the founding editor of Bu...
Matthew Perpetua talks X-Men, music and being a critic
September 17, 2020 03:00 - 1 hour - 97.1 MB“disrupting the idea of superhero vs super villains and more about what happens within any community”-- Music critic Matt Perpetua is writing about X-Men comics on his new site https://www.houseofx.org. He is also the sole writer of the independent music site Fluxblog since 2002, more recently expanding beyond the site itself to playlist curation on Spotify. In addition to the site, has also contributed to Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, NPR, and New York Magazine, and was the founding editor of Bu...
Doom Patrol Season 2
September 08, 2020 03:30 - 1 hour - 76.8 MBOur critically aclaimed coverage of Doom Patrol--DC Universe's critically acclaimed show--continues with this episode on Season 2. Joining me are guests: Sarah Daniel Rasher is an erstwhile professor of Shakespeareology who now tries to save the world through educational data. They also occasionally write about figure skating and Star Trek on the internet. Winn Periyasamy is a Fordham law student and advocate working and organizing in New York City. She has her master's in public health a...
Working in a Comic Book Shop During COVID
August 31, 2020 01:00 - 55 minutes - 49.5 MB"I’m so thankful that my job is to sell people art." - John Arminio, Comix Connection. Guest John Arminio shares what it is like working at a comics store during this unprecidented time and how fans can support comics retail staff. Plus he makes some great suggestions of comics to buy. John is a long-time comic book devotee and retailer who peddles his wares at Comix Connection in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Along with comics, another of his great passions is film, and you can hear him dis...
Stopping abuse in the comics industry: not just a few bad apples
August 11, 2020 03:30 - 1 hour - 70.7 MBComics' harassment crisis isn't just caused by the names you've seen in the comics news. It is enabled by an entire system of employment and fandom built on exploitation. Good thing there are some brilliant and brave people joining me to talk about what we can to do create meaningful change in the industry. Guests: Jay Edidin writes comics, short fiction, and narrative nonfiction; covers culture, arts, science, and gender as a journalist and essayist; edits comics, transmedia, and genre fic...
Comics Writer Tina Horn on SfSx: Freedom & Safety in the SciFi Sex Dystopia
July 29, 2020 02:30 - 1 hour - 81.4 MBTina Horn is the creator and writer of the sci-fi sex-rebel comic book series SfSx (Safe Sex). She hosts and produces the long-running kink podcast Why Are People Into That?!. SfSx is the near-future story of the underground queer sex workers known as the Dirty Mind, who use their powers of bondage and intrigue to free their incarcerated friends and fight the power! SfSx: Volume 1: Protection is out now in trade paperback. Tina's reporting on sexual subcultures and politics has been in Pla...
Cartoonist Christina 'Steenz' Stewart: From the Library to the Heart of the City
July 17, 2020 02:30 - 1 hour - 63.8 MB"I want to show that the people behind the desk can look like me, "-- Cristina ‘Steenz’ Stewart is a St. Louis based cartoonist, editor, and professor. She's the cartoonist on the syndicated comic strip ‘Heart Of The City’, the co-creator of Dwayne McDuffie Award winning Graphic Novel Archival Quality, and is featured in short story anthologies such as Eisner and Ignatz Award-Winning Elements: Fire, Mine!, and Dead Beats. Steenz launched and edited the popular RPG periodical Rolled & Told. Sh...
Comics Writer Nadia Shammas: Bodies, Goth & No Olive Branches
July 02, 2020 22:00 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBFrom getting a Marvel internship out of spite to getting her own dream project graphic novel underway. Nadia Shammas is an Arab-American comic writer and native Brooklynite. She's best known for being the creator of CORPUS: A Comic Anthology of Bodily Ailments and the author/co-creator of SQUIRE, a YA Middle Eastern fantasy set from HarperCollins next year. You can find her and her movie takes on https://twitter.com/Nadia_Shammas Join us as we we get real about feelings about health, art a...
She-ra & the Princesses of Power S5 w Lux Alptraum & Mey Rude
June 17, 2020 02:30 - 1 hour - 63.2 MBLux Alptraum is a Peabody-nominated producer and writer whose work had appeared in The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, and Hustler. Her first book, Faking It: The Lies Women Tell About Sex — And the Truths They Reveal, explores our cultural obsession with feminine deceit. https://twitter.com/luxalptraum Mey Rude is a Los Angeles-based trans latina lesbian. she’s a journalist who’s worked for autostraddle, them.us and out magazine, as well as a sensitivity reader and trans consultant on novels,...
X-Men Dawn of X: Marauders, Be Queer Do Crimes
May 26, 2020 02:30 - 1 hour - 63.4 MBKitty Pryde, sorry, I mean Kate Pryde, is coming out! She's stealing a boat, getting drunk on Wolverine’s stash and becoming a pirate/liberator of mutants everywhere. Join us for a deep dive into Marauders issues 1-9 from Gerry Duggan, Matteo Lolli, Stephano Casseli, Michelle Bandini and others. X-Perts: Chingy L Gay is a writer, comedian, and critically acclaimed ex-girlfriend. She writes about queer identity, nerd shit, and her weird sex life and has been featured at MTV News, Out Magazin...
Artist/Writer Elsa Charretier: November in Mer-May
May 18, 2020 03:30 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBElsa Charretier joins us from the south of France to talk about her latest comic, the noir tale November with Matt Fraction. Elsa is a self taught artist known for co-creating the award winning scifi romance The Infinite Loop with writer Pierrick Colinet. Since then, she has been dividing her time between creating new creator-owned books (Superfreaks) and drawing established characters like The Unstopable Wasp, Starfire, DC's Bombshells and Star Wars' most fashionable depiction of Admiral Ho...
Crisis on Infinite Jerry Ordway Part 2
May 07, 2020 03:00 - 1 hour - 69.6 MBInterview with comics artist/writer Jerry Ordway continues! Jerry's been making superhero comics for DC and Marvel for 40 years. He's the guy who made people care about Shazam and the All Star Squadron again. He inked Crisis on Infinate Earths. He's partnered with writers like Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Michael Moorecock & Neil Gaiman. His essay on age discriminiation in the industry put a name to a significant problem in comics http://ordstersrandomthoughts.blogspot.com/2013/03/life-over-fift...
Crisis on Infinite Jerry Ordway: Part 1!
April 28, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 63.4 MBComics artist/writer Jerry Ordway has been making superhero comics for DC and Marvel for 40 years. He's the guy who made people care about Shazam and the Justice Society of America again. He inked Crisis on Infinate Earths. He's partnered with writers like Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Michael Moorecock & Neil Gaiman. Welcome to a special two part interview. Whether you're new to Jerry's work or a long time fan you'll learn a ton about the process of inking and drawing comics, industry history,...
The Venture Bros podcast: S4 Ep 16 Operation P.R.O.M.
April 20, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 54.2 MBTravel back as we delve into a classic Venture Bros episode: Operation PROM. Thanks for being patient with the podcast right now: I've been slammed with work. I thought I'd make it up to you by covering a Venture Bros episode from Season 4, before we started podcast. We're here to help you catch all the references to feminist philosophers and 70s rock bands and Marvel comics. And to help you think about all the themes about all the failure, all the nostalgia and all the other stuff that Vent...
Castlevania: A Very Warren Ellis Anime. with Leslie Lee III & Kat Overland
March 25, 2020 02:00 - 1 hour - 64.5 MBWarren Ellis' Castlevania show for Netflix is about powerful old men who want to bring the world down around them and the OT3 who say "nope" to all that. I'm joined by two critics who know their anime way better than I to talk about the show: Kat Overland is a freelance culture critic and the small press editor at Women Write About comics. Leslie Lee the 3rd is a writer and host of Struggle Session. We open with a Spoiler-free discussion of if you should watch the show. Answer: yes, there ar...