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Process Party

103 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 86 ratings

Process Party is a show about comic books as an art form, industry, and vocation—from the perspective of two working cartoonists; Zack Soto (Secret Voice, Power Button) & Mike Dawson (The Fifth Quarter, Troop 142) .

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Reminder: new pod! In This Issue.. episode 8

August 15, 2022 18:06 - 1 hour - 255 MB

What?! A new pod??! Yep! Join Process Party co-host Zack Soto for In This Issue… a podcast about formative comics reading experiences, with a focus on the single issue format. Every episode finds Zack and a special guest doing a close reading of a comic book (not a graphic novel!) and havin’ a lively chat about it. This is a presentation of Episode 8 with cartoonist Adam DeSouza on Nausicaa of the Valley Of The Wind #1 by Hayao Miyazaki, Tom Orzechowski, Dana Lewis & Toren Smith, and publishe...

New Pod: In This Issue... Episode 03

June 20, 2022 18:25 - 1 hour - 83.3 MB

Still having some issues with the new feed not showing everything so here's the third ep of Zack's new pod In This Issue... THE ISSUE: SCUD: The Disposable Assassin #17 Written by Dan Harmon illustrated & lettered by Rob Schrab Published 1997, Fireman Press, Ltd. THE GUEST: Zac Gorman Zac Gorman (Magical Game Time, Costume Quest) joins In This Issue... to discuss the Rob Schrab/Dan Harmon comic SCUD: The Disposable Assassin #17.

New Pod—In This Issue… Episode 04!

June 18, 2022 00:49 - 2 hours - 208 MB

another new episode of Zack's new pod In This Issue..., talkin' 'bout Heavy Metal Magazine vol.17 #4 and Druuna with David King! Go subscribe to ITI!

In This Issue… Episode 04: Heavy Metal Magazine vol.17 #4!

June 18, 2022 00:49 - 2 hours - 208 MB

another new episode of Zack's new pod In This Issue..., talkin' 'bout that Druuna with David King! Go subscribe to ITI!

New PoIn This Issue… Episode 04!

June 18, 2022 00:49 - 1 hour - 83.3 MB

another new episode of Zack's new pod In This Issue..., talkin' 'bout Heavy Metal Magazine vol.17 #4 and Druuna with David King! Go subscribe to ITI!

New Pod: In This Issue... Episode 02!

June 02, 2022 15:36 - 1 hour - 97.8 MB

Zack's new pod is over on it's own feed! Check out this second ep here and go subscribe! THE ISSUE: ACME Novelty Library #8 Written, illustrated, & lettered by Chris Ware Published 1997, Fantagraphics Books, Inc. THE GUEST: Austin English Domino Comics impresario Austin English joins In This Issue... to talk about our first experiences with the Chris Ware comic ACME Novelty Library #8. (We also briefly discuss the legacy of the Vertigo Comics release Dhampire: Stillborn (1997) by Nancy A. C...

New Pod: In This Issue... Episode 01!

May 26, 2022 16:29 - 1 hour - 71.5 MB

Hey y'all! Process Party is still on hiatus for a while but Zack has a new pod called IN THIS ISSUE... and it's all about "talkin' bout comics," one issue at a time. First up Francois Vigneault on Charles Burns' 1995 release, BLACK HOLE #1!

Episode 90: Francois Vigneault In Space

July 20, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 29.5 MB

Surprise! We're back again, it feels good, etc etc. Mike has a new book called The Fifth Quarter out! And guest Francois Vigneault (last seen way back on episode 25) has a new monthly comic called Orcs In Space out! Zack has no new books out :( We talk about productivity in a pandemic, comic shops, promotion, trauma, whatever! All the good stuff.

Episode 89: Diary Of A Long Distance Podcast

August 25, 2020 05:00 - 53 minutes - 122 MB

Hey! We're back! & we're catching up & chatting about what's been happening in our lives and the world in the last few months, self-care, stand up paddle-boarding, pandemic variables across the country, making comics in Clip Studio, the new Adrian Tomine book The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Cartoonist, and the question of the day (culled from twitter) "Are there comics for adults?" (??)

Episode 88 - Quarantine, Power Pack, & You

April 11, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 76.9 MB

HEY, WE'RE BACK! This episode is our very first A Special Quarantine Episode! Awwww! So cute, though we suspect it will cease to be cute, like yesterday, and will cease to be special at some point, too. Anyway, many things touched upon in this one: Books touched on in this episode are Girl Town by Casey Nowak, "Wall of Shame" by Noah Van Sciver (from NOW #1), Megg & Mogg in Amsterdam by Simon Hanselmann, Master Of Kung Fu by Gulacy & Moench, Batman Universe by Brian Michael Bendis & Nick Derr...

Ep87: Alienation, Protector, & Eco-Collapse

February 26, 2020 05:00 - 47 minutes - 21.4 MB

Up front we talk Valentine's, Hourly Comics Day, self-promotion, and more. After that we talk about two very different comics that are related to  the impending/ongoing ecological collapse we're currently a part of—the five minutes into the future, Google Brand Dystopia of Ines Estrada's Alienation (Fantagraphics); and the far-flung, epochal timeline  extrapolations of Protector #1 (Image) by Simon Roy, Daniel Bensen, Artyom Trakhanov, Jason Wordie, and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou. Process Party i...

Episode 86: Tom Kaczynski on Silver Surfer (87)

January 21, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 34.8 MB

2020, here we come! First new pod of the year and first guest in the new format! Hosts Mike Dawson and Zack Soto take stock on the new year before welcoming Tom Kaczynski to talk about the strange wonder of Steve Englehart & Marshall Rogers' Silver Surfer run from 1987. We cover a lot of ground—from plot points to comics history, distribution wars, the intersection of mainstream and indy comics, metaphysics, the cosmology of the Marvel Universe and much much more!

Episode 85: Howard Cruse & TMNT

December 05, 2019 05:00 - 50 minutes - 23.1 MB

Mike Dawson & Zack Soto are back with the final episode of 2019, talking about Howard Cruse, Stuck Rubber Baby, creative constraints, dense pages, classical patronage, Eastman & Laird, TMNT, Tundra & The Xeric Foundation, and people who phase “upwards” out of comics into being rich & busy (instead of quitting in futility like we always assumed we would). Process Party is a podcast about comic books as an art form, industry, and vocation—from the perspective of two working cartoonists.

Episode 84 - Year In Review 2019 & 1986

November 25, 2019 09:07 - 1 hour - 42.8 MB

The Dark Knight of Podcasts Returns! What? Yes. Hi! Here we are again, quite randomly. Mike & Zack talk comics, life, editing, auteur theory, productivity, carpal tunnel, digital drawing, early graphic novels, reading comics on the iPad, Frank Miller, The Dark Knight Returns, and Tom Spurgeon's recent passing.

Episode 84 - Year In Review 2019 & 1986

November 25, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 42.8 MB

The Dark Knight of Podcasts Returns! What? Yes. Hi! Here we are again, quite randomly. Mike & Zack talk comics, life, editing, auteur theory, productivity, carpal tunnel, digital drawing, early graphic novels, reading comics on the iPad, Frank Miller, The Dark Knight Returns, and Tom Spurgeon's recent passing.

Episode 83 - Nate Powell & Mark Siegel at CXC

October 22, 2018 15:48 - 1 hour - 34.1 MB

We're back this time with a nice long chat between Zack & First Second head honcho/5 Worlds co-creator Mark Siegel that was recorded at the panel they did on Saturday morning at Cartoon Crossroads Columbus last month, as well as a short but meaty show floor chat with Swallow Me Whole, MARCH, and Come Again cartoonist Nate Powell. PLUS! CXC show report, lots of personal good news and catching up from the Party Boys. Go read Mike's new comic at the Nib, and buy a copy of Zack's new book from hi...

Episode 82 - Josh Cotter live at SPX!

September 25, 2018 12:04 - 1 hour - 31.1 MB

 It's our first ever PROCESS PARTY LIVE! The kind folks at SPX were nice enough to set us up in conversation with one of our favorite people and cartoonists, Joshua Cotter. Josh first came to everyone's attention with the Skyscrapers of the Midwest series in the early 00's, which he followed up with Driven By Lemons and his current project, the massive (7 book!) series Nod Away. Nod Away is nominally a science fiction book to start, but it's already quite clear that the scope will be much wid...

Episode 81 - Kickliy!

September 11, 2018 10:37 - 1 hour - 31.8 MB

We're back to talk to Kickliy about his new Western graphic novel PERDY! You may know Kickliy from his series Musnet, or his work that was published under the name Sam Hiti. All of it is great, and we were excited to talk to him. We got into the reason for his name change, his time spent in France recuperating from a serious accident, and his triumphant return to comics. Lots of painting and drawing philosophy, working through blocks small and large, and how he ended up becoming an American c...

Look At That Dog! Episode 00

September 07, 2018 18:47 - 28 minutes - 22.5 MB

It’s a special new podcast from Zack & Shanna. By popular demand, Shanna is back! She and Zack apparently needed a podcast as an excuse to sit around and shoot the breeze, so here it is. We’re going to be talking about all that DISTRACTING MEDIA out there! delicious delicious media. This week, we tackle personally formative science fiction in our lives, venus flytraps, lots of bad jokes, and our patented LATD RECOMMENDATION ROUND! (There’s more Process Party to come, but for now please acce...

Episode 80 - Shop Talk!

July 16, 2018 17:15 - 36 minutes - 14.5 MB

It's another Jibba Jabba episode: Mike returns from Iceland, Zack returns from the wilds of Kickstarter anxiety and printing deadlines, and our Party Floor creaks back into gear! Lots of discussion about what it means to actually finish a big project, transitioning from GO GO GO mode to "what now?" mode, and much more. 

Episode 79 - Columbus Scene Report!

June 07, 2018 01:44 - 44 minutes - 17.7 MB

It's an all Jibba-Jabba Extravaganza! Mike & Zack have had a few very busy weeks and catch up in this episode. Zack's Kickstarter is over (thank god)! Mike has a new comic coming out soon! That guy Mike was stumping for in New Jersey lost the race!  And Zack went to Columbus, OH! A large part of the episode is dedicated to a Columbus scene report of sorts, as it's quietly becoming one of the great American cartooning cities! What's up with the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum? Is it rea...

Episode 78 - Dustin Weaver!

May 21, 2018 11:29 - 1 hour - 29.3 MB

Please welcome Dustin Weaver to the party floor! Dustin is the co-creator of the recent S.H.I.E.L.D. series with writer Jonathan Hickman, and writer/artist on multiple other Marvel comics, as well as some stints on TMNT & Star Wars properties. We definitely talk about all of that stuff, and do a deep dive on his time at Marvel in particular. Mike & Zack have a lot of questions about how the sausage gets made! But the main reason we're here is to talk about his recent one-man anthology at Imag...

Episode 77 - A. Degen!

May 09, 2018 14:52 - 51 minutes - 20.7 MB

The one and only Twitter Funny Man Alex Degen has joined us on the party floor! Perhaps you didn't know that in addition to being  funny on the internet, he's also a wicked awesome cartoonist with multiple ineffable books and mini comics out there in the world? The author of Area CC, Mighty Star, and his new book Soft X-Ray/Mindhunters talks to us about all kinds of stuff, from his time as a youthful layabout, formative schooling and world travels, connections to the Magic Schoolbus empire, a...

Episode 76 - Michael Kupperman!

May 01, 2018 10:17 - 56 minutes - 22.8 MB

Welcome the creator of Snake N’ Bacon’s Cartoon Cabaret, Tales Designed to Thrizzle, Mark Twain’s Autobiography, & his new memoir All The Answers–Michael Kupperman! Joel Kupperman was an early child star who met wild fame early in life as a “Quiz Kid,” but that fame haunted him much of his life. Michael tells all about his new book, and about growing up with a formerly famous dad. What was it like moving into memoir from absurdist humor strips? And of course plenty of process talk about the m...

Episode 75 - Josh Simmons!

April 24, 2018 14:16 - 55 minutes - 22.2 MB

Cartoonist Josh Simmons (author of Jessica Farm, House, Black River, The Furry Trap, and his new collection of short stories and collaborations Flayed Corpse) is one of our favorite creators of modern horror comics fiction. He stopped by the party floor to discuss things that make us uneasy, societal collapse, personal boundaries, and reassessing older work through the viewpoint of the person you are now. He's been spending a lot of time working with other cartoonists, as collected in Flayed ...

Episode 74 - Keren Katz!

April 17, 2018 14:21 - 55 minutes - 22.2 MB

This week we return with a great chat with Israeli cartoonist Keren Katz! Keren has had (and continues to have) a very interesting life and pathway to comics. Her first book The Academic Hour was recently published by Secret Acres. Learn about her early days as a dancer, obsession with flying, being an eternal student, art school days, to her current jet setting life as a cartoonist & performer. Who are: The Katz Sisters?! What is her connection to a deceased/never living metafictional Israel...

Ready Process One

April 11, 2018 11:23 - 45 minutes - 18.1 MB

Woo hoo! The Party Boys are back with another full-on jibba-jabba episode. First up: what's the deal with the Patreon? Well, we take just a minute or two to lay out the new status quo there, but it's only a short jump from there to talkin' 'bout trains (real and otherwise), making fun of Ready Player One (spoiler warnings, sort of), nerd culture, Zack is super close to being done inking his book, the two talk about what that feels like, kickstarter nerves, the New Jersey congressional race, o...

Episode 72 - Sloane Leong!

April 03, 2018 22:46 - 55 minutes - 22.4 MB

Please welcome creator of the new Image series Prism Stalker and the upcoming :01 book A Map To The Sun, Sloane Leong! Sloane and the boys discuss Prism Stalker at length and in depth. Sci-Fi, colonialism, gender representation, comics creation  workflow, writing and drawing process talk, this one has it all! Plus: Changes are afoot at the Patreon, Mike is continuously getting surprised by his kid's school schedules, and Zack reads a pertinent passage from Tips From Top Cartoonists (1982, Don...

Episode 71 - Box Brown!

March 19, 2018 17:34 - 59 minutes - 24 MB

Please welcome Box Brown, founder of Retrofit Comics and the author of Is This Guy For Real: The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman, Tetris: The Games People Play, Andre The Giant: Life & Legend, & many many more! We talk andy Kaufman, fiction vs biography, childhood heroes, and lots and lots of wrestling talk! Plus: Mike took sleepy pills before they recorded! Cry for help or just bad idea? And: Zack talks reducing clutter, and his own personal JLA.

Episode 70 - ECCC EXTRAVAGANZA

March 14, 2018 22:13 - 59 minutes - 136 MB

We're back (again)! Mike went to Hawaii, got crazy jetlag, and Zack went to Emerald City Comicon, and got con-lag. But now we're more or less back to normal. First up, the boys talk about their various adventures and generally knock the rust and dust off their talking machines. ECCC turned out to be a bit of a roller coaster, and Mike may not have wanted to come back from his island paradise, but here we are, none the worse for wear. Happily, we also return with ECCC interviews with Doc Shane...

Episode 69 - Lauren Weinstein!

February 26, 2018 20:48 - 55 minutes - 22.1 MB

Please welcome very normel person Lauren Weinstein to the party floor! That's Normel Person, the incisive, hilarious, and often haunting weekly strip that's been running in The Village Voice, not a horrible typo. Lauren is also the author of Goddess of War, Girl Stories, & Inside Vineyland. We talk about transforming our modern existential malaise into art, parenting tips, and more! Plus: Mike & Zack are very very tired. 

Episode 68 - Listener Questions!

February 20, 2018 19:08 - 50 minutes - 20.3 MB

Never let it be said that the Party Boys aren't giving back to our faithful Party Animals- you had questions you needed answered, and we did our best! This episode, we opened up the mailbag and answered a plethora of listener queries. Embarrassing things we grew out of, Moving on, Circling back, Favorite fictional Zack & Mikes, Thumbnailing theory, Dream collaborators, has Mike ever seen an Anime, the difference between manga & comics, and much much more! This one is for fans of questions pos...

Episode 67 - Michel Fiffe!

February 12, 2018 22:53 - 1 hour - 25.9 MB

This episode we welcome COPRA mastermind Michel Fiffe! His self-published comic quickly caught the indy-comics world on fire, capturing the minds of the Wednesday Warriors who mainline superhero comics, as well as the artcomix wonks, panel flow fiends and mark-making fetishists from the "other" side of the tracks. Bergen Street Comics stepped in to produce the collections and get the word out past the limited reach of the issues, and the rest is history. Michel's currently working in full on ...

Episode 66 - The Ink Panthers LIVE!

February 07, 2018 09:32 - 49 minutes - 19.7 MB

That's right-It's a blast from the past when Mike's old podcast, Ink Panthers gets together to yuk it up live on stage at DiNK Denver! Alex Robinson & the Desert Panther Tony Consiglio join Mike to talk comics and other stuff in the far off world of Denver CO, 2014! Plus, in the modern world, learn about Mike's exciting trip to Scotland (hint: HAGGIS!)

Episode 65 - Whit Taylor!

January 29, 2018 23:12 - 1 hour - 26.4 MB

We welcome cartoonist, public health educator, and Comics For Choice Co-Editor Whit Taylor to the party floor! We get into the themes of her new collection Ghost Stories right off the bat, talking about trauma, comics as therapy, and switching up your approach between stories. Whit delves in to the Chicago scene, what it's like to work (& pitch) for the New Yorker, the sustainability of comics fest culture, and more! PLUS: Mike has Cintiq troubles: He forgot how to draw on paper! And Zack sta...

Episode 64 - Jason T Miles!

January 23, 2018 00:36 - 53 minutes - 122 MB

This week on Process Party, we talk to Profanity Hill impresario, Fantagraphics Editor, and cartoonist Jason T. Miles! Jason joined Zack a couple weeks ago to talk about Zanardi for our Best of 2017 episode, and they ended up having a long ramblin' conversation before they even got to talk about that book. So here we have their chat, which dives fairly deep into the inspirations and themes of his new series EIGHTY-SIX. Topics covered include Masculinity (Toxic or otherwise), Sobriety, COPRA, ...

Episode 63 - Best Comics of 2017!

January 15, 2018 08:51 - 3 hours - 72.5 MB

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, T...

Episode 62.5 - Real Talk&After Party sampler!

January 11, 2018 10:46 - 39 minutes - 15.8 MB

Our holiday is taking a bit longer than we expected, so you get a small taste of what our Patreon subscribers get every week: this special bonus episode contains a Jesse Moynihan Real Talk and a recent AfterParty where we talked Netflix's Punisher show & how Mike ruined a cookie baking show by making the kids watch Spider-Man, plus: family moments with the Sonos (surprisingly not branded content)

Episode 62 - (Our) year in review!

December 19, 2017 00:30 - 1 hour - 25.9 MB

2017, what a year! What a horrible, beautiful year. Mike & Zack take a look back at the year in review on a personal and professional level (ie we don't spend a ton of time griping about Trump). We look back at our goals and expectations for the year, assess how we met or didn't meet those goals, do a final page count for the year, talk about our strategies and how we might change the way we work in the future. What does 2018 hold for your humble hosts? Plus: who's inspired us in 2017? Zack d...

Episode 61 - Jeffrey Brown!

December 11, 2017 11:26 - 1 hour - 27.3 MB

From stories about boners, loneliness and bad sex to kids comics and the Star Wars universe - That's one heck of a career trajectory! We get into it with Jeffrey Brown, author of Clumsy, Unlikely, Darth Vader & Son/Vader's Little Princess/Goodnight Darth Vader, the Jedi Academy series, and his new series for kids Lucy & Andy Neanderthal (among many many more)!  PLUS: Zack & Mike talk about the recent problems with Patreon's fairly random fee restructuring, what that means for creators, and wh...

Episode 60 - Comics Journalism Roundtable

December 05, 2017 09:57 - 59 minutes - 23.8 MB

Recorded live at the PULP Culture Comics Arts Festival & Symposium on October 21st in Burlington Vermont, this Comics Journalism roundtable brings Joe Sacco, Sophie Yanow, Iona Fox and the Party Boy himself, Mike Dawson to the stage to talk about their work specifically through the lens of journalism. Moderated by Andy Kolovos, and featuring James Kochalka and Glynnis Fawkes, this was a fun conversational chat, that was very illuminating. Thankyou to the organizers of the PULP festival for br...

Episode 59 - Sarah Glidden!

November 27, 2017 11:08 - 1 hour - 29.8 MB

Sarah Glidden is the author of How To Understand Israel in 60 Days Or Less, multiple short form comics, and her newest book Rolling Blackouts. Rolling Blackouts is about Sarah's travels through Syria and Iraq with a group of reporters, and what she learns about those places, the people that live in them, and the fundamental philosophies and processes of journalism. We talk about her travels, her writing and editing process, journalism vs fiction, and her larger goals as a cartoonist. But Firs...

Episode 58 -Jason Thompson & Jumana Al Hashal

November 20, 2017 17:48 - 1 hour - 32.1 MB

Jason Thompson and Jumana Al Hashal are a husband/wife cartoonist & project manager duo who have turned to collaborative game design. Their first game, Mangaka, was a pictionary-esque take on the Japanese comics industry, and their new game Cartooner looks to both skewer and explore the US version of the comics art form. We talk about the game, of course, but we also get into what it’s like to collaborate with your significant other, getting “civilians” excited to draw comics, the mechanics o...

Episode 57 - Short Run 2017!

November 13, 2017 11:13 - 1 hour - 33 MB

This week: Dispatches from the show floor at Short Run 2017! Zack attended this always excellent show and got short interviews with Fiona Avocado, Jason T Miles, Fran Lopez, Anna Vo, Kevin Uehlein, Kelly-Sue Deconnick, Patrick Keck, & Cole Johnson. A good time was had by all! If you missed Short Run, catch the vibe now by proxy.

Episode 56 - Sarah Horrocks!

November 06, 2017 11:33 - 1 hour - 28.3 MB

Sarah Horrocks returns! We last spoke to cartoonist and critic Sarah Horrocks in our "Best of 2016" episode, and she's back for a full length interview. She's got a new ongoing serial called GORO that she's releasing in print and digital formats, and we dive deep into that. Sarah goes in depth on her goals there, as well as digging into her writing and drawing process, philosophy of pacing both within a story and a page, mark making vs legibility, and staying true to the emotional content of ...

Episode 55 - Tillie Walden!

October 31, 2017 00:22 - 1 hour - 28.3 MB

This week, Tillie Walden joins us on the party floor! Tillie is the author of the books The End of Summer, I Love This Part, A City Inside, and the newly released memoir Spinning. She's also recently completed an extended webcomic narrative in On A Sunbeam. We talk fiction vs autobio, writing and drawing process, her compulsion to work, career thus far, CCS, subtweeting, trauma, memory, the cruelty of teenagers, and of course a little bit about ice skating. Mike also details his time at the P...

Episode 55 - Tillie Walden!

October 30, 2017 19:22 - 1 hour - 28.3 MB

This week, Tillie Walden joins us on the party floor! Tillie is the author of the books The End of Summer, I Love This Part, A City Inside, and the newly released memoir Spinning. She's also recently completed an extended webcomic narrative in On A Sunbeam. We talk fiction vs autobio, writing and drawing process, her compulsion to work, career thus far, CCS, subtweeting, trauma, memory, the cruelty of teenagers, and of course a little bit about ice skating. Mike also details his time at the P...

Episode 54 - Karl Stevens!

October 23, 2017 09:26 - 1 hour - 26.2 MB

Please welcome Karl Stevens, author of Failure & his upcoming book from Retrofit Comics, The Winner. We talked class war, drawing from life, sobriety, collaboration, and more. Also, Mike and Zack talk about the change of Editorial at TCJ, economics, and unions!

Episode 53.5 - Jim Rugg and Caitlin McGurk

October 16, 2017 11:56 - 1 hour - 33.6 MB

It's a special THROWBACK episode! Mike had a stomach bug that precluded us from recording this week, so we're posting an old conversation between Mike, Jim Rugg & Caitlin McGurk discussing Dan Clowes' Death Ray. It originally appeared on Mike's old podcast TCJ Talkies. A new regular episode will be up later this week, but for now enjoy this discussion about teenage friendships in the work of Dan Clowes, his use of color and full-bleed layouts, and also a photo of him Mike once saw where he's ...

Episode 53 - One Year of Process Party!

October 08, 2017 23:27 - 55 minutes - 22.1 MB

Join us for a Very Special Episode of Process Party: It's our Birthday! (aww) Mike and Zack got together and posted the first episode 1 year ago this week, and forgive us but we get a little misty thinking about it. That doesn't mean we spend the whole episode patting ourselves on the back, but we do take the opportunity to have a bit of the patented jibba jabba you know and hopefully love. We also took some questions from our listeners to spice things up this time! Topics include: Whither Sh...