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Frank Thorne & The Son of Tomahawk
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - January 29, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsIt's that time again: back issue time, when the boys go digging into the boxes of old. This time, it's to take a look at a comic that Matt Seneca has been making a case for as of late: the last ten issues of DC's Tomahawk, drawn by Frank Thorne. We're all in on this one, even when things get con...
The Richard Corben Cast
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - January 13, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThis week, we're spotlighting the late Richard Corben, the great Richard Corben. We don't all walk in with the same take, but by the close, we reach the kind of war torn climax a Corben character often finds: a grudging, earned moment of quiet spent looking across a blasted landscape. Except her...
The Best Comics Of 2020
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - January 09, 2021 03:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsHappy New Year, you dirty scumbags, you shiny bottleneckers, you comic book naildrivers: it's time to look back at the comics that came out in the last year where you might have been able to keep from getting your hands dirty. We've got ten comics to yank our entrails about, and the whole gang i...
Guy Davis Gets Strange, Rachel Pollack Tells Time, The Spectre Kills Everything
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - December 17, 2020 18:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsJoe McCulloch, Chris Mautner, Matt Seneca and Tucker Stone get together to take a look at Vertigo Visions: Phantom Stranger, Rachel Pollack and Chris Weston's Time Breakers and the legal problem-causing Spectre comics by Jim Aparo and Michael Fleisher.
Michel Rabagliati and Paul's Extended Universe
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - December 10, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThis week, we're down a man and the sass is upped: Tucker, Joe & Chris are talking about the latest Michel Rabgliati book, Paul At Home, then they're talking Keum Suk Gendry-Kim's Grass, and a brief tour of M.S. Harkness' Desperate Pleasures is made as well. You can take a look at a lot of th...
The Origins Of Comics Criticism
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - December 03, 2020 01:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsOn this special background and feelings episode, we get Joe to open up even more than he already did in a 10,000 word interview, specifically about the conclusion of one of his major works of comics criticism, "This Week In Comics", then we discuss the merits and debits of comics advocacy as a g...
Pierrot Alterations and William Softkey & The Purple Spider
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - November 11, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThis week, the boys are taking a look at CF's latest works with Anthology Editions...but talking new CF means talking old CF, and talking old CF means talking legacy, impact, the whole deal. Then things take a turn...for the randy!
A Vision Of Maids
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - October 21, 2020 22:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThis week, the boys are looking at the latest from some lifers: Katie Skelly's Maids and Julia Gfrorer's Vision. Do things get heated? Yes. But do they get heated because of those two comics? No! They get heated because Joe won't stop talking about the dingdang Three Jokers!
Crisis On Infinite Earths (recorded live at SPX 2020)
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - October 06, 2020 20:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsOn this week's episode, we take a look at DC Comics in the 80s, specifically, the Marv Wolfman & George Perez series Crisis On Infinite Earths. Everybody is here: The Psycho Pirate (Matt Seneca), The Anti-Monitor (Joe Mcculloch), Arion, Lord of Atlantis (Chris Mautner) and Tucker, who dresses up...
It's Boston Corbett Time!
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - September 23, 2020 14:12 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThis week, Joe, Tucker & Chris are talking about Boston Corbett, the massive new comic that comes in a cube by Andy Douglas Day. It's a beast of a read, but well worth the box that Sonatina put it in...even if that box is as heavy as a child's bowling ball!
Comics By Frédéric Coché & Tom Scioli Featuring Main Characters Who Are Short
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - September 03, 2020 20:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThis week, the boys are going back to the shelf to take a look at The Hero's Life and Death Triumphant, but they're also checking in with the new Jack Kirby biography from Kirby expert extraordinaire Tom Scioli. It's a bunch of talking about these things!
PEOW Goes Cyberpunk, Chris Goes Perramus-ing
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - August 21, 2020 00:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThis week, the boys are taking a look at Ex.Mag #1, published by PEOW--an anthology of cyberpunk comics by a laundry list of creators, while Chris and Matt are breaking down their innermost on Perramus, the latest hardcover of Alberto Breccia comics put out by Fantagraphics.
The Sky Is Blue With A Single Cloud
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - August 10, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThis week, we're talking about the work of Kuniko Tsurita, recently collected and brought to English by Ryan Holmberg, Mitsuhiro Asakawa and Drawn & Quarterly.
Olivier Schrauwen's Cable by Yeon-sik Hong
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - August 03, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsIt's round-up time! Tucker's reading the Ladronn Cable, Chris is reading Umma's Table, Matt is reading Olivier Schrauwen's Sunday and Joe's reading Magician A by Natsuko Ishitsuyo. Is there a connective thread between this variety of works? Hell yes there is!
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - July 27, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThis week, the spotlight falls upon Adrian Tomine. How will this widely acclaimed new memoir land for the boys of the Burning in Hell crew? There's only one way to find out, trusted listener: by asking someone else who listened to the episode to tell you. Proceed with caution!
Jack Kirby's 2001
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - July 13, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThis week, the full crew is here with a look back at Jack Kirby's 2001 comics, published by Marvel in the 1970s. Get ready to hear about the history of violence in human development, the most incisive and contemporary criticism of fandom and consumption you can find (written by Jack himself) and...
Wendy: Master of Art & The Philosophy of The Punisher
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - July 06, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsOn this episode, Matt, Tucker, Joe & Chris talk about Wendy: Master of Art, by Walter Scott. And then, because there is always time for pie, they talk about Punisher #89 and how it represents the Platonic Punisher.
Step Into Kunzle
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - June 29, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsMatt's away, but the rest of your crew is here to talk about David Kunzle's Eisner nominated Cham, Rick Veitch's self-published Maximortal franchise, and what it looks like when Garth Ennis phones it in with Jimmy's Bastards!
I Must Increase My Blutch (With Bonus Crepax Content!)
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - June 18, 2020 15:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThis week, Chris, Joe, Matt & Tucker are talking about Blutch's Mitchum and some favorite tales from Crepax!
Diamond & DC: The Break Up Episode
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - June 09, 2020 16:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThis week, Joe, Tucker, Matt & Chris talk about the decision by DC Comics to sever their relationship with Diamond, their primary distributor. In a surprising twist, this ends up being the entire topic of the episode!
Katie Skelly Presents: Go Nagai's Cutie Honey!
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - June 01, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsKatie Skelly, cartoonist and host of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, welcomes special guest Joe McCulloch, Tucker Stone, Matt Seneca & Chris Mautner to talk about Go Nagai's Cutie Honey in all its perverse and gonzo glory. You can't call it a potboiler when the room gets as messy as this one!
Yoshiharu Tsuge: Where He Started, Where He Stopped
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - May 25, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsOn this episode, Joe, Matt, Chris & Tucker talk at great length about Yoshiharu Tsuge's comics in English--both of which just arrived, courtesy of Drawn & Quarterly and the NYRC. The Swamp and The Man With No Talent are up for discussion, and yes, these are books they have a lot of affection for.
Lala Albert & Punisher: Soviet
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - May 20, 2020 21:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThis week, Matt, Joe, Chris & Tucker are talking about Seasonal Shift, the recently published collection of Lala Albert's comics from Breakdown Press. After that, it's time for a weekly Garth Ennis update: with a discussion of the recently concluded Punisher Soviet, featuring the art of Jacen Bu...
Portrait of a Drunk
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - May 11, 2020 10:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThis week, Joe, Tucker, Matt & Chris are taking a look at the graphic novel Portrait of a Drunk, a 2020 release from Olivier Schrauwen, Jerome Mulot & Florent Ruppert, published in the US by Fantagraphics.
Fist Of The North Kindle Fire
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - April 27, 2020 02:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThis time around, the boys are talking about Chester Brown, Matt Kindt, Fist of the North Star, Moebius, Gasoline Alley, Little Orphan Annie, Little Joe, Floyd Gottfredson, Garth Ennis, Dav Pilkey and their depressing predictions for our terrifying future. It's comic books, baby!
The Best Comics Of The Decade
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - December 05, 2019 19:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsOn this episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, Tucker Stone, Joe McCulloch, Matt Seneca and Chris Mautner discuss the comics that they call "best" when they get into this last ten years.
Mike Diana: Boiled Angels
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - June 25, 2019 19:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThis week, Joe, Chris, Tucker & Matt got together to talk about Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana, a recent documentary by Frank Henenlotter. Why a movie? Because Mike Diana is the only cartoonist to ever have been convicted of obscenity in the United States. Come for the movie, stay for th...
The Best Comics of the Week
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - December 17, 2018 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsTucker, Matt, Joe & Chris got together to check in about the top of their Just Read stack, including a new comic from Kevin Huizenga, Mickey Zacchilli's Space Academy 123, and the unjustly (justly?) ignored Batman: Master of the Future. And at the end, Joe provides a deep analysis that may or ma...
The Devil Man and HIs Devil Manga
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - April 10, 2018 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsWhen Joe was 14 he thought watching anime was the next evolutionary step from reading comics. Now he and Chris are living in the future, as they discuss a bunch of Japanese cartoons they watched, all of them based on comics by the thoroughly franchised enfant terrible Go Nagai! I’m told the word...
The Best Comics of 2017
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - January 24, 2018 14:49 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsIt's January 2018--what better time to look back on 2017? On this extra long episode of the only comic book podcast, you'll find Matt Seneca, Chris Mautner, Joe "Jog" McCulloch and Tucker Stone powering down the comics that kept them going. What's on their list? You'll have to listen to find out!
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