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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!
Talking Comics With A Four Year Old
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - November 17, 2017 01:58 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsOn this brief episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, Joe McCulloch and Tucker Stone welcome a four year old girl named Piper on to talk about three new comic books--Captain America, Thor & Disney Princesses. Then they touch upon Comics Arts Brooklyn 2017, which Joe attended.
This Week In Comics (RIP)
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - September 05, 2017 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsOn this episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, Matt, Joe, Chris and Tucker sit down and deliver the public service of easing the world into a land where there is no new weekly column by Joe McCulloch lining up the various comics and graphic novels that will be released this coming Wednesday...
A Brief History of Hellboy
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - July 31, 2017 20:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsMike Mignola's Hellboy and related titles continue to be some of the more popular comics seeing release today. They have movies and everything. But are they any good? One podcast is ready to find out.
History According To Huizenga: Ganges 1-6
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - June 27, 2017 20:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsOn this episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, Tucker Stone, Matt Seneca, Joe McCulloch and Chris Mautner gather round to discuss the Ganges series by Kevin Huizenga, one of the most important comic book releases of the last decade. Check out The Factual Opinion for links to articles that w...
Kraven Is Gonna Eat All Those Crickets
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - May 13, 2017 10:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsOn this very special episode, Matt Seneca, Tucker Stone & Chris Mautner talk about the latest issue of Sammy Harkham's tremendous Crickets series up until Matt turns back the pages for a look at the Mike Zeck classic of old, Spider-Man: Kraven's Last Hunt!
Comic Book Criticism Begins!
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - April 18, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsIT'S THE SEASON PREMIERE OF COMIC BOOKS ARE BURNING IN HELL!! A mysterious doppelgänger of Chris Mautner terrorizes America's $10-and-under blu-ray shelves while Alan Moore aims to destroy the world... again! Will the boys solve the mystery of "Gouffre", the book that doesn't exist?! THE CONCLU...
Insufficient Direction and Pretending Is Lying
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - March 08, 2017 12:30 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsIt’s a podcast crossover as Trash Twins co-host Katie Skelly shows up to talk about Moyoco Anno’s Insufficient Direction. Then Joe and Chris talk about Dominique Goblet’s Pretending Is Lying. It’s a short episode but we actually got decent audio recording equipment for once. Don’t expect that to...
Jiro Taniguchi: A Love Song
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - February 23, 2017 00:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThree boys, one toy: JIRO JIRO JIRO. I don't care about some sushi movie, for me, there is only one Jiro: His name is Taniguchi. Come and dive into a lurid pool of love for a gentle soul who knew his way around a famous gunshot. Joe, Chris and Tucker talk about their affection for one of Japan's...
The Best Comics of 2016
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - December 22, 2016 04:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThe title says it all: these are the best comics of 2016, courtesy of Matt Seneca, Chris Mautner and Joe McCulloch. Tucker is here too, but he refused to do a best of thing. Well, not completely.
Hey kid. You like comics? Then check out this comic called "White Boy"
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - December 08, 2016 15:14 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsHey there pardners. Saddle up and join us at the saloon for a rootin, tootin’ … OK, enough of that. In this episode Joe McCulloch, Matt Seneca and Chris Mautner are talking about Western comics, with a lengthy discussion of Garrett Price’s White Boy. Yee-haw. Or some such exclamation.
Cartoon Arts Brooklyn, the Joe McCulloch Way
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - November 20, 2016 01:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsEvery year, a festival takes place in Brooklyn, and every year, Joe comes out to visit Tucker and go through his rituals. This time around, Joe and Tucker are joined by Tim Hodler to recap: CAB NINTENDO OPERA MANGA TRANSIT COMICS
The Road Dogs of CXC
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - October 19, 2016 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsChris and Joe went to second annual CXC festival in Columbus, Ohio, and decided to record a podcast about their trip on the car ride home. That’s a great idea, right? In between they talk about Winsor McCay, Charles Burns, Garry Trudeau and just how cool that Billy Ireland museum is (it’s pretty...
It's Time For the New York Review of...Comics?
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - September 21, 2016 10:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThere’s a new comics publisher in town (any town, just pick one), New York Review of Comics. In this episode, Joe McCulloch and Chris Mautner examine two of their latest offerings, Peplum by Blutch and a new edition of Pushwagner’s Soft City. Merriment is had Fun fact: I hate writing blurbs.
Jeb Is A MESS
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - August 26, 2016 14:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsOn this episode, Chris, Tucker and Joe talk about what might be the worst Garth Ennis comic ever made, one that is fine, and the history of Queen Emeraldas. Get in where you fit in, young demon!
The Neon Demon
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - August 04, 2016 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsMatt Seneca and Joe McCulloch couldn't find any comics, so they went to the movies! What movie, you ask? Why THE NEON DEMON of course!
Joe and Matt get all Hensley'd About It
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - July 08, 2016 14:51 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsOn this episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, Joe McCulloch and Matt Seneca get together to talk about Tim Hensley's 2016 comic Sir Alfred, the final publication of Alvin Buenaventura's Pigeon Press. NOTE: difficulties with recording make this episode hard to hear at times, and for that we...
Tcaf! Old avatar comics! Junji Ito! The most typical-us episode yet!
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - May 27, 2016 01:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsCOMMUNITY. That's our message this week. MATT SENECA visits TCAF and reports on the scene. JOE MCCULLOCH buys a stack of 1997 Avatar Press comics and gazes across the tides of history. CHRIS MAUTNER reads a Junji Ito's Fragments of Horror and ponders the nature of art and authorship. COMMUNITY....
All We Need Is Just A Little Daniel Clowes
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - March 30, 2016 18:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsOn this episode, Joe, Tucker, Matt and Chris debate the latest graphic novel from Daniel Clowes, Patience. Recently published by Fantagraphics, it's a pretty big deal.
Barry Windsor Smith and Egon Schiele
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - March 09, 2016 15:16 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsOn this episode, Tucker, Sean, Matt and Joe take on the Seneca Challenge: Barry Windsor Smith, Roy Thomas and Conan! Subjects include: Conan: Red Nails Egon Schiele Miracleman: The Golden Age Mercury Rising, Kiefer Sutherland's career and Mark Hamill's choices
Ex-Eros? He Can Draw Those Tentacles!
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - February 25, 2016 21:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsOn this episode of the podcast, Matt, Joe and Tucker sit down to talk about the following topics! Drive by shitting on Garth Ennis collaborators Unearthing by Alan Moore Hercules, starring the Rock Axel Pressbutton from Eclipse Comics and Steve Moore Puke Force, If N Oof, Ninja, Battlestack...
New Comics? What are those?
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - January 28, 2016 15:53 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsNew Comics? You know who cares about new comics? Losers, that’s who. Which is why this week Matt, Joe and Chris pulled some old comics out of their longboxes to talk about — old, obscure comics you probably haven’t heard of before. ‘Cause you’re so uncool. I wish i was dead all the time
These Are Not The Best Comics of 2015
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - December 16, 2015 17:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsOn this special, no-Joe episode, Tucker, Matt and Chris sit down and hammer out the books that caught ahold of them in the middle of a tumultuous year. The books discussed in this episode are all deserving of some attention: The Story of My Tits, by Jennifer Hayden Band For Life, by Anya David...
THE DAY THE 80'S CAME BACK
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - December 09, 2015 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThe wrecking crew (Joseph McCulloch, Matthew Seneca and Christopher Mautner) does battle with two titans of the past, both of whom have returned to the killing floor: Alan "Revenge of the Overfiend Moore" and Frank "Does A Body Good" Miller! Don't miss this battle royale!
CAB 2015
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - November 13, 2015 05:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsOn this episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, Chris, Joe and Tucker are joined by Tim Hodler, editor of the Comics Journal, to discuss Comics Arts Brooklyn, which they all attended in some capacity.
Inside the Tent: Memories of Eros Comix
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - October 23, 2015 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsTom Spurgeon – The Narrator Chris Mautner – The Recorder Joe McCulloch – A Peeping Tom – AND FEATURING, IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE... – Various works by Wallace Wood (ex. “Cannon”, “Malice in Wonderland”, “Pipsqueak Papers”) Various works by Frank Thorne (ex. “LANN”, “The Iron ...
SPX 2015
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - September 29, 2015 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsChris Mautner, Joe McCulloch and a special guest sit down to talk about Bethesda's own SPX Festival. Matt and Tucker didn't go so they aren't here yakking about it. What books did they buy? What did they miss? What did the younger generation have to say?
Welcome Back SITH LORD
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - August 26, 2015 20:19 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsOn this episode, Joe, Chris and Tucker get together to recap the last few months of comics they have read (which is less than you would think). Alan Moore, Garth Ennis and AVATAR are all brought to the table. YES MA'AM.
Adrian Tomine and Gilbert Hernandez
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - July 30, 2015 14:50 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsIn this morsel of a pickle, Chris Mautner and Joe McCulloch sit down to gab about Blubber, the latest (greatest) release from Gilbert Hernandez and Fantagraphics Books, alongside Optic Nerve #14 by Adrian Tomine, a blistering piece of work. Two of the best single issues you'll see this year, bei...
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