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91 Creator Chat with Josh Santospirito
ALIA Graphic Podcast - July 10, 2024 07:44 - 53 minutesIn this creator chat we host Josh Santospirito, a multimedia artist, musician and comics creator. His previous two graphic novels are The Long Weekend in Alice Springs and Swallows. He has just recently published a beautiful graphic novel The Islands Where We Left Our Ancestors, published by Scr...
90 June Roundup
ALIA Graphic Podcast - June 30, 2024 02:12 - 20 minutesIn this month's roundup Rebecca and Marissa discuss Pride Month graphic novel lists, essential manga, their favourite picks from this month's new lot of graphic novels (which include a few titles by Australian creators) and their favourite recent reads. For the full roundup with all the news an...
89 May Roundup: I'll add that to the list
ALIA Graphic Podcast - June 01, 2024 05:22 - 32 minutesIn this month's roundup Gabby and James discuss: Their recent reads James presenting at ALIA National Recent comic cons at libraries (Comic Gong, Dandy Con, King Con) More on recent attempts at bans in Australia Maia Kobabe and Sarah Peitzmeier's new graphic novel: Breathe: Journeys to Heal...
88 April Roundup
ALIA Graphic Podcast - April 29, 2024 22:00 - 37 minutesIn today's episode Iurgi and Mia discuss: their recent reads (Maus, Lumberjanes, Fence Vol 6: Redemption, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin) an update on Australian comics the challenges of long manga series comics sales data from the U.S. that is mind blowing - for example, 49% ...
87 Creator Chat with Paul McLaughlin
ALIA Graphic Podcast - April 15, 2024 22:00 - 33 minutesThis month Rebecca sits down to chat with Paul McLaughlin, the creator and writer of Lil Viking Space Rangers. Chapter 2 is out now with art by Trudi Monteath and Sarah Rackemann. Chapter 1 and 3 have art from Liana Wright. The discussion covers this delightful and humorous comics for kids, th...
86 March Roundup
ALIA Graphic Podcast - March 27, 2024 21:00 - 20 minutesIn this roundup episode Jade and Rebecca sit discuss their recent reads, they pick their favourite newly released graphic novels and the latest news and resources, including: collection management and weeding of superhero comics, U.S. publishers ramping up releases of middle grade manga and lots...
85 Creator Chat with Queenie Chan
ALIA Graphic Podcast - March 24, 2024 21:00 - 1 hourIn our latest creator chat, Marissa sits downs with Queenie Chan, a Sydney based comics creator working in manga style. She has published three volumes of The Fabled Kingdom, which is a mix of prose and manga, the Women Who Were Kings series of manga and now she's republishing an expanded and up...
84 February Roundup
ALIA Graphic Podcast - March 03, 2024 00:45 - 25 minutesIn this month's roundup Gabby and Marissa discuss their recent reads. They also discuss Webtoons, Lore Olympus and the new Inklore imprint, and some other news like the recent article from The Guardian discussing comics, graphic novels and manga in France. They also discuss their favourite pick...
83 Creator Chat with Tim McEwen of Greener Pastures
ALIA Graphic Podcast - February 27, 2024 20:34 - 1 hourIn this creator chat we talk to Tim McEwen, co-creator of Greener Pastures. He's been making comics since the 80s and Greener Pastures is making a comeback that will, finally, include trade paperbacks and a graphic novel. Tim and Iurgi discuss Australian comics, the Comic Arts Awards of Austra...
82 Creator Chat with Chris Gooch
ALIA Graphic Podcast - February 12, 2024 00:43 - 46 minutesIn this creator chat we talk to Chris Gooch who’s recently published his third graphic novel with Top Shelf: In Utero. A young adult monster story with some horror thrown in for good measure. We talk about Chris' comics making process, which he often shares on social media too. His advice for...
81 January Roundup
ALIA Graphic Podcast - January 29, 2024 21:06 - 40 minutesIn this month's roundup James and Iurgi comment on their recent reads and several best graphic novels of 2023 lists published by different sources such as No Flying No Tights, Popverse and The Guardian. They comment on the recent announcement of Angourleme's Grand Prix award winner. They also di...
80 Our Favourite Reads This Year
ALIA Graphic Podcast - December 13, 2023 21:00 - 18 minutesIn our final podcast for 2023, Iurgi, Marissa and Rebecca get together to discuss their favourite reads this year. It's a mix of ongoing series, new series and old publications that we have revisited. Our favourite reads this year are: Iurgi Eventually Everything Connects by Sarah Firth Night...
79 ALIA Graphic Webinar: Let's Get Practical
ALIA Graphic Podcast - November 20, 2023 21:39 - 1 hourThis is a recording of the webinar held November 16 2023. We get many questions emailed to us by librarians and library staff across the country about the different factions of the graphic novel and comic world. So we thought that this year we would spend the time hearing from you and providing...
78 October Roundup
ALIA Graphic Podcast - October 29, 2023 21:38 - 40 minutesIn this episode Iurgi and Gabby discuss: the Harvey Awards announced at the New York Comic Con the little we know about Raina Telgemeier's upcoming graphic novel a really interesting survey carried out by the School Library Journal in the U.S. with really interesting data the Library Journa...
77 Creator Chat with Sarah Firth and Eventually Everything Connects
ALIA Graphic Podcast - October 09, 2023 21:00 - 1 hourSarah Firth is a cartoonist, artist, writer, speaker, and graphic recorder who has been published extensively in Australia and overseas. Her work has appeared in the Eisner Award winning anthology, Drawing Power, and the Ledger Award winning anthology, Neither Here Nor Hair. She is also a foundi...
76 Creator Chat with Mat Groom of Inferno Girl Red
ALIA Graphic Podcast - September 13, 2023 22:13 - 1 hourIn this month's creator chat we catch up with Sydney based writer Mat Groom, one of the creators of Inferno Girl Red. Volume 1 was an incredibly successful Kickstarter and then it was published by Image Comics, earlier this year. The team is now on campaign mode for volume 2 on Kickstarter: ht...
75 August Roundup
ALIA Graphic Podcast - August 28, 2023 22:00 - 40 minutesIn this episode Marissa and Iurgi cover a lot of ground. They discuss the comic they've been reading recently, the Comic Arts Awards of Australia and their favourite picks of the new titles published recently, including four new Australian graphic novels we're really excited about. For more new...
74 Creator Chat with Georgina and Owen of Papecuts Comics Festival
ALIA Graphic Podcast - August 22, 2023 01:50 - 1 hourPapercuts Comics Festival is a biennial comics festival held biennially in Adelaide, it is being run for the third time this September but the festival directors, Georgina Chadderton and Owen Heitmann, still found time to sit down with James for a Creator Chat to explain why they run the festiva...
73 Creator Chat with Jason Pamment and Remy Lai
ALIA Graphic Podcast - August 09, 2023 02:00 - 53 minutesIn this creator chat we catch up with two of the most amazing creators for young readers. Both Jason Pamment and Remy Lai made quite a splash when they published their first graphic novels, Treasure in the Lake and Pawcasso. They were both in our Notable Australian Graphic Novels list in 2021 a...
72 July Roundup
ALIA Graphic Podcast - July 26, 2023 05:31 - 18 minutesIn this month's roundup we discuss what we've been reading lately, the best middle grade graphic novels of the year so far (according to Booklist), the Eisner Awards and our favourite picks from this month's new graphic novels. For more news and the complete roundup of resources and podcasts v...
71 June Roundup
ALIA Graphic Podcast - July 03, 2023 11:42 - 22 minutesIn this month's roundup we discuss what we've been reading lately, reading recommendations for Pride Month(including Australian titles) and our favourite picks from this month's new graphic novels. For more news and the complete roundup of resources and podcasts visit our main blog: https://al...
70 May Roundup
ALIA Graphic Podcast - May 30, 2023 01:35 - 56 minutesIn this month's roundup we discuss what we've been reading lately, the latest news (including the Eisners controversies around LGBTQIA+ graphic novels, and a practical guide to comic book collection development) and, of course, our favourite picks from this month's new graphic novels. We also...
69 James Foley and Brenton McKenna in Conversation
ALIA Graphic Podcast - May 14, 2023 01:59 - 1 hourIn our first creator chat of the year we're honoured to have James Foley and Brenton McKenna in conversation. James recently published Secret Agent Mole Book 1:Goldfishfinger(Scholastic) and Brenton McKenna recently published Hairy Holes (Magabala Books). We sat down with them after they read ...
68 Notables, news and new titles
ALIA Graphic Podcast - April 30, 2023 01:21 - 56 minutesYou may have noticed we have been a little bit quiet. We haven’t had a podcast episode since December. That’s quite a long time. The good news is that we’re back! We have a new podcast episode with Gabby and Iurgi discussing some of the news, what they’ve been reading and discussing their fav...
67 End of year wrap up
ALIA Graphic Podcast - December 14, 2022 21:01 - 37 minutesIt's the end of the year and we've gathered to discuss our favourite graphic novels of the year, including: It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood Barb the Brave by Dan Abdo and Jason Patterson Shadow of the Bird (Lightfall #2) by Tim Probert Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe ...
66 Webinar: Nurturing and inspiring reading and creativity using graphic novels and manga
ALIA Graphic Podcast - December 04, 2022 21:36 - 1 hourWe are excited to have four amazing speakers to talk about all things comics and manga. In this webinar we will focus on Junior and YA comics as well as manga and we will explore how they inspire reading and creativity. Hosted by ALIA Graphic Convenor Iurgi Urrutia, we’re pleased to announce four...
65 November Roundup
ALIA Graphic Podcast - November 26, 2022 22:18 - 43 minutesIn this month's roundup we talk about the 30th Anniversary of Power Rangers, Tommi Parrish's new graphic novel, the upcoming reprint of Queenie Chan's The Dreaming, Superman: Son of Kal El, and eComics at libraries. Borrow Box is now also offering comics through its app and Comics Plus has some ...
64 Creator Chat with Sarah W. Searle
ALIA Graphic Podcast - November 19, 2022 23:41 - 24 minutesIn this month's creator chat, Bradley from the ALIA Graphic team, catches up with Sara W. Searle. Sarah migrated from New England to Perth and has been fully embraced by the Australian comics community where she has already received three Silver Comic Arts Awards of Australia. Her latest graph...
63 October Roundup
ALIA Graphic Podcast - October 31, 2022 00:40 - 26 minutesIn this month's roundup we talk about Peach Momoko's Demon Wars, a manga that expands the Marvel Universe, mixed with Japanese folklore. We also discuss a blog post from librarian Sara Smith that gathers together all the main comic awards in the U.S. as well as YALSA's Great Graphic Novels for T...
62 Paul Metcalfe and graphic novels at TAFE libraries
ALIA Graphic Podcast - October 16, 2022 21:00 - 40 minutesFollowing his article on a recent issue of ALIA's Incite magazine, in this creator chat Paul Metcalfe, coordinator of the Albany Campus Library of South Regional TAFE in WA, joins us to discuss how he introduced graphic novels to the campus' learning resource centre. He discusses at length how...
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