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Cartoonist Julia Gfrörer and horror author Gretchen Felker-Martin talk about art, sickness, love, and suffering. Come sit by the charnel pit with us and contemplate the heat-death of the universe.
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The runs is a discussion podcast about runs of comic books, hosted by Ryan Alexander-Tanner and featuring a different fascinating guest each episode.
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Welcome to The Graphic Novel Podcast on the art of the graphic novel. A little about them, Mike is the author of ten books, and produced COMX-TV, a weekly TV show on comic books for seven years. Together with his partner, Parker, they produced Northwest Brew Talk about the beer industry for two years. Join them as they delve into the life of graphic novels, their creators and their stories and find ways to tie the books to society and their own lives. Support this podcast: https://podcasters ...
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The Runs Podcast Season 2 Finale! We're closing out strong, with another deep dive into Peter Bagge's Indy comics canonical series, Hate, with Whit Taylor (Fizzle, Dead Air, The Nib), who is one of my very favorite people to dish comics with. We get into the nuts and bolts of this series, which really arrives at its fully-formed self in these issue…
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Nth Man: The Ultimate Ninja is a series that I never gave a chance as a kid, and it would have stayed that way if Zack Soto (The Secret Voice, Power Button. Study Group) hadn't chosen it for this episode. This series is an early 90's deep cut, featuring World War 3, a Stevan Seagal-esque American Ninja, and some rather overt parallels to Akira. Was…
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This episode isn't sponsored by Hot Topic, but it might as well be. Brilliant cartoonist Julia Gfrörer (Laid Waste, Black is the Color) comes by to talk about a formative run for her, Jhonon Vasquez's tremendously popular goth comic, Squee. If you don't like the episodes where I talk about how crappy I think the run is, you should probably skip thi…
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It was not my intention for this podcast to be so focused on 70's Kirby, but I can't say I mind it, either. Jason Levian, owner of Floating World Comics, sits down with me to talk about the first few issues of each of the four series that form the Fourth World, an ahead-of-it-time epic by one of comics all-time great storytellers. It exists at the …
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I met Ben Dewey (Autumnlands, Beasts of Burden, Namor, Vampirella, The Tragedy Series, etc. etc.) about 20 years ago when we worked together on a Roller Derby comic. He's been one of those guys in comics that I'm always happy to chat with when I get a chance ever since. He picked Dan Slott and Mike Allred's Silver Surfer run to discuss. Mike Allred…
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Mark Ginocchio, co-host of the Amazing Spider-Talk Podcast, comes by this week to talk about... Spider-Man. But not just any Spider-Man! This is one of the most divisive runs in Spider-Man History, as evidenced by Mark declaring that it's the run that made him a Spider-Man lifer and me dumping all over it. In a very unintuitive-for-the-internet app…
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This week's guest is comics educator Ronell Whitaker, who chose Icon as the run to discuss. Icon was the flagship title of the Milestone line, which may have been the only new comics universe worth following of all the many that launched in the early 90's. Ronell is the first guest that I'd never spoken with before recording but I found him to be v…
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This week's guest recently won the DuPont Columbia University Award for audio and visual journalism for his podcast, Mother Country Radicals, and now he's here to talk with me about The Mutant Massacre. Zayd Dohrn is an accomplishment playwright, film and tv writer, and a low key comic book nerd. This episode marks the first time that a crossover e…
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Up-and-coming comics superstar Xena Lopez comes on the show this week to talk about a series I'd never heard of, Pink by Kyoko Okazaki. We talk about manga, memoir, sex work and working at the library. Here's a link to The Runs Comics Podcast on iTunes. And here's the link to the show on Spotify. Be sure to subscribe, rate and review! And here's a …
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One of the greatest living cartoonists, Peter Bagge (Hate, Yeah!, Weirdo) comes on the show this week to talk about an early run by another one of the greatest living cartoonists, Dan Clowes. This is one of those episodes where I couldn't really believe that I got to have this conversation. Listen in to learn how one all-time-great cartoonist's wor…
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In this episode, comics hall-of-famer Diana Schutz comes by to talk about quintessential 70's Marvel series Howard the Duck. Did you have to be there at the time? Or do you at least have to be high to enjoy this run? Either way, I'm sure you'll enjoy this trip down memory lane with one of comics most important editorial voices. Here's a link to The…
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In the premier episode of Season 2, Alex Robinson (Box Office Poison, Star Wars Minute) returns to continue our deep dive into John Byrne's legendary Fantastic Four run. Does it hold up? How is it if you've never read it before. It's got Galactus in it... isn't that enough? Listen and find out! Here's a link to The Runs Comics Podcast on iTunes. An…
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Welcome to The Runs Season 2! This first episode is just a brief introduction in which Ryan checks in with you, the beloved viewer, and sets up the next 12 weekly episodes. Some great guests are on their way, along with some great runs, some decent runs, and some pretty crappy runs. Here's hoping you'll listen in each week as they are discussed! He…
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For this podcast's Season Finale, Dean Haspiel (The Red Hook, American Splendor, Cuba: My Revolution) and I discuss Jack Kirby's O.M.A.C. One Man Army Corps. A highlight of this podcast for me has been being prompted to read a bunch of DC comics that Kirby made in the 70's, and this is no exception. We discuss the finer points of the series, the te…
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Superstar comics artist Joelle Jones (Batman, Catwoman, Lady Killer) comes by this week to talk about Junji Ito's celebrated horror Manga, Uzumaki. Are spirals really scary, or just ridiculous? Or are the ridiculous parts what makes this comic so scary? Or would it all just be totally ridiculous if Junji Ito wasn't so good at drawing? Find out as w…
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This week, famous comedian Amy Miller comes on to talk about Y: The Last Man, a series that answers a question that most women ask themselves every day: how great would it be if every man suddenly died? The series also inadvertently asks: What would a world of only women look like if every woman looked exactly the same? These and other important qu…
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Susan Kirtley (college professor and head of the Comics Studies Program at Portland State University) is really fun to talk to about comics because she's an accomplished academic and also a total comics nerd. We discuss the all-time classic X-men run of The Dark Phoenix Saga, oscillating throughout between discourse about what greater meaning can b…
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When I asked comics writer Mark Russell (Exit, Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles, Fantastic Four: Life Story, Superman: Space Age) to come on the show, he immediately said that he wanted to discuss Sandman: World's End because he thought that they were some of the best comics ever made. I always thought that those issues sucked but I really re…
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This week, comics blogger and pop-culture expert Austin Gorton talks with me about a real hall-of-fame run, Chris Claremont and Paul Smith's issues of Uncanny X-Men. Austin has an encyclopedic knowledge of all things X-Men and he's got some good jokes, too. This is a real connoisseur's run, as it's often overshadowed by more "blockbuster" X-runs bu…
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One of the comics industries greatest little-known-facts is that multi-Pulitzer prize nominated political cartoonist Matt Bors is in fact a die-hard Spawn fan. Revel in his un-ironic joy at one of the best worst comics of the early 90's. Listen to two non-fictional, journalism focused cartoonists talk about how Spawn was pretty much the coolest shi…
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My first guest who isn't a comic book creator of some sort, actor/comedian/musician/all-around-performer Joshua Silverstein comes by to talk about the first dozen issues of Invincible. This episode may or may not be a painful portrayal of how a person that takes comics way too seriously talks with a person who reads comics for entertainment. Also, …
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Brilliant comics writer and sometimes illustrator Terry Blas (You Say Latino, Lifetime Passes, Dead Weight, Reptil, Ariana Grande Vs. Sargeant Shade and the Clonebot Parade) joins me this week to talk about one of the weirder series launches in Marvel history. In the 90's, writer Scott Lobdell and artist Chris Bachalo teamed up to create Generation…
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Beloved Comics writer, artist and editor, Whit Taylor (Montana Diary, Comics for Choice, Fizzle, The Nib) talks with me this week about the first 5 issues of Peter Bagge's definitive 90's alt-comic series, Hate. Can a series about crappy people persevere in this current cultural climate? Find out how well it's aged, and how we'll we've aged as long…
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Erik Larsen (Savage Dragon, Amazing Spider-Man, Image Comics co-founder) is my guest this week as we talk about the first six issues of Jack Kirby's brilliant, weird and brilliantly weird post-Marvel series, Kamandi, The Last Boy On earth. Getting to hear a living comics legend talk about the work of a no-longer-with-us comics legend is about as go…
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Indie Comics superstar (Box Office Poison, Tricked, Our Expanding Universe) and Podcast celebrity (Star Wars Minute) Alex Robinson joins us to talk about the first 10 issues (232-241) of John Byrne's legendary run on Fantastic Four. Do they hold up? And, more importantly, how relatable is Byrne's giant woman fetish? Find out on this episode! Click …
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The Runs is a podcast in which host Ryan Alexander-Tanner discusses a run of a comic book series with a different brilliant guest each episode. Guests are often comics creators but also include comedians, academics, bloggers or any other number of fascinating people. What is a "run," you ask? It's one of those comic book terms that invites endless …
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Welcome to Graphic Novel Podcast. This episode we dive into Chartwell Manor by Glenn Head. In this book Glenn details good time at the “elite” school in the 1970s and the pain it caused everyone. Also, the Ringo Awards and more. Follow us on social media, listen on most podcast apps. Rate Us! https://ringoawards.com https://www.andersonadvocates.co…
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Episode 019: Laser-Focused Custard Pie
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In which we answer listener questions about patron saints, fictional meals, and more.
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Gretchen and Julia talk character design, ambient mermaid music, and creative discipline.
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Why cheap art (yes, again!), our favorite torture scenes, and which one of us is which Mantle brother.
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Welcome to Graphic Novel Podcast. This episode we dive into the excellent book Head Meds by Tatiana Gill. Plus Eisner Awards winners. Next month we will discuss Chartwell Manor by Glenn Head. Follow us on social media, listen on most podcast apps. Rate Us!--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/graphicnovelpodcast/messa…
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We talk about "bad" sex writing and what people are revealing about their relationship to sex when they titter at anything more outlandish than missionary. Excerpts read from The Virgin Suicides, Smilla's Sense of Snow, Lolita, and The Name of the Rose.
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Welcome to Graphic Novel Podcast. This episode we dive into Little Teeth from Czapbooks.com. Gay and polyamory and anthropomorphic gives you an idea of what this webcomic to print comic is about. Relationships and clubs and exes and roommates. Need we say more? Plus Shy Ninja, Who is Killing the Children? and Dr. Who Missy. Next episode Head Meds b…
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On the merits of indie publishing, loved ones with terrible taste, and refusing the red pill.
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On Manhunt, transmisogyny, pushing through shame, and the fallacy of "good" and "bad" ideas in making art.
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Welcome to Graphic Novel Podcast, Season 2! We made it back! Happy Pride! This week we discuss It's Your Funeral from Iron Circus Comics. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/graphicnovelpodcast/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/graphicnovelpodcast/support…
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On reassessing art, the joy of shopping, Richard Nixon, television fandom, and the infinite power of Sharon Stone.
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On Madonna, Tommy Wiseau's The Room, "bad" art, and where and how we work.
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Episode 011: A Fly in the Air Conditioner
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On gendered socialization, alien intelligences, keeping your self-loathing shit locked down, fatness on television, comparative vulnerability, and the value of weird sex writing.
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On Smaug and Gollum, the care and feeding of crocodiles injured by boat collisions, rich people's bad taste, and the non-existent difference between porn and art.
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On Dracula, mid-century firefighting, love stories, how we experience attraction, and friendship.
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On Messalina's sex life, Ray Bradbury, clitoral erections, and the nature of delicacy.
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On ghosts, I, Claudius, genocide, THEM, going to Hell, and where Dr. Doom got his degree.
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Gretchen and Julia talk about public wallowing, tit names, Jean-Luc Picard, Mortal Kombat lore, and the writing of Miss Manners.
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Listener questions, the art of bullshitting confidence, and the delicate eroticism of wrapping a skinless woman in bandages.
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Gretchen and Julia talk about David Lynch's use of disembodied voices, the historical and cultural importance of voice and breath, and a bunch of other smart-sounding shit.
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We answer listener questions.
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In which we discuss the pros and cons of human sacrifice, The Wicker Man, the desire to impart meaning to meaningless suffering, the reasons humans self-harm, and Gretchen cries a little bit if you listen close. (Julia's sound gets fucked up at the end of this one. We deeply regret the error but will be doing nothing to correct it.)…
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Episode 001: The Winter of Our Discontent
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"Art" and "content" have become interchangeable concepts not just in the corporate world, but among artists themselves. How did the term become so ubiquitous, where did its modern usage originate, and does it matter which word you use? Lucky for you, the smartest bitches on the block are here to pick it apart for you.…
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Parker and Mike review two books by Julia Gfrorer, Laid Waste and Vision, both from Fantagraphics. Plus, award winners and best of 2020 choices from others. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/graphicnovelpodcast/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/graphicnovelpodcast/support…
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