VanCAF 2017 Panel – Fantastic Comics & How to Create Them

Hosted by Sloane Leong and recorded at the Vancouver Comics Art Festival – From the magically urban to the ancient and otherworldly, this panel will explore a large body of work from a diverse range of contemporary cartoonists whose stories reinterpret and interrogate this genre’s traditions. With guests Jayd Ait-Kaci, Farel Dalrymple, Evan Dahm, Sam Beck and Kel McDonald.

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Ben Sears

Kentucky cartoonist Ben Sears joined me and Brandon Graham to talk about his comics during his visit to Vancouver for Vancaf. Ben’s got a couple of books from Koyama press, the latest being Volcano Trash. His comics have a great life to them. I really enjoy how easily you get pulled into the story telling and weird worlds he creates.

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Laura Knetzger

Bug Boys cartoonist Laura Knetzger joined me to talk about her comics. Her aforementioned Bug Boys collection from Czap Books is a great thick tome of fun exploratory mini comics. She has also been doing some really stellar and thoughtful autobio comics, including Sea Urchin from Retrofit.

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Ten Years of Empowered, with Adam Warren

Originally recorded live at Seattle Emerald City Comicon, this discussion features Adam Warren, Brandon Graham, Carla Speed McNeil, Cheryl Lynn Eaton, and David Brothers. They dig deep into Adam Warren’s EMPOWERED, exploring everything from the tiniest bit of continuity to how Warren taps into the culture at large with his sexy superhero comedy.

EMPOWERED, the Graphic-Novel Series: 10 Years of “Sexy Superhero Comedy”
2017 marks the 10th anniversary of the Dark Horse Comics debut of writer/ artist Adam Warren’s graphic novel series EMPOWERED, a manga-influenced “sexy superhero comedy”—except when it isn’t!—about the trials and tribulations of a struggling young superheroine. Join Warren, moderator David Brothers, comics blogger Cheryl Lynn Eaton, and creators Brandon Graham (PROPHET) and Carla Speed McNeil (FINDER) for a discussion of the past, present and future of the perhaps surprisingly acclaimed series!

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Thi Bui

Thi Bui joined me to talk about her debut memoir book, The Best We Could Do, looking at her parents emigration from war torn Vietnam. It’s a really amazing work that succeeds in capture a rich storied history. It has a lot of strengths in Thi’s ability to tell her parents story, and to also historically contextualize it. The book feels very prescient right now in regards to current political climate and experiences, and well worth checking out.

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Roman Muradov

It’s the return of an old guest, Roman Muradov. Roman’s latest book is Jacob Bladers and the State of the Art from Uncivilized. Roman is an amazing talent in comics, creating beautiful unique works that show his continuous progression as an artist. We discuss his changing work and the directions he explores. His other recent work includes The End of a Fence from the great Kus Comics and is currently running Maurice, Son of Noah online at Hazlitt.

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Jonah Kinigstein

I sat down with artist, Jonah Kinigstein for his book from Fantagraphics, the Emperor’s New Clothes: The Tower of Babel in the “Art” World. The book is a collection of large one panel comics about his feelings around modern art through the 20th century. Jonah, now in his 90s, is still very active, working on similar work critical about Donald Trump and his space he occupies. Jonah’s work is visceral and fascinating. Jonah has been active through his life as a painter creating gorgeous oil paintings.

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Michael Deforge interviewed by Sam Marx

Cartoonist Michael DeForge and SPX organizer Sam Marx sit down to talk about Magic: The Gathering in the lead up to Michael’s tour to promote his new book Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero from Drawn & Quarterly  There’s about five minutes of comics talk in this one, but it goes deep on our own histories with the game of Magic, our favorite cards and archetypes, and our feelings on the game moving forward.

Make sure to pick up Sticks Angelica and see Michael at one of these upcoming tour dates if you can. He’ll have his decks so bring yours

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Anna Haifisch

German cartoonist Anna Haifisch joined me to chat about her work, including the Aritst which has it’s first collection published by Breakdown Press and has been serialized on Vice. Anna’s work really excites me. She has been pushing her work in interesting directions. She has a new risograph zine out from Perfectly Acceptable as well.

This interview ends a little early because my skype kept crashing and software wouldn’t record. many apologies to Anna. I think we still had a great convo.

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Wren McDonald

New York cartoonist, Wren McDonald joined me to talk about his comics and art. His latest work is a book from NoBrow called SP4RX. It’s a really fun futuristic graphic novel in a similar vein to Hackerz. His work is a lot of fun to read and introduces some great idea.

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