Sam Henderson has been making his Magic Whistle comics for the last 20 years. The latest issue, number 13 will be out this fall by the recently revitalized Alternative Comics.
Sam has also been doing short animations of his work you can watch on youtube.
New York located painter, Mu Pan, joined me to chat about his art, history and his time spent as a member of Meat Haus.
Dash Shaw is back for his third Inkstuds visit. This time, we discuss his latest books, including New School and 3 New Stories from Fantagraphics and New Jobs from Uncivilized Books.
I have been a fan of Phil McAndrew‘s work for quite some time. I am a huge fan of what Phil does and happy to have a nice big book, Crying In Front of You Dog and Other Stories. Thanks to Phil for coming on the show after us talking about doing an interview for about 5 years!
It’s hard to believe that this is the third time that Ivan Brunetti has been on the show. I am a huge fan of Ivan’s work and always happy to have the opportunity to talk to him. His latest book is called Aesthetics: A Memoir. Near the end of the interview, we talk about an anthology put together by his current and former students anthology, called Lineworks. Check it out!
The music on this episode is by one of his former students Matt Novak.
Comics writer Steven T Seagle was on to talk about his collaboration with Teddy Kristiansen new book for First Second books, Genius. I have been a reader of Seagle’s work from my days when I worked in a comic store in my teens.
Tales Designed to Thrizzle creator, Michael Kupperman, joined me to chat about his latest work, the second volume of Tales and much more. He is also working on a book of amazing vintage magazine articles, which you can more about on his website and tumblr.
Quebecois cartoonist, Julie Delporte joined me to talk about her new book from Koyama Press, Journal. Julie also co-hosts her own radioshow about comics in Quebec!
Fantagraphics co-publisher Kim Thompson passed away yesterday. He was a major force in the comics that i enjoy, and the work that I try to cover on this show. I had the honour of being joined by Kim on the twice. The first time was with Gary Groth to talk about Fantagrapics. It was an earlier interview for me, so I apologize for my terrible awkward questions.
The second time was for a round-table on European comics between Kim and Bart Beaty. Kim was visiting his family and the phone line wasn’t the greatest. The first phone line I tried him on, had some weird interference, so we could hear another line with people speaking in Spanish. Kim being the poly-linguist that he was, was able to figure out the conversation. I lost track of just how many languages that Kim could speak.
For myself, Kim was very supportive of the studs. He was instrumental in connecting me with Lorenzo Mattotti. Kim even sent me a copy of Crackle of the Frost in French, so I could have it read for the interview. It was Kim’s personal copy that he would be translating, but hadn’t yet. After the interview he helped me on editing the transcription of the interview, since there were a lot of names that I had no idea who they were. Kim turned around the edits that same day.
The last time I saw Kim, was an amazingly awkward experience. Brandon Graham and I had gone down to Seattle for the day and went for lunch with a bunch of Fantagraphics staffers. Kim was in the office working hard on a Krazy Kat reprint. After the lunch, Brandon and I were waiting to get picked up by Moritat, who was taking his sweet time. Kim walked by on his way to the store, I introduced him to Brandon and we talked about doing critter’s roundtable at some point and Kim walked off to the store. On his way back, we were still waiting for the ride, and we all stood around in a weird silence through what seemed like the longest light to change. I will miss having Kim to go to with random questions about European comics.
My heart goes out to Kim’s family and his work family at Fantagraphics. I have attached the roundtable with Kim and Bart below for your listening pleasure.
Animator and Cartoonist, Cathy Malkasian was on to talk about her latest book, Wake Up, Percy Gloom. We also discuss her animation work and other comics published by Fantagraphics.
