Inkstuds Radio

South African Dungeon Quest cartoonist, Joe Daly joined me to chat about is on going comic series and more.

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I was invited to give a talk at the Vancouver Art Gallery as a part of the comics related  programming for the Art Spiegelman Co-Mix show. Instead of just having me blather for an hour about comics, I thought it would be more interesting to do a panel with some creators I really liked. I asked Jen Vaughn and Emily Carroll to join and then had quite a hard time, but was eventually able to get Brandon Graham to make a rare public appearance with me. Thanks to all 3 of them for such thoughtful comments on their work and others. Below is a gallery of their own work that we discuss during the talk. The gallery did film it and the video will be posted online at some point soon hopefully. Thanks to Allison Collins and Bruce Grenville from the gallery for asking me.

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Cartoonist Miriam Katin joined me to discuss her fantastic new book, Letting It Go. This book is a real heart felt delight. Well worth checking out. I also really enjoyed her previous long-form work, We Are On Our Own.

Miriam will be appearing in Ottawa for the Writers Festival there April 26th and then  ate the Blue Metropolis Montreal Literary Festival in Montreal on April 28th.

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Portland cartoonist, Sam Alden, joined me to talk about his ongoing comic series, Eighth Grade and Haunter(featured on the excellent Study Group Comics website). Sam is a relatively young creator who is already make some fantastic work that shows a lot of heart and creativity.

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Bald Eagles returns to the inkstuds to chat about his new comic from Drippy bone book, Bitter Sweet Romance. It’s an amazing, hyper violent trip into some horrible reality.

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I have been a fan and reader of Patrick McEown’s work for most of the time I have read comics. From his humble early days on Grendel War Child to working on variety of short stories for Vertigo, Dark Horse and Fantagraphics. His groundbreaking short story No Escape, published in the Dave Cooper series, Weasel, is a high point in comics making.

His latest work, Hair Shirt, is just as excellent. I was very excited to talk to Patrick about his comics, and as you can tell, we cover a lot of material. Some accompanying things to check out include these blog posts from Self Made Hero that he wrote up when the book was first released to the UK market. They are very illuminating in regards to his work and process.

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Lucy Knisley’s latest book is Relish from First Second Books. Lucy is an amazing talented and prolific creator with an amazing amount of excellent comics and never seems to slowdown in her output.

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DNA Failure creators and brothers, Leon and Stefan Sadler joined me to talk about their collection from PictureBox and their Famicon publishing project.

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