Inkstuds Radio

UK cartoonist, Dave Taylor joined me to reflect on his comics. His most recent work is the collaboration with Chip Kidd, Batman Death By Design. Other notable works include Tongue Lash, TomTom Macoubre and his work on Judge Dredd and 2000AD. We also talk about his friendship with Moebius, an important influence on Dave as an artist. Dave is currently working on a variety of projects including a documentary and an issue Prophet. I have been a fan of Dave’s for a long time and happy to see him doing comics again.

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Portland artist, Julia Gfrörer joined me to chat about her comic, Black is the Color, serialized on Study Group and to be published by Fantagraphics. We also talk about a wide range of her other work.

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This is the second week of fundraiser programing. CiTR is trying to raise funds to fix up the stations. I came in live and did some fun shows with some friends. This week, I was joined by Brian Fukushima, Brandon Graham and Daniel Giantomaso. An hour in, i say the show is over, that is a lie. We got an extra 30 mins of studs.

Daniel is launching his Sammiches artbook Friday night at Dynamo art space at 6th and Manitoba. I will be there and I hope you will be too.

and on March 19th, Brandon will be on a panel moderated by me, joined by Emily Carroll and Jen Vaughn at the Vancouver Art Gallery as a part of their comics programming for the Spiegelman show.

Also, today was my birthday, so we had fun!

Fundraiser Birthday Styles [ 1:28:10 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Every year, the primary station that Inkstuds airs on, CiTR does a funding drive. This year, i was joined by Brian Fukushima, Brandon Graham and Robin Bougie. A good crew of local talent. I tried to discuss Robin’s new issues of Cinema Sewer and Sleazy Slice, but most of the time, we just had a lot of fun. The funding drive ends on March 7th, so expect another show like this in a week. If you would like to donate, you can do so here.

Thanks to Fantagraphics, Top Shelf Productions, Koyama Press and Rebus Books for donating comics to be given away for donations. You are fine fine people.

Funding Drive Week 1 [ 57:16 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Ellen Forney joined me to discuss her new book and first long form comic, Marbles, an autobio story about her diagnosis of being Bipolar and how she processed and dealt with that in her life.

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Quebecois cartoonist, Michel Rabagliati was able to meet up with me while he was in Vancouver. I am a huge fan of his work. His Paul series is a Canadian treasure. His latest is The Song Of Roland, published last year by Conundrum press, and will have a new book out, Paul Join’s the Scouts out in May.

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Lebanese cartoonist, Zeina Abirached joined me to talk about her first work that has been translated into English, A Game for Swallows. It’s really great read about community and childhood during the Lebanese Civil-War.

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I was joined by Tom Spurgeon, Bill Kartalopoulos and Joe McCulloch to discuss a variety of comics from 2012. This survey is not a best of, but instead works that we wanted to cover for better or worst. There is some really great work in here, and some that may not be as good. Thanks to Tom, Bill and Joe for taking the time to join me. They are all stellar thinkers on comics that I am always happy to get the chance to hear from.

Here is the reading list –

Sakuran – Moyoko Anno
Chris Schweizer‘s contribution To Team Cul De Sac
Batgirl #15 – Gail Simone and Daniel Sampere
Journalism – Joe Sacco 
Jonathan – Leslie Stein
Young Albert – Yves Chaland
Annie Sullivan – Joe Lambert
Bulletproof Coffin: Disinterred – Shaky Kane and David Hine
Heads or Tails РLilli Carr̩
Nonnonba – Shigeru Mizuki
Arsene Shrauwen – Olivier Schrauwen
Graphic Canon – ed. Russ Kick

2012 Year in Review [ 2:22:11 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Here is the conclusion of my interview with Steve Bissette. Our conversation covers a wide range of comics topics. Thanks to Steve for taking the time to chat with me. Follow Steve’s blog for more on some of the topics we discuss and his own work.

Steve Bissette Part 2 [ 1:53:28 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download