Inkstuds Radio

Nate Powell joined me to discuss his two books,  Swallow Me Whole and Sounds of Your Name. Swallow Me Whole has found itself at the top of many critics list for 2008 and I can see why, it is a really great book.

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I hope to see you all there. I will have an interview posted later this week.

This has to be one of my favorite interviews i have done in awhile. Ted Stearn started doing Fuzz and Pluck in one of my favorite comic series, Rubber Blankets, on the insistence and support of Dave Mazzucchelli. Fuzz and Pluck in Splitzville is his latest collection, which nicely follows  the cartooning traditions Gary Panter and Terrytoons. This show also features a bonus of 15 minutes of me chatting with cohost Don King about what he has been enjoying.

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Since I got the new site up, I have been spending countless hours trying to clean up some of the past shows and do a little maintenance work.

Most of the shows on the site should be at 128kbps, some are less, but most are at that standard. As well. I FINALLY fixed all of the ID3 tags on the files. I am the first to admit that sometimes I get really lazy about the small stuff. and as the show progressed, it became more and more daunting to look at fixing things up. There are nearly 200 shows up for you listening pleasure, and I hope you enjoy. Please take the time to check out the back catalogue. All the shows are linked on the side, for easy reference for finding an artist that you are interested in that may have been on in the past.

As a bonus, here is one of the earliest shows we did. This is from the first couple of months when I had no idea of what to do with the Inkstuds. Colin and I were not really focused and just kind of fell back on talking about certain creators we liked. For some people thats fine to alot of, but I really didnt get much out of it, and after I talked to Mary Fleener live on air, I knew I wanted to do interviews.

Colin and I yaked for an hour about the work of Jiru Taniguchi. For the most part, it was a good talk, but if you listen carefully, you can hear the point where I have nothing left to say and too much time on my hands.

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Pohadky has to be one of the nicest looking books that Drawn and Quarterly has put out in their Petit Livres series. I got the chance to sit down the duo behind the book Marek Colek and Pat Shewchuk aka Tin Can Forest and discuss their work in great detail.

Don’t forget that they will be in town, March 20th, at Lucky’s comics for a book launch and art show.

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Lucas Soi is a local Vancouver artist putting together a great series of illustrations exploring images of sex violence. I recommend checking out his book from Medium Rare, it has some awesome filthy goodness.

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Hey Guys, you better all come to this. I had the chance to interview them earlier this week and it was awesome.

Chris Wright has a really interesting unique vision in comix that I think is just freakin’ awesome. He creates this awesome Victorian world of odd obscure creatures. Check out his book Inkweed from my good friends at Sparkplug Comics

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