Jenny Gonzalez
is a New York cartoonist making some great messed up comix. Her comic, Too Negative, can be best described as humourous look at a mix of satan and psychwards. She is also a member of the House of 12.
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Diana Schutz has been a key figure in the fine world of comix for 30 years now. From her humble beginnings bagging and tagging comix, to her work at Dark Horse, she has always maintained a passion for the sequential medium.
A collection of her Grendel story, Devil’s Child will be coming out in May, and features some great art by Tim Sale.
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Liz Baillie is representing comix DIY esthetic. Her collection, My Brain Hurts is a great trip into teen social issues. She creates some fine character filled with realistic issues on relatable terms. I highly recommend checking out her stuff, the collection is so cheap, you can’t pass it up.
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Trina Robbins has been invloved in the comics world for over 30 years, from her start as young lady reading comics, to getting involved in the San Francisco underground scene, she has always had a deep love of the medium. Trina’s passion has brought her into researching the role that Women have played in comics over the last century. She has numerous books published on Women in comics, more than I can list here. Take a listen to learn a sampling of some of the really interesting Women that have created some great work.
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MariNaomi has been putting out some of my favorite small press comix lately. Her work is a very honest exposure of her own personal sexual history, in her self published comic, Estrus. The comix aren’t porn, just really interesting look at personal relationships and drama. I really think she a super talented cartoonist and you should check out her stuff.
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Megan Kelso has been making great honest inspired comix for the last 15 years. I have been a fan of her work for many years, and am always happy to see her comix. Her latest collection is Squirrel Mother from Fantagraphics. You can also read her fabulous story, Watergate Sue that was published in the prestigious New York Times last year.
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Fran̤oise Mouly has been making comix more interesting for the last 30 years. From her start with Raw Magazine, putting out some of the smartest comix one can lay their hands on. Fran̤oise joined us today to discuss her latest endeavour, Toon Books РComix for kids. As Editorial Director, Fran̤oise has gone through a lengthy process to create a valuable educational tool in regards literacy development. Not educational, but fun. The line of books will feature such stellar artists as Art Spiegelman, Eleanor Davis, Jay Lynch and more.
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Here is my first installment of March’s focus on Women in comix. Mixed in with the regular thursday interviews, will be shorter interviews with some other Women doing great comix.
Tatiana Gill is one of the young Women in the small press that I chose to focus on. Her latest book, Pictures of You is an emotional journey entwined in the fine world of adolescent melancholy. Check out her site for more comicy goodness.
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So back in October, I solicited for requests from you, my wonderful listeners. I thought I should let you know the progress on those. Below is a list of who has been requested.
In the future if someone wants to see someone on the show, I will add it to the list. And I will mark some folks off when they happen.
I think the next couple of months will really blow people away. I am pretty happy with where the show has gone over the last couple of years, and I think that the Inkstuds are just starting to hit the mark the road can only go up from here.
Edit, names added, status changed on some.
Normal = been on already, or is scheduled to be on soon.
Bold = has been confirmed to be on, just needs to be scheduled.
Italized = Don’t think it will happen, but I would love to have them on.
Normal = I need to get off my ass and contact, or read more by them.
Joe Matt
Dave Sim
Dave McKean (CAGES)
Craig Thompson
Seth
John Hankiewicz
Frank Santoro
Dan Clowes
Chris Ware
Lynda Barry
Eleanor Davis and Drew Weing
Jim Mahfood
Dave Crosland
Chynna Clugston
Scott Chantler
Kevin Huizenga
Phil Barrett
Gabriel Frizzera
James Lloyd
Joann Sfar
Dave Cooper
Lewis Trondheim
Christophe Blain
David B.
Dupuy & Berberian
Paul Grist
Paul Pope
Paul Hornsheimer
Jordi Bernet
Bryan Lee O’Malley
Kaz Strzepek
Sammy Harkham
Phicil
Ashley Wood
Jordan Crane
Alan Moore
Warren Ellis
Grant Morrison
Doug TenNapel
Darwyn Cooke
Michel Rabagliati
Mike Allred
Charles Burns
Frank Espinosa
Publisher of Dargaud
Chris Oliveros at Drawn & Quarterly
John K
Cathy Malkasian
Joe Sayers
Nicholas Gurewitch
Nicole J. Georges
Jim Woodring
Jules Feiffer
Daniel Raeburn
Nicholas Gurewitch
David Mathews
CF
Roger Langridge
Michael Kupperman
Ben Towle
Ted Stearn
Lark Pien (sp?)
Bart Beaty
Douglas Wolk
J. Marc Schmidt
Darwyn Cooke
James Owen
Jamie Tanners
J Bradley Johnson
Jason
Jack Davis – If anyone can help connect me with him, I would owe you big time.
Graham Annable
Sergio Aragones
Ronald Searle
Josué Menjivar
Shannon Wheeler
Gary Panter
Mat Brinkman
Brian Chippendale
Like I said, this list will grow, and I promise to attempt 2 requests a month. But if I fail, sorry.
Dave joined us to discuss his latest projects, Glamourpuss and Judenhass. Both projects show Dave’s art style moving into an area of photo-realism, but thats about all the 2 projects have in common. Dave is also the man behind his selfpublished comic called Cerebus which ran for 300 issues. A massive unmet feat in comics.
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