Today we took a break from our continueing series of interviews and looked back over the summer at some of our favorite books. I think we all agreed that Gipi is our collective favorite cartoonist right now.
Whats your favorite book of the summer.
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Johnny Ryan
has to be the funniest creator in comix. His stuff is so offensive on all sorts of levels, that I can barely stop laughing to be able to read more. It was a fun interview, and he is a pretty interesting guy. If you haven’t read Angry Youth Comix, you should start reading it soon.
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This week on the old Inkstuds podcast, I am supplying of interviews conducted by myself at the recent Comix and Stories convention in Vancouver.
My first interview was with Ken Boesem, than man behind Barking Raven Press and creator of the Village comic strip in Vancouver’s LGBTQ newspaper, Extrawest.
Steve Lecouilliard is a local animator turned cartoonist. His new mini-comic is called Much the Miller’s Son. His art is so nice and lively, I am happy he is doing some comix, because I am getting annoyed at all these great cartoonists being sucked into animation.
Stephanie Blakey is one of my fav young cartoonists right now. She does some fun stuff that you should all be checking out.
Carrie Mckay is young lady who is very fresh and new to minicomix and frightening me with her rise in quality in such a quick time.
I have written before, about my admiration and respect for Phil Barrett’s work. If you haven’t check it out yet, there is something wrong with you.
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Hey Inkstuds friends and listeners – I am putting together another comix rock n roll show. Basically, its gonna be an hour of music by cartoonists. So my request, is that if you are a cartoonist and you do music, send me some MP3’s to inkstudsradio @ gmail.com. If people don’t send me anything, then i will play an hour of nothing but Kochalka and the Action Suits, and I think there is more than that our there. Oh yeah, no Myspace links, its a pain to record a show with.
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Farel Dalymple is one of the most interesting young creators in comix today. For the last seven years, he has been slowly putting out Pop Gun War, a fabulously subdued story of a young boy with wings and the madness that surrounds him. With his early work in the Meathaus collective, Farel has been developing a complex interwoven universe of characters that has been continuing to come into a life of its own.
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In the course of doing the Inkstuds show over the last two years, I have been able to talk to some of the most interesting, talented and important cartoonists working today. This week I am taking a side step in normal programming, and talking to one of my cultural hero’s. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge has been doing art and music for well over 30 years. From his early days in the art performance group, Coum Transmissions, to the pioneering music group, Throbbing Gristle and his expansive work with Psychic TV, Genesis has been pushing new boundaries in the way people understand music. Even if you haven’t heard of him, you have listened to someone who was influenced by his work.
With his latest incarnation given the monicker, PTV3, Genesis is revisiting his roots of the psychedelic rock of the 1960’s and created the album Hell is Invisible/Heaven is Here. Its great mix of psychedelia with a blend of acareer’s worth of variety thrown into a nice soup.
PTV3 will be touring the west coast later this month with dates in –
Seattle – August 22nd
Portland – August 23rd
San Francisco – August 24th
Los Angeles – August 25th
Phoenix – August 27th
San Diego – August 29th
They will be doing a full tour in November, and you can be sure to see at the Vancouver performance, grinning like mad. I apologize for the quality of the recording. Unfortunately, Inkstuds is recorded at a non-profit college radio, and some times our facilities can be in disrepair. Meaning that the phone recording lines was screwed up when I did this. Please listen and enjoy.
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Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end. Here is part 3 of our discussion with Kim Deitch.
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Here is part 2 of our discussion with Kim Deitch. It just keeps getting better.
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Interviewing someone like Kim Deitch, is the reason I do this show. Kim is a pioneer in the world of comix, creating an intrecat complex universe revolving around Waldo the Cat. Kim has created a sleazy world of drugs, drinks and madness that can surround artistic passions in the veil of wonderfully constructed world of early 20th century animation studios, Vaudeville and depraved carnivals. His most recent books are Shadowland from Fantagraphics and Blvd of Broken Dreams and Alias that cat, both from Pantheon. Here is a great Deitch cartoon that ties in quite nicely to the show and his work.
I was joined by local media hound, Robert Dayton, for an indepth retrospective of the works of Kim Deitch. After I mixed in some songs, the interview comes in at an awe inspiring 3 hours. This is an interview that all cartoonists and comix enjoying people should listen to, just to get a glimpse into the mind of one of the genre’s masters.
So without further babling, here is part 1
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Jim Blanchard is an awesome artist that has been doing some great stuff for Fantagraphics. His latest book is called Beasts and Priests is a collection of his portrait work that is sure to please the most discriminating eye. Jim has also been active in the comix world with his comic, Trucker Fags in Denial and inking some comic called Hate.
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