Joe
and Sean are a couple of talented kids destined for greatness. I have been a fan of their prospective works for quite sometime, and you should be as well. Sean does the fantastic Marooned web comic, and Joe has an incredible amount of goodness to check out as well as some awesome books coming out. Sean will also be a part of Warren Ellis’s upcoming web comic project, so be sure to check him out, so you can say you saw his stuff way back when.
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This week on the inkstudly podcastarama, I was joined by Matt Loux. Matt is the author behind The great book, SideScrollers from Oni Press. Like I say on the show, I really enjoyed his book. Its a fun summer time adventure of 3 friends, there love video games, geek culture, and getting the girl.
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This week I was joined by K. Thor Jensen, author and artist of Red Eye, Black Eye, the latest book to come out by alternative comix. Its a great book about his journey across America by greyhound, I highly recomend it as one of the best books to come out so far this year. You can read a preview, here. We had a little technical difficulty for the first 15 minutes, but after that, Thor rocked the mic.
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This week, we were joined by Dennis P. Eichhorn, author of alternative comic staple Real Stuff. Dennis’s work is awesome, and extremely influential in the world of autobio comix. And the man has more great tales than you can imagine. His work is unfortunatley out of print, but Dennis still has some copies of his collection, and you can contact him at dennispeichhorn @yahoo.com. I highly recommend to check his stuff out if you haven’t. Name a comic artist that you like, and chances are, 9 times out 10 they are in the Real Stuff collection, and if they aren’t, then there is something wrong with them. You can get the collection of his Wild Man Fischer stories from topshelf.
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Today we were supposed to be doing an interview with Dan Nadel, Dan put together the Awesome collection, Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900-1969. Its a great collection of some of the best comix creators that you have never heard of.
Dan also puts together the great Comix Zine, ComicsComics As well, Dan edits the art journal, Ganzfeld. Does this guy ever slow down. Oh yeah, he also has a Grammy for work he did with Wilco, and Publishes books under the name, Picturebox inc.
Unfortunately Dan was only able to join us for the last 10 minutes. So for the rest of the show, Robert Dayton and I chatted about some of Dans work, comix, pop culture, and more.
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This week on the Inkstuds radio hour of fun, I was joined by Dave McCaig. Dave is master of comix colouring, with such awesome outputs under his belt including Ultimate Hulk vs. Wolverine, Nextwave, and thwack more. He also does the covers for the Batman Strikes comic series. His colouring jobs really stand out in the realm of comix, for his ability to expand beyond the mundane colour palate, and go beyond.
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Drippytown is a local anthology put together by Julian Lawrence and Ted Dave featuring some of Vancouver’s best and brightest. We also featuring some music by Julian, including Points Grey a project he is involved in with Dan Bejar and Robert Dayton.
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The fine folks of Fantagraphics are publishing an incredible book, called Beasts. I had the chance to discuss the book with its curatorand loving parent, Jacob Covey. As an ambitious peice of work, Beasts manages to pull together some of the finest talents from a generation of young artists. Ranging from comic artists, to painters, skateboard artists, record designers and more, Beasts is a groundbreaking tome of talent. I also got the chance to talk to Justin B. Williams, one of the artists involved in Beasts. At the time when I did the interview, he was living in Vancouver, but has since moved south of the border, to share his talents to others.
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Today, I was luckily enough to be able to have a chance to interview Ivan Brunetti. Ivan recently edited a comix anthology for Yale Press, that is one of the best collections of comix goodness. Ivan is also the mastermind of the Schizo series from Fantagraphic books, a series full of goodness. and look forward to his collection, coming out in the new year, Misery Loves Comedy. This was by far one of my fav interviews that I have done. Special thanx to Luke Meat and Colin Upton, for joining me in this unique interview.
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This week on the Studs, in a moment of lapsed judgement. I screwed up something, and had to do a show with out planning. So i decided to play some music by comic artists. Creators featured include, Wendypants and K. Thor Jensen from Music for Girls, Peter Bagge and Eric Reynolds with the Action Suits, Robert Dayton and Julian Lawrence with July Fourth Toilet, Mary Fleener with the Wigbillies, some Robert Crumb and more. Less Talk, More Rock.
Oh yeah, I even play some music by those crown commission fools.
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