How can an artist, in any medium, manage the audience’s expectations, so that they enjoy change and evolution, rather than rejecting it as different from what they have come to expect?
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#100 Phil Dunlap and “Ink Pen”
100th episode special! Tim interviews Phil Dunlap, creator of the syndicated comic strip Ink Pen! How did he get into syndication? What’s his advice for others who would like to do the same? Listen for the answers!
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#094 Web comics: Read them! Make them!
We’ve been reading a few Web comics and discuss our favorites. Also: Tim’s dormant one, and Mulele’s planned one. And how about sending us yours for review? We’ll be nice (mostly)!
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#093 Violence in Comics: What’s acceptable? What’s necessary?
Tim and Mulele discuss violence — in Weird Crime Theater, in Thunderbolts, and in two books from Archaia Studios Press: “Awakening” and “Killing Pickman”!
Ben Templesmith’s Wormwood (referred to by Mulele)
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#092 The 9/11 comic and media coverage of comics
An article on the 9/11 Commission Report comic book gets Mulele and Tim talking about media portrayals of comics, and comics terminology. Also, the decompression of comics, an evaluation of John Byrne, and The Walking Dead!
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#090 Dr. Strange, and developing your comic
Brandon and Tim begin a two-part Skype discussion, starting with Dr. Strange: the Oath! Also, Brandon reads from a 1959 Charles Schulz essay on developing a comic and asks Tim about how he developed Spider-Hag!
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#087 Making the Leap to a Full-time Art Career
Tim, Mulele, and Patrick interview Patrik Washburn, who has just completed his successful first gallery show in Tokyo.
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#084 Zuda
Follow-up on Web comics: DC has announced Zudacomics.com. The details given answer some of our questions, and bring up new ones.
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#078 Collaborations vs. Drawing and Writing Your Own Comic
Collaborating on a comic: What are the pros and cons? Would you rather do the whole thing yourself? Mulele’s done both, and tells Tim how it’s gone for him. Plus, a little discussion of Watchmen (very little)!
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#072 Scott McCloud’s “Four Tribes”
OK, we lied! Making Comics again serves as a catalyst for discussion, specifically McCloud’s idea of four “tribes” of comics creators .
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