#106 Managing audience expectations

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?

#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!

Read Ink Pen

#094 Web comics: Read them! Make them!

Rice BoyWe’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)!

The Noob
Holy Bibble
Rice Boy

#093 Violence in Comics: What’s acceptable? What’s necessary?

Killing PickmanTim 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)

#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!

The Washington Post article

Comics decompression

#090 Dr. Strange, and developing your comic

Dr Strange the OathBrandon 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!