Not at all in time for Earth Day, Tim talks to three creators of environmentally-themed comics: Alex Hallatt of “Arctic Circle“; Signe Wilkinson of “Family Tree“; and Dan Wright of “Rustle the Leaf“. How do these creators avoid the pitfall of coming off as ‘preachy’? How can an artist’s creation process be made more environmentally friendly? The answers to these questions and much more!
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5/18/09 “Ghost in the Shell”: What in the hell?!
Masamune Shirow’s future tale “Ghost in the Shell” reads like someone’s private comic that wasn’t meant for public consumption. Tim, Mulele, and Kumar find that they can’t so much consume the story as gag on it uncomprehendingly… although the pictures are nice.
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04/28/08 The Four Immigrants Manga
FLASHBACK! The Four Immigrants Manga is the story of Japanese immigrants in early 20th century San Francisco. Tim and Kumar review.
The Four Immigrants Manga : A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924
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5/11/09 Bay Area forecast: STORM
STORM, the fourth (at least!) member of the San Francisco comics cooperative Writers Old Fashioned to appear on this podcast, talks about his comic Princess Witch Boy, recent West Coast conventions, LGBT comics, and why Ororo Munroe trumps Scott Summers any day of the week…
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1/28/08 Matt Silady and “The Homeless Channel”
FLASHBACK! Our first encounter with San Francisco’s “Writer’s Old Fashioned” comics cooperative was when Tim called first-time graphic novelist Matt Silady “lazy” during a review of his book. Matt e-mailed us in protest, and we had him on the show!
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5/4/09 John Paul Catton and “The Flintlocks”
Tokyo writer John Paul Catton talks about his experience with Marvel UK in the ‘80s, his current Web comic project with Phill Evans, and why it’s a mistake to make comics scripts imitate TV.
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05/08/06 World building and Joseph Campbell
FLASHBACK! Tim reads some postings from a comics writers’ e-mail list about building a new world for your characters. One poster recommends reading Joseph Campbell‘s books; another poster can’t stand Joseph Campbell. Brandon, our resident Joseph Campbell expert, critiques that poster’s critiques.
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Up-and-coming writer Jason Miller talks about the sci-fi/mystery graphic novels he has written with his brother Ian, to be published by Arcana Comics.
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4/20/09 Watching the watchers of Watchmen
Tim and Mulele (and an unexpected special guest!) report from the movie theater before and after seeing Zach Snyder’s “The Watchmen”, then talk on Skype a week later about how a cerebral comic became an action movie, as well as reviewing the reviews of the movie by half a dozen other podcasts!
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7/9/07 Dale Wilson and DWAP Productions
FLASHBACK! Tim interviews Dale Wilson of DWAP Productions, an indy publisher in Los Angeles that has published some work by one Mulele Jarvis…
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