Mulele talks about his new comic, Black Swan, one of the first ten comics to be put up for public voting on Zudacomics.com.
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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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#099 Burning Questions
Should comics and prose be shelved together? Are celebrity writers who do comics pleasuring anyone but themselves? How is being a Spidey fan like being a Cubs fan? Mulele and Tim discuss these questions and much more…
Word Balloon: Future of Graphic Literature
More on the barcode requirement
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#098 “Blankets”
Tim and Brandon cover Craig Thompson’s award-winning Blankets. Also, we got an e-mail from this guy named (ulp) Larry Young…
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#097 “Kid Intense”
Our call for comics to critique has been heard! Listener Vincent Morris sent us his comic, Kid Intense. All three of us weigh in.
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#096 “Super Spy”
Top Shelf, publisher of Alex Robinson’s Tricked and Box Office Poison, has published another masterpiece: Matt Kindt’s Super Spy! Also Tripwire magazine’s list of top graphic novels, and an impromptu discussion of Steve Canyon!
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#095 “The Black Diamond”
The Black Diamond is a miniseries named after a highway. Tim and Brandon rip it a new exit ramp.
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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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