Coming-of-age stories dominate, as we look at Persepolis, Ghost World, and, er, Fear Agent TPB 2!
Wikipedia explains Ghost World
The entire first issue of Fear Agent on Newsarama
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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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#089 Your “Adult Swim” is my “Kids Station”
We wrap up our discussion of Japanese comics with New Lone Wolf and Cub, Tezuka’s Future Man Chaos, and Inuyasha, plus we get sidetracked on the 25th anniversary edition of Blade Runner!
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#088 “Parasyte”
Tim, Mulele, Patrick, and Patrik discuss Hitoshi Iwaaki’s Parasyte (recently republished by Del-Ray), and (sometimes very goofy) portrayals of Japan and other familiar places in comics and in Hollywood.
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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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#086 “Past Lies” and more
Tim and Brandon finally manage to get together via Skype, and get caught up on comics reviews, including Past Lies, Star Wars Panel to Panel, She-Hulk 19, and Magician: Apprentice!
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#085 The Secret Plot, Revealed!
Starbucks becomes too noisy, so Tim and Mulele evacuate (at 2:44) to a department store stairwell to discuss whether a writer should go ahead with an idea after discovering someone else has already done it. Case in point: Brian Michael Bendis, the return of the Skrulls, and Battlestar Galactica.
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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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#083 DWAP Productions and the Antidote Trust
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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#082 Web comics: What happens if the big players get involved?
Publishing online opens your comic up to a worldwide audience. But if the major players in print comics start publishing online, will they stamp out all the one-horse comics out there? Is there room on the Web for all of us?
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