Blood in the Gutters: A Comics Studies Podcast

This week's episode focuses on Julie Maroh's Blue is the Warmest Color. Listen now to find out how perspectives change over time and find some more recommendations for queer comics! 

Next Episode: Sunday, July 14th

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This episode we talk our way through Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. As dense as this comic is, it is a beautiful albeit tragic story of coming out, loss, and growth. 

Next Episode: Sunday, June 30th

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This week we work through The Fantastic Four: Unstable Molecules; The Story of Comics' Greatest Foursome. We unpack how Sturm translates these four iconic characters into what can only be deemed their "real life" 1950's selves throughout this four part series. This comic put 1950's social dynamics under a microscope for the readers to better understand the bedrock of Mr. Fantastic, The Invisible Woman, The Human Torch, and The Thing! 

Next Episode: Sunday, June 16th

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This week we dig deep into one of Jeff Lemire's best graphic novels, The Underwater Welder. This comic centralizes themes of loss, memory, time, and growth through the depths of the ocean waves off the coast of Tigg's Bay, in Nova Scotia. As self proclaimed fangirls of Lemire we adore picking apart the smallest nuances within the panels of this comic and hope that you enjoy it too.

Illustrator Spotlight: Matt Tarpley & Cat's Cafe Comic! (IG @catscafecomics)

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This week we talk about Jeremy Haun's and Jason Hurley's The Beauty issues 1-11 (collected volumes 1 and 2). We unpack some of the first two story arcs and talk about what makes this comic so important and wonderful. 

Creator Spotlight: The Nimbus Project (IG @art_of_nimbus)

Aaaaaaaaaaand WE ARE BACK!

This episode is a 2-for-1 crossover for Deflowered: A Subversive Sex Ed Podcast, and Blood in the Gutters: A Comics Studies Podcast. In this episode we tackle some of the wild tropes of female representation in video games and comics, fake geek culture, cosplay, and the commodification of sexualized fandom characters. Episodes released bi-weekly! Look out for our next episode feature The Beauty from Image Comics on April 21st! 

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Interested in following along with Deflowered? Find us on Facebook and Instagram at @defloweredpodcast! 

Intro music: "[No Copyright Music] And So It Begins" by Artificial Music

This episode deals with zombies, gender, race, colonialism, and the ethics of survival in Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead (compendiums 1&2). 

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This week's episode features Alan Moore and Brian Bolland's The Killing Joke! Lets talk Alan Moore, Joker, and violence against women, shall we?

This week’s episode is on *drum roll, please* ... STEVE DITKO AND THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN! Warning: I get slightly emotional when talking about loss. Feedback & requests: [email protected] IG/FB/Twitter: @gutterspodcast

Episode 4 dives head first into Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoet's Beautiful Darkness and applies freudian theory a la Bruno Bettelheim as well as Edmond Burke's ideas of the Sublime! (Hooray 18th century theory and early 20th century psychoanalysis!!!)