This episode was recorded on the floor of the 2024 Small Press Expo where I had the pleasure of sharing a table with Gideon Kendall, co-author and artist of Wait…It Gets Worse, which is now available as big, beautiful hardcover omnibus with brand new stories from Cosmic Lion. We talk not only about the new book, but about the joys of tabling at comic conventions.

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Welcome to BUY THIS COMIC,  the show where YOU keep the vital and vibrant medium of comics alive by infusing it with your hard-earned cash. I’m your host Jason Mojica and this time… we’ve got something a little different for you! We’re joined by Karl Stevens, creator of Penny: A Graphic Memoir, but this conversation was recorded live in front of an in-store audience at Hey Kids Comics in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. This chat took place on the evening of Friday, July 19 2024. We’ll be doing more of these evening chats over at the shop, so if you want to know when the next one will be, make sure to subscribe to our substack: https://buythiscomic.substack.com

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This week we talk to James Romberger & Josh Bayer about a punk rock comic book project that we here at Buy This Comic are deeply invested in (because we're the ones who dreamt it up and are putting it out): the Naked Raygun Broken Things limited edition etched 7" and comic book. It's being crowdfunded on Kickstarter at this very moment and will be released by our parent company, Xylophone.

We talk to James & Josh about how they're working together on this unique collaboration, the primacy and practicality of working using traditional tools, the history of split comic stories, how punk rock influenced them, and so much more. 

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This week we're getting non-fictional when we talk to Jon Chad, writer and artist of PINBALL: A GRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE SILVER BALL, a gorgeous hardcover graphic novel published by First Second that is in stores now.

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Juni Ba created the Monkey Meat universe about 10 years ago. Now, Monkey Meat comes to Image comics in the form of a good old fashioned floppy. Stop what you're doing and listen as we go (virtually) to Montpellier to talk to Juni Ba, writer and artist of the a darkly comedic new anthology series.

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This week we’re joined by Gabe Soria and Gideon Kendall, writer and artist of The MegaGhost of Christmas, a holiday minicomic special featuring all your favorite characters from the MegaGhost universe. It's published by Xylophone, and is available for $3ppd from HEY KIDS COMICS!

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This week, we talk to "the last idiot standing," Mr. Johnny Sampson! Johnny is a cartoonist who does a lot of cool stuff, but perhaps most notably is the guy who Al Jaffee passed the baton to when he retired from doing the fold-in for MAD Magazine.

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This week we’re joined by Victoria Douglas, creator of Cinnamon: an "action comic masquerading as a slice-of-life comic" published by Behemoth / Happy Tank. It's smart, it's funny, it's cute, it's cool!

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Robots... they're just like us! This week we’re joined by Mark Russell, writer of the dark sci-fi satire Not All Robots, a 5 issue limited series with art by Mike Deodato Jr & colors by Lee Loughridge. It's published by AWA.

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This week we're joined by Ron Marz, writer of Almost American, a 5-issue limited series published by Aftershock Comics. It's based on the true story of Janosh “Jan” Neumann and his wife, Victorya–both Russian spies who made a deal with the U.S. government to trade their information in exchange for a life free from want. What could go wrong?

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