Comic Adventures

Hello, our clever comic adventurers! Join us as we dish with the divine Kitty Curran, co-creator and artist for Taylor Swift, Girl Detective and My Lady's Choosing!

 
Stuff we talk about:

Larissa Zageris (Kitty's partner in creative crime!)

Taylor Swift Girl Detective

My Lady's Choosing

Find Anthologies on Twitter

Generation X Classic Vol. 1

Locke and Key by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez

Through the Woods by Emily Carroll

By Chance or Providence by Becky Cloonan

The Last Halloween by Abby Howard

Kill Six Billion Demons by Tom Parkinson-Morgan (webcomic here!)

Emily Carroll's website (Melissa's talking about When the Darkness Presses)

The Yawgh

Sakana by Mad Rupert 

Find Kitty online at:

twitter.com/kittycurran

www.kittycurran.com

Find us online at:

twitter.com/thecomiccast

twitter.com/widewildblue (Melissa)

instagram.com/widewildblue (Also Melissa)

twitter.com/AndrewDLarkin (Andrew) 

And check out our Patreon! 

For extended show notes, visit our blog! Questions or comments? Email us at [email protected].

Comic Adventures is a project of Let’s Make Comics, a Chicago-based comics collective, and produced by Andrew Larkin and Melissa Sayen.

Hello, fellow fans of sequential art!

This week we continue what seems to be an ongoing manga trend on Comic Adventures by discussing Planetes by Makoto Yukimura. Get ready for a podcast that is... out of this world!

Things we talk about:

Problem Sleuth by Andrew Hussie

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris

My Hero Academia by Kōhei Horikoshi

Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis (art by Darick Robertson)

The Invisibles by Grant Morrison

Windup Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

The plays of Anton Chekov as translated by David Mamet

Neil deGrasse Tyson (please tweet me!)

A Vision of Escaflowne

Ghost in the Shell by Masamune Shirow

Mare Internum by Der-shing Helmer

Neon Genesis Evangelion by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto

2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

The Martian by Andy Weir

Find us online at:

twitter.com/thecomiccast

twitter.com/widewildblue (Melissa)

instagram.com/widewildblue (Also Melissa)

twitter.com/AndrewDLarkin (Andrew) 

And check out our Patreon! 

For extended show notes, visit our blog! Questions or comments? Email us at [email protected].

Comic Adventures is a project of Let’s Make Comics, a Chicago-based comics collective, and produced by Andrew Larkin and Melissa Sayen.

This week our guest is AnimeChicago organizer and manga connoisseur Neil Clingerman! Melissa and Neil hash out their manga filled childhoods, Melissa gets several facts wrong, and then we all talk about Osamu Tezuka a lot.

 
Stuff we talk about:

Smart Stuff with Roman Mars and Justin McElroy (99%PI #225, starts around 15:30)

Otherworld Barbara by Moto Hagio

Serial Experiments Lain

Drawn and Quarterly

Fantagraphics 

Vertical 

Sexy Voice and Robo by Iou Kuroda

Bambi and her Pink Gun by Atsushi Kaneko (who is not Iou Kuroda, whoops -M)

National Quiz by Sugimoto Reiichi and Katou Shinkichi

Edo Karuta by Arare Ame

Nasu by Iou Kuroda

Blue by Kiriko Nananan

The Death of Superman

Battle Angel Alita by Yukito Kishiro

Nausicaä The Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki

A Bride's Story and Emma by Kaoru Mori

I would have sworn there was a Urasawa Naoki no Manben episode with Kaoru Mori, but I was wrong. You should watch the show, though! -M

Cosplayers by Dash Shaw

My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Nagata Kabi

Looking for Group by Ryan Sohmer

The Oven by Sophie Goldstein

MW by Osamu Tezuka

Book of Human Insects by Osamu Tezuka

Habibi by Craig Thompson

Phoenix by Osamu Tezuka

Bringing Up Father by George McManus

Lost at Sea and Scott Pilgrim by Brian Lee O'Malley

Tezuka in English

Find Neil online at:

twitter.com/neilworms

https://animechicago.com/

Find us online at:

twitter.com/thecomiccast

twitter.com/widewildblue (Melissa)

instagram.com/widewildblue (Also Melissa)

twitter.com/AndrewDLarkin (Andrew) 

And check out our Patreon! 

For extended show notes, visit our blog! Questions or comments? Email us at [email protected].

Comic Adventures is a project of Let’s Make Comics, a Chicago-based comics collective, and produced by Andrew Larkin and Melissa Sayen.

Hello, folks! For this episode we read Stitches, a memoir by author and illustrator David Small. It's a bit heavier then our previous books.

Things we talked about:

Otherworld Barbara by Moto Hagio

The Other Side: An Anthology of Queer Paranormal Romance

Monstress Volume 2: The Blood by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda

Hoopla

Stitches: A Memoir by David Small

Planetes Omnibus Volume 1 by Makoto Yukimura

Mental health resources:

How to Find a Therapist on WebMD

Find a Therapist - Psychology Today's searchable database (this has always worked well for me. -Melissa)

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline – Call 800-273-TALK (8255)

Crisis Text Line – Text NAMI to 741-741

National Domestic Violence Hotline – Call 800-799-SAFE (7233)

National Sexual Assault Hotline – Call 800-656-HOPE (4673)

Find us online at:

twitter.com/thecomiccast

twitter.com/widewildblue (Melissa)

https://www.instagram.com/widewildblue/ (Also Melissa)

twitter.com/AndrewDLarkin (Andrew)

And check out our Patreon! 

For extended show notes, visit our blog! Questions or comments? Email us at [email protected].

Comic Adventures is a project of Let’s Make Comics, a Chicago-based comics collective, and produced by Andrew Larkin and Melissa Sayen.

This week our guest is illustrator Kelly Leigh Miller! We also talk about dogs. And manga. And future football.

Stuff we talk about:

Can You Make the Dog Sexier? by Alexander Sloves and Kelly Leigh Miller

Cats with boobs (art by Ronald Serle)

Procreate brushes

Card Captor Sakura

Ranma 1/2

Sailor Moon

Fushigi Yuugi

Inuyasha

My Dirty Dumb Eyes by Lisa Hanawalt 

Hilda series by Luke Pearson

ABC-3PO and Obi-123 written by Calliope Glass and Caitlin Kennedy and illustrated by Katie Cook

All My Darling Daughters by Fumi Yoshinaga

17776

Find Kelly online at:

http://www.kellyleighmiller.com/

twitter.com/bookofkellz

instagram.com/bookofkellz

https://artofkellz.tumblr.com/

Find us online at:

twitter.com/thecomiccast

twitter.com/widewildblue (Melissa)

https://www.instagram.com/widewildblue/ (Also Melissa)

twitter.com/AndrewDLarkin (Andrew)

And check out our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/comicadventures

With special guest Patty Carter! Hi, Patty! 

In honor of Andrew's new baby girl, we spend this episode talking books for babies and practicing our Dad jokes.

Stuff we talk about:

Baby Animals Black and White

Silly Sally (Red Wagon Books)

Snuggle Puppy! (Boynton on Board)

Big Pumpkin

Cozy Classics: Emma

Vader's Little Princess

Gemma & Gus (board book) (Gossie & Friends)

Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale

Imogene's Antlers (Reading Rainbow)

The Mitten

Trouble with Trolls

The Mitten (again, but different)

The Talking Eggs

Find us online at:

twitter.com/thecomiccast

www.patreon.com/comicadventures

twitter.com/widewildblue (Melissa)

twitter.com/AndrewDLarkin (Andrew)

For extended show notes, visit our blog! Questions or comments? Email us at [email protected].

Comic Adventures is a project of Let’s Make Comics, a Chicago-based comics collective, and produced by Andrew Larkin and Melissa Sayen.

This week we interview Sheika Lugtu, cartoonist, LadyDrawer, and founder of Cow House Press. 

Stuff we talk about:

Short Gay Stories by H-P Lehkonen

Offline And On Paper: Chicago Teens Make Zines In An Ephemeral World (NPR)

Urasawa Naoki no Manben

Phantom by Aatmaja Pandya

Radishes and Diana's Electric Tongue by Carolyn Novak

Baddawi by Leila Abdelrazzaq

Secure Connect by Carta Monir

The Zine Not Dead (Aug. 5th!)

This One Summer, Boundless, and SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki

Find Sheika online at:

sheikalugtu.com

cowhousepress.com

twitter.com/OMGcow

twitter.com/cowhousepress

Find us online at:

twitter.com/letsmake_comics

twitter.com/widewildblue (Melissa)

twitter.com/AndrewDLarkin (Andrew)

For extended show notes, visit our blog! Questions or comments? Email us at [email protected].

Comic Adventures is a project of Let’s Make Comics, a Chicago-based comics collective, and produced by Andrew Larkin and Melissa Sayen.

In this episode, Melissa and Andrew chat about traditional tools of the comic making trade and then go on for, uh, a while about Cucumber Quest, the absolute best comic about cute bunny adventures.

Things mentioned:

jetpens.com 

http://cucumber.gigidigi.com/ 

Read Alikes:

Steven Universe comics

Adventure Time comics

Nimona

Looking for Group

Undertale

For extended show notes, visit our blog! Questions or comments? Email us at [email protected].

Comic Adventures is a project of Let’s Make Comics, a Chicago-based comics collective, and produced by Andrew Larkin and Melissa Sayen.

This week we interview animator and artist Patrick Cheng. We discuss comic, coffee, creative processes, and more coffee.

Welcome to Comics Adventures, a podcast about making, reading, and loving comics. In the inaugural episode, Melissa and Andrew ask (and answer) where do you get comics, anyway? As well as wax long and poetic about The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl.

Things mentioned:

Comic Book Shop Locator
G-mart Comics
Hoopla
Marvel Unlimited
Comixology
Hiveworks
Taptastic*
@webcomicchat
Cucumber Quest
Kickstarter’s Comics Page

Read Alikes:

Patsy Walker AKA Hellcat
Howard the Duck
Blue Beetle (2006)
Spider-Gwen

* After this podcast was recorded, Taptastic was revealed to have some pretty shady business practices. We’ve decided not to link them - see our show notes for links to relevent discussions.

For extended show notes, visit our blog! Questions or comments? Email us at [email protected].

Comic Adventures is a project of Let’s Make Comics, a Chicago-based comics collective, and produced by Andrew Larkin and Melissa Sayen.