It’s an hour of talk about the wonderful and unique format known as mini-comics, as I’m joined by Dave Carter of the University of Michigan Art, Architecutre & Engineering Library, and U-M student Meggie Ramm for a wrap-up of Mini-Comics Day 2012! Together we discuss why the mini-comics format is a great entry point for beginners as well as why it serves as a great means for professional artists to play. We share some of our experiences at Mini-Comics Day and some of the work completed there, and close with a bunch of great mini-comics recommendations.

Links mentioned in this episode (thanks to Eric Klooster for collecting them!):

* The University of Michigan Video Game Archive

* Sega’s Dreamcast

* The Commodore Amiga

* Phoebe Gloeckner

* Calvin and Hobbes and Calvinball

* Vault of Midnight

* The Big Lebowski

* The Duderstadt Center

* The UGLI

* Opus

* 24-Hour Comics Day

* Mini-Comics Day

* Rocky Balboa (how you feel when you finish a mini-comic)

* Möbius strip

* Bedtime for Bonzo

* The A-Team

* Going Ape!

* NASA images

* Dave’s Yet Another Comics Blog

* The Black Hole Equation

* Too Close For Comfort

* Kids Read Comics

* La Bande Dessinee

Comics and Book Recommendations:

* Roger Langridge

* Bob: The Complete Series

* Kevin Huizenga

* Little League

* Ted Seko

Here’s the video from this episode’s live stream (audio player at the bottom of this post):

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PV_D7tpfo0

Live streams every other Wednesday at Comicsaregreat.tv!