Dean Haspiel is a comic book artist, writer, author, playwright, and all-around incredible creative force. Dean has worked with Harvey Pekar on American Splendor and Jonathan Ames on The Alcoholic and HBO's Bored To Death, for which he won an Emmy for designing the title sequence. Currently, Dean has been working on his own series, The Red Hook, which he writes and draws for Line Webtoons and Image Comics. It is a three-part series, the second part War Cry, has just come out and is part of a larger tale with Brooklyn as a central character spanning multiple books and heroes. Dean joins episode 83 to talk about all this plus his thoughts on the current state of comics and the cinematic universes.