A police detective sees a psychiatrist, because something is bothering him about the case he’s been working on. Something happened in the past among a group of kids. Murder? Well, we read a pretty good chunk of Charles Chester and Shiloh Penfield’s Boy Zero, and we don’t feel any closer to finding out. We discuss […]

Five hundred episodes?! Where’d the time go? As has been typical of recent “landmark” episodes, a topic discussion is in order, this time among Tim, Paul, and famed artist, writer, and comics educator Stephen Bissette. Steve talks about favorite film versions of comics; Mario Bava’s Diabolik; and what would have been a better way to […]

What goes into planning a comics event? How can organizers respond to complaints from fans and cosplayers about sexual harassment and long lines? This week we ask Emerald City Comicon founder Jim Demonakos, now Global Director of Comic Talent at ReedPOP, about these issues, as well as how to maximize profits when tabling at a […]

Tim and Mulele dig into three more of the comics that Tim brought back from MoCCA Fest: Johnny Dombrowski and Ian Higginbotham’s Doomsday Burgers Stephanie Rodriguez’s No Te Hagas La Pendeja (Don’t Be a Dumbass) Maelle Doliveux’s Four Fables

Jason Shiga’s Demon is one of the craziest comics you’ll ever read. The cartoony art makes it look unassuming, but frankly the darkly comic mayhem of this story probably wouldn’t work with a more realistic style of art. The story is about… Wait! Did you read it? You’d better do so before listening to Kumar […]

Peter Kuper has been pushing the boundaries of comics for over two decades, using media like linoleum prints, scratchboard, and stencils & spray paint (including in The System) to make a wide variety of comics, from those with political or environmental messages to autobiography, adaptations of Franz Kafka’s writings, and (since 1997) Spy vs. Spy. […]

Critiquing Comics returns with a look at three comics with connections to past DCP and CCP episodes: Here, After, by Kazimir Lee, interviewed at the Center for Cartoon Studies Coco Soco, by Tomomi Mooney, who is (we think!) married to another artist whose comic has been discussed on this show Apartment Hunt, by Mindy Indy, […]

If you like your comedy sexy (or your porn funny), you’re probably a fan of Oglaf, Doug Bayne and Trudy Cooper‘s long-running Web comic. This week, Tim calls up Doug and Trudy in Sydney to talk about the fantasy-parody elements of the strip, the missing main character Ivan, the diversity of sexual orientations in the […]

This week a look at how creators can cultivate their following into a means of paying (some of) the bills. Comics artist Lucy Bellwood has a pretty succesful Patreon page; it’s paying her Portland rent. Her fans appreciate her work, but often that’s not quite enough; showing your personality, making a personal connection, can get […]

Kumar talks with both Emmet O’Cuana and John Roberson about Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice. How does Zack Snyder see these characters, and how is his vision at odds with the established ideas about these characters? How can we think about the events in this movie in a way that makes sense? Music: “Superman’s […]