We're getting into the holiday spirit by welcoming Rankin/Bass historian Rick Goldschmidt onto the show! Rick has a background in illustration and cartooning, with magazine illustrations, editorial cartoons, and caricatures among his early assignments. He labored for years to bring to life a coffee table book chronicling all of Rankin/Bass' specials, films, and TV series, which was finally published as The Enchanted World of Rankin/Bass in 1997. Rick has many stories to tell about our favorite cartoons, including the holiday classics Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman.

You can follow Rick on Facebook and Instagram @rickgoldschmidt.

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Veteran artist Joe St.Pierre has a gift for all the good girls and boys this holiday season: a Dollar Bin Bandits interview! But also the Joe St.Pierre Sketchbook 2025, which only has a couple days left in its campaign on Zoop. If you don't know, Joe's been around since the Valiant days, where he pencilled Rai and was the co-creator of the team book Secret Weapons. Since then, he's worked across the industry, including at Marvel (various Spider-Man books), DC (Aquaman, Green Lantern), Image (Megahurtz), IDW (Transformers), BOOM! (Power Rangers), Dynamite, and more! He's also the co-creator of the four volumes of the Fabien Cousteau Expeditions Series published by Simon & Schuster. When not comic-booking, Joe is a commercial and storyboard artist, doing work for clients like MTV, Discovery Channel, Nickelodeon, Warner Bros. Animation, Cartoon Network, The New York Times, Sony, PBS, and Activision.

Go get Joe's 2025 Sketchbook now (until 12/20) on Zoop here: zoop.gg/c/joestpierresketchbook! And you can follow Joe on his website, astronautink.com, on Instagram @joe.st.pierre or X @astronautink.

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Whitney Matheson isn't our typical guest. While she does make daily comics, she writes in so many different formats, it's hard to keep track! Whitney's perhaps best known as the creative force behind Pop Candy, the pop culture column/blog that she wrote for over a decade at USA Today. But since then, she's branched out into writing for short films, theater, newsletters, comics, kids' books, and more! Whitney shares a studio with Dean Haspiel in Brooklyn, and just recently published her short story collection, Trudy Sellout, as well as her collection of 2024 diary comics. 

You can follow her and her work in so many places: on whitneymatheson.com, on Patreon @whitneymatheson, on Substack whitneymatheson.substack.com, on Instagram @thewhitneymatheson and X @whitneymatheson.

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Headlocked Comics' Michael Kingston is back with the Bandits, and he brought Bigfoot with him! Mike's got the launch issue of a brand new series currently on Kickstarter, and he can't wait to share it with everyone. It's called Friday Night Bigfoot, and it expands on a story from the Tales from The Road anthology series that imagines a struggling wrestling promoter in Portland who stumbles upon the legendary Bigfoot. Co-created by Dave "Gangrel" Heath, you'll have to listen to the episode to learn more!

Go back issue #1 of Friday Night Bigfoot on Kickstarter here: http://kck.st/4fO0wLU. You've got until Thursday, Dec 19, so get to it!

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Phillip Kennedy Johnson is on fire! Not literally of course, but the writer is churning out hit after hit for the major publishers, and his upcoming Hellhunters is no different. Phillip broke onto the scene in 2015 with Last Sons of America and Warlords of Appalachia, both for Boom! Studios. Since then, he's bounced back and forth between Marvel and DC, tackling major characters and properties like Superman, Action Comics, Alien, Green Lantern: War Journal, and more. While balancing other creator-owned material like The Fellspyre Chronicles and Crocodile Black, Phillip is the current writer of both The Incredible Hulk and Batman & Robin. His newest book, Hellhunters, which features Ghost Rider '44 and other World War II era Marvel heroes, releases its first issue on Dec 25!

You can follow Phillip on his website, phillipkennedyjohnson.com, as well as Instagram and X @phillipkjohnson.
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He's the man behind Minimum Wage and way more: it's Bob Fingerman! Bob started out early as a cartoonist and illustrator, leaving NYC's School of Visual Arts to produce work for publications like Cracked, Penthouse, Heavy Metal, National Lampoon and The Village Voice. But soon, he decided to focus on comics, breaking in with a year-long stint on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and shorter pieces for Eros Comix, Dark Horse, and Vertigo. His first graphic novel was a sci fi satire called White Like She, and then he created his semi-autobiographical series Minimum Wage, which he continues on and off through today. Since then, Bob's done a mix of comics and prose novels, often in the post-apocalyptic and zombie genres, and did some work at MAD Magazine. 

And he's still going strong, with two new books published this year. You can still get That's Some Business You're In, his visual memoir, on Zoop: zoop.gg/c/bobfingerman. And Printopia, his first all-new graphic novel in over a decade has just been published by Cosmic Lion Productions. You can get it on the Cosmic Lion site or wherever books are sold. 

You can follow Bob on his site, bobfingerman.com, and on Instagram @bobfingerman.

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Like a rock supergroup or Voltron, four comics superstars have come together to bring you a brand new story in a brand new world! That's right, we've got the whole gang -- Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner, Brian Pulido, and Billy Tucci -- talking about their currently Kickstarting project, The Deadly Trio: Doomsayer. We talk about how the four pals met, the characters they each created, how they co-wrote issue #1, all those variant covers, and the rest of the creative team, including artist Adrianna Melo, colorist Giuliano Peratelli, and letterer Marshall Dillon. It's a smorgasbord of fun!

Check out and back The Deadly Trio #1 here: http://kck.st/4fDqeD3.

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Boy, has returning guest Chris Ryall been busy! Not one, not two, but three projects are hitting just in time for the holidays. First up, it's the Deluxe Edition of the Origins of Marvel Comics, a reprint of the classic Stan Lee book with a new Alex Ross cover, multiple essays and interviews, and of course, the origin stories of some of our favorite heroes. Next, it's the Mighty Marvel Calendar Book: A Visual History, another look back at Marvel lore, reprinting the 1975-81 calendar in their entirety, plus loads of extras! And if editing these tomes wasn't enough, Chris is part of a one-shot anthology of Christmas horror tales called Dread the Halls, which you can find at your LCS starting Wednesday, 12/4!

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Inker Scott Hanna has worked on more pages of comics (22,000+) than virtually anybody else in history! The prolific artist's work has been featured on all of the big books at Marvel and DC, including The Avengers, Iron Man, X-Men, Wolverine, Hulk, Superman, Justice League, Green Lantern Corps, and Suicide Squad. Scott is perhaps best known for his five year run on Detective Comics and his continued association with Spider-Man, frequently collaborating with John Romita Jr. on the web-crawler's adventures. He has won numerous awards in the industry, including the most Inkwells in their history. Along with his wife, Scott founded the Arts and Fashion Institute in Pennsylvania and teaches sequential art there.

You can follow Scott on Instagram @inkerscott and X @inkerscott1.

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Veteran artist Bret Blevins joins the show today to talk about his 40+ year career in comics and animation. He first hit the scene in the early 80s, adapting films like The Dark Crystal, Krull, and The Last Starfighter for Marvel. Bret continued at Marvel throughout the 80s, illustrating The Bozz Chronicles with David Michelinie for Epic, working on Cloak and Dagger in Strange Tales, completing a major run on New Mutants, and introducing Sleepwalker. Then he was off to DC, where he worked on numerous Batman-related titles, before moving into animation. At Warner Bros., Bret lent his talents to Superman: The Animated Series, The New Batman/Superman Adventures, Batman Beyond, and the Justice League. He's even been an artist on the long-running The Phantom comic strip!

You can follow Bret on Instagram @bretblevinsart and on X @BlevinsBret.

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