Dollar Bin Bandits

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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After years of trying, we've landed the one and only Denys Cowan! The veteran artist has been in the game for 40+ years, and with executive Michael Stadford, has launched a retrospective art book on Kickstarter: Graphic Samurai: The Art of Denys Cowan. Denys' art has graced the pages of so many of our favorite comics over the years, including Deathstroke, Batman: Lovers & Madmen, Black Panther: Flags of Our Fathers, The Question, Hardware, Static, and Deathlok. He's a cofounder of Milestone Media and was the Senior Vice President of Animation at BET, introducing The Boondocks to animation. Most recently, Denys pencilled (and his old pal Bill Sienkiewicz inked) Charlamagne tha God's graphic novel ILLumaniti. 

You've got until Friday, 11/22, to back Graphic Samurai on Kickstarter, so get on it: http://kck.st/4fkfYiH! You can follow Denys on his site, denyscowanart.com, and on all of the socials @denyscowanart. And Michael Stadford can be found on Instagram @mstradford.

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Hart Seely is the publisher of AHOY Comics. But he spent most of his career as a journalist and prose writer, including as a longtime reporter for the Syracuse Post-Standard. He's written for many other publications, including The New Yorker and New York Times, and authored many  books, including Mrs. Goose Goes to Washington and Juju Rules, in addition to three books of "found poetry". We get into it all, from his New York roots and baseball to the publishing world and all things AHOY. Tally ho!

You can find and follow Hart on Facebook or X @SeelySays. And check out AHOY at comicsahoy.com!

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John Gallagher is the award-winning writer/artist of the Max Meow: Cat Crusader  graphic novel series from Random House. He previously worked with Rich Faber on Buzzboy and Roboy Red. John is a co-founder of Kids Love Comics (kidslovecomics.net), an organization that uses comics to promote literacy. And if that isn't enough, he also serves as Art Director for Ranger Rick, a kids magazine from the National Wildlife Federation!

You can follow the ongoing adventures of Max Meow on his website, maxmeow.com or on Facebook. You can follow John on X @johnbgallagher or Instagram @johngallagher_cartoonist.

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Chances are, you know cartoonist Jerry Craft from one of two projects: his syndicated comic strip Mama's Boyz or his award-winning series of graphic novels: New Kid, Class Act, and School Trip. But he got his start as an advertising copywriter and magazine editor, eventually doing his first comics work at Marvel and Harvey Comics. Now, in addition to his highly successful graphic novel work, he runs cartooning workshops at schools, camps, and libraries across the country.

You can follow Jerry at jerrycraft.com and on all the socials @jerrycraft.

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Josh Blaylock is the writer/artist founder of Devil's Due Studios, the publisher that burst onto the scene in the late 90s with revivals of licensed properties like G.I. Joe, Voltron, and others. During his 25 years in the industry, he's also created a number of original books, including Mercy Sparx, The Encoded, and Arkworld. Now, Josh is back with The Disavowed,  a G.I. Joe-meets-The Boys 80s adventure illustrated by Pop Mhan.

For more information on the upcoming The Disavowed Kickstarter campaign, sign up here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/massivepublishing/the-disavowed-1-pilot-edition?ref=profile_created&category_id=250. And you can follow Josh at the Devil's Due website, devilsdue.net, on Instagram @blaylockcomics or on X @joshblaylock.

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Yes, we have THE Mike Allred: father of Madman, creator of Doop, iZombie, and so many others, artist extraordinaire, and lover of comic books! If you didn't know, Mike started out in broadcasting, first on the radio and then as a TV reporter in Europe. But soon he's back in his native Oregon, chewing up the independent comics scene with graphic novels like Dead Air, Graphique Musique, and Grafik Muzik, as well as contributions to Creatures of the Id. One of those stories featured Frank Einstein, who Mike would go on to mold into his iconic Madman character. After Madman-ing it for a decade, Mike made for Marvel next, where he collaborated with Peter Milligan on X-Force (later X-Statix), then Matt Fraction on FF, and Dan Slott on Silver Surfer. He even found time to create and launch iZombie, which was adapted in a TV series. Now, he's at DC, tackling the big boys in Superman: Space Age and Batman: Dark Age (both with Mark Russell).

Go back The Marvel Art of Michael Allred on Kickstarter here: http://kck.st/3YykYum. And you can follow Mike on his site aaapop.com and on all the socials @allredmd.

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Like some of its characters, Atlas Comics is rising from the dead and ready to take over the world! Mego recently announced it’s putting out the first phase of Atlas figures featuring reprints of the original comics.

Jeff Rovin, who edited and put together the Atlas universe, has been working to revive the line and joins us with some breaking and exciting news!

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Writer Chris Condon broke onto the comics scene in a major way with the ongoing Image series That Texas Blood and its spinoff, The Enfield Gang Massacre, both with artist Jacob Phillips. He then adapted Barry Gifford's Night People for Oni Press and has moved into the big leagues with Marvel's Ultimate Wolverine and DC's Green Arrow.

You can follow Chris on X @ChristophCondon.

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The man, the myth, the father of Shi: that's right, it's Billy Tucci! Billy and Shi crashed onto the comics scene in 1994, and they never looked back. For the first dozen years, it was all about the half-Japanese, naginata-wielding woman warrior and her solo and crossover adventures. And crossovers there were: with Avengelyne, Gen-13, Cyblade, Daredevil, Grifter, Vampirella, Lady Death, and Wolverine, just to name a few! Billy eventually branched out to other publishers, working on Heroes for Hire at Marvel, and Jonah Hex, Birds of Prey, Harley Quinn, and Sgt. Rock: The Lost Battalion for DC. Now, for her 30th anniversary, he's putting together the craziest Shi book yet, the multiverse-spanning Shi: Gatecrasher. 

You can still get Billy's latest, Rocketeer: Pavlichenko Special Art Edition, on Indiegogo here: https://igg.me/at/SHISECONDCOMING/x#/. And you can follow Billy on his site, billytucci.com, or on Instagram @billy_tucci and X @BillyTucci.

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