Inkstuds

Oak Bay cartoonist, Ben Catmull was on to talk about his latest book, Ghosts and Ruins from Fantagraphics. You can read his comic, Monster Parade on the always excellent Study Group Comics site.

An inkstuds that has been a long time coming, me and Paul Pope talk about comics, art and more. His new book is Battling Boy from First Second. Paul’s other work includes the important indie comic THB, as well as 100%, Heavy Liquid and Batman Year 100 from DC, and books like One Trick Rip Off and PulpHope. I didn’t get music from Paul in time for posting, so I book-ended the interview with a couple of tracks from the soundtrack to El Topo. It felt appropriate.

Jeet Heer joined me to chat about his new book, In Love With Art, a biography of Raw publisher, Toon Books founder and New Yorker Art Editor, Françoise Mouly. Jeet’s an excellent writer and this book is well worth checking out. He also has a new book out edited with Charles Hatfield and Kent Worcester, The Superhero Reader

Cartoonist Jess Johnson, joined me talk about their comic work ranging from recent work, Sad Brat, Bad Star and Auto da Fe that cover their time identified as a transgender woman. Previously, Jess had published Nurture the Devil through Fantagraphics in the 90s and plethora of work in various anthologies and mini-comics under the name Jeff Johnson.

Vancouver cartoonist Tony Cliff joined me to talk about his new book from First Second Books, Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant. My apologies for horribly misspronouncing the title. Tony is too polite, and I am too much of a jerk.

Friend of the inkstuds, Jen Vaughn traveled up to Vancouver for a live appearance on the show. You can find Jen’s work in Cartozia, which is currently seeking funding on kickstarter. Jen’s latest solo work is Avery Fatbottom: Renaissance Fair Detective available on comixology.

This episode was cohosted by Brandon Graham.

Furry Trap cartoonist, Josh Simmons returns to the inkstuds for another chat at my kitchen table. On top of his fantagraphics work, he also has Habit published recently by Oily comics and some videos that he has been doing, including the most recent, Utz.

Special thanks to Robin Bougie for joining us. Always happy to have him join me for anything.

Canadian TV writer and producer Ted Mann, joined me to talk about his time making comics, working for National Lampoon and more. We also discuss his film work and how that all connects together. You can read Ted’s first comic here on my sister site, the Canadian Comics Archive. Thanks to Ted to taking the time to chat with me. Also to good friend, Claire Gibson for joining me to talk to Ted.

You can watch Ted’s work in Deadwood, O.C. and Stiggs, NYPD Blue, John From Cincinatti, Hatfields and McCoys and much more.

Jeff Smith returns to the inkstuds to talk about his latest book, the full collection of his series, RASL. Jeff will be appearing at the excellent sounding festival at the Billy Ireland Museum in November. Jeff also edited the lastest installment of the Best American Comics.

Shannon O’Leary and Joan Reilly joined me to chat about their anthology, The Big Feminist But. It’s an excellent collection of wide ranging cartoonists on difference facets of modern feminism.