Inkstuds

I have been a fan and reader of Patrick McEown’s work for most of the time I have read comics. From his humble early days on Grendel War Child to working on variety of short stories for Vertigo, Dark Horse and Fantagraphics. His groundbreaking short story No Escape, published in the Dave Cooper series, Weasel, is a high point in comics making.

His latest work, Hair Shirt, is just as excellent. I was very excited to talk to Patrick about his comics, and as you can tell, we cover a lot of material. Some accompanying things to check out include these blog posts from Self Made Hero that he wrote up when the book was first released to the UK market. They are very illuminating in regards to his work and process.

Lucy Knisley’s latest book is Relish from First Second Books. Lucy is an amazing talented and prolific creator with an amazing amount of excellent comics and never seems to slowdown in her output.

DNA Failure creators and brothers, Leon and Stefan Sadler joined me to talk about their collection from PictureBox and their Famicon publishing project.

UK cartoonist, Dave Taylor joined me to reflect on his comics. His most recent work is the collaboration with Chip Kidd, Batman Death By Design. Other notable works include Tongue Lash, TomTom Macoubre and his work on Judge Dredd and 2000AD. We also talk about his friendship with Moebius, an important influence on Dave as an artist. Dave is currently working on a variety of projects including a documentary and an issue Prophet. I have been a fan of Dave’s for a long time and happy to see him doing comics again.

It’s been quite a while since I have posted a mixtape. These are a lot of fun to do, but a bit of work to put together. Michael Deforge posted about a mix he made for one of his comics, and I offered to cobble it together and throw up here. If you look at the other mixes, you will see that he did a pretty stellar mix a couple of years ago, and I am happy to have him back.

Enjoy the Leather Space Mix and read the Leather Space Men

Track list:

1) Lushus Daim and the Pretty Vain – The One You Love

2) Cherrelle – The Opening

3) Cherrelle – You Look Good To Me

4) Krystol – You Ask Too Much

5) Cinema – Ribbon Street

6) Exotic Storm – I’ve Got To Be Your Lover

7) The System – Now I Am Electric

8) General Caine – Ooh Aah

9) Klymaxx – Video Kid

10) Alexander O’Neal – Fake

11) The Girls – My Man

12) La La – I’ve Got A Thing For You (Extended Remix)

13) Tease – Bite

14) Mtume – I Simply Like

15 – The System – Nighttime Lover

16) Andre Cymone – Voice on the Radio

17) Sumy – Bitch, We Danced A Lot

18) Cinema – New Girl Now

Portland artist, Julia Gfrörer joined me to chat about her comic, Black is the Color, serialized on Study Group and to be published by Fantagraphics. We also talk about a wide range of her other work.

This is the second week of fundraiser programing. CiTR is trying to raise funds to fix up the stations. I came in live and did some fun shows with some friends. This week, I was joined by Brian Fukushima, Brandon Graham and Daniel Giantomaso. An hour in, i say the show is over, that is a lie. We got an extra 30 mins of studs.

Daniel is launching his Sammiches artbook Friday night at Dynamo art space at 6th and Manitoba. I will be there and I hope you will be too.

and on March 19th, Brandon will be on a panel moderated by me, joined by Emily Carroll and Jen Vaughn at the Vancouver Art Gallery as a part of their comics programming for the Spiegelman show.

Also, today was my birthday, so we had fun!

Every year, the primary station that Inkstuds airs on, CiTR does a funding drive. This year, i was joined by Brian Fukushima, Brandon Graham and Robin Bougie. A good crew of local talent. I tried to discuss Robin’s new issues of Cinema Sewer and Sleazy Slice, but most of the time, we just had a lot of fun. The funding drive ends on March 7th, so expect another show like this in a week. If you would like to donate, you can do so here.

Thanks to Fantagraphics, Top Shelf Productions, Koyama Press and Rebus Books for donating comics to be given away for donations. You are fine fine people.

Ellen Forney joined me to discuss her new book and first long form comic, Marbles, an autobio story about her diagnosis of being Bipolar and how she processed and dealt with that in her life.

Quebecois cartoonist, Michel Rabagliati was able to meet up with me while he was in Vancouver. I am a huge fan of his work. His Paul series is a Canadian treasure. His latest is The Song Of Roland, published last year by Conundrum press, and will have a new book out, Paul Join’s the Scouts out in May.