Inkstuds

Lebanese cartoonist, Zeina Abirached joined me to talk about her first work that has been translated into English, A Game for Swallows. It’s really great read about community and childhood during the Lebanese Civil-War.

I was joined by Tom Spurgeon, Bill Kartalopoulos and Joe McCulloch to discuss a variety of comics from 2012. This survey is not a best of, but instead works that we wanted to cover for better or worst. There is some really great work in here, and some that may not be as good. Thanks to Tom, Bill and Joe for taking the time to join me. They are all stellar thinkers on comics that I am always happy to get the chance to hear from.

Here is the reading list –

Sakuran – Moyoko Anno

Chris Schweizer‘s contribution To Team Cul De Sac

Batgirl #15 – Gail Simone and Daniel Sampere

Journalism – Joe Sacco 

Jonathan – Leslie Stein

Young Albert – Yves Chaland

Annie Sullivan – Joe Lambert

Bulletproof Coffin: Disinterred – Shaky Kane and David Hine

Heads or Tails – Lilli Carré

Nonnonba – Shigeru Mizuki

Arsene Shrauwen – Olivier Schrauwen

Graphic Canon – ed. Russ Kick

Here is the conclusion of my interview with Steve Bissette. Our conversation covers a wide range of comics topics. Thanks to Steve for taking the time to chat with me. Follow Steve’s blog for more on some of the topics we discuss and his own work.

Vermont cartoonist, Stephen Bissette joined me for an epic length conversation covering a wide range of all topics comics. You can buy his work directly from him here. As well as here.

Baltimore cartoonist, Noel Freibert joined me to chat about his comics, anthology Weird and the Closed Caption Comics Crew. We start the show with a song from his band Witch Hat.

Invincible Summer Zinester, Nicole Georges, joined me to talk about her new book, Calling Dr Laura. It’s a great piece of autobio comics working through some personal challenges. On the back of her own experience calling Dr. Laura, Nicole has her own awesome advice column to check out. Catch Nicole on her extensive upcoming tour on the east and west coasts.

It’s a return for Chris Wright, starting 2013 off with a strong start. His latest book is Black Lung from Fantagraphics. Chris has an amazing unique style that works really far in this work.

Funny man, Nate Bulmer was in town to do a signing at Lucky’s, so he generously came to town a day early to come on the Inkstuds for a live recording. His new book is Eat More Bikes from Koyama Press as well the tumblr of the same name.

Tumblr wunderkind, Simon Hanselmann joined me to chat about his ongoing web work and the world of Megg, Mogg and Owl. Simon’s work can be found on his own tumblr, Girl Mountain and as well as his amazing Truth Zone strip on Comics WorkBook.

French cartooning duo, Ruppert and Mulot, joined me to talk about their new English collection, Barrel of Monkeys. I am really big fan of the work that they do. Together, they have created a really advanced body of work, pushing new levels of unique story telling.