Inkstuds

Nao of Brown cartonist, Glyn Dillon joined me to chat about his new work as well as his early days in Vertigo.

Publisher, Cartoonist and general comics busyman, Box Brown joined me to chat on a variety of topics. Ranging from his Retrofit project, Secret Prison 7 and making his own work.

After quite some time, Inkstuds returns with another edition of a critics roundtable. As usual, I am joined by a stellar group of amazing critics. Jeet Heer, Tom Spurgeon and Joe McCulloch round up this edition and bring their top game.

Our reading material was

Pope Hats Issue 3 – Ethan Rilly

Los Bros Hernandez – Love and Rockets: New Stories Vol 5

Peter Bagge – Reset

Gabrielle Bell – The Voyeurs

Everything Together – Sammy Harkham

The Blonde Woman – Aidan Koch

A Chinese Life – Li Kunwu and P Ôtié

Toronto cartoonist, Nina Bunjevac joined me to chat about her new collection, Heartless, from Conundrum press. It’s a fine piece of work that weaves together a lot of interesting comics traditions into a very powerful personal work.

The last time that I had Michael Deforge on, he had a handful of comics and was just another talented young guy at TCAF. Since then, his work has grown and progressed, reflecting his status as a highly talented and widely respected creator in the medium. His latest work is issue 4 of Lose, co-editing and appearing in the excellent anthology series, The Thickness, as well as pile of mini-comics and anthologies deeper than I can list and lastly, his Ant Colony strip that will be published by Drawn and Quarterly.

Just in time for the election, I chatted with Barack Hussein Obama cartoonist, Steven Weissman. Steven will be doing a signing with inkstuds favorite, Ron Regé Jr this sunday at Skylight Books in LA. Read this great little interview that Fantagraphics posted in regards to the event.

It’s been a while since Eddie Campbell had been in on, and I love any chance I can have to talk to him about comics. Eddie’s latest work is The Lovely Horrible Stuff co-published by Topshelf and Knockabout. We also talk about some upcoming work, including the From Hell Companion.

Noah Van Sciver returned to the studs to talk about his latest book, The Hypo. It’s a great piece of work on young Lincoln through his melancholic years. I really like the work that Noah creates and am enjoying his latest project on the Expositor Comics website he runs with recent studs guest, Joseph Remnant.

Noah will be in Vancouver for a signing at Luckys comics on November 4th from 4 – 6pm. I will be there and hope you will be too.

Belgium born cartoonist, Olivier Schrauwen joined me to discuss his work, including the Man Who Grew His Beard. We also covered a plethora of upcoming work like The Greys and the book he is doing about his Grandfather, Arsene Schrauwen that will most likely be available at the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Fest in November and at finer stores like Bergin St Comics, Floating World or Desert Island.

To mark the launch of his Cerebus Downloads project, Dave Sim joined me to discuss Cerebus, his upcoming work published by IDW and a wide variety of other topics. We were also joined by IDW publisher, Ted Adams, and special projects editor, Scott Dunbier.