Inkstuds

This week, I was joined by a round table of swell critics to discuss their picks for the previous year. Christopher Butcher, Tucker Stone and Bill Kartalopoulos provided for a great hour of conversation.

The books discussed are

Bodyworld by Dash Shaw

Michael Deforge’s collective output

Love & Rockets New Stories #3 by Los Bros Hernandez

The Wrong Place by Brecht Evens

Xed Out by Charles Burns

Young Lions by Blaise Larmee

Acme 20 aka Lint by Chris Ware

Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco

Michael DeForge, Zack Soto and Noah Van Sciver joined me for a look at some of the best comics of 2010. I wanted to hear from a selection of cartoonists to see what books stood out to them.The list of what we talked about is partial list put together by a selection of individual lists provided by the guests. There are an additional 30 comics that we did not talk about, that they identified.

We talked about –

Wilson by Daniel Clowes

Orc Stain by James Stokoe

Make Me a Woman by Vanessa Davis

Black Blizzard by Yoshihiro Tatsumi

Wild Kingdom by Kevin Huizenga

Wally Gropius by Tim Hensley

ACME 20 by Chris Ware

Lemon Styles by David King

Bodyworld by Dash Shaw

The first time I interviewed Renee French, was very early in the Inkstuds days. Thankfully I didn’t scare her off and she agreed to come back and catch up. Her latest book, H-Day seems like a new step in her work, really taking it to a new and wonderful place. She also has new work that has been serialized in Fantagraphics anthology, Mome.

Sanctuary cartoonist, Nate Neal and I yakked about his latest book, his work and Mome and other topics of general cartooning interest. Sanctuary has a really great language all to itself, and his work in Mome utilizes a while different skill set. Good comics.

Howdy, True Believers! Frankie Santoro here with a guest spot over on Inkstuds. I wanted to have some crossover blog action and asked Robin if he would be kind enough to host the audio of an interview I did with Kevin Huizenga and Jim Rugg at the Pittsburgh Indy Comics Expo back in October of this year. It was a good talk with lots of laughs. Please enjoy.

Chris Cilla‘s new book, The Heavy Hand is a great surreal trip. Chris has been doing work in various anthologies including Kramers Ergot, Paper Rodeo and more.

Photo courtesy of Brian Fukushima

This week was even crazier than last week’s fundraising show. I was joined by Brandon Graham, James Stokoe, Marley Zarcone, and the multi-talented Brian Fukushima. We were also had some fabulous call-ins from Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Fest programming director Bill Kartalopoulos, CCS librarian extraordinaire Jen Vaughn and long lost friend, Jordyn Bochon.

Fort Thunder alum, Brian Chippendale joins me for lengthy talk about his comics (Maggots, Ninja, Galacticrap, Puke Force and the brand new If-n-Oof), music (Lightning Bolt and Black Pus) and art. Brian is in a dog park while we did the interview, so expect some odd interludes.

Brian Fukushima and Robin Konstabaris joined me for fun filled hour of talk. It was really great, we managed to raise a good amount of funds for the station and had a blast doing it. Thanks to Joe Keatinge, Jordyn Bochon and Jordan Shiveley for calling in. Brian will be back next week along with Brandon Graham. If you want to call in, the number is 604-822-2487.

Special thanks to Annie Koyama for her swell comic donations.

And, you can check out Brian’s twitter songs here.

Matt Dembicki has put together a great comic anthology collecting and adapting First Nations folklore stories called Trickster.