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This week Part-Time Fanboy crosses international waters once again to chat with Scottish artist and graphic designer Chris Baldie! Baldie recently wrapped up the Kickstarter campaign for his almost dialogue free comic book, Jacques and the Great Art Theft! Chris has also published other comics on his own such as Space Captain, Rolled a One, and We Said Goodbye to Gravity and his work happens to be one of Kristian’s favorite finds of this year! On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast Kristian sits down with Chris to bond over their love of Mike Mignloa and Hellboy, talk about how he developed his wonderful European style of cartooning, and break down how he puts his comics together!

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Lynsey G and Jayel Draco are a couple who run their own publishing company…Oneshi Press. To date they have published twelve sequential art anthologies based on different artists’ interpretations of a theme. Their current and thirteenth collection of short stories, Cohorts, is currently funding on Kickstarter. The stories in Cohorts explore how people of all different backgrounds can come together to work towards a common goal, fight a similar enemy, or come to an understanding. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Lynsey and Jayel about their eighteenth (!) Kickstarter launch, how they come up with the ideas for each collection of short stories, and the challenges of funding crowdsourcing projects whose subject matter isn’t always the same.

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Richard Fairgray is a comic book creator who loves Los Angeles. Originally from New Zealand, Richard considers LA his home away from home. Part of the reason he loves it there is because of all of the crazy characters and adventures one can meet and have there without even looking for them. He channels some of the experiences he’s had in the city in the latest volume of his comic, Haunted Hill…which is now funding on Kickstarter. This week on the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Richard about why he thinks The City of Angels is such a terrific place, how he uses his experiences there in his writing, and how his artistic process works when he’s crafting his comic pages.

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In 2019 the idea of composting human remains as an environmentally friendly alternative to funerals or cremation became a reality in the state of Washington. Writers Scott Duvall and Sean Reliford took note of this new way to dispose of the dearly departed and wondered what would happen if the dead came back not as your typical zombie, but as Swamp Thing/Groot-like vegetative tree creatures with sentience. Thus was born the idea of Going Green…a new comic book series debuting this week on the Zoop crowdfunding platform. This week on the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Duvall and Reliford about their novel approach to the undead, how their relationships towards life and death helped shape their concept, what movies and comics have influenced them to create their own comic book story, and why they should all go out and form the Sarah Polley Appreciation Society.

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Rise is a new superhero comic book by writer Trevor Fernandes-Lenkiewicz (currently funding on Kickstarter) in which he explores the concept of what if a Superman-like superhero could only do good deeds…if he felt good? What would a superhero do if his powers only came to the forefront when he felt positive about himself? In Rise, Trevor explores issues of masculinity and what it means to be a man in today’s society. To many people, the superhero myth is a male power fantasy in which a physically imposing figure solves his problems through violence and intimidation but in Rise Fernandes-Lenkiewicz hopes to take a deeper look at that dynamic and pull it apart a bit. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Trevor about what it means to be a man, how toxic masculinity and the pressures of modern society can affect men, and what that all means for superheroes in today’s popular fiction.

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Happy Halloween! What better way to welcome the horrific holiday than to chat about a spine-tingling new sequential art tale! The Feeding is a graphic novel currently funding on Zoop! It tells the Twilight Zone-like tale of a petrifying painting that does more than inspire artistic inspiration! Writer David Booher and artist Drew Zucker, most famously known for their all-ages fantasy comic Canto, decided they needed a change of pace when it came making comics…so they decided to do something completely different and make a horror comic! On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian sits down with David and Drew to discuss what made them want to make a horror book, how difficult it was to take a break from a comic they’d been focusing on creating for years, and what different creative muscle groups they had to flex when it came time to embrace the dark side of comic book creation!

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Chris Northrop and Mark Schey met online during the toughest days of the COVID pandemic. With the comic book and entertainment industry facing complete shutdowns both of them decided to take opportunity from disaster and form their own production company, Horrible Future. Together they came up with the idea of a science fiction anthology that would tell the stories revealed in the recordings of the black box recorders from crashed spaceships…that they would call Black Box Chronicles! Eventually they would gather some of the best artists in the comic industry such as David Mack and Michael Avon Oeming to become part of their gorgeous and beautifully written sci-fi compilation. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian has a conversation with Chris and Mark that dives into the nitty-gritty of producing a first-class anthology book, why it’s important to treat your collaborators with respect and understanding, and why they decided to form their own comic production company at a time when the industry was literally facing an existential crisis!

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Patrick Coyle is a creator who started his comics career as the publisher of the online comic book website known as Komikwerks. Through Komikwerks Patrick was able to fulfill a lifelong dream of being able to aid in the creation and distribution of the work of some of the field’s moist renowned creators including the likes of Stan Lee, Tom Mandrake, and Dwayne McDuffie. Now Patrick is creating comics of his own and his most recent effort, Bixby Grant Private Eye: Fangs and Brimstone, just kicked off a Kickstarter campaign this week. Bixby Grant tells the tale of a former police officer who’s been tainted with the curse of an ancient mummy and turns to sleuthing in order to make a living. It mixes the best elements of Batman the Animated Series with Hellboy and adds a dash of Scooby-Doo to form a perfect comic book experience for the Halloween season! This week on the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian commiserates with Patrick over their love of jazz and old movies and they talk about the inspirations behind Bixby Grant and how Patrick initially got into the comic book industry.

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It’s a two podcast week! Why? Because David Pepose has returned to the podcast! It’s been a while since David’s been to the Part-Time Fanboy clubhouse to have a chat and since that time he’s moved on to the big leagues writing books like The Fantastic Four and The Savage Avengers for Marvel Comics! This month David returns to his indie roots with a horror book from Mad Cave Studios called The Devil That Wears My Face! On this episode of the podcast, Kristian chats with David about why he finally decided to write a horror series, how a certain John Woo directed movie inspired his story, and how he used that inspiration to craft an original take on the exorcism sub-genre!

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Jerry Carita is a creative who made his bones as a producer in the reality TV industry. While working on Kevin Smith‘s Comic Book Men he would consistently find himself in a comic book shop. Before he knew it, he’d started reading books like Robert Kirkman‘s The Walking Dead and became bewitched under the siren spell of sequential media. Now he’s creating his own book, currently funding on Kickstarter, called Cicada Samurai. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Jerry about how a bug that spawns every seventeen years inspired him to create his own comic, how Cicada Samurai is an allegory for the challenges of parenting, and how Kevin Smith inspired them both to chase their creative dreams.

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