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Casey Allen is a former musician who’d always loved comics. He’d stopped collecting for a while until he was working for a moving company which just happened to be a couple of blocks away from a comic shop. On a whim, he went into the shop and found his passion for comics re-ignited. After that he became involved with a website called The Comic Jam…which gathers creators of all kinds to create short-form comics just because they love making sequential art. Through that site he met Dan Price and together they started co-writing a book called Bigfoot Knows Karate…a slam bang comic book about a Sasquatch who walks the Earth, has adventures, and fights creatures with names like Kung Fu’thulhu! This week saw the debut of the latest chapter in the BKK saga on Kickstarter. It’s a one shot spinoff which finds the missing link in feudal Japan called Bigfoot Knows Karate: Hinagon! On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Casey about how he became the co-writer of Bigfoot Knows Karate and how he stepped forward to become main writer on this chapter of Bigfoot’s adventures!

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Phil Mucci is a filmmaker and a writer who has a passion for horror. In particular, the terror filled tales of legendary directors like Dario Argento, Mario Bava, and Lucio Fulci. He’s taken his affection for that particular genre and created his own comic book tribute to the horror masters of old! Professor Dario Bava: Orgy of the Blood Freaks, along with the Frankenstein-like western Gringo Loco, is part of Mucci’s Diabolik Double Feature…a giant-sized comic that is reminiscent of fan favorite horror magazines such as Eerie and Creepy. The Diablok Double Feature is currently funding its second issue on Kickstarter. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Phil about the importance of the gorgeous cover art he’s commissioned for his books, why horror fandom seems to be more open to new properties than comic book fans, and how the cultural landscape has changed from the days when they first got into collecting comics and watching movies.

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ARKS is a science fiction series which Kristian considers to be the craziest, most original, and most compelling comic book story he’s read in a long, long time. Built around the complex idea of abiogenesis, ARKS details the “journey” of two interstellar space travelers from Earth who have been commissioned with traversing the stars and setting up a human colony on another planet. The voyagers in ARKS, however, are pioneers unlike any ever seen in the pages of a graphic novel. ARKS tells the story of the Adam/Eve/Lilith myth through a warped lens which presents a completely different kind of sci-fi tale. ARKS: Proximan is the latest chapter in the ARKS saga. It’s a spinoff of the original series and its Kickstarter campaign launches today. This week on the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian crosses the pond once again to chat with UK storyboard artist, Rory J. Collins, to talk about the genesis of his incredibly unique sci-fi story. They talk about how he came up with the idea, how he was able to explore and express complex scientific concepts in his comic, and how he broke down the notions in ARKS to the artists who helped him illustrate the story.

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Brett Weldele is an artist who’s been in the comic book industry for a long time. He’s worked on several properties during his time illustrating comics but is probably best known for contributing his artistic skill to the graphic novel The Surrogates…which was turned into a motion picture starring Bruce Willis. For the past three years or so, Weldele has been working on a project called Starlite. Starlite tells the story of what happens when a pair of famous super kids age out of their powers and have to contend with growing up in a world that’s forgotten them. The sixth, and penultimate, issue of Starlite is currently funding on Kickstarter. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Brett about how the classic Marvel comic Power Pack inspired the creation of this Kickstarter comic project and how he’s gone about creating the visual aesthetic that makes up the world of Starlite.

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Barney Smith is a cartoonist and writer who decided to bring a little humor into the world when it became a much darker place in 2020. While most people were arguing over politics and whether or not to wear facemasks, Barney decided he would post one joke a day on his social media feed. Over time he had cultivated and created enough jokes that he brought them together into a book called Dad Jokes. As time went on it turned out he had enough fun puns and silly witticisms to make a sequel: Dadder Jokes…which is currently funding on Kickstarter. This week Kristian chats with Barney about what inspired him to pull together his collection of laughable language, why humor doesn’t have to be disparaging towards other people, what makes a good “Dad Joke”, and the evolution of the father figure over time in the pop culture landscape!

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Richard Fairgray is a New Zealand comic creator who may be best known for his all ages comic book Blastosaurus. In the past several years, Richard has turned away from telling stories for kids to tackling comics with a more mature aesthetic. His latest book Four-Color Heroes, now out by Fanbase Press, explores how a friendship develops between two teenage boys through their discovery of comic books and then grows into a deeper romantic relationship. On this episode of Part-Time Fanboy, Kristian chats with Richard about his love of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, why he considered Blastosaurus an albatross holding him back from making the comics he really wanted to make, and what it took for him to shift gears into creating books with themes he really wanted to explore.

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Gabe Cheng is a comics creator who is a fan of sci-fi comedy. With his past two original projects, Crashlands and The Problem With Parallels, he’s created fun stories that are evocative of one of his favorite television shows, Futurama. With his current Kickstarter project, Requiem in Relke, Gabe takes his storytelling into a decidedly darker direction. Inspired by current events and his feelings about his own heritage, Gabe has crafted a powerful sci-fi allegory that deals with issues of bigotry and oppression. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Gabe about what inspired him to switch emotional gears and why he decided it was time to finally work with a publisher to help fund his latest comic (Warden Comics).

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Josh Eiserike is a writer who doesn’t see himself as an expert on the horror genre. His last two comic book projects, however, have had their roots firmly entrenched in the thriller/horror style of storytelling. In The Very Final Last Girls, Josh explored the idea of what happens to “Final Girls” after their scary movies ended. In his new series, Charm City, his story revolves around a series of murders that occur to members of a secretive magic wielding society within the city of Baltimore. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Josh about why he keeps getting drawn into crafting tales of terror, how a bout of depression during the Covid pandemic led him to submit a script to the publisher of Charm City (Scout Comics), and how he made the decision to draw certain segments of the book on his own!

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Here Comes the Dragon Punch is an all-ages kung fu ninja fighting comic created by artist Markus Pattern! Pattern created HCTDP as an homage to anime and manga (and anime and manga-inspired) titles like Dragonball Z, Street Fighter, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The second chapter of Here Comes the Dragon Punch debuts tomorrow on Webtoons! On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy Podcast, Kristian chats with Markus about what motivated him to create his own pseudo manga comic, the development of his own unique digital art technique, and why inking may not be a necessary step in the comics making process when creating a self published comic book.

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Jack Harris Jr. found the inspiration to create his comic while while writing a rap song. Years ago Harris Jr. was part of the rap group Digital Atlanta and while coming up with one of his rhymes he decided to turn its narrative into a comic book. The result is Terminus Veil…an action packed conspiracy thriller that owes much of its origins to Ghost in the Shell and Jim Lee’s WildC.A.T.S.! This week Kristian chats with Jack about the Kickstarter campaign for Terminus Veil, the musical, anime, and comic book inspirations behind the book, and how he went from creating hip hop songs to creating comic books!

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