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Joseph Illidge is a comic book jack-of-all-trades. Thoughout his career in comics he's helped guide the ship for various properties as both writer and editor. He began his career at Milestone Media and he guided the path for the Batman stable of characters in the DC universe, serving as editor during the compelling Batman: No Man's Land arc . Most recently he's been writing for Todd McFarlane and Images Comics on Bloodletter , wrapping up a run on Milestone's The Shadow Cabinet, as well as performing editing duties for the first ever Swat Kats comic book. This year he founded Illuminous, a creative agency dedicated to helping comic book creatives foster their characters and intellectual property into stories that have longevity and cultural importance. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian talks with Joseph about what he can do for creators who want their ideas to have lasting impact, what he thinks it takes in order to get your characters to go the distance, and why he thinks that creating a comic book property with a Hollywood deal in mind isn't the right way to approach making sequential art stories.

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Ellie Pyle is a creative professional who has a hand in developing all kinds of media. Comics, podcasts, television, games, and theater...you name it, she's been a part of it. Her versatile skill set has seen her work as an editor at Marvel and at DC's Vertigo imprint. She's been the Director of Creative Development at Marvel Television and is the creative lead on their fiction podcasts which include Squirrel Girl: The Unbeatable Radio Show, Wastelanders, and the Women of Marvel podcast. She's also the Executive Artistic Director of Bespoke Plays, a theater company in Los Angeles dedicated to fostering new works for the stage. Her latest work is writing a book for publisher Pan Universal Galactic Worldwide about the creation of the 2015 Marvel mega-event Secret Wars which is up for pre-order on Kickstarter right now. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Ellie about how she became involved in the writing of the book, how Secret Wars was in development for years at Marvel, and how she became a fan of comics and eventually found herself as one of the people actually within the hallowed halls of Marvel making comic books!

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Travis Webb is a writer who's comic Starlite was recently completed via several crowdfunding campaigns on Kickstarter. Since he was a teenager, Travis has been a fan of the cyberpunk genre, in particular of the Japanese manga and anime which made tales of a future world where cyborgs and giant mecha existed seem plausible. Then Travis discovered the films of director Albert Pyun. In movies like Cyborg and Nemesis, Pyun attempted to take the things that comics and animation had dreamed up and bring them into live action movies. Now, over three decades since the first Nemesis film debuted, Travis will begin a crowdsourcing campaign in January to fund a graphic novel sequel to the film with the blessing of Pyun's estate. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Travis about his love for Pyun's work, how he came into contact with the filmmaker's widow, and how comics are the perfect medium for the director's cyberpunk action stories.

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Clay Adams and David Schrader are a pair of creatives who make up the production company Bloodline Pictures. Over the past several years they have had lots of success crowdfunding their horror anthology series, Nightmare Theater, as well as a host of other Kickstarter projects. Their latest project, debuting on Kickstarter on November 18th, is A Very Carmilla Christmas Carol. It's a sequel to a series of stories that spun out of one of their original entries in the Nightmare Theater books and features the original vampire queen Carmilla, a character who predates Dracula by about 25 years. In their latest story they take Joseph La Fanu's creation and mix her with a bit of the old Charles Dickens X-Mas spirit. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with David and Clay about putting a vampiric spin on the beloved Holiday classic and what it is about Carmilla herself that they think is worth exploring in a media landscape that's full of all kinds of bloodsucking horrors stiving for people's attention.

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Happy Halloween! During the month of October Part-Time Fanboy continued its tradition of chatting about horror films during the Halloween season! Every week this month, Part-Time Fanboy welcomed some of their favorite indie creators to pick one of their favorite spooky movies and chat about them on the podcast! This week, we had a special treat leading up to the final day of the month: we focused on three different horror flicks!

To finish out the week of terror, Josh Eiserike (The Very Last Final Girls, Charm City, Pale of Settlement) joins Kristian and Part-Time Fanboy regular Yvis Cannavale to discuss the nineties mini-series, IT! Before Welcome to Derry, Stranger Things, and the 2017 and 2019 versions of IT, Stephen King's epic novel was made into a multi-part made-for-television event! On this All Hallows' Eve, Josh, Kristian, and Yvis chat about the original TV adaptation of King's mammoth book. Does it hold up after all this time? Who is the ultimate Pennywise? Which part was more effective, the chapter with the older cast or the younger cast? Find out on this episode of Part-Time Fanboy!

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It’s October! During the month of October Part-Time Fanboy continues its tradition of chatting about horror films during the Halloween season! Every week this month, Part-Time Fanboy welcomes some of their favorite indie creators to pick one of their favorite spooky movies and chat about it on the podcast! This week, we have a special treat leading up to the final day of the month: we’ll be focusing on three different horror flicks!

For the second pick of the Halloween week, comic book writer David Accampo (Spectral: Showcase of Fear, The Margins, Lost Angels) picks the supernatural detective yarn, Angel Heart! When private detective Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) gets hired to investigate the whereabouts of an amnesiac army vet, Angel gets pulled into a world filled with murder and mysticism. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast Kristian sits down with David and PTF regular Yvis Cannavale to discuss a movie that takes viewers through a seedy 1950's world in which all is not as it seems! What is the big mystery behind Johnny Favorite, the man Harry Angel has been tasked to locate? The answer may leave you as confused as Kristian, David, and Yvis were by the end of this episode of Part-Time Fanboy!

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It’s October! During the month of October Part-Time Fanboy continues its tradition of chatting about horror films during the Halloween season! Every week this month, Part-Time Fanboy welcomes some of their favorite indie creators to pick one of their favorite spooky movies and chat about it on the podcast! This week, we have a special treat leading up to the final day of the month: we'll be focusing on three different horror flicks!

This first pick for Halloween week comes from multi media artist Phil Mucci (Diabolik Double Feature)! To kick off the last week of October Phil chose the Ryan Coogler vampire movie Sinners! When twins Smoke and Stack Moore (Michael B. Jordan) return to the South after a striking it rich in the Chicago gangster scene, they decide to fulfill their dream of opening up their own juke joint. As they begin to put their plans in motion, they have to deal with the past they'd left behind and the nightmare creatures who plan to make the opening night of their establishment its last! On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast Kristian chats with Phil and friends of the podcast, artist Lauren Damon, and Joe Slepski (of the Joe on Joe Podcast) about the movie that opened the year up with a bang and which still may be the best film (horror or otherwise) of the year!

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David Pepose is a writer who's been making some serious waves in the comic book industry over the past several years. Recently he's been working on comic book adaptations of classic animated characters (Space Ghost, Captain Planet, Speed Racer), he's worked on Marvel comic properties (The Savage Avengers, Cable: Love and Chrome), and has created his own independently produced series (The Devil That Wears My Face, Scout's Honor). With all that incredible output of work, there was one segment of the comics business that he hadn't touched on yet: the all ages/kids' market. It's out of that desire to have a comic that would be OK for little kids to read that his latest book, Ten-Ton Titan Terrier was born. On this week's episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with David about how the passing of his own dog inspired him to create Ten-Ton Titan Terrier. David talks about how he took his beloved pet and made her into a pilot for a giant fighting mecha in a fun and heartfelt book that is a delight for readers of all ages!

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It’s October! During the month of October Part-Time Fanboy continues its tradition of chatting about horror films during the Halloween season! Every week this month, Part-Time Fanboy welcomes some of their favorite indie creators to pick one of their favorite spooky movies and chat about it on the podcast!

This week Kristian picks the late seventies Exorcist knockoff, The Manitou! When Karen Tandy (Susan Strasberg) becomes concerned after discovering a rapidly growing tumor on the back of her neck, she turns to old love interest and con-man Harry Erskine (Tony Curtis) for comfort. Their reunion sets them both down a path in which they will end up combatting a malevolent Native American spirit who is determined to use Karen's body as a vessel to usher in the Apocalypse! On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast Kristian subjects friends of the podcast Phil Mucci (The Diabolik Double Feature), Joe Slepski (The Joe on Joe Podcast), and PTF regular Yvis Cannavale to the schlock filled horror of The Manitou!

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In the funny animal kingdom, critters are represented by two separate but equally important characters: Purrlock and Marlowe. When a mystery is afoot, the crime solving pair leap into action. Paw and Order are their stories. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian sits down with the creator of Paw and Order, Jason Platt to discuss his adorable all-ages detective procedural. They chat about the challenges behind creating a mystery for younger readers, how Jason's effective use of large panels and word balloon placement help add a sense of fun filled drama to the book, and they take a deep dive into the digital tools Platt uses to illustrate the comic.

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