Shot X Shot Podcast

Shot X Shot welcomes renaissance cartoonist and editor Mark Siegel to the podcast. The founder and creative and editorial director of First Second Books, Mark is an accomplished writer and illustrator whose work includes the The Five Worlds quintology, Tiny Dancer, Sailor Twain, and Oskar and the Eight Blessings. A never-ending font of poetic inspiration and hilarious anecdotes, Mark and SXS host Kevin Gardner form the perfect comic book dad hurricane in this podcast. Enjoy.

We're celebrating Halloween in January with David Dastmalchian and Lukas Ketner—the black-clad creative team behind Count Crowley for Dark Horse Comics. Though most listeners may also know David from his acting roles in such films as The Dark Knight, Ant Man, and Suicide Squad, this renaissance man of the macabre is also an expert comic scribe who can weave suspense and terror in harmony with the expert pencils of Lukas Ketner (Witch Doctor, Kill the Minotaur!).

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HELLO AND WELCOME BACK! If you've been waiting for more deep dives into the world of comic art and storytelling, Brian, Sean, and Keven are elated to join comic artist Jorge Corona for two hours of discussion about about pencils, inks, and Venezuelan cuisine. The visual mastermind behind Image breakouts Middlewest, The Me You Love in the Dark, and so many covers is here to dive deep into process and technique.

Naomi Baker is a master artist of the fantastic, lending her brush behind the scenes of countless video games and, more recently, Marvel Studios movies. In this very special episode, she discusses her process, heavy metal sweet tooth, and comic book diet growing up.

Alright motherfluffers, our next guest is the creator of I Hate Fairyland and the co-creator/writer of Middlewest and The Me You Love in the Dark with artist Jorge Corona. That's right—we have Skottie Young on SxS, dangit. He talks about hip-hop. And girls (who are really aren't girls) with very large axes suspended in fantasy parodies. And building his own cartooning empire. Enjoy.

The Shot X Shot crossover for the ages:

• Incendiary director David Yarovesky, the subversive visionary behind Brightburn, Nightbooks, The Hive and beyond

• Seamus "Esoteric" Ryan, the spitfire master Czarface MC and author of the new graphic novel, Czarface: A Czar Is Born

• Alcohol

• Comics/Film/Music Havoc

• Weird hilarity you can't even fathom

Did you wake up and say to yourself "give me two and a half hours of the mad-brilliant artistic visionary behind The Boys, Space Bastards, Oliver, and Transmetropolitan? Yes. Yes you did. And here he is in all of his feverish glory: Darick Robertson.

A pre-eminent thought leader in illustration and character design, Lois Van Baarle (aka Loish) joins the Shot X Shot team from her native Netherlands to discuss color theory, confidence, and development. With clients ranging from LEGO to Guerrilla Games and Amazon, Loish's work is undeniable, defined in transportive magentas and purples and fluid linework. Enjoy.

Harley Quinn scribe Stephanie Phillips concludes her session by describing her kinetic run on Harley Quinn, what films she goes to for creative fuel (spoiler: a lot of Denis Villeneuve), and gives some hints on her upcoming projects.

Doctor, Muay Thai warrior, and ascendant comic book scribe Stephanie Phillips joins the latest Shot X Shot. Stephanie discusses her descent into the madness of Harley Quinn, her newly debuted run of the Batman villain drawn by Riley Rossmo. Join cohosts Brian Stelfreeze (Black Panther), Keven Gardner (12-Gauge Comics) and Sean Edgar (CoyDog Collective) to learn more about Stephanie's writing approach as well as her work on the Dark Horse series The Butcher of Paris.