Surviving Creativity

Continuing last weeks conversation on conventions Brad, Scott, and Cory talk conventions from an exhibitors standpoint. As more cons pop up across the world sales are dropping. Who's to blame? Is it adapt or die? Did those hellion cosplayers ruin it all?! Get your carnival out of my convention or bring on the geeks!? We cover the gamut and solve all the worlds problems on this weeks Surviving Creativity!

We're joined this week by Emerald City Comicon (ECCC) founder Jim Demonakos and ReedPOP Global VP Lance Fensterman. With the announcement that ECCC would be joining the ReedPOP family question abound and we're here to get some answers! Who is ReedPOP? What do they want with ECCC's Minions? WILL THE PRICE OF SOFT PRETZELS GO UP AT THE FOOD COURT?! It's hard-hitting investigative podcasting on Surviving Creativity.

Be a fly on the wall in Toonhound Studios this week as we record the room! We talk about Elonis vs US, a supreme court case about online harassment. That leads right into a convo about gender and race equality in comics and gaming which, of course, leads to the most controversial topic of all... Star Wars.

The guys are getting grumpy and showing their age! This week on the show: the FCC gets some suggestions from the Obama Administration on where they can stick their net neutrality, Social Media gets a scolding, and we discuss the dangers of believing what you read. Seriously, we might as well have canes and be sitting in rocking chairs on a porch, drinking lemonade and yelling at the neighborhood kids... actually that doesn't sound so bad!

We're joined this week by the only cartoonist who could ever be mistaken for Matthew Quigley, Mr. Chris Schweizer. We're talking Critics and Criticism: how it affects the creative process, the creator to critic relationship, and the future of criticism. Also, Guigar get's "skymalled" and the whole crew goes full Mamet. Guard your earholes, it's another Surviving Creativity!

Jack is back! Our first, and arguably favorite, guest joins us again to talk about what's happened to Patreon. Specifically the fifteen million dollars they just acquired in Series A funding! What does this mean for Patreon, the site, the users, and the creators? What does it mean for Jack?! Is this the future of all new media business? We ask these questions and many more in this weeks Surviving Creativity!

This week, your childhood! We welcome former Disney Animator Tom Bancroft. You've probably seen his work but here's a short list: Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Lion King, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tarzan, Atlantis, Brother Bear. We talk all about the animation industry, the shift to digital, and the current wage fixing case against the Hollywood studios, Techtopus (no really, that's what they call it).

This week Brad, Cory, and Scott are joined by special guest and cartoonist extraordinaire Dylan Meconis (Family Man, Bite Me). Together we review the Penn & Teller documentary Tim's Vermeer and ask ourselves the essential questions of art: what defines it, who's cheating, and in what year did Dutch traders begin importing and selling coffee to the masses.

It's a battle of the titans and Brad, Scott, & Cory here to officiate... from our armchairs. Cory does his best to dispel the Amazon/Hachette contract debate, Scott Hulks-out (© & ™ Marvel/Disney) on the Jack Kirby estate, and Brad flies a helicopter. It's another gripping episode of Surviving Creativity!

It's a double sized Surviving Creativity in which we spend half the episode singing Spanish Flea, half reminiscing about the NCS, and half talking about the Billy Ireland Cartoon Art Library. That's right, an episode so big it's got three halves!

Dave Kellett's "The Freeing of the Comics" Lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzRival4atI

Creepy Anti-Cable Commercials from the 1970's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIgZHZpiq1U

Delve.tv Video Essays: http://delve.tv/essays/