That Comic Smell

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“They buried us but they didn’t know we were SEEDS”

The exact statement that is on the back of the book for this incredible book and the folks here take a deep dive into what makes it a great first issue.

Welcome to That Comic Smell Podcast. David, Nando, Giuseppe, Mike and Tom get into “The Seeds” by Ann Nocenti and David Aja. They also explore briefly what creations are behind this team and how they came to be on a comics on the great Karen Berger’s line at Dark horse “Berger Books”

We also get a look into how extensive Nando’s research head can go when faced with something he loves.

This and all the usual comics chat on the only comics podcast to have actually been grown in a garden…

That Comic Smell!

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Here are some of the titles mentioned:

Daredevil (Ann Nocenti, John Romita Jr)

Marvel Fanfare (Ann Nocenti , David Mazzucchelli)

Star Wars (Ann Nocenti, Bret Blevins)

Spider-man: Life in the Mad Dog Ward (Ann Nocenti, Cynthia Martin)

Longshot (Ann Nocenti, Arthur Adams)

Hawkeye (David Aja, Matt Fraction)

Immortal Iron Fist (David Aja, Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, Travel Foreman)

Scarlet Witch [Covers] (David Aja)

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TOP 3 CREATORS. GO!!

Is exactly what we did to our guest on episode 27 of That Comic Smell.

We were joined by the oh so amazing Olivia Hicks! (2000AD writer, Betty & Veronica and Cloak & Dagger Lover)

We all bring our own top 3 creators to the table and one by one present them and discuss some of the works that really made us decide that they were the ones for us.

There is also many a usual wild tangent and what we have currently been reading.

All that and so much more on the only podcast that can be understood by household pets and various wild birds.

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Here are some of the titles mentioned:

Nando:

John Byrne - Hulk, Fantastic Four, X-men

Moebius - Lt Blueberry, The Incal, Silver Surfer

Paco Roca - Wrinkles, El Invierno del disbujante, Los Sucos del azar

David:

Sam Henderson - Magic Whistle, Humour can be funny

Mary Fleener - Life of the Party, Slut Burger

Al Williamson - Star Wars

Mike:

Akira Toriyama - Dragon Ball, Dr Slump

Bill Finger - Batman

Walter Simonson - Thor

Olivia:

Kate Beaton - Hark a Vagrant

Katie Skelly - My Pretty Vampire

Kathleen Jacques - Band vs Band

Giuseppe:

Sergio Aragonés - Groo the Wanderer, M.A.D, Bogie Man

Bryan Talbot - The Tale of one Bad Rat, Grandville

Darick Robinson - (w/Warren Ellis) Transmetropolitan (w/Garth Ennis) The Boys

Tom:

Derf - Trashed, My Friend Dahmer, The City

Daniel Clowes - David Boring, Ghost World, Wilson

Bill Watterson - Calvin & Hobbes

Some Honourable Mentions:

Tony Millionare - Mackies

Todd McFarlane - Spider-man/Venom

Garth Ennis - Preacher

Kate Leth - Patsy Walker AKA Hellcat

David Robertson - Dump I,II&III, Zero Sum Bubblegum, Wow! Retracted, Bezerkatron

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AY UP! It's only ruddy bloody British Comics... INIT?!

Hello folks and welcome to another episode of the only podcast to come to you through the far reaches of time and space. That Comic Smell!

This time the folks here are talking Britannia. We delve into the world of British comics and talk about some of our very own shining examples of what we have collected from this side of the pond over the years. You'll notice that one of us truly out shines the rest.

Then it's on to the usual recommendations, what we've been reading and so much more.

So get that kettle boiled, grab a fresh packet of hob nobs and join us at the table for some comics time!!

Here are some of the titles we discuss:

Beano

Dandy

Commando

Toxic

Shuggie & Duggie

Victor

Warlord

Battle

200AD

Eagle

Whizzer & Chips

Roy of the Rovers

Oink!

Tiger & Scorcher

Nutty

Hot Spur

Champ

Topper

Hoot

Valiant

Viz

Scream (All Various Artists, writers and publishers although surprisingly a lot of DC Thomson)

D.R. & Quinch (Alan Moore, Alan Davis)

Classwar (Rob Williams, Trevor Hairsine, Travel Foreman)

Batman & Judge Dredd (Various 2000AD but mainly, Alan Grant, John Wagner, Simona Bisley, Todd Klein)

Some Comics by Stephen Collins (Stephen Collins)

The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil (Stephen Collins)

Various Small Press Comics (Treehouse, Sol, The Works of Our Very own David Robertson, Video Games For Good, Left, Hot Schitt, Awesome Comics, Wired up Wrong, The Devil in Disguise, DTH RTL, FLD, Space Captain, The Never Ever After and much much more)

Jack Falls

Terror from the Other Side (Joan Edam {Jon Adam})

Saltire (John Ferguson)

Suffragette (Mary M Talbot, Kate Charlesworth, Bryan Talbot)

Shako (John Wagner, Pat Mills, Ramon Sola)

Young Death (John Wagner, Peter Doherty)

Sláine (Pat Mills, Angela Kincaid)

Robo-Hunter (John Wagner, Ian Gibson)

Grandville (Bryan Talbot)

Spleenal (Nigel Auchterlounie)

Little Star (Andi Watson)

Alec - How to be an Artist (Eddie Campbell)

Monster Fun

WOOHOO! We are two years old, TODAY!!!

Yes, just 2 short years ago we decided to start recording our comics chit chatter and haven't looked back since. It's been such a great 2 years as well, from being approached by publishers and creators to review their work to making a tremendous amount of comics friends. All by way of this little podcast as well. We want to thank each and everyone of you for supporting us this past 2 years and we look forward to many more.

To celebrate, we have this brand new episode in which the folks here discuss some of the books we received and/or bought recently. There is also a little added part by Tom where he goes through even more recent titles since the podcast was originally recorded. With titles from people such has Avery Hill, Good Comics, Lucy Sullivan, ComixTribe, Matt Garvey, Awesome Comics, Little Heroes and so much more.

So sit back, relax and raise a glass to That Comic Smell Podcast... the little nipper is growing up so fast! *sniff*

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Cause it's Friday, Friday, Gotta get down on Friday!! Evrybody is excited for the... New episode!!

Yes, in this weeks episode we sat down with the incredibly talented, dedicated and hard working pair behind the Ink Pot studios (https://twitter.com/InkPotStudio) Inkthology comic, Rebecca Horner(https://twitter.com/reekus) & Catriona Laird (https://twitter.com/OwlRoostArt)

We talk what, where, when and who was involved in creating the anthology coming from the Dundee Comics Studio within the Dundee Comics Creative Space (https://twitter.com/DundeeComicsCS)

We also just have a general comics chit chat and enjoy some biscuits.

You can find Rebecca's work here:

https://www.rebeccahorner.com/

You can find Catriona's work here:

https://www.catrionalaird.co.uk/

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The great LL Cool J once said "Don't call it a come back!" and you you really shouldn't, we've only been away a couple of months.

We are back folks and we are back with a brand new plan of attack... Did we say attack? We meant Theme song. Yes, the incredible "Chartsmasher" AKA. @JoanEdam with his track "Dial Up" is the official theme of That Comic Smell Podcast and we could not be happier about it.

This is just a short episode to ease y'all back into the swing of things around here and we will be bi-weekly from there on out.

David, Mike and Tom all went to the magnificent Glenrothes Comic Con and afterwards took a trip to Edinburgh in search of some comics gold! During lunch the boys unveiled their swag from the day.

So join us on our dinner date after a full day of comics.

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Welcome to a very special episode of That Comic Smell podcast in which we have the extra special creators of Treehouse Comics (https://twitter.com/treehousecomic?lang=en) in TCSPod HQ!

Stuart and Neil very kindly dropped by to talk all things comics with David, Mike, Tom and Nando. They gave us a little insight into how they got started, their creative process, what they think about comics, cons and so much more.

We had Nando coming through to ask questions via. Skype. (Warning: Rather Loud)

It's veritable Treehouse bonanza as Mike and David are both heavy contributors to the Treehouse anthologies also and give their point of view on what it's like to put forward their pieces to the collective and how they find that experience overall.

So sit back, relax and enjoy the newest sunshine (Weather not guaranteed) on the only podcast to be coming to you from and actual Treehouse (Location not guaranteed)

That Comic Smell

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What is love? Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more...

-Haddaway

Welcome! to a brand new episode of That Comic Smell. You're gonna LOVE this one... I'm sorry.

In this episode the folks here dive head first into the real heart of comics. They discuss different kinds of love in comics, what some of their favourite picks are with love as a theme and even some in the title and really pump through some amazing books (ok, the puns are done. Hand on heart, I promise)

We then wrap things up by having a little talk on some books we were very kindly sent by Centrala publishing. Have a little listen and pick out a good one to grab for yourself http://centrala.org.uk/

All of this and much much more on the only podcast that comes to you in 4D!! (Not guaranteed to actually come in 4D)

That Comic Smell!!

Here are the titles we discussed:

Le Scorpion (Stephen Desberg, Enrico Marini)

Raptors (Jean Dufaux, Enrico Marini)

The Far Side (Gary Larson)

Modern Slorance [Torts and Tinder] (Neil Slorance)

Blue is the Warmest Colour (Julie Maroh)

Love & Rockets (Los Bros Hernandez)

The Sculptor (Scott McCloud)

The Story of Sex [From Apes to Robots] (Laetitia Coryn, Philippe Brenot)

Ethel & Ernest (Raymond Briggs)

The Lovely Horrible Stuff (Eddie Campbell)

Weird Love (Various)

Boy in my Pocket [Billy Dogma] (Dean Haspiel)

X-men [Scott and Jean] (John Byrne)

Spider-man Annual

Drawn Together (Aline & R.Crumb)

Batman [Mad Love] (Paul Dini, Bruce Timm)

Samurai Executioner (Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima)

Silver Surfer [Rebirth of Thanos] (Jim Starlin)

Slaine [The King] (Pat Mills, Glenn Fabry)

The Mighty Thor (Walt Simonson)

Hellblazer (Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette)

Liberty Meadows (Frank Cho)

Blankets (Craig Thompson)

Saga (Brian K Vaughan)

Archie

Calvin & Hobbes (Bill Watterson)

Moscow (Øystein Runde, Ida Neverdahl)

Erik the Red (Søren Mosdal)

Comics Cookbook (Various)

Staring from the Hill (Norbert Rybarczyk)

Chernobyl [The Zone] (Francisco Sánchez, Natacha Bustos)

Forest Beekeeper and the Treasure of Pushcha (Tomasz Samojlik)

The Awesome Comics Anthology Volume 1 (Vince Hunt, Dan Butcher, Tony Esmond, Daniel Marchant, Nick Prolix)

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After some technical issues we are back online for 2018!

Hello folks and welcome to That Comic Smell Podcast Episode 20!! Can you believe that we have 20 in the bag so far?

In this episode the folks here discuss what they got fro crimbo, making our way around the table and unveiling what was hiding in santa's sack for us all.

In doing so however, we also discover what our best picks were for 2017, what we managed to get a hold of and what we thought ticked off that top spot for 2017.

So sit back, relax and pull up a chair.

Listen to the only podcast that ages like a fine wine... or a Tesco £3.99 deal, whatever you fancy.

That Comic Smell!

Here is a list of the titles we spoke about:

Grandville Vol. 5 (Bryan Talbot)

Lucy and Andy Neanderthals (Jeffery Brown)

We told you so comics as art (Story of Fantagraphics)

Wow! Retracted (The ever so talented David Robertson!)

Spitting image komic (Various)

Etrigan the demon (Jack Kirby)

Mister miracle (Jack Kirby)

How comics work (Dave Gibbons, Tim Pilcher)

Valerian (Pierre Christin, Jean-Claude Mézières)

Seven to eternity (Jerome Opeña and Rick Remender)

2000ad graphic novel collection (Various)

Fax from sarajevo (Joe Kubert)

Portugal (Cyril Pedrosa)

Wired up wrong (Rachael Smith)

Our super American adventure (Sarah Graley)

Trashed (Derf Backderf)

World of madina

Iznogoud (René Goscinny, Jean Tabary)

The coming of galactus (Jack Kirby, Stan Lee)

Dilbert (Scott Adams)

Providence (Alan Moore, Jacen Burrows)

Untitled apes epic adventure (Steven Tillotson)

Shoalin cowboy (Geof Darrow)

Baking with Kafka (Tom Gauld)

Avery Hill (Publisher)

Good Comics (Publisher)

Micronauts (Bill Mantlo, Michael Golden)

FIRE!! (Peter Bagge)

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Well folks, it’s been one hell of a year. 2017 has had ups and downs for everyone. Although, here at “That Comic Smell” it’s been only ups.

Thank you so much everyone. We have had one hell of a year. Approached by publishers to review their books (thanks to Avery Hill and Centrala) got given other folks books out of sheer kindness (thank you Bob Turner, Rozi Hathaway Good Comics) and discovered a whole world of small press and incredible creators. None of this would have happened had it not been for doing this podcast. We have loved every minute of it. We just get together and gab each month and you folks are so kind to listen to our ramblings each time. We want to thank all of you from the bottom of our hearts. Here's to the coming year, plenty more pods and whatever is ahead in the coming year, for all of us and you folks out there!

To celebrate here is our latest episode that was recorded just before Christmas where we had some dinner and talked “Calvin and Hobbes”

Afterwards we reviewed some books that we were kindly sent and some that we just really wanted to speak about.

So folks, have a great 2018 and enjoy what’s left of 2017.

Cheers.

These are some of the titles discussed:

Ismyre – B.Mure

FLD – Bob Turner

Self-Care & Vegetables – Rozi Hathaway

New York (A Holiday to Remember) – Elizabeth Querstret

SID – Olivia Sullivan

Stir Fry – Sarah Crosby

It’s Cold in the River at Night – Alex Potts

Modern Slorence: Torts and Tinder – Neil Slorance

Happy New Year!