The Cartoon Pad

This episode The Cartoon Pad welcomes MAD illustrator Ed Steckley! Ed is an amazing caricaturist and illustrator, his new book, "Rube Goldberg and His Amazing Machines" (written by Brandon T Snider) is out now! He discusses his beginnings, his time at MAD as well as his many Rube Goldberg books! See all of Ed's work here https://www.edsteckley.com/ and get his book here https://amzn.to/3H2sCkU

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The pad goes LIVE to answer cartoon questions. Bob discusses cartoon tropes and Shaw balances a cat on his neck. You won't want to miss this one.

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This episode on The Cartoon Pad the guys welcome Too Much Coffee Man, Shannon Wheeler to share his colorful stories of his career- creating legendary underground comics, operas, books, and loads more! Pick up some of his work at http://www.tmcm.com

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This week The Cartoon Pad has on the new Gag Cartoonist of the Year winner as recently selected by the National Cartoonist Society, Ellis Rosen. Ellis is a wonderfully talented New Yorker cartoonist, and his new book, with Jon Adams, 'Send Help' A collection of marooned cartoons, is available now. LINK: https://amzn.to/3rxizjv

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One of the most prolific cartoonists in the New Yorker, Michael Maslin comes on the show to chew the fat about everything cartoon-eccentric from Peter Arno to his own cartooning today. Topics range from James Thurber to Charles Addams to stacking wood. Must Listen to Cartoon Pad!

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This episode of The Cartoon Pad chats with cartoonist, author, and comedy performer Hilary Campbell! We discuss her lifelong obsession with true crime, which led to her new book, "Murder Book" Out now. See more of her work at http://www.cartoonsbyhilary.com/

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One of the most prolific and decorated in cartooning, Peter Kuper, hangs out at the Cartoon Pad to explain why he is so driven and so dog-gone politically charged. Check out all of his books, see his work, and upcoming events at https://www.peterkuper.com/

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This episode of The Cartoon Pad we chat with comic book writing icon Ron Marz! He's truly a master of comic multi-universes, well known for his work on Silver Surfer and Green Lantern, as well as the Marvel vs DC crossover and Batman/Aliens. He also worked on the CrossGen Comics series Scion, Mystic, Sojourn, and The Path. At Dark Horse Comics he created Samurai: Heaven and Earth and various Star Wars comics. Marz’ current project is RESOLUTION— an epic tale of an outer-space corps of heroes who return from their world of solitude to bring a former arch-nemesis to justice. RESOLUTION is an epic new tale by the masters of cosmic storytelling, presented as an oversized hardcover graphic novel.

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BONUS CONTENT: A Cartoon Pad mini podcast recording drama queen co-host Bob Eckstein’s dismay at co-host Michael Shaw’s appearance on the competing Cartoon Caption Contest podcast and why Michael can’t be interesting on HIS own podcast.

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This episode of The Cartoon Pad welcomes the amazing Marisa Acocella. Marisa, who after being an art director at a major Madison Avenue ad agency went on to become a New York Times bestseller and renown New Yorker cartoonist. She is also a very active philanthropist, creating a foundation to help breast cancer patients. Her new book 'The Big She-Bang: The Herstory of the Universe According to God the Mother' is available now.

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