The Panel Garden

Dani came by to talk about her new project, the Literary Tarot, where she organized and managed some of the most exciting talent on earth to put out a truly one of a kind tarot deck. Available now on Kickstarter.

GET YOURS NOW: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/brinklit/the-literary-tarot?ref=dbi2e8

Guest Bio

After the publication of her first novel at the age of eighteen, Dani Hedlund founded the international literary nonprofit Brink Literacy Project (formerly Tethered by Letters). Over the course of the last decade, Brink has grown into one of the largest independently-funded literary nonprofits in the nation, with bases across the US, UK, and Southeast Asia. She is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of F(r)iction, an art and literary collection specializing in boundary-defying work. Since its inception in 2015, F(r)iction has risen to critical acclaim, becoming one of the fastest-growing literary journals in the world. In her ever-elusive free time, Dani lectures about the ins and outs of the publishing industry writes very weird fiction, and runs a strange little board game company called Bad Hipster Games.

Guest Links

Dani's Twitter - https://twitter.com/dmhedlund?lang=en

Literary Tarot Twitter - https://twitter.com/LiteraryTarot
F(r)fiction - https://twitter.com/FrictionSeries

Bad Hipster Games - https://www.brexitgame.com/

Brink Lit, official website - https://www.brinklit.org/
Brink Lit Twitter - https://twitter.com/BrinkLitProject
Brink Lit Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BrinkLit/
Brink Lit Insta - https://www.instagram.com/frictionseries/

Ariana Maher came by to talk about comics production, lettering, and the process of building the comics we all love. Also discussed Marvel Voices Pride, and DC's Pride comic, both of which she worked on.

Guest Links

Official Website - https://www.arianamaher.com
Twitter - https://twitter.com/CommentAiry
Comicvine - https://comicvine.gamespot.com/ariana-maher/4040-85709/issues-cover/

Guest Bio

Ariana Maher (she/her) is a queer Brazilian American comic book letterer based in the Pacific Northwest. As a freelance letterer for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and numerous independent comics, her recent work includes Demon Days: X-Men, Silk, Crush & Lobo, Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins, and Marvel's Voices: Pride.

Eric came by to hang with Eva and talk about his latest project Black's Myth (now in Issue #2!), as well as his storytelling process, influences, and the unique way he sees the world.

Project Summary:

Meet Janie “Strummer” Jones—just an ordinary werewolf PI, trying to make it on the mean streets of LA. When the case of a lifetime falls into her lap, it’s up to her and her charming djinn assistant Ben Si’lat to figure out just how many silver bullets have been used, and just where do silver bullets come from anyway?

A new horror series from writer Eric Palicki (“a remarkable new voice in comics”—Jeph Loeb) and artist Wendell Cavalcanti, with lush covers by Liana Kangas (Trve Cvlt). Every AHOY book comes with extra prose stories and illustrations.

Issue 1 features a stunning variant cover by Jamal Igle (The Wrong Earth).

Check it out! https://comicsahoy.com/comics/blacks-myth-1

Guest Bio

Seattle-based writer and editor Eric Palicki has been making comics for more than ten years. His work includes stories written for Black Mask Studios, Marvel Comics, Darby Pop Publishing, Ahoy Comics, Dark Horse, A Wave Blue World, and more. As an editor, Eric’s work has been featured in the New York Times and nominated for a Ringo Award.

Guest Links

Official site - https://www.ericpalicki.com/
Poorly maintained blog - https://www.ericpalicki.com/blog-1
Twitter- https://twitter.com/ericpalicki
Insta - https://www.instagram.com/ericpalicki

CONTENT WARNING: THIS SHOW CONTAINS SERIOUS DISCUSSION ABOUT SEXUAL ABUSE AND TRAUMA. Listener discretion is advised.

Glenn came by to talk about his new book Chartwell Manner (available now). The discussion ranged from his creative process to the way he sees the industry, and comics in general.

Guest Bio:

Glenn Head was born in 1958 in Morristown, New Jersey, and began drawing comics when he was fourteen. His work has appeared in many places—from The Wall Street Journal to Screw. Others include The New York Times, Playboy, New Republic, Sports Illustrated, Advertising Age, Interview and Entertainment Weekly.

Glenn’s fine art has been exhibited in New York and across the country: Exit Art’s traveling cartoon art show, “Comic Power”; “Art and Provocation: Images from Rebels” at the Boulder Museum of Fine Art; and “The New York Press Illustrator Show” at CBGB’s Gallery. Head’s editorial cartooning appeared in the Inx show at Hofstra University.

In the early ‘90s, Glenn co-created (with cartoonist Kaz) and edited Snake Eyes, the Harvey Award-nominated cutting-edge comix anthology series. His solo books include Avenue D and Guttersnipe – an underground urban comix that capture the intense, gritty underbelly of street life. Head was a frequent contributor to the Fantagraphics’ comix anthology quarterly Zero Zero. The Simon & Schuster’s comic book anthology Mind Riot featured Glenn’s work – a collection of personal stories depicting teenage angst. His project, Head Shots, a sketchbook of cartoon art, followed.

From 2005 to 2010 Glenn edited and contributed to the Harvey and Eisner-nominated anthology HOTWIRE Comics (three issues). Over the past six years, Glenn created his graphic epic, Chicago. This coming-of-age memoir centers around a starry-eyed 19-year-old with dreams of underground comics glory as he encounters his heroes who faces homelessness, despair, insanity... and somehow survive.

The Project:

This May, Fantagraphics will publish CHARTWELL MANOR, cartoonist Glenn Head’s harrowing graphic memoir that details his two years at the now-defunct Mendham, NJ, boarding school run by a serial sexual and physical abuser of young boys.


“As a young child very little of the world made sense to me,” said Head. “Finding myself in Chartwell in the early ‘70s was like entering a real-world horror comic—depraved, criminal, and corrupting to so many who attended it. No one walked away unsullied.”


Telling his story with a raw honesty unparalleled in autobiographical comics today, Head never asks the reader to like him as he stares down the demons—substance abuse, sex addiction—born of his boarding school days. Struggling to make sense of his experience, he discovers in art the power to reshape the past, finding, finally, a ray of hope and perhaps even a sliver of forgiveness.


Advance Praise for CHARTWELL MANOR:

"This is a great graphic novel. I couldn’t put it down... Starkly honest, a powerful story...the level of merciless self examination...I was deeply impressed. Head has traveled a long way to get to this point. This is... well, okay, I’ll say it... A Masterpiece! Truly. Very few writers or artists ever reach this level of self-revealing truth. It’s good for the world..." —Robert Crumb

"Chartwell Manor is a painful, riveting and brutally honest memoir ― possibly the most honest one I’ve ever read. I loved it! This clearly took a lot of guts to produce, as well as a lifetime to process!" —Peter Bagge

Get your copy at: https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/chartwell-manor?_pos=1&_sid=9388d4817&_ss=r

Guest Links:
Glenn's Website - http://glennohead.com/
Insta - https://www.instagram.com/glennheadcomics
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/pages/GOH-Comics/201810551692
Twitter - https://twitter.com/glennheadcomics

Erica Schultz popped in again to talk comics, collaborations, teaching and production, as well as world-building and how to frame a story within a particular time period.

Project Summary

In 1998, three estranged sisters trained by their Nazi-hunting mother come together to solve their mom's murder…and try not to kill each other in the process. Rose, Poppy, and Violet Hawthorn had an unusual upbringing. Their mother, Jasmine, was the daughter of Nazi hunters and indoctrinated into La Résistance after WW2. After moving to the United States, Jasmine settled down and had three daughters, but her hard-lived past caught up with her.

The Deadliest Bouquet explores the relationships these sisters have with each other and their complicated bond with their mother. Can Rose, Poppy, and Violet put their resentment aside to find Jasmine's killer? This is a family of secrets…and they're all about to be laid bare.

SUPPORT IT KICKSTARTER - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deadliestbouquet/the-deadliest-bouquet-0

Guest Links

https://www.ericaschultzwrites.com/
https://twitter.com/EricaSchultz42
https://www.instagram.com/thedeadliestbouquetcomic/
https://twitter.com/deadly_bouquet
https://twitter.com/MadCaveStudios
https://twitter.com/TheKubertSchool
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erica_Schultz

Guest Bio

Erica Schultz is Ringo Award nominated comic book writer and editor known for her work at Marvel (Daredevil), DC (Hawkgirl), Image (Where We Live), Red 5 (Legacy of Mandrake) and others. She was part of DC Comics' first Talent Development Workshop, and is the creator of the five-time Ringo nominated series Forgotten Home with comiXology Originals.

Show links

Official Show Website – https://characters.evawebb.me
Eva Webb on Twitter – https://twitter.com/EvaIsAdorable
Support the show with a coffee – https://www.buymeacoffee.com/evaisadorable

H.S. Tak came by to talk about mars, authoritarianism, science, and serving the red pllanet. He also talked about his background in film, and the process of writing comics.

Guest Links

Redshift on Scout Comics - https://www.scoutcomics.com/collections/red-shift
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/hstronic/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/hstronic
Comicvine Profile - https://comicvine.gamespot.com/hs-tak/4040-86258/issues-cover/

Project Summary

Every decade so far we’ve been able to work together, pool our scant available resources, and send an explorer into space. We pinned our hopes and dreams on these voyages. That one of these Travelers might return with news of a new world. But none have ever come back. And now we are out of time. Mars is out of water. We have one last chance but its a long shot. Our best Astronaut suffers PTSD. We're counting on him to bring back news of air, water, life. If not, this our last stand. On this cold, breathless, desolate planet.

Guest Bio

Writer and Creator HS Tak @hstronic is an award winning filmmaker and writer. His 1st book called "BOY-1" came out in 2016 by IDW. It's followed by REDSHIFT which launched in May through Scout Comics, and will be available in comic book stores everywhere and at Scoutcomics.com.

Show Links

Official Show Website - https://characters.evawebb.me
Eva Webb on Twitter - https://twitter.com/EvaIsAdorable
Support the show with a coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/evaisadorable (every little bit helps!)
Empress Luxiva on Twitter - https://twitter.com/EmpressLuxiva

Kristen came in to talk about comics, art, body positivity, saving cats, and magical girls. She talked about forward-thinking design principles, as well as drawing teenagers that actually look like teenagers and some of the exciting technical details around producing and publishing her comics.

Guest Links

Official Website - https://xiicomic.com/
Webcomic - https://xiicomic.com/magic-and-muses/
Store - https://xiicomic.com/store/
Piillowfort - https://www.pillowfort.social/BatichiKristen

Twitter - https://twitter.com/BatichiKristen
Xii Comic Twitter - https://twitter.com/XIIComic
Insta - https://www.instagram.com/batichikristen/
Tumblr - https://xiicomic.tumblr.com/

Guest Bio

Kristen Kiomall-Evans is an artist and animator currently working out of Barrie, Ontario. She works as a full-time developer for virtual simulations and e-learning. In her off time, she focuses on publishing her own comics: XII: Of Magic and Muses at xiicomic.com, as well as three anthologies – Threads, Threads: A Gallery of Rogues, Threads: Haunted as a member of the Spiderforest Comic Collective.

Rich Douek came by to talk about comics, storytelling, and his experience as a comics creator.

Guest Links

Twitter - http://twitter.com/rdouek
Instagram - http://instagram.com/rdouek
Facebook - http://facebook.com/rdouek
Website - https://rdouek.com

Comicvine - https://comicvine.gamespot.com/rich-douek/4040-68958/issues-cover/

Guest Bio

Rich Douek is the writer and creator of the independent comic series, Gutter Magic, the Bram Stoker Award nominated Road of Bones, and the current hit horror title Sea of Sorrows with IDW, as well as ComixTribe's Wailing Blade. He has worked on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Universe comics for IDW, and has published short stories in several anthologies, including the New York Times-featured All We Ever Wanted. He was born and grew up in Queens, NY, and currently lives in Montclair NJ.

Show Links

Official Show Website - https://characters.evawebb.me
Eva Webb on Twitter - https://twitter.com/EvaIsAdorable
Support the show with a coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/evaisadorable (every little bit helps!)
Empress Luxiva on Twitter - https://twitter.com/EmpressLuxiva

Sam came by to share his experience writing comics, and about his creative process. As well as some of the fun he's got coming out soon!

Guest Links

Etsy - https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/SignalComics
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SignalComics
Twitter - https://twitter.com/SamuelGLondon
Insta - https://www.instagram.com/samuelglondon/?hl=en
Imdb - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11145765/


Guest Bio

Samuel George London is a comic book writer from the UK, who's best known for his self-published Victorian space adventure series, Milford Green. Recently though he's had 4 issue mini-series published by Action Lab titled The S Factor, which is about the dark underbelly of a superhero dating reality TV show.

Show Links

Official Show Website - https://characters.evawebb.me
Eva Webb on Twitter - https://twitter.com/EvaIsAdorable
Support the show with a coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/evaisadorable (every little bit helps!)
Empress Luxiva on Twitter - https://twitter.com/EmpressLuxiva

Patrick sat down with Eva to talk about comics, his creative inspirations, video games, and growing up in new york city. Patrick's rich background makes him an incredible storyteller, and it shows in this interview.

Guest Links

Twitter - https://twitter.com/ReviewFixPat
Insta - https://www.instagram.com/patrickhickeyjr/

Official Website - http://patrickhickeyjr.com/
Little Known Comics - http://lesserknowncomics.com/
ReviewFix - https://www.reviewfix.com

Guest Bio

Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Lecturer of English and Assistant Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, NY and is the Chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Discipline Council. Away from academia, Hickey is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He’s also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com. Over the last ten years, he has won numerous awards and had his work mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. He is the author of The Minds Behind the Games book series from McFarland and Company and Condrey from Lesser Known Comics.