I wonder who the guest is this episo--wait...

Are you kidding? Another ranting episode?

Really?

Really.

Didn't you do that last week? I guess we're recycling ideas now. What are we? Mainstream comics?

Yeah, okay. This is another ranting episode. Wits' End host Shah Emami talks about comics creators being disrespected and disregarded, how hype, potential value and IP hurt creativity and how comics history and figures are seen through rose-colored glasses.

Including highlights from previous guests:

• Jim Rugg Part 2: https://witsendpod.com/podcast-episodes/54-jim-rugg-returns-octobriana-1976-cartoonist-kayfabe
• Ann Nocenti: https://witsendpod.com/podcast-episodes/ep-14-ann-nocenti-ruby-falls-daredevil-the-seeds-kid-eternity?rq=nocenti
• Dean Haspiel: https://witsendpod.com/podcast-episodes/49-dean-haspiel-on-pandemix-web-comics-amp-harvey-pekar?rq=dean%20haspiel

• Twitter: @_shahcomics

• Wits’ End Twitter: @witsendpod

• YouTube: Wits’ End YouTube

• Instagram: @shah_comics

• Support Wits’ End on Ko-Fi!: https://ko-fi.com/witsendpodcastwithshahemami

Something is different about this episode, right? Who is the guest??

What is this? I want my money back!

There is something different with this episode. Host Shah Emami goes on a long rant on cultural vampires, the evils of misinformation, pet peeves with social media, Jack Kirby's influence, posers, comic book movie problems, indie creators & more.

It's the podcast equivalent of waving your cane from your porch and telling the neighborhood kids to get off your lawn.

Chaos ensues!

Including highlights from previous guests:

• Jim Mahfood: https://witsendpod.com/podcast-episodes/34-jim-mahfood-tank-girl-grrl-scouts-clerks-visual-funk?rq=mahfood
• John Siuntres: https://witsendpod.com/podcast-episodes/43-john-siuntres-word-balloon?rq=siuntres
• Tier One Comics: https://witsendpod.com/podcast-episodes/51-asadi-amp-tier-one-comics-the-immortal-asadi?rq=tier%20one
• Shawn Crystal: https://witsendpod.com/podcast-episodes/60-getting-real-with-shawn-inkpulp-crystal

• Twitter: @_shahcomics

• Wits’ End Twitter: @witsendpod

• YouTube: Wits’ End YouTube

• Instagram: @shah_comics

• Support Wits’ End on Ko-Fi!: https://ko-fi.com/witsendpodcastwithshahemami

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David Pepose, one of the hardest working writers in indie comics, is back on Wits' End to talk about his new Kickstarter, The O.Z.

Wits' End host Shah Emami and David hit the ground running talking about—dealing with canceled comic cons, running Kickstarter for the first time, promoting co-creators, getting inspiration from fiction & reality, trauma & more.

• Twitter: @_shahcomics

• Wits’ End Twitter: @witsendpod

• YouTube: Wits’ End YouTube

• Instagram: @shah_comics

• Support the podcast: https://ko-fi.com/witsendpodcastwithshahemami

David's media & The O.Z.:

• Twitter: @peposed
• Instagram: @peposed
• Kickstarter Twitter: @TheOZComic
• Support The O.Z. Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theozcomic/the-oz-1

Listen to David's first Wits' End appearance: https://witsendpod.com/podcast-episodes/16-david-pepose-going-to-the-chapel-spencer-amp-locke?rq=pepose