After a surprising amount of requests, I have returned to the airwaves about with another episode of the internet's ONLY podcast about comic books!* As before, it's an almost-three-hour marathon ramble that's sure to please and frustrate in at least equal measure.
Topics covered include:
- Tintin, Love & Rockets, and classic manga
- The most important graphic novel of the 2000s (Driven By Lemons)
- Sean Witzke vs. Canada
- My "Flash Roughs" comic
- The best of 2000AD
- How comics can gain a wider audience
- "Comics rockstars"
- The best current webcomics
- The best decade for the comics medium
- Comics color and various artists who use it interestingly
... pretty much all of which was suggested by YOU, my almost certainly increasingly frustrated readers. There's also some music to break things up a little, but I used this terrible microphone to record the thing so it sounds somewhat horrendous. Oh well, you can skip those parts. Now get going and listen up!
*may or may not be actually true
6 comments:
May actually be true, the only other comics podcast I listen to are the Splash Page and Wait, What? and they talk about other stuff (and about how they don't talk about comics) all of the time.
Good stuff, Matt.Checked out the preview pages of Driven By Lemons & I ordered a copy. Looks interesting.
Another nice episode, Matt!
But I'm disappointed with your curt treatment of "Joe The Barbarian". It's a wonderful series, as far as I remember. (Issue 8 is out this week and I'll have to re-familiarize myself with #1-7.) What I definitely know, though, is that it's impeccably drawn by Sean Murphy with strong color work by Dave Stewart.
Eh, yeah that comic looked pretty great (though I thought Murphy and Stewart were working at cross purposes almost as often as they meshed well), but it was the most BORING, pointless thing Grant Morrison has written in YEARS, to me. I just could not find anything going on below the surface level, which even in itself wasn't super interesting. It felt like he wanted to write something for Hollywood but did the comic version first because he knows that's a good way to do it in the movie industry. Just my opinion!
RE: Lady GaGa-esque figure in comeeks
Just stick a feather boa on Yuichi Yokoyama and boom: MARKET SAVED.
ALL JOKING ASIDE:
Oh, and I realize you solicit questions for your podcast via twitter but I, as of now, have never tweeted. So, should you wish to pursue any further podcasts, here's what I'll ask:
Any thoughts on Eddie Campbell? I imagine that, as you are predisposed to formalism and genre, you'd be quite keen on THE AMAZING REMARKABLE MONSIEUR LEOTARD, but it'd be interesting to hear anything you might have to say onf his vast series of autobio works.
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