Word Balloon Comics Podcast

Ealier this year PBS ran Vivian's excellent History Of Queer Comics Doc "No Straight Lines" . We discuss the cartoonist profiled.

Ande wrote Ciudad, a great special forces action comic with the Russo Brothers. The book became the basis for the Netflix films Extraction and Extraction 2 starring Chris Hemsworth.

From classics like Hitman and Mars Attacks-Judge Dredd to a new Carnage story for Marvel, John covers it all. We talk about his recovery from a long bout with COVID that affected his drawing ability and why he's never felt comfortable drawing Superman.

Mike has a great new cover honoring Neal Adams in the latest Back Issue. It also has Mike's Neal interview from the book he co-authored with Michael Eury The Batcave Companion. This gives us an excuse to talk about those great 70s and 80s nerd culture magazines like Creepy Errie and Famous Monsters of Filmland along with artists like Basil Gogos .

Andrew has a new Kickstarter going for his new collection of his good gurl art adventure series Simone and Ajax . check out the details at pepoy.com

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Kevin Keller's creator from 2013

We cover a lot of ground with Steve. From House Of Mystery , Sandman Mystery theater to Superman, his X-Men Run and many of his creator owned stories . Plus lots of TV anf ilm animation from Ben 10, to Big Hero 6

Part 2 Rob continues to tell more stories about craft comics and more on his new Deadpool Mini series Badder Blood out today from Marvel