Fredcast!
By Fred
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Podcast Description
Teletoon at Night's Fred interviews some of the greatest minds on subjects ranging from comic books, cartoons, video games, music and beyond!
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ExplicitProfessor David Evans of the ROM | David Evans is an Associate Curator in Vertebrate Palaeontology and oversees dinosaur research at the ROM. He first laid eyes on dinosaur skeletons in the galleries of the ROM and has been fascinated with dinosaurs and palaeontology ever since. As an undergraduate student David spent several summers working as a field technician for the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta, where he studied the duck-billed dinosaur Corythosaurus for his undergraduate thesis. David's doctoral dissertation analyzed skull growth and evolutionary relationships in crested hadrosaurs, with an emphasis on the striking diversity of these animals from Alberta, Canada. | 5/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitIndie Artists Adam Gorham, Phil McClorey, Brian Enivou | Adam Gorham is an artist and all round handy guy. He once built a mechanical arm that operated with pneumatic levers! It's true. He completed his first major work a few years ago. It was a book called The Vampire Conspiracies, and he's currently working with me on a project called Teuton, available at bigsexycomics.com. You can follow him on Twitter at adamtgorham and be sure to check out his blog as well aprincelydreadful.blogspot.ca Phil is a true man of the people, when not educating the minds of tomorrow he's writing up a storm for Furious comics. He's quarterbacked a few compilation books like Book of Methuselah and Horror in the West, as well he's also contributed to the highly popular Fubar series, featuring zombie stories with a World War 2 backdrop. He also grows great facial hair and is one of the most supportive men you could hope to meet. You can follow him on twitter at PhilMcClorey Brian and I just started talking a few months ago, and he's a great guy to discuss comics with. Just head by his website http://brianevinou.com/ Them Sassy Mavericks, they're ever so sassy. Keep and eye on Brian and make sure to say hello to him at the cons . He's rad, and you can even follow him on twitter at Brian_Evinou | 5/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitRay Fawkes | Ray Fawkes is a prolific Canadian graphic novelist born in Toronto, Ontario. Some of his novels include Spookshow (2003), Pink (2006), The Apocalipistix (2008) and the ever popular, One Soul (2011). Ray's work is, to his fans and critics, incredibly introspective, dreamlike and bombastically slapstick. One Soul, arguably Fawkes' greatest work, is being praised for its poetic and often lyrical nature. Ray is also a two time Shuster Award nominee in the "Outstanding Canadian Writer" category, as well as a YALSA Award winner for his previous, "Posessions Book One: Unclean Getaway." | 5/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitDominik Diamond | Dominik Diamond is a Scottish television and radio presenter and newspaper columnist. He is best known as the original presenter of Channel 4's video gaming programme GamesMaster, as host of The Dominik Diamond Breakfast Show on Xfm Scotland and as a columnist for the Daily Star. He is currently on air at Q107 in Toronto and is a columnist for The Chronicle Herald newspaper in Nova Scotia. | 4/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitScott Chantler | Scott Chantler is the Shuster Award-winning cartoonist of the graphic novels Two Generals, Northwest Passage, and the Three Thieves series. An acclaimed graphic novelist and illustrator he has been nominated for numerous awards, including the Doug Wright Awards for Canadian cartooning excellence. He is the author of Northwest Passage, a multi-volume graphic narrative set in 1755 colonial Canada, and the artist of graphic novels including Days Like This, Scandalous, and Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen. He is also a popular commercial illustrator whose clients include McDonald's, Reebok, Macy's, the Toronto Star, the National Post, and Maclean's. When he's not doing either of those things, he teaches Writing for Graphic Novels at Max the Mutt Animation School in Toronto. | 4/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitDarrin Rose | A familiar face in the world of stand-up and on television, Darrin Rose is hitting the road again for a new comedy tour. Darrin's Chasing Manhood Tour will be in Toronto on Friday April 13th at the Innis Town Hall. Check out his website – darrinrose.com - for more info and other tour dates. Darrin appears in the CBC sitcom Mr. D, and is featured on MuchMusic's Video On Trial. He has been nominated for two Canadian Comedy Awards, as Best Male Stand-Up in 2011 and Best Newcomer in 2007. He has appeared on NBC's Last Comic Standing. He has twice performed at the Just For Laughs festival, plus the Halifax Comedy Festival, and his one man show "What's Potpourri?" received four stars at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival in 2010. His half hour stand up special debuted on CTV/Comedy Network in 2011. | 4/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPaulo Rivera | Paolo Rivera is an American, Marvel-exclusive comic book artist. He began his career in oil painting, but has since moved onto pencilling, inking, colouring and sculpting. As a graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2003, he studied under David Mazzucchelli. He is best known for his work on Mythos, written by Paul Jenkins. However, he also done tremendous work on The Twelve, The Iliad, The Amazing Spider-Man and the Wolverine Art Appreciation Month series. Currently, he's working on Daredevil - check out his blog The Self-Absorbing Man for more about this amazing artist. | 4/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPhil Jimenez | Phil Jimenez is an American comic book writer and artist. He's best known for his work on Wonder Woman (2000 - 2003), as part of the team that worked on Infinite Crisis and for his collaborations with Grant Morris on New X-Man and The Invisibles. He was a graduate of School of Visual Arts in New York, and when he was just 21 years old, he was hired by DC Comics Creative Director Neal Ponzer. Jimenez teaches a life drawning class as part of the undergrad program at the School of Visual Arts and recently, has been working on the cover for Star Trek/Legion of Superheroes. | 3/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitAndy Belanger and Becky Cloonan | Andy first came to my attention when I began reading Kill Shakespeare, but he's done so much more than just that. From there I found a comic that resonated with the ostracized youth inside me. Bottle of Awesome. However, today we talked mostly about his forthcoming project: Black Church and his love of Metal and History. And for Becky Cloonan Yeesh, how does one even start. She works on Conan for crap's sake, but let's not pigeon hole her. Even if that'd be a pretty crom-tastic pigeon hole. She has worked on things like Northlanders, Demo, American Virgin, and the comic that made my penis move: Wolves. She hates the Tudors, and has plans on making a comic about a Roman Slave Girl, heck yes it sounds romantic! | 3/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitJim Zubkavich | Ottawa-native, Jim Zubkavich - or Jim Zub - is a freelance comic book artist best known for his work on Skullkickers and Makeshift Miracle. In addition to being an avid gamer, Zub is also an editor at UDON Entertainment which publishes comics and graphic novels based on games. In an interview with Comic Book Resources, Zub explained how the comic book industry is ever-changing: Once a comic book series is up and running, it's hard to keep audiences captivated on monthly issues. So, in light of that, Zub offers some of the early issues of Skullkickers online as a way to get more readers on board. Currently, Zub is working on Shifty Look - an experimental website by the video game/media giant Namco-Bandai. | 3/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitMarcus To | Alberta-born artist and illustrator, Marcus To, is well known for his work on DC's Red Robin. After completing a one-year animation program in Vancouver, then a computer science degree, he started working at a photography studio in LA while trying to break into the comic industry. After receiving tremendous feedback on his work from the Wizard World convention and updating his current collection for the San Diego Comicon - Aspen Comics asked him to join them. In 2009, he moved to Toronto and started working with DC. The following year he joined R.A.I.D - The Royal Academy of Illustration and Design. Since his work on Red Robin concluded, he's been focusing on a project for the Green Lantern video game and and a mini series called Huntress. Follow Marcus on twitter @marcusto or on tumblr http://marcusto.tumblr.com/ to keep up with his craft. | 3/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGeorge Zotti | George Zotti is the manager and co-owner of Silver Snail Comics in Toronto. Silver Snail Comics has been a staple of the Queen St. West neighborhood for quite some time. Zotti has commented that some comics, such as the Archie series, have been updating their content to reflect the changes in society -- a recent issue of Archie Comics featured a gay wedding - suggesting two topics - homosexuality and marriage - that would never have been covered in earlier editions. So, as society continues to change and become more technologically savvy, Silver Snail Comics must also adapt to survive. Zotti hopes to increase the online presence and social media of Silver Snail Comics. Ideally, he wants to preserve the essence of Silver Snail by ensuring that when people visit the store they're still left with a lasting impression - much like he had when he first journeyed into Silver Snail Comics as a child. | 3/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitJamie Watson | Jamie Watson is a Canadian voice actor who has worked on shows such as Best Ed, Medabots, The Dating Guy, 6Teen, Masterminds and Yin-Yang-Yo! and several other animated shows, movies and games. In 2009, Watson won an ACTRA award for his work on Ruby Gloom, Cyberchase and Toot and Puddle. Currently, Watson works at Corus Entertainment in Toronto as a Voice Writer and continues to do voice overs for various media. | 2/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitScott Thompson | Canadian-born actor/comedian, Scott Thompson, is best known for being a part of the sketch comedy troupe - Kids on the Hall which ran on CBC from 1989-1994. In 2010, the group got back together for their eight-part mini series 'Death Comes Back to Town'. Thompson is best known for his monologues as Buddy Cole as well as his appearance as Queen Elizabeth II. Recently, Thompson appeared in A Russell Peters Christmas Special and on the Marilyn Denis Show as The Queen. | 2/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitJoe Garden | Joe Garden is an American comedy writer. Currently, he's the features editor at The Onion where he's created character columnists such as Jim Anchower and Jackie Harvey. In addition, he has co-written several books as part of the Action 5 collective he belongs to, including "The Dangerous Book For Dogs", "The Devious Book For Cats" and "The New Vampire's Handbook: A Guide for the Recently Turned Creature of the Night". Lastly, along with his wife, Anita Serwacki, he's also contributed to PBS Kids WordGirl. Follow him on Twitter for his latest musings. | 2/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitKalman Andrasofszky | Kalman is an intimidating guy at conventions, mostly cause he's a huge talent and is always the best dressed guy there. But hearing him talk about Palladium RPG books and the Neverending Story, was a great way to start things off. Bio: Toronto-based Kalman Andrasofszky is a comic book illustrator and concept designer currently working for Marvel Comics. His distinct and unique artwork can be found in works such as NYX and X23. He's also contributed to well-known RPG's such as Dungeons and Dragons and Star Wars. Check ou his blog for his most recent endeavors. | 1/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitFrancis Manapul | :I was really excited to sit down with Francis and talk about not only The Flash, but his entire creative process. Cause I think he's doing stuff with Barry Allen that really takes the character to a new level. Bio: Francis Manapul is a Filipino-born, Toronto-based comic book artist. He is best known for his creative work on Witchblade and The Necromancer for Top Cow, but is now exclusively working for DC Comics. Additional credits include, but are not limited to, the upcoming Adventure Comics and Superman Batman. In 2009, he was named one of Newsarama's 9 Creators to Watch. In May 2011, he was named writer/artist of Flash with his longtime colourist/collaborator Brian Buccellato co-writing with him. | 1/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShaun Hatton | First off Shaun is one of the nicest guys you'll ever talk to, but it's always enjoyable talking to someone who's as big a of a videogame fan as he is. Hearing him talk about the emotional connection one can have to the music of videogames was pretty ethereal. Bio: Shaun Hatton is a multi-talented creative dabbling in music, writing, blogging and video games. He is best known for co-hosting Electric Playground and Reviews on the Run. He is a member of the band Cobra, produces his own electro-dance-pop-rock music under the pseudonyms DJ Finish Him and MEGASHUAN and collaborates with Kevin Hickey as part of Swashbuckler. Not to mention he also blogs for PopShifter and Toronto Thumbs. Do check out his website which links to all his work in media. | 1/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 18 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
top notch interviews
Really enjoy the content on this podcast, really interesting subject matter spanning comics, video games and cartoons. Also being from the GTA it's cool since I've seen a lot of these people and know who they are.
Fearless Fred is Fricken Fantastic!
Great interviews with interesting people talking about interesting stuff. Almost feels like a Toronto based version of Marc Maron's WTF podcast. Fred is the perfect host because he clearly knows a lot about his guests but is still super curious and engaged while talking to them. Never feels like a preplanned set of questions, just real conversations with creative people. Keep it up!
Awesome Content!
These podcasts are so amazing and informative. I can't wait for more!
