TCJ Talkies
By Mike Dawson
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Podcast Description
TCJ Talkies is a biweekly creator interview podcast hosted by Mike Dawson at The Comics Journal. Cartoonists and other comic book luminaries will stop by the Talkie-Hut and chat about their creative process, motivation, and careers.
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Tim Kreider | In his final episode, Mike Dawson interviews The Pain cartoonist and essayist Tim Kreider | 18 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Craig Thompson | This time around, Mike talks to the creator of Habibi and Blankets. | 28 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Renée French | Mike talks to the cartoonist behind such disturbing works as The Ticking and Marbles in My Underpants about style, what's acceptable (and not) in today's comics world, and her second career as a children's book creator. | 14 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Box Brown | The cartoonist and publisher behind Retrofit. | 29 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dylan Horrocks | An interview with the creator of Hicksville and The Magic Pen. | 15 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Zak Sally | Mike talks to Zak Sally, creator of Sammy the Mouse and publisher of La Mano. | 18 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sarah Glidden | Sarah Glidden joins me in the Talkie Hutt for a chat. Sarah is perhaps best known for her 2010 debut memoir, How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less, which was published by Vertigo. Since writing that book, Sarah has become more interested in comics journalism, and roughly a year ago successfully Kickstarted the funds to travel to Syria and northern Iraq tailing a group of journalists to write about the work they were doing. | 7 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MariNaomi & Noah Van Sciver: Live at MIX | Recorded live at the Minneapolis Indie Xpo, a conversation with the cartoonists behind Kiss & Tell and Blammo. | 16 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Julia Wertz | Julia Wertz is my guest in the Talkie Hutt this week. Julia is the author of The Fart Party, volumes 1 and 2, published by Atomic Books, and Drinking at the Movies, published by Random House. We talk about her early minicomics and webcomics, her feelings about interacting with an online audience, and the creation of Drinking at the Movies, as well as the subsequent ambivalence she feels towards that book for a number of different reasons. | 2 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kurt Wolfgang | Kurt Wolfgang is my guest this week in the TCJ Talkies "Talkie Hutt." Kurt is most recently known for his serialized graphic novel, Nothing Eve, which appeared in the now-defunct MOME, an anthology that Wolfgang appeared in from its inception. Earlier in his career, he self-published the No-Fie and Lowjinx minicomic series. His silent graphic novella, Where Hats Go, won the Xeric grant and appeared in NON #5, an anthology edited by Jordan Crane. Kurt has also been hard at work on Pinokio, an original graphic novel for Top Shelf Productions. | 19 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alex Robinson & Ten Years of Box Office Poison | This conversation with Alex Robinson was recorded at this past weekend’s Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland. The title of the panel was "Ten Years of Box Office Poison", so the conversation focuses on the creation of that series and its eventual collection, and the place the book (which is the one Alex is most known for) has occupied in Alex’s creative life. We had an interesting chat about Alex’s different approaches to his different projects and some of the struggles and successes that have come from those. For those who don’t know, I’m very good friends with Alex, and host another podcast with him called The Ink Panthers Show!, which we also speak about a little bit in the conversation. Later in the chat we discuss how Alex’s aversion to collaboration might be part of what pushed him down the path toward creator-owned auteur-style alternative comics, and further, how the collaboration of podcasting is different from writing. | 14 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tom Kaczynski | Tom Kaczynski is my guest in the TCJ Talkie Hutt this week. Tom is well known for the excellent run of short stories he created for the MOME anthology, while that was still a going concern. I hear he has a story in issue 22, which I’ve yet to see, so I am looking forward to that. Tom’s comics have also appeared in The Drama and The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009. | 31 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lisa Hanawalt | Lisa Hanawalt joins me in the Talkie Hutt for a lively chat about her comics, writing humorous pieces, performing, being in a relationship with another creator, and being the shy person at a party sitting on a couch drawing in a sketchbook. Lisa is the creator of the comic series I Want You #1 and 2, published by Buenaventura/Pigeon Press. She recently finished work on a children's book to be published by McSweeneys and has lately been taking the internet by storm with her hilarious movie reviews. | 17 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nick Abadzis | Recent British expatriate, and Alien of Extraordinary Ability, Nick Abadzis is the guest in the Talkie Hutt this week. Nick is the author of the very popular First Second graphic novel LAIKA, as well as the comic Hugo Tate which ran in Deadline magazine in the early 1990s. Following LAIKA, he serialized a graphic novel, The Trial of the Sober Dog, in the London Times. | 3 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jason Lutes | The author of Berlin and Jar of Fools enters the studio. | 20 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bob Fingerman | In this episode, Mike speaks to the creator of Minimum Wage. | 6 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Center for Cartoon Studies Graduates | This week I'm talking to four graduates from The Center for Cartoon Studies: Lucy Knisley, Melissa Mendes, Joe Lambert, and Steve Seck. The Center for Cartoon Studies is a school in White River Junction, Vermont, which offers an MFA in cartooning, as well as one and two year certificates. I talk to each of the graduates about how they decided to attend CCS, what their experience there was like, and how things are going now that they're out in the real world. I also admit my intense jealousy that I can't spend two years up up in a remote location doing nothing but drawing comics. | 22 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Howard Cruse | Howard Cruse is my guest this week. Howard is the creator of Barefootz and Wendel, as well as editor of the anthology series Gay Comix, published by Kitchen Sink Press in the early 1980s. He is probably best known, however, for his stand-alone graphic novel, Stuck Rubber Baby, which was published by DC Comics Paradox Press imprint in 1995. Howard and I spend a good amount of time discussing this book, and how it came to be written. We talk about the editorial process, and how that played out with Howard's own writing habits, and we also get into some interesting questions about writing gay, black, women, and minority characters. | 8 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jessica Abel | Jessica Abel joins me on the TCJ Talkies podcast this week. Jessica is perhaps best known for two Fantagraphics series, Artbabe and La Perdida, the latter of which was collected into graphic-novel form by Pantheon in 2006. Most of this interview is spent discussing her comics-making textbook Drawing Words & Writing Pictures, which she co-wrote with her husband, the cartoonist Matt Madden. We also talk about her experiences in the classroom, teaching comics at the School of Visual Arts, and a little bit about her work as a co-editor of the annual Best American Comics series. Also joining me this week is Jessica's Life Sucks co-writer, Gabe Soria, who stops by for a brief chat about the experience of creating that book. | 25 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Josh Cotter | Welcome to the second episode of the TCJ Talkies podcast. This time I’m pleased to welcome cartoonist Josh Cotter as my guest. Josh is probably best known for his books Skyscrapers of the Midwest and Driven By Lemons, both published by AdHouse books. Recently, Skyscrapers of the Midwest was adapted into a stage play in Columbus, Ohio. In this episode, Josh discusses his reactions to that show, and his feelings about the play’s inclusion of sections of a very frank Robot 6 interview. | 11 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEvan Dorkin | Welcome to the inaugural episode of TCJ Talkies, a brand new and biweekly interview podcast. My first guest is Evan Dorkin, creator of Hectic Planet, Milk & Cheese, Dork!, and Beast of Burden, among many other projects. We have a lengthy chat about his writing process, comics history, his relationship with fans, the state of comic-book stores, and the realities of freelancing. | 28 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 21 Episodes |
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