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The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MOCCA) Festival was over the weekend and Jimmy attended both days. He did some interviews w/ some amazing creators! In this episode, you'll hear from creators Noah Van Sciver and David Reuss. Noah chats about his new collection w/ Fantagraphics called AS A CARTOONIST, if life is better with or without a mustache, skulking the catacombs in France, how he got int...

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MOCCA) Festival was over the weekend and Jimmy attended both days. He did some interviews w/ some amazing creators! In this episode, you'll hear from creators Hyesu Lee and Jess Ruliffson. Hyesu talks about her journey from South Korea to London to Brooklyn, doing a NYC Subway mural, her upcoming graphic novel and more. Jess discusses her new book INVISIBLE WOU...

Reviews:  The Ambassadors #1, Harley Quinn vol. 4 #28, Dungeons & Dragons Saturday Morning Adventures #1, Rocketman & Rocketgirl #1, Riverdale s7 premiere The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MOCCA) Festival was over the weekend and Jimmy attended both days. He gives his recap here talking about the overall show from setup to exhibitors to atmosphere to interviews and more. He also teases the inte...

Reviews: Dead Romans #1, The Neighbors #1, Order and Outrage #1, Digman! As usual, Jimmy recruits some of his favorite reviewers to help out. Thanks to Ricky, Melissa, and Marta! And to news anchor Emily for the news which includes: DC Comics is retelling the origin of The Batman and Joker's meet-cute, a new TMNT based on the comics is coming, Marvel shows are getting pushed back and more! Also, g...

Reviews:  Agent Elvis, Gotham Knights series premiere, Shadow and Bone s2, Shazam! Fury of the Gods As usual, Jimmy recruits some of his favorite reviewers to help out. Thanks to Marta, Melissa, and Emily! And to news anchor Emily for the news which includes: DC Comics is going all out for Pride, K-Pop band NCT 127 is releasing the first officially licensed K-Pop graphic novel, Marvel's Hellfire G...

Reviews:  Clear #1, Predator Vol 4 #1, Stone Heart #1, Kung Fu s3 finale, The Last of Us s1 finale, Avatar: The Way of Water As usual, Jimmy recruits some of his favorite reviewers to help out. Thanks to Therese, Melissa, and Edie! And to news anchor Emily for the news which includes: Ash and Pikachu are handing over the reigns to a new trainer in the long running Pokemon animated series, Brian Mi...

Reviews: Hallow's Eve #1, Hunt. Kill. Repeat. #1, Phantom Road #1, John Carpenter's Tales of Science Fiction: The Envoy #1, The Mandolorian s3 premiere As usual, Jimmy recruits some of his favorite reviewers to help out. Thanks to Marta, Melissa, Ricky and Edie! And to news anchor Emily for the news which includes: Marvel to start new 20th Century Studios imprint, a new Hellboy is found, Battle Ch...

Reviews:  Blue Book #1, Local Man #1, Godfell #1, Moriarty: Clockwork Empire #1 A quick CNI episode for you! As usual, Jimmy recruits some of his favorite reviewers to help out. Thanks to Marta, Melissa, Ricky and Edie! And to news anchor Emily for the news which includes: Marvel's Ultimate Comics line returns, Dead Boy Detectives moves to Netflix, Robert Kirkman is back with a new comic series an...

Reviews:  Betty: The Final Girl #1, Masters of the Universe: Masterverse #1, The Last Barbarians #1, Torrent #1, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Another week, another Marvel film! Did you see it? As usual, Jimmy recruits some of his favorite reviewers to help out. Thanks to Marta, Melissa, Ricky, Jon and Therese! And to news anchor Emily for the news which includes: LEGO to release a BTS set, DC...

Reviews:  Harrower #1, Monarch #1, Space Job #1, Harley Quinn "A Very Problematic Valentine's Day Special", Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Velma season finale Hope everyone had a SUPER weekend! We're back with another regular episode. As usual, Jimmy recruits some of his favorite reviewers to help out. Thanks to Marta, Melissa, Ricky, and Edie! And to news anchor Emily for the news which i...

Reviews: Almighty #1, Avatar the Last Airbender: Aang's Unfreezing Day, Where Monsters Lie #1, The Ark season premiere, Extraordinary s1, Wolf Pack season premiere Getting back in the groove with these regular format shows. As usual, Jimmy recruits some of his favorite reviewers to help out. Thanks to Marta, Melissa, Ricky, Steph and Producer Joe! And to news anchor Emily for the news which includ...

Reviews: Archie vs. The World one-shot, Inferno Girl Red # 1, Night Walkers #1, White Savior #1, Zombie Makeout Club Vol 1. We're back with some comic book reviews! As usual, Jimmy recruits some of his favorite reviewers to help out. Thanks to Marta, Melissa, Ricky and Jon! And news anchor Emily is here giving the news which includes: Wheel of Fortune is looking for Star Wars fans to be contestant...

Reviews: Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre, The Last of Us s1 premiere, Star Wars: The Bad Batch s2 premiere, Velma s1 premiere, Willow s1, Jung_E WHAT'S THIS? A regular format podcast?! Yep! We haven't been doing many of these lately due to review specials, convention specials, etc. But we will try to get to doing more of them in the future if we can. Times are busy though! As usual...

S. Craig Zahler (Writer/Director: Bone Tomahawk, Dragged Across Concrete, Brawl in Cell Block 99) joins Producer Joe to talk about his original graphic novel, Organisms From an Ancient Cosmos (Dark Horse). Craig talks about his creative process, passion for hard science fiction, and his long time love of the comic book and animation mediums.   Also, get a hold of us! Thanks for listening!

Last week, Jimmy, Producer Joe, Heidi MacDonald and Ricky Serrano Denis chatted about their personal Best of 2022! This week, Jimmy recruited many of his favorite reviewer friends to send in 3 of their favorite things in entertainment for 2022. Thanks to great friends Melissa, Marta, Jon, Steph, Ashley, Therese, and Edie! Some more great choices and some that weren't mentioned in last week's big s...

Jimmy and Producer Joe welcome back Heidi MacDonald (The Beat Chief) and Ricky Serrano Denis (The Beat Staff Writer) to talk about our personal Best of 2022! As usual, it's purely subjective and it's what we read/saw in 2022. And we didn't read/see everything so there may be a lot we missed. Sorry about that but we think you will enjoy our picks. What were some of your favorites? Also, get a hold...

Jimmy went upstate to visit Producer Joe for Christmas and they decided to do a little Christmas catch-up! They talked about stuff they've liked and maybe didn't like so much in comics, TV and film. They also teased next week's "Best of..." episode with Heidi MacDonald and Ricky Denis. Always a great time when the 2 CNI pals actually get together in person to record. Also, get a hold of us! Thanks...

Jimmy has a quick little episode to give you for some Christmas time off viewing ideas. He watched a bunch of new Christmas specials and is here to tell you about them. Which did he like best? Tune in to find out! What are some of the ones you checked out this year that you loved? Also, get a hold of us! Thanks for listening!

If you're like Jimmy, you are way behind on holiday gift buying! So he came up with a quick little episode with some items that the nerd(s) you love will enjoy. And please send any ideas our way so we can complete our lists too! Hope you pick up some of these. Good luck with the shopping!  Also, get a hold of us! Thanks for listening!

Reviews: Hell to Pay #1, Justice Society of America #1, The New Golden Age #1, Once Upon A Time at the End of the World, Planet Hulk: Worldbreaker #1, Tiger Division #1, Stargirl series finale The massive Thought Bubble Festival coverage is finally complete! So we decided to do a quick comics catch-up. As usual, Jimmy recruits some of his favorite reviewers. Big thanks to Ricky, Melissa, Ashley an...

Jimmy attended the Thought Bubble Festival in Harrogate, UK and got 25 interviews! In this final episode dedicated to the festival, you'll hear from Tim Bird and Tom Humberstone. Tim talks about his works GREY AREA, THE GREAT NORTH WOOD, psychogeography and being in a band. Tom discusses his great graphic novel SUZANNE: THE JAZZ AGE GODDESS OF TENNIS, taking creative license with true stories, fav...

Jimmy attended the Thought Bubble Festival in Harrogate, UK and got 25 interviews! In this episode, you'll hear from friend Marc Bernardin. Marc talks about his incredible graphic novel ADORA AND THE DISTANCE, podcasting with Kevin Smith, working in writer's rooms and more! Always great catching up with Marc. More interviews from Thought Bubble to come! We'll be releasing the massive amount of int...

Jimmy attended the Thought Bubble Festival in Harrogate, UK and got 25 interviews! In this episode, you'll hear from friends Christian Wildgoose and JAKe. Chris and Jimmy talk about his comic series ALIENATED, what he would do w/ infinite power and his year off of comics to work in TV/film. JAKe discusses his new book HOW TO SPEAK ASTROMECH WITH BB8, Star Wars and life as a University course leade...

Jimmy attended the Thought Bubble Festival in Harrogate, UK and got 25 interviews! In this episode, you'll hear from Paul and Dean of Sovereign Comics and Lize Meddings. Jimmy chats w/ Paul and Dean about what Sovereign Comics is accomplishing, education in comics and what they've got coming next. Jimmy even gets an impromptu (and dope AF) rap from Paul! Lize and Jimmy talk about her THE SAD GHOST...

Comic News Insider: Episode 1360 is now available for free download! Click on the link or follow on Spotify/subscribe on iJimmy attended the Thought Bubble Festival in Harrogate, UK and got 25 interviews! In this episode, you'll hear from B. Mure and Charlot Kristensen. Jimmy chats w/ B. Mure about the incredible world of ISMYRE that they created in a series of comics, art style, and murder myster...