ALIA Graphic Podcast

In this month's roundup Iurgi and James take us through the latest news and new titles. 01:40 News in Brief: We’re coming to the end of October and that means the spooky season is upon us. Marvel has finally launched their horror tinged Midnight Universe and the early reviews are pretty positive, let’s hope they can keep it up. And for comics fans looking for some horror on the big screen Clay...

In this month's roundup Iurgi and James take us through the latest news and new titles. 02:10 September news in brief 04:08 Recent reads: Luke (Slam Dunk Vols 1,2,3 by Takehiko Inoue, The Library of Memories by Barbara Perez Marques and Lissy Marlin, Batman and Robin: Year One by Mark Waid and Chris Samnee), Iurgi (Starship Godzilla: First Wars by Chris Gooch, Oliver Ono, Neverlanders: Get Los...

In this special podcast Iurgi sits down for a chat with Aaron Billings and Bruce Mutard two of the organisers of MAKE, the Melbourne Alternative Comics Expo, a new independent comics festival coming to Melbourne from October 9 to 11. The festival is free for the Community Day and Market Day and a very affordable $15 for the opening gala Speaking to Pictures event. 01:29 Aaron Billings and Bruce Mu...

In this month's roundup Iurgi and Gabby discuss the latest. 02:06 Some of the news in brief including the CBCA winners including a graphic novel as the Best Book of the Year for Younger Readers, John Carpenter's horror graphic novel Cathedral and more. 05:22 Recent Reads: Ivy and Bearlock Holmes by Kristyna Litten Heartstopper by Alice Oseman Absolute Batman Vol 1 & 2 Scott Snyder (a bunch of...

We are proud to present a special recording of an event from Melbourne Rare Book Week. Georgina Chadderton is an Australian cartoonist. Her work has been featured in outlets including The Nib and Voiceworks magazine. They are a cofounder of Papercuts Comics Festival, an independent annual celebration of graphic novels held in Adelaide. When they’re not drawing, Georgina enjoys eating pizza and pla...

We are proud to present a special recording of an event from Melbourne Rare Book Week. The comic book form is used as a narrative medium by creators to tackle social, historical and personal histories: protesting about the Vietnam War in Mirranda Burton’s Underground; Napoleon Bonaparte’s Tasmanian imprisonment in Jamie Clennett’s The Diemenois; and growing up with an autistic sibling in Gina Chad...

In this month’s roundup podcast Iurgi and Luke discuss the latest news, their recent reads and their picks from the new titles out this month. We start with the intro and some news in brief then: 08:31 Recent reads 18:14 News 40:44 New titles To stay up to date, for the full roundup of news, resources and new titles and our social media links visit our website: https://graphic.alia.org.au/  T...

The ALIA Graphic group with the support of library staff from all over Australia, who volunteered for the judging panel, recently announced the Notable Australian Graphic Novels of 2025. Three titles for each category (Junior, Young Adult and Adult) that represent the best of the best. Being already halfway through the year, we thought it was worth looking at what’s been published in 2026 so...

In this creator chat James sits down for a conversation with Aśka, the creator behind The Friendship Paradox, out now through Allen & Unwin.  The Friendship Paradox is a young adult graphic novel where high school is over and Dash is excited to spend their gap year working for the local science museum, travelling and teaching kids about physics. Maybe they'll even make a friend. People ar...

In this month’s roundup Marissa and Iurgi go through some of the latest news, their recent reads and their favourite picks from this month’s crop of new titles. 01:04 News in brief 04:22 Recent reads: Ranma ½ by Rumiko Takahashi Who Made Me a Princess? by Spoon, Plutus The Top Dungeon Farmer by Lim Hyeong, Lee Ha-kyung, sdcknight I Killed the Main Player by Greenkirin, HELP.ME The Extra’s Aca...

In this creator chat Mia sits down for a conversation with Li Chen the creator of the delightful Detective Beans series. Li Chen, from New Zealand, always loved drawing and has been working as a full-time comic artist since 2012. Detective Beans and the Case of the Missing Hat was her first graphic novel and she's just published the third book in the series: Detective Beans and the Map of Mystery....

In this episode Luke sits down for a chat with Gregory Mackay the creator of the Anders graphic novels, a delightful series for young readers (and for all ages really). They discuss: the newly published Anders and the Mountain, the fourth book in the adventures of Anders series, the themes and inspiration behind the Anders series the publication of Anders in French and French comics culture other...

In this creator chat Marissa sits down for a conversation with Wendy Tyrer who recently publisher her first graphic novel, The Curator with a new publisher of Australian graphic novels: Perentie Press. In The Curator, artists are mysteriously going missing all over the world. But Mimi, a struggling art student working at the National Gallery of Victoria isn’t worried about her own safety. After me...

In this creator chat, Iurgi sits down to catch up with Campbell Whyte, an excellent cartoonist from Perth who also moonlights as educator at the Milk Tooth School of Art and Stories and is also the Chairperson of the Perth Comic Arts Festival. He somehow found time to join us today to talk about Luna Express, an excellent graphic novel set in Perth that is full of teen angst, social commentary, ma...

In this month's roundup, Iurgi and James discuss all the latest. They start the episode with some of the news in brief. Then... 04:49 Recent reads Kingdom Come by Mark Waid and Alex Ross Punderworld by Linda Sejic Talgard by Gary Proudley and various artists Pigeons! A Fable For Our Times by Marc Chalvin System Preference by Ugo Bienvenu 11:13 News: We’re including more reviews and interviews on o...

In this creator chat, Iurgi sits down for a chat with Lee Lai who has just won the Stella Prize for Cannon. It was long overdue with Cannon being one of the most outstanding graphic novels of 2025. The chat was recorded before the Stella Prize winner was announced. 00:20 Introduction 05:39 Lee talks about the recent book tour in Australia 07:43 Lee looks back at the publication of Stone Fruit...

In this creator chat, ALIA Graphic convenor Sabina Wills sits down for a chat with Andrea Innocent to discuss her recently published debut graphic novel Lamington Left Behind, published by Figment Books. 00:20 Acknowledgement of country and introduction to Andrea Innocent 03:43 Andre talks about her relation to libraries 04:56 Andrea discusses the comics she read as a kid 06:40 The chat moves to t...

In this month's roundup, Iurgi and Mia discuss all the latest. 02:09 Recent reads:  Detective Beans and the Case of the Missing Hat by Li Chen Once and Future Riot by Jean Sacco Campfire Cooking in Another World With My Absurd Skill by Akagishi K Cannon by Lee Lai 11:35 News: DC’s Absolute Batman is super popular Anti AI and Matt Kindt’s hand drawn comics  STEAM powered comics for middle...

In another packed episode, and we're only scratching the surface of what's in this month's blog post, Iurgi and Gabby discuss some of the latest news and new titles, which include more graphic novels by Australian creators. 01:40 Gabby and Iurgi discuss their recent reads and then go on a tangent about One Piece. We could be magic by Marissa Meyer and Joelle Murray Frieren Beyond Journey’s End by...

In this episode Mia sits down for a chat with Georgina Chadderton. Georgina is a freelance cartoonist, lover of dogs, and plant enthusiast living on Kaurna Country (Adelaide), South Australia. Georgina has recently published Oh Brother , a memoir about growing up with their younger brother Robert, who is autistic and has an intellectual disability. The book is being published by Penguin Random Hou...

In another packed episode, Iurgi and Mia discuss some of the latest news and new titles, which include two new graphic novels by Australian creators. Campbell Whyte returning with the highly anticipated Luna Express and Georgina Chadderton making her debut with Oh Brother. Also, the first twelve issues of Melbournian C.S. Pacat’s Fence have been collected into a new paperback. 02:00 Recent Reads M...

The Australian comics folio website has just been launched and it’s a treasure trove of stories, information, interviews, essays, and so much more on Australian comics, Australian comics creators and the Australian comics community at large. In this episode we have a chat with two of the key researchers involved in the project.  The Lead Investigator for the project was Elizabeth MacFarlane,...

We start the year with Jurgi and James trying to catch up with everything that's happened during the summer holidays. 01:42 Jurgi and James breeze through some of the latest news from the world of comics 06:29 James and Jurgi discuss the news that have piqued their interest: the recently announced animated series of Lore Olympus graphic novel sales were up in 2025 (in the U.S. book market) the UK'...

For the final episode of 2025 the ALIA Graphic committee gathers to discuss our favourite comics of the year. Luke talks about Ginseng Roots by Craig Thompson, Gachiakuta by Kei Urana and The Strange Tales of Oscar Zahn by Tri Vuong. Sabina talks about Hairy Holes Book 2 by Brenton E McKenna, BS #1 Short Stuff 2020-2025 by Bruce Mutard and Kusama Polka Dot Queen, by Simon Elliot James talks about...

Shay Mirk and Eleri Harris are award-winning graphic journalists and longtime editors of the critically acclaimed graphic journalism website and publication The Nib. They have recently published Making Nonfiction Comics, an excellent book that combines comics, prose, interviews, infographics and so much more. The book is the perfect field guide to graphic journalism while showcasing valuable skill...