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This episode was recorded on the DC Metro, where where I bumped into cartoonist Claire Deel y following the 2024 Small Press Expo. She’s the creator of Can You Dig the Adventures of Rich & Sam , a self-published comic that you can get on Gumroad . BUY! Can You Dig the Adventures of Rich & Sam FOLLOW!Claire Deely (Writer & artist, Can You Dig the Adventures of Rich & Sam ) Instagram: @mintynjeb/ We...

This episode was recorded on the floor of the 2024 Small Press Expo where I had the pleasure of sharing a table with Gideon Kendall , co-author and artist of Wait…It Gets Worse , which is now available as big, beautiful hardcover omnibus with brand new stories from Cosmic Lion . We talk not only about the new book, but about the joys of tabling at comic conventions. [To view an image gallery of pa...

Welcome to BUY THIS COMIC ,  the show where YOU keep the vital and vibrant medium of comics alive by infusing it with your hard-earned cash. I’m your host Jason Mojica and this time… we’ve got something a little different for you! We’re joined by Karl Stevens , creator of Penny: A Graphic Memoir , but this conversation was recorded live in front of an in-store audience at Hey Kids Comics in Greenp...

This week we talk to James Romberger & Josh Bayer about a punk rock comic book project that we here at Buy This Comic are deeply invested in (because we're the ones who dreamt it up and are putting it out): the Naked Raygun Broken Things limited edition etched 7" and comic book . It's being crowdfunded on Kickstarter at this very moment and will be released by our parent company, Xylophone. We...

This week we're getting non-fictional when we talk to Jon Chad, writer and artist of PINBALL: A GRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE SILVER BALL , a gorgeous hardcover graphic novel published by First Second that is in stores now. BUY! Order a copy of Pinball: A Graphic History of the Silver Ball from Bookshop.org and you'll be supporting independent bookstores while you're at it! FOLLOW! Jon Chad (Writer &...

Juni Ba created the Monkey Meat universe about 10 years ago. Now, Monkey Meat comes to Image comics in the form of a good old fashioned floppy. Stop what you're doing and listen as we go (virtually) to Montpellier to talk to Juni Ba , writer and artist of the a darkly comedic new anthology series. FOLLOW! Juni Ba (Writer & Artist, Monkey Meat )  Instagram: @juni.ba Twitter: @juni_ba Image Comi...

This week we’re joined by Gabe Soria and Gideon Kendall , writer and artist of The MegaGhost of Christmas , a holiday minicomic special featuring all your favorite characters from the MegaGhost universe. It's published by Xylophone, and is available for $3ppd from HEY KIDS COMICS! FOLLOW! Gabe Soria (Writer, The MegaGhost of Christmas ) Instagram: @bitchinville Twitter: @bitchinville Gideon Kendal...

This week, we talk to " the last idiot standing ," Mr. Johnny Sampson! Johnny is a cartoonist who does a lot of cool stuff , but perhaps most notably is the guy who Al Jaffee passed the baton to when he retired from doing the fold-in for MAD Magazine. FOLLOW! Johnny Sampson (Cartoonist, MAD Magazine ) Instagram: @johnnysampson Twitter: @johnnysampson Web: johnnysampson.com DC Comics (Publisher, MA...

This week we’re joined by Victoria Douglas, creator of Cinnamon: an "action comic masquerading as a slice-of-life comic" published by Behemoth / Happy Tank. It's smart, it's funny, it's cute, it's cool! FOLLOW! Victoria Douglas (Creator, Cinnamon ) Instagram: @blackbit.exe Twitter: @vsqki Web: blackbit.world Behemoth (Publisher, Cinnamon ) Web: behemothcomics.us Twitter: @allhailbehemoth Happy Tan...

Robots... they're just like us! This week we’re joined by Mark Russell, writer of the dark sci-fi satire Not All Robots , a 5 issue limited series with art by Mike Deodato Jr & colors by Lee Loughridge. It's published by AWA. FOLLOW! Mark Russell (Writer, Not All Robots ) Twitter: @Manruss Instagram: @manruss AWA Studios (Publisher, Not All Robots ) Twitter: @awa_studios Instagram: @awastudios...

This week we're joined by Ron Marz, writer of Almost American, a 5-issue limited series published by Aftershock Comics . It's based on the true story of Janosh “Jan” Neumann and his wife, Victorya–both Russian spies who made a deal with the U.S. government to trade their information in exchange for a life free from want. What could go wrong? FOLLOW! Ron Marz (Writer, Almost American) Twitter: @ron...

This week we're joined by Anthony Rella, writer of Seis Cuerdas, a 3-issue limited series published by Source Point Press . It's a playful, well-written adventure with art that takes you back to great, pulpy adventures of decades past. It feels a bit like Darkman mixed with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and El Mariachi. The third issue is out now. FOLLOW! Anthony Rella (Writer, S eis Cuerda...

In Pyongyang, Guy Delisle took you inside a North Korean animation studio. In the newly-released Factory Summers, Guy takes us inside the Quebec City paper mill where he worked in his youth. It's Delisle's most personal book to date, and maybe the only one that has something in common with Moby Dick! FOLLOW! Guy Delisle (Writer & Artist: Factory Summers ) Web: guydelisle.com Drawn & Quarte...

How do you do 1930s noir but make it feel fresh? Well, The Good Asian is a great example. We talk to writer Pornsak Pichetshote about his tightly-scripted, hard-boiled detective story set against the backdrop of America's Chinese Exclusion Act. FOLLOW! Pornsak Pichetshote (Writer, The Good Asian ) Instagram: @real_psak Twitter: @real_pornsak Image Comics (Publisher, The Good Asian ) Instagram: @im...

This week we chat with Jeremy Holt, writer of the 6-part AI sci-fi series, Made in Korea . It explores issues of identity, human consciousness, and maybe even a bit of Americana. It's published by Image Comics and the first issue is on the shelves of your local comic shop now.  FOLLOW! Jeremy Holt (Writer, Made in Korea ) Instagram: @jeremyholtbooks Twitter: @jeremyholtbooks Web: jeremyholtbooks.c...

With the fifth and final jumbo-sized issue of Rain Like Hammers hitting the stands, we talk to Brandon Graham about his far future sci-fi comic that he says is a kind of cousin of Iyashikei manga. But also there's a super-criminal switching bodies with a genetically-engineered butler.  FOLLOW! Brandon Graham (Creator, Rain Like Hammers ) Instagram: @royalbrandon Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ro...

This week we’re joined by Alex de Campi and Khai Krumbhaar . They're the editors of TRUE WAR STORIES , a 260 page nonfiction graphic novel anthology published by Z2 Comics that features 15 tales of American service members deployed overseas. The stories are written by the folks who lived them, and drawn by Peter Krause, Ryan Howe, Skylar Patridge, Eoin Marron, Tish Doolin , Dave Acosta, A. D'Amico...

You know what's lame? When someone tries to tell you about their dreams. Amazingly, when Jerome Gaynor does it in comic form in his new book Sogni Strani , the results are pretty fantastic. That's because he's got his dream-recording method down to a science, which is one of the things we talk to him about on this episode of BUY THIS COMIC! FOLLOW! Jerome Gaynor (Creator, Sogni Strani ) Instagram:...

This week we’re joined by Ben Sears , writer & artist behind Young Shadow, a new all-ages graphic novel that features a young, noirish crimefighter out to seek justice for a wide range of trespasses. It's published by Fantagraphics and it's in stores now. FOLLOW! Ben Sears (Creator, Young Shadow ) Twitter: @bensears Instagram: @freebensears Web: bensears.bigcartel.com Fantagraphics (Publisher,...

We talk with Julio Anta, writer of the 5-part limited series, Home, published by Image Comics. Set against the backdrop of the United States' child separation policy, it tells the story of a young asylum seeker whose superhuman abilities manifest during one of the most traumatic events of his young life. The first issue is in stores now.  FOLLOW! Julio Anta (Writer, Home ) Twitter: @JulioAnta Inst...

We're joined by Nate Powell whose new graphic novel SAVE IT FOR LATER: Promises, Parenthood, and the Urgency of Protest is out now from Abrams ComicArts. It's an incredibly insightful, humorous, and anxiety-inducing rumination on the past 4-5 years of American life that we'll be pushing on people who are generally resistant to reading graphic novels.   FOLLOW! Nate Powell (Writer & Artist, Sav...

This week we’re joined by Erick Freitas , writer of the TKO Short: Killiamsburg . It's the tale of a group of Williamsburg hipsters who decide to throw a party in the middle of the biggest snowstorm to hit Brooklyn in a century only to end up battling the elements... literally. FOLLOW! Erick Freitas (Writer, Killiamsburg ) Instagram: @ecfreits Twitter: @ecfreits TKO Studios (Publisher, Killiamsbur...

In comics, no one can hear you scream. We talk to Phillip Kennedy Johnson, writer of Marvel’s new Alien series. It’s compelling, it’s canonical, and it's on the shelves of your local comics shop right now! FOLLOW! Phillip Kennedy Johnson (Writer, Alien ) Instagram: @phillip_kennedy_johnson Twitter: @PhillipKJohnson Web: phillipkennedyjohnson.com Marvel (Publisher, Alien ) Instagram: @marvel Twitte...

Appropriation, remixes, and remakes! This week this week we’re going to talk to Josh Bayer about a new edition of RM , a book in which he's taken the stories of ROM The Space Knight and made them his his own. It’s published by Tinto Press, and it's out now ! FOLLOW! Josh Bayer  (Creator, RM ) Instagram: @joshmbayer Twitter: @mrjoshbayer Web: joshbayer.com Tinto Press (Publisher, RM ) Instagram: @t...

We're joined by writer Elliott Kalan and artist Andrea Mutti to talk about Maniac of New York, and the perils of becoming inured to society's ills. Published by Aftershock Comics, the 2nd issue of this 5-part series is out now. FOLLOW! Elliott Kalan   (Writer, Maniac of New York ) Twitter: @ElliottKalan Andrea Mutti (Artist, Maniac of New York) Twitter: @andreamutti9 Web: andrearedmutti.com Afters...