Comic Books Are Burning In Hell

It's round-up time! Tucker's reading the Ladronn Cable , Chris is reading Umma's Table , Matt is reading Olivier Schrauwen's Sunday and Joe's reading Magician A  by Natsuko Ishitsuyo. Is there a connective thread between this variety of works? Hell yes there is!

This week, the spotlight falls upon Adrian Tomine. How will this widely acclaimed new memoir land for the boys of the Burning in Hell crew? There's only one way to find out, trusted listener: by asking someone else who listened to the episode to tell you. Proceed with caution!

This week, the full crew is here with a look back at Jack Kirby's 2001 comics, published by Marvel in the 1970s. Get ready to hear about the history of violence in human development, the most incisive and contemporary criticism of fandom and consumption you can find (written by Jack himself) and the nature of children: what's wrong with their faces?

On this episode, Matt, Tucker, Joe & Chris talk about Wendy: Master of Art, by Walter Scott. And then, because there is always time for pie, they talk about Punisher #89 and how it represents the Platonic Punisher.

Matt's away, but the rest of your crew is here to talk about David Kunzle's Eisner nominated Cham, Rick Veitch's self-published Maximortal franchise, and what it looks like when Garth Ennis phones it in with Jimmy's Bastards!

This week, Chris, Joe, Matt & Tucker are talking about Blutch's Mitchum and some favorite tales from Crepax!

This week, Joe, Tucker, Matt & Chris talk about the decision by DC Comics to sever their relationship with Diamond, their primary distributor. In a surprising twist, this ends up being the entire topic of the episode!

Katie Skelly, cartoonist and host of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, welcomes special guest Joe McCulloch, Tucker Stone, Matt Seneca & Chris Mautner to talk about Go Nagai's Cutie Honey  in all its perverse and gonzo glory. You can't call it a potboiler when the room gets as messy as this one!

On this episode, Joe, Matt, Chris & Tucker talk at great length about Yoshiharu Tsuge's comics in English--both of which just arrived, courtesy of Drawn & Quarterly and the NYRC. The Swamp and The Man With No Talent are up for discussion, and yes, these are books they have a lot of affection for.

This week, Matt, Joe, Chris & Tucker are talking about Seasonal Shift, the recently published collection of Lala Albert's comics from Breakdown Press. After that, it's time for a weekly Garth Ennis update: with a discussion of the recently concluded Punisher Soviet, featuring the art of Jacen Burrows.

This week, Joe, Tucker, Matt & Chris are taking a look at the graphic novel Portrait of a Drunk , a 2020 release from Olivier Schrauwen, Jerome Mulot & Florent Ruppert, published in the US by Fantagraphics. 

This time around, the boys are talking about Chester Brown, Matt Kindt, Fist of the North Star, Moebius, Gasoline Alley, Little Orphan Annie, Little Joe, Floyd Gottfredson, Garth Ennis, Dav Pilkey and their depressing predictions for our terrifying future. It's comic books, baby!

On this episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, Tucker Stone, Joe McCulloch, Matt Seneca and Chris Mautner discuss the comics that they call "best" when they get into this last ten years.

This week, Joe, Chris, Tucker & Matt got together to talk about Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana, a recent documentary by Frank Henenlotter. Why a movie? Because Mike Diana is the only cartoonist to ever have been convicted of obscenity in the United States. Come for the movie, stay for the discussion of dealing with obscenity. Handwringing and posturing ensues, but luckily, it isn't by all...

Tucker, Matt, Joe & Chris got together to check in about the top of their Just Read stack, including a new comic from Kevin Huizenga, Mickey Zacchilli's Space Academy 123, and the unjustly (justly?) ignored Batman: Master of the Future. And at the end, Joe provides a deep analysis that may or may not be necessary of a recent Todd McFarlane article posted at Vice.

When Joe was 14 he thought watching anime was the next evolutionary step from reading comics. Now he and Chris are living in the future, as they discuss a bunch of Japanese cartoons they watched, all of them based on comics by the thoroughly franchised enfant terrible Go Nagai! I'm told the word "Devilman" will improve our metrics!

It's January 2018--what better time to look back on 2017? On this extra long episode of the only comic book podcast, you'll find Matt Seneca, Chris Mautner, Joe "Jog" McCulloch and Tucker Stone powering down the comics that kept them going. What's on their list? You'll have to listen to find out!

On this brief episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, Joe McCulloch and Tucker Stone welcome a four year old girl named Piper on to talk about three new comic books--Captain America, Thor & Disney Princesses. Then they touch upon Comics Arts Brooklyn 2017, which Joe attended.

On this episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, Matt, Joe, Chris and Tucker sit down and deliver the public service of easing the world into a land where there is no new weekly column by Joe McCulloch lining up the various comics and graphic novels that will be released this coming Wednesday. If you've spent the last 13 plus years reading Joe on Tuesday mornings and are now wondering where you...

Mike Mignola's Hellboy and related titles continue to be some of the more popular comics seeing release today. They have movies and everything. But are they any good? One podcast is ready to find out.

On this episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, Tucker Stone, Matt Seneca, Joe McCulloch and Chris Mautner gather round to discuss the Ganges series by Kevin Huizenga, one of the most important comic book releases of the last decade. Check out The Factual Opinion for links to articles that we've written about Kevin's work!

On this very special episode, Matt Seneca, Tucker Stone & Chris Mautner talk about the latest issue of Sammy Harkham's tremendous Crickets series up until Matt turns back the pages for a look at the Mike Zeck classic of old, Spider-Man: Kraven's Last Hunt!

IT'S THE SEASON PREMIERE OF COMIC BOOKS ARE BURNING IN HELL!! A mysterious doppelgänger of Chris Mautner terrorizes America's $10-and-under blu-ray shelves while Alan Moore aims to destroy the world... again! Will the boys solve the mystery of "Gouffre", the book that doesn't exist?! THE CONCLUSION TO "PROVIDENCE"! FRENCH ART COMICS! A FAKE DOCTOR STRANGE! Can you believe this shit is free? I feel...

It's a podcast crossover as Trash Twins co-host Katie Skelly shows up to talk about Moyoco Anno's  Insufficient Direction . Then Joe and Chris talk about Dominique Goblet's  Pretending Is Lying . It's a short episode but we actually got decent audio recording equipment for once. Don't expect that to ever happen again. 

Three boys, one toy: JIRO JIRO JIRO. I don't care about some sushi movie, for me, there is only one Jiro: His name is Taniguchi. Come and dive into a lurid pool of love for a gentle soul who knew his way around a famous gunshot. Joe, Chris and Tucker talk about their affection for one of Japan's heartiest souls.