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Nathaniel Osollo or “ ollo ” is an artist who has been creating and been making comics for more than 10 years. He has created such books as Dark Mouse self-described as The Rats of NIHM meets Sin City, a former mouse cop with an edge sharper than a Masamune. Shadow people a all-ages book that used augmented reality to tell a story. While the app is no longer available the story still holds. About...

This week on ComiCentric. We talk about two legends in the independent Latino independent comic scene. Javier Hernandez and Rafael Navarro have been delighting us with their respective characters ; El Muerto and Sonabulo, for 25 years. They had a signing at Nostalgic comics and they where gracious to provide me with 10 mins of their time. Javier Hernandez is an artist, mentor, teacher and all-arou...

This week on ComiCentric we welcome our good long time friend Adolfo Reyes AKA OflodaMonstro. OflodaMonstros has been drawing since as far back as he can remember. Drawing inspiration from watching his father pick up and emulate random art from different places, free handed and with precision. He figured he would follow in similar footsteps. Picking up the pen and choosing to be a homebody staying...

This week on ComiCentric we get together with an old friend who has established himself in the written world. Nikolai Garcia the nomadic poet laureate of Los Angeles. Nikolai grew up in South Central and has been writing since the age of 13 high school. having a taste for writing he continued his training by going to a magnet school in the San Fernando valley and even joining the journalism depart...

This week on comicentric we go off on ghostly tangent. As we slang books and hung out at   Nostalgic , we started talking about ghostbusters. And realized it’s been almost 40 years of its inception on the big screen. Being that day was also Ghostbusters Day , and there is no such thing as a bad idea, we decided to take our tangent and make a podcast about it. We tried to keep it simple and ju...

Going back as far as I can remember Andres Cervantes or “Dre” as we know him, was a staple in my early days of collecting comics. At the time he was the rudimentary comic clerk in the full sense of the word. He started working in comics at Comic Galaxy at the tender age of 14. Getting the keys and the responsibility of a store at a young age molded him into the clerk I meet over 20 years ago. In t...

Sometimes things don’t go as planned. We start today with a false start. That really sets the tone for our very funny and charismatic guest:  Valeria Ontiveros is an excellent artist born in Los Angeles and raised in Mexico. She had a knack for drawing at a young age. She, like many artists, started by drawing on the first thing she could draw on, the wall of her house. Moving onto a more ser...

While we have fun. We are also seriously working towards building our brand and participating in events such as the Latino Comic Expo. Held in Long Beach after 2 years of being held back by the world catching fire. The return of this event proved that people want to go out, take part and have fun. We were able to vend and showcase our wares. It felt like a high school reunion in a weird way. Seein...

Growing up nerdy Patrick will discus how comic shops changed in the hood. And how he ended up working for a comic shop himself. Meeting Patrick around that time we  grew a bond playing a comic role playing game. We also talk about music, a subject that Patrick also knows much about. Growing up a nerd in East Los Angeles has to have a soundtrack.

In this issue we talk about our moms. Our view on how they take on our nerdiness. Learn to accept or live with it and eventually become part of it. Mothers are an essential part of all our existence. They are our first teachers and mentors. Without them we might not be the big nerds we are today. In the second segment we talk with the or pals Marisol’s mom Maria. We cover such topics as growing up...

Marisol is one of our fellow members of the nostalgic team a decade younger with knowledge that can rival any eccentric in the pop culture world. She enjoys cosplay, power rangers, Digimon, comics and manga and digital arts. She also shows talent for marketing and has help with the stores graphic design. She grew up in a family that embraced certain aspects of nerd culture. From a father who was a...

Thanks for joining us on this second issue of ComiCentric This week. we try to tackle the age-old question Marvel-cetric people V D-Centric comic collectors. While this is an age-old question that has been asked. Who is s better? why do some people choose to only collect one or the other. Talking from the range of comics, the shows, the movies. Even discuss the weird world of Amalgam Comics. A gre...

ComiCentric: Take control of the narrative one panel at a time.   OH! Hello there... and welcome to comicentric. Where we will be dealing with comic books and the eccentricities of people those who read them.  Remember when being weird wasn't okay.  Recollect growing up stifled and withdrawn from life, never really fitting in? Recall the first time you read a comic and felt this is...