Comics Deserve Better

Hang out with Brian, Richard and Carrie, and listen to them discuss Carrie's choice: Capote in Kansas by Ande Parks and Chris Samnee (Oni Press) as well as the holiday season, classic literature, and of course, indie comics. Other books discussed in the episode: Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook, Ryan Estrada, and Ko-Hyung-Ju (Iron Circus) Chicken Devils 1 by Brian Buccellato, Mattie Monaco an...

The Boys (and a Girl) are back in town! Halloween may be over, but it is still spooky szn with The CDB crew! Hang out with Brian, Richard, and Carrie and listen to them discuss Brian's choice: Something is Killing the Children vol. 1 by James Tynion IV, Werther Dell’edera, Miquel Muerto, and AndWorld Design  (BOOM) as well as bathroom etiquette, childhood trauma, and of course, indie comics. O...

Spooky Season is already here at the CDB Pod with Richard's pick: Ice Cream Man vol 1 Rainbow Sprinkles by W. Maxwell Prince, Martin Morazzo, Chris O’Halloran, Good Old Neon, and Shanna Matuszak (Image). The crew talks about Neapolitan, spiders, drugs, and whether or not they want ice cream after reading this book,. They also choose their favorite book of the season and Carrie surprises us all...

Long week? Need a respite from the 24 hour news cycle? Listen to 50 minutes of pure podcast entertainment! We may be sleepy, but we deliver! Hang out with Brian, Richard, and Carrie and listen to them discuss Carrie's choice: Garlic and the Vampire (Harper Collins/Quill Tree Books) as well as how cute veggies can be in indie comics! Other books discussed in the episode: DIY Corner: Wasted Spac...

Hang out with Brian, Richard, Carrie and SPECIAL GUEST ANDREW LEVINS (Hey Fam/All the Small Games/Tik Toker Extraordinaire) and listen to them discuss Brian's choice: Maggie the Mechanic: The Love & Rockets Library - Locas Book 1 by Jaime Hernandez (Fantographics) as well as the new Nintendo Direct, and of course, indie comics. DIY Corner:  Oh the Things You Won’t Know and The Phantom of E...

CW: This episode you will hear descriptions of violence towards women and violence towards animals. And you will hear Carrie cry. A. Lot. Hang out with Brian, Richard, and Carrie and listen to them discuss Richard's choice: Stray Dogs by Tony Fleecs, Trish Forstner, Brad Simpson, Tone Rodriguez, Lauren Perry, Lauren Herda, and Gabriela Downie (IMAGE) as well as substances to keep you awake, Br...

Carrie finally chose a book that wasn't cutesy or fun! Carrie is a serious Comic Book Reader now! Hang out with Brian, Richard and Carrie, and listen to them discuss Carrie's choice: Dead Dog's Bite by Tyler Boss (Dark Horse) as well as ketchup, Marvel???, and of course, indie comics! Other books discussed in the episode: Dragon Slayer: vol. 1-3 by Devin Kraft, Matt Johnson, Brooks Joh...

Carrie was MIA at work, so when the cat's away, the mice will have BOYZ NITE! (TM) Hang out with Brian and Richard and listen to them discuss Brian's choice: The High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere. by James Spooner (HarperCollins) as well as racism, punk and ska music, and of course, indie comics. Other books discussed in the episode: We Ride Titans #5 by Tres Dean, Sebastian Píriz, Dee Cun...

Hi All! It's Brian here. I am back again writing the description to the episodes. I am not as good as Carrie, but please don't take that as a lack of quality of this episode. Richard and I had an amazing conversation with comics creator Devin Kraft where we talk, comics, space, anime, movies and more. It's a fun eclectic time that I hope you all enjoy as much as we had recording it. Ot...

Hang out with Brian, Richard, and Carrie and listen to them discuss Richard's choice: Not All Robots vol 1 by Mark Russell, Mike Deodato Jr, Lee Loughridge, and Steve Wands (AWA Upshot) as well as podcast recommendations from Carrie (!), the end of the world, and of course, indie comics. Other books discussed in the episode: Golden Rage #1 by Chrissy Williams, Lauren Knight, Sofie Dodgson, Sha...

Join Brian, Richard, and Carrie and listen to them discuss Carrie's choice: Ghostly Things, Vol. 1 by Ushio Shirotori (Seven Seas), as well as other really awesome indie comics! Other books discussed in the episode: Sins of the Black Flamingo #1-2 by Andrew Wheeler, Travis Moore, Tamra Bonvillain, and Aditya Bidikar (Image) Do a Powerbomb #1-2 by Daniel Warren Johnson, Mike Spicer and Rus Woot...

Come down to the Malt Shop and hang out with Brian, Richard and Carrie! Listen to them discuss Brian's choice: Prince of Cats by Ronald Wimberly, Jared K Fletcher, and Jorden Haley (Image) as well as the comment section of Pornhub, the benevolence of humanity, and of course, indie comics. Other books discussed in the episode: Talk to my Back by Yamada Murasaki - Translated by Ryan Holmberg (Dr...

It's the end of our recap! Join Richard and Brian for issues 21 through 30 aka volumes 5 and 6 (aka issues 41-60 to Brian) of Papergirls! Now your ready for the Amazon Prime show! Enjoy!

It's time for Bonus 2 where we get into issues 11-20 (Volumes 3 and 4) of Paper Girls. Or as Brian calls it, the Empire Strikes Back of the series. We talk about time travel, goth future selves and revenge among other things. Hope you all enjoy!

Hi All! In anticipation of the Paper Girls tv show premiering at the end of July on Amazon Prime, Brian and Richard decided that a recap of the source material was a must. Join us as we go through volumes 1 and 2 aka issues 1-10 on a crazy journey delivering papers.

It’s our season finale! Party time! What’s a party without music and a little drama, so Richard suggested Getting it Together by Sina Grace, Omar Spahi, Jenny D Fine, Mx. Struble and Sean Konot (Image) for our reading pleasure. We have a good conversation about this plus many other things including normalizing mensuration and our misspent Twenties. Hope you all enjoy. Other books discussed on the...

You all thought it was a fun and fancy free BOYZ NITE (TM), but you will be wrong. Very. Wrong. Hang out with Brian, Richard, and Carrie and listen to them discuss Carrie's choice: Bitter Root vol. 3 Legacy by David F. Walker, Chuck Brown, Sanford Greene, Sofie Dodgson and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou (Image) and can you tell us if you can hear the ghost voice? She makes an appearance and has complet...

Have you missed us? We missed you! Come hang out with Brian, Richard, and Carrie and listen to them discuss Brian's choice: Murder Falcon by Daniel Warren Johnson, Mike Spicer and Rus Wooton (IMAGE) as well as what they consider bangers, Radiohead recs, and of course, indie comics. Other books discussed in the episode: The Closet #1 by James Tynion IV, Gavin Fullerton, Chris O’Halloran, and To...

Hi all! The Crew is back and this time with our fist ever sequel episode! In celebration of his first appearance on the podcast about a year ago, Richard picked the second volume of Bitter Root for us to talk about. We had a really good time talking about this book and got into some interesting related topics since this book is such a poignant and necessary read these days more than ever. We hope...

The CDB Crew is back! Yes it’s only been a week, but what a week it’s been. Darci chose Waves by Ingrid Chabbert, Carole Maurel, Edward Gauvin, and Deron Bennett (BOOM/Archaia) for our main subject, and yes there is a content warning for anything that has to do with pregnancy and childbirth. It’s a great conversation overall and we hope you enjoy.  Other books talked about this week: Swim Team by...

We're here again to talk about comics! This week, Carrie chose the first volume of Mouse Guard. Carrie was not feeling too well during the recording, but stuck in there like a trooper and completed the episode with the rest of us! Other books talked about this episode: Crossover #13 by Donny Cates, Geoff Shaw, Dee Cunniffe, John J Hill and Mark Waid (Image); My Brother Teddy by Jaromir Francoi...

The full CDB gang is back together again! Hang out with Brian, Richard, Darci, and Carrie and listen to them discuss Brian's choice: Bone Vol. 1: Out from Boneville by Jeff Smith, with colors by: Steve Hamaker (Image) as well as the current state of politics, Instagram, Wikipedia, and of course, indie comics. Other books discussed in the episode: Twig #1 by Skottie Young, Kyle Strahm, Jean-Fra...

Ahoyhoy! It's time to get a little ghoulish with the CDB Crew as we cover Night of the Ghoul by Scott Snyder, Francesco Francavilla, and AndWorld Design (Comixology/Best Jacket Press) which was the intrepid Richard's choice. What makes Richard intrepid you may be asking? Well it's because he chooses books like Night of the Ghoul to cover on the pod. So yes, we have entered into a parad...

The CDB Crew is back and this time they are finally tackling some Tezuka! Darci chose The Book of Human Insects (Vertical) which was a trip to read especially for those in the group only familiar with his all ages works. So obviously, it's a good conversation to be had. You can definitely believe me on that, I would tell you otherwise despite me having skin in the game.. I promise. Content War...

Welcome everyone to a new season of the CDB Podcast. We are starting the new season a little early and with a big bang as we welcome the great Kyle Starks to our show. We talk a while about his upcoming comic, I Hate This Place (you can also order a variant with the title of F**k This Place) which he wrote along with art by Artyom Topilin and colors by Lee Loughtridge. We also talk about his other...