Graphic Policy Radio

This weekend is Flame Con, a two-day comics, arts, and entertainment expo showcasing creators and celebrities from all corners of LGBTQ geek fandom. It features thoughtful discussions, exclusive performances, screenings, costumes, and more! This week Graphic Policy Radio will be chatting with Rachel from Geeks Out, the amazing organization behind this new Brooklyn-based convention.  Tickets to Fla...

Who Is Superwoman? This Monday, writer and artist Phil Jimenez comes to Graphic Policy Radio to talk about the new DC Comics series that debuts this week, Superwoman! Lois Lane now has the powers and abilities of Superman and pledges to carry out his legacy. There's a problem: Lois’ new powers are killing her. We'll talk about what we can expect from this brand new series that's part of DC Comics'...

It's been a week since it wrapped up and Graphic Policy Radio is heading back west to discuss San Diego Comic-Con 2016. San Diego Comic-Con is the biggest entertainment convention of the year featuring movies, television, comics, games, and more. Attracting hundreds of thousands of individuals, the convention can make and break entertainment launching over the next year and has become a vital conv...

This Monday is a brand new episode of Graphic Policy Radio and we welcome back comic writer Jeremy Whitley. Whitley will be discussing his numerous projects including a story in Civil War II: Choosing Sides, Princeless, and this year's Unstoppable Wasp from Marvel Comics! Jeremy Whitley is the creator of the original comic series Princeless, Illegal, and The Order of Dagonet. His work has been nom...

This past week Marvel announced that Tony Stark a.k.a. Iron Man will be replaced with a young African-American girl named Riri Williams. The announcement was met with both praise and criticism by the public. Graphic Policy Radio dives into the topic with guests Regine L. Sawyer and Karama Horne (a.k.a. the blerdgurl). Riri Williams is a 15-year-old African American girl and will be taking over for...

This week we're joined by writer Magdalene Visaggio to talk about Kim & Kim-- her debut comics series from Black Mask Studios. A story of bff bounty hunters in space, it's been described as Cowboy BeBop meets Broad City. Magdalene Visaggio is considerably less metal than she lets on. Born in Long Island, she was raised in Richmond, Virginia before returning to New York after college. She's a p...

Graphic Policy Radio has assembled a roundtable to talk the hit AMC television show based on the modern classic Vertigo comic series, Preacher. Joining hosts Elana and Brett are two guests, Sarah Rasher and Kalyn. Based on the comic series by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, Preacher is an adaptation of the popular comic series that follows the small town preacher Jesse Custer with a mysterious past...

Graphic Policy Radio has a brand new episode and we're talking some recent comic releases. This week, the comics world saw controversy as Marvel releases Captain America: Steve Rogers #1 where it was revealed that Rogers has been a Hydra sleeper agent. It's supposed to be a take on the "current zeitgeist." Juxtapose with Nighthawk #1 which was alos released the same week and had the title characte...

Graphic Policy Radio talks Captain America: Civil War diving deep into the politics. Joining hosts Brett and Elana is frequent guest and Graphic Policy contributor Steven Attewell as well as return guest Amanda Marcotte. Marcotte recently wrote for Salon arguing Captain America is now an Ayn Rand acolyte. Attewell in 2013 wrote in Lawyers, Guns, & Money that Captain America is a New Deal Democ...

Graphic Policy Radio talks Captain America: Civil War in light of both the movie and the comics that inspired it-- or didn't. Joining hosts Brett and Elana is frequent guest and Graphic Policy contributor Steve Attewell. Steven Attewell wrote that article everyone quotes about Captain America being a New Deal Democrat and can tell you which specific New Deal jobs program Steve Rogers worked for be...

Matthew Rosenberg is coming to Graphic Policy Radio! Hosts Elana and Brett are joined by Rosenberg to talk about his career in comics, his comic series 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank and We Can Never Go Home from Black Mask Studios, what it's like to write a certain Kingpin of crime for Marvel. Matthew Rosenberg was born and raised in New York City. The son, nephew, and brother of writers, he naturally s...

Graphic Policy has a brand new episode with guest Joseph Illidge. Joseph joins Brett and Elana to discuss the upcoming Solarman from Scout Comics as well as his impressive career. After a twenty-five year hiatus Solarman returns! Ben Tucker is a teenage hacker going after the wealthy and corrupt, fighting bullies, and living in his father's basement. When a mysterious alien attacks a space station...

This Monday Graphic Policy Radio welcomes first time guest Steve Lieber to talk about his comic career and his current comic series The Fix published by Image Comics. Released last Wednesday, The Fix has sold out and is going back to print. The series is a story of "crooked cops, scheming mobsters, and corrupt politicians that run things - and the sex toy that can bring them all down." Lieber will...

This Monday is a brand new episode of Graphic Policy Radio and we're going back to Hell's Kitchen to discuss the second season of Marvel and Netflix's Daredevil. Hosts Brett and Elana will be joined by regular guests, and returning to discuss Daredevil, Scott Eric Kaufman and Spencer Ackerman. Matt/Daredevil, Karen, Foggy are back and joined by classic Marvel characters the Punisher and Elektra wh...

March is Women's History Month and we're wrapping it up by discussing women in comics! Graphic Policy Radio's regular hosts Elana and Brett are joined by site contributor Madison Butler to talk about female comic creators, female characters, and comics you should be checking out! Madison Butler is a writer for Graphic Policy and Geek Girl Gang. She spends much of her free time reading comics and t...

The finale of season 6 of Venture Bros. gets the Graphic Policy Radio treatment! All obscure references explained! From defunct NYC nightclubs to Edgar Allan Poe to super-powered Nazis. Join pop culture and history experts Steven Attewell (whose secret identity is that he’s an actual historian) and Elana Levin (who's secret identity is that she used to go clubbing) discuss Venture Bros episode 8 “...

This Monday is a brand new episode that continues the discussion from last week. We're continuing to discuss DC Comics' Rebirth as well as the focus on Legacy characters versus creating all new ones or focusing on lesser known ones. DC's Rebith is their latest initiate that will build off of the concepts of Green Lantern: Rebirth and The Flash: Rebirth, expanding it to the whole line blending what...

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a Venture Brothers podcaster. After our deep dive into Warholiana last episode, Elana and Steve are back to discuss Martin Scorsese, 70s serial killers, the political economy of supervillainy, and Christopher Motherfucking Lambert. In this podcast we continue to explore the series as pop culture history geeks, drawing out themes and references p...

Graphic Policy Radio is back for a brand new episode and we're talking DC Comics' next big initiative, Rebirth which kicks off May 25 with the 80 page DC Universe: Rebirth Special. While we don't know specifics, what has been described is a blending of the old and the new for some new life in the DC Universe and a whole new line of comics kicking off with brand new first issues. We'll begin to fin...

Science Fiction Double Feature! After a week off, Elana and Steven are covering the fifth and sixth episodes of Season 6 of the Venture Brothers: "Tanks for Nothing" and "It Happening One Night." In this podcast we continue to explore the series as pop culture history geeks, drawing out themes and references present in each episode. Steven is a Professor of US history. Elana has a BA in Studied Wa...

This Monday is a brand new episode of Graphic Policy Radio at a special time. Joining us is first time guest Royden Lepp who comes on to discuss Rust: The Boy Soldier out March 23 from Archaia and BOOM! Studios. Rust tells the story of a mysterious boy with a jet pack who shows up on a farm while the world heals from a devastating war. Boy Soldier collects the never-before-seen prelude to the upco...

Love the Venture Bros cartoon but afraid of missing the myriad of historical references and layers of meaning behind each episode? Join pop culture and history experts Elana Levin and Steven Attewell (whose secret identity is that he’s an actual historian) for our Podcast examining each episode of Season 6 of this hit Adult Swim show. This episode is about Season 6 Episode 4: “Rapacity In Blue“. T...

This Monday sees the return of comic writer Kieron Gillen to Graphic Policy Radio. Kieron Gillen first came to attention in his 2006 collaboration with Jamie McKelvie, Phonogram. Jamie and he have yet to escape each other, and have somehow roped the otherwise innocent Matt Wilson into this unfortunate pop-comics Katamari. Their most successful work is their 2014 ongoing series, The Wicked + The Di...

Love the Venture Bros cartoon but afraid of missing the myriad of historical references and layers of meaning behind each episode? Join pop culture and history experts Elana Levin and Steven Attewell (whose secret identity is that he's an actual historian) for our Podcast examining each episode of Season 6 of this hit Adult Swim show.  Tonight's episode is about Season 6 Episode 3: “Faking Miracle...

Are you jonesing for Jessica Jones? We know we are! Jonesing for Jessica discusses the hit Marvel and Netflix show Jessica Jones episode by episode. Graphic Policy Radio hosts Brett and Elana are discussing the series and are joined each week by special guests. For this episode the team is joined bySean T. Collins to discuss the final episode of the first season "AKA Smile." Jessica and Luke get h...