Graphic Policy Radio

Marvel's latest superhero block-buster Ant-Man & The Wasp is a light-hearted heist movie about a crook turned superhero. It's also about found family, the criminal justice system and women in science. Also the Mexican community's profound love of Morrissey. It also features the MCU's 1st Woman of Color villian. Narrative Strategist and life long geek Felicia Perez joins us to talk about the mo...

Tini Howard is a writer and swamp witch from the Carolina Wilds. Currently, she writes Euthanauts, Assassinistas (with Gilbert Hernandez) for Black Crown Comics (fmr Vertigo editor Shelly Bond's new imprint) and Hack/Slash: Resurrection, with occasional stories for two of her favorite things: Rick and Morty and WWE. Her previous work includes Power Rangers: Pink, The Skeptics (Black Mask Studios),...

Season 2 of Legion on FX, the nominally X-Men based prestige TV show, gave us a lot to talk about from mental health to memes to retro aesthetics. Leonardo was such a great guest talking Legion Season 1 what with his background in mental health we're thrilled to have him back! Leonardo Faierman was born in Buenos Aires, raised in Queens, on the playground was where he planned most of his schemes....

Taneka Stotts is a queer little tumbleweed that has found herself back in the home embrace of the desert known as Los Angeles. After spending quite a few years as a spoken word artist, Taneka's focus shifted to comics, a medium full of collaboration and imagination. Taneka writes the webcomics "Full Circle" which was recently nominated for a 2018 Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity, Love Circuits,...

The Cardboard Kingdom is a graphic novel about kids, creativity, and cardboard! The book follows a variety of children who all live and play in the same neighborhood -- throughout the many chapters, you'll see each child's story unfold, overlap with other kids' adventures, and finally converge upon an epic final quest before summer's end! The graphic novel is a collaboration between Chad Sell (you...

Christopher Sebela is a two-time Eisner-nominated writer, designer and publisher living and dying in Portland, Oregon. He’s co-created books like Crowded, Shanghai Red, House Amok, Evolution, Heartthrob, High Crimes, We(l)come Back, Dead Letters as well as publishing his comics Short Order Crooks and The Death Defying thru his Two Headed Press. He also writes things in other peoples’ sandboxes lik...

So what I really wanted was a Lando Movie. Does a Han Solo prequil have much to offer Star Wars fans? How about with a revolutionary droid by his side!? So what do two life long Star Wars fans and political organizers think of the latest installment in the Star Wars empire? I'm joined by Steven Attewell. Steven writes about the intersection of history, politics, and pop culture in The People’s His...

Deadpool 2 brings the merc with a mouth to the big screen again along with the first canonically queer couple in a major superhero movie. We are Queer Marvel comics fans and we have opinions. Guests: Charles Pulliam Moore is a staff writer atio9where he covers comics and genre culture with a focus on race, representation and queer identity. https://twitter.com/CharlesPulliam When Sarah Rasher is n...

The Cellarius Universe (CX)— is an original, transmedia cyberpunk franchise that leverages blockchain technology and user-generated assets to create a collaborative, fan-curated story. That means they want you to be a part of the writing process! Do fans want to write a new universe? And how does all this work? What role does diversity and representation play in building a user generated world? An...

Image Comics presents a surprisingly honest and touching account of a trans girl surviving through sex work in Seattle. THE PERVERT is an unflinching debut graphic novel that is preoccupied with work—what we put into our work and what it takes from us.   Continuing the narrative begun in the Eisner-nominated comics magazine ISLAND, THE PERVERT features painted colors by Remy Boydell and the writin...

Join us to discuss the Marvel Cinematic Universe' biggest crossover to date. Our guest experts are Marvel fans with an academic bend: Steven Attewell writes about the intersection of history, politics, and pop culture in The People’s History of the Marvel Universe for Graphic Policy. In his day job, He teaches public policy at CUNY’s Murphy Institute for Labor Studies. He is the founder of Race fo...

Hey, we haven't seen Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War yet either! But Graphic Policy Radio is going on a journey to the center of Infinity to absorb the legendary comics that inspired Marvel movies' cosmic storylines. Today we focus on the comics of Jim Starlin, the artist and writer who co-created Thanos and who was the source of much of Marvel's psychedelic 70's cosmic opera, cooking up character...

Jeremy Whitley, creator of Princeless and Unstoppable Wasp returns to Graphic Policy to talk about two of my favorite comics about pirates: Raven the Pirate Princess & the new series Sea of Thieves, based on the hit video game. Raven the Pirate Princess is full of humor, high seas romance and all the amazing diverse queer and feminist lady pirates I wish I had as a kid and I'm thrilled to read...

Slade Wilson aka Deathstroke may be the worst dad in DC Comics but the solo series he stars in, by writer Christopher Priest and artists including Larry Hama, Carlo Pagulayan, Cary Nord, Diogenes Neves and more, is one of the hottest comics today. Deathstroke is full of politics, violence, poor personal choices, byzantineplots and Episcopalian philosophy. Join us for a deep dive into the current s...

DC Comics is revisiting Jack Kirby's Masterpiece, the Fourth World in a new Mister Miracle miniseries wirtten by Tom King and art by Mitch Gerads. It's being called the best comic of the year and a worthy tribute to one of The King of Comic's most personal works. Graphic Policy Radio is going into a deep dive discussing the first seven issues with two guest critics, Meg Downey and Anthony Otero. M...

After a cataclysmic plague sweeps across America, survivors come together to form citystate-like communities for safety. Out beyond the settlement walls are innumerable dangers: feral animals, crumbling structures, and Abominations; those that were touched by the plague and became something other – something as beautiful as it is deadly. Welcome to The Wilds, a brand new comic series. We’re joined...

Puerto Rico Strong is a comics anthology that explores what it means to be Puerto Rican and the diversity that exists within that concept, from today's most exciting Puerto Rican comics creators. All profits will go to towards Disaster Relief and Recovery Programs to Support Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico Strong is available in comic shops:,March 14, 2018 and bookstores March 27th. Pre-orders are still...

Christina Strain is the writer of the new Generation X series for Marvel Comics as well as a staff writer for The Magicians which airs on SyFy. She joins the Graphic Policy Radio crew to talk her career, merry mutants, and more! Strain was born and raised right outside an Army base in Seoul, South Korea where she devoured comics and manga as good nerds do. She began her career as a colorist workin...

On Graphic Policy Radio, we're talking about the social implications of Black Panther with an expert and highlight some of the many examples of fans using Black Panther for real world activism. Joining the team to talk about activism and entertainment is Alan Jenkins. Alan Jenkins is President and Co-Founder of The Opportunity Agenda, a social justice communication lab dedicated to the idea that o...

Black Panther is dominating movie theaters with a record setting debut, the best for any movie released in February, and the second best opening for a film that's a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The movie is receiving praise form critics, comic fans, and average viewers alike, combining action with deep themes that create a thought-provoking adventure. Graphic Policy Radio is joined by tw...

Critically acclaimed writer Alex de Campi teams up with some of comics' most distinctive talent to create tales of love gone wrong, right, and everywhere in between. A new issue of Twisted Romance is released by Image Comics each week in February. Joining us on the podcast are: Alex de Campi: an Eisner nominated writer for her graphic novel Smoke and beloved by GP for her series like Grindhouse, M...

Heavens to Murgatroyd! The classic Hanna-Barbera character Snagglepuss as a closeted gay Southern playwright being investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee!? That's the concept of the new comic series, Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles written by Mark Russell with art by Mike Feehan and being published by DC Comics. The first issue felt revolutionary gaining buzz and pr...

Abbott is about a female journalist of color in 1970s Detroit named Elena Abbott who investigates a series of grisly crimes the police have ignored—crimes she recognizes to be the work of a dark magical force—the same force that murdered her husband 10 years ago. As she looks for clues, Abbott puts herself in the crosshairs of a mysterious power out for more blood, all the while navigating a harsh...

The comics team at graphicpolicy.com join us for a roundtable discussion about our favorite comics of 2017 and what's on the horizon for 2018. From indie comics to webcomics to superheroes and beyond, listen in and find something to pick up at your comic store today. 2017 saw highs and lows for comics and we'll be discussing that and more. The best Marvel comics? The best DC comics? Image? Dark Ho...

Star Wars: The Last Jedi is dominating at the box office and online debates as people seem to be split as to what to think about the latest entry in the Star Wars universe. We're becoming one with the Force to discuss the movie, its themes, and reflection on the real world. Joining Graphic Policy Radio to talk about the film is Anthony Oliveira and Cayden Mak. Anthony Oliveira is a culture writer...