Graphic Policy Radio

On this episode of Graphic Policy RadioTini Howard and Devaki Neogi join us to talk about their brand new comic book series The Skeptics from Black Mask Studios. The Skeptics is a stylish, political adventure about a pair of hip, clever teens who fool the world into believing they have superpowers. It is the 1960s. The Russians have the A-bomb, the H-bomb, and now the most terrifying weapon of all...

September saw the release of the first issue of Surgeon X, a new series written by Sara Kenney with art by John Watkiss. The comic series also sees the return of legendary editor Karen Berger. The series dives into real world medicine and issues, along with a companion app, we talk to Berger about her return to comics, the challenges of this particular comic and its app, and her insights into the...

Sweet Christmas! Marvel's Luke Cage has come to Netflix and is a huge hit. Given superstrength and durability by a sabotaged experiment, a wrongly accused man escapes prison to become a superhero for hire. Starring Mike Colter, the series is the latest Marvel superhero series to come to Netflix and this one touches upon real world issues like Black Lives Matter, gentrification, importing of guns i...

After the second American Civil War, Kentucky is an occupied nation within U.S. borders. When a single father and mechanic accidentally sparks a rebellion, he finds himself on the path to becoming the first feudal warlord of Appalachia. Writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson joins Graphic Policy Radio for the first time to discuss his brand new upcoming comic book series Warlords of Appalachia being publi...

This Monday Graphic Policy Radio welcomes guests Collin Kelly, Marcus To, and Jackson Lanzing to discuss their creator-owned series Joyride! In the future, Earth sucks. The stars have been blocked out for so long that people have forgotten there was anything else besides the dumb World Government Alliance watching over them, training children to join the militarized Allied Youth and eliminating al...

This Monday writer Chelsea Cain joins Graphic Policy Radio to talk about her hit Marvel seriesMockingbird! We talk to Cain about the action-packed first solo series for the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Bobbi Morse. Chelsea Cain is a novelist who moonlights as a comic book writer.  She writes the series, MOCKINGBIRD, for Marvel.  She is the author of The New York Times bestselling Archie Sheridan/Gretchen Lo...

The Revisionist, The Precinct, Broken World, Dejah Thoris, Howling Commandos of S.H.I.E.L.D., Lobo, Dr. Strange, Avengers World, Five Ghosts, writer Frank Barbiere has written comics for almost every major comics publisher. His comics are always high on action and fun bringing crazy ideas to the page and entertain. This Monday Barbiere joins Graphic Policy Radio to talk about his comic career and...

Graphic Policy Radio is back with a brand new episode. Tonight we're joined by one of the most distinctive new artists in comics, Ramon Villalobos. Villalobos is the penciler on Marvel's Nighthawk ongoing and also drew the X-Men centric E is for Extinction series for last year's Marvel event Secret Wars. We'll get the scoop on his creative ability and process while working on such high-profile com...

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 profe...

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 Democrat....

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...