Inkstuds

Bald Eagles returns to the inkstuds to chat about his new comic from Drippy bone book, Bitter Sweet Romance . It’s an amazing, hyper violent trip into some horrible reality.

I have been a fan and reader of Patrick McEown’s work for most of the time I have read comics. From his humble early days on Grendel War Child to working on variety of short stories for Vertigo, Dark Horse and Fantagraphics. His groundbreaking short story No Escape , published in the Dave Cooper series, Weasel, is a high point in comics making. His latest work, Hair Shirt, is just as excelle...

Lucy Knisley’s  latest book is Relish from First Second Books. Lucy is an amazing talented and prolific creator with an amazing amount of excellent comics and never seems to slowdown in her output.

DNA Failure creators and brothers, Leon and Stefan Sadler joined me to talk about their collection from PictureBox and their Famicon publishing project .

UK cartoonist, Dave Taylor joined me to reflect on his comics. His most recent work is the collaboration with Chip Kidd, Batman Death By Design. Other notable works include Tongue Lash, TomTom Macoubre and his work on Judge Dredd and 2000AD. We also talk about his friendship with Moebius , an important influence on Dave as an artist. Dave is currently working on a variety of projects including a...

It’s been quite a while since I have posted a mixtape. These are a lot of fun to do, but a bit of work to put together. Michael Deforge posted about a mix he made for one of his comics, and I offered to cobble it together and throw up here. If you look at the other mixes, you will see that he did a pretty stellar mix a couple of years ago, and I am happy to have him back. Enjoy the Leather S...

Portland artist, Julia Gfrörer joined me to chat about her comic, Black is the Color, serialized on Study Group and to be published by Fantagraphics. We also talk about a wide range of her other work.

This is the second week of fundraiser programing. CiTR is trying to raise funds to fix up the stations. I came in live and did some fun shows with some friends. This week, I was joined by Brian Fukushima, Brandon Graham and Daniel Giantomaso. An hour in, i say the show is over, that is a lie. We got an extra 30 mins of studs. Daniel is launching his Sammiches artbook Friday night at Dynamo art spa...

Every year, the primary station that Inkstuds airs on, CiTR does a funding drive. This year, i was joined by Brian Fukushima , Brandon Graham and Robin Bougie . A good crew of local talent. I tried to discuss Robin’s new issues of Cinema Sewer and Sleazy Slice, but most of the time, we just had a lot of fun. The funding drive ends on March 7th, so expect another show like this in a week. If...

Ellen Forney joined me to discuss her new book and first long form comic, Marbles, an autobio story about her diagnosis of being Bipolar and how she processed and dealt with that in her life.

Quebecois cartoonist, Michel Rabagliati was able to meet up with me while he was in Vancouver. I am a huge fan of his work. His Paul series is a Canadian treasure. His latest is The Song Of Roland , published last year by Conundrum press, and will have a new book out, Paul Join’s the Scouts out in May.

Lebanese cartoonist, Zeina Abirached joined me to talk about her first work that has been translated into English, A Game for Swallows. It’s really great read about community and childhood during the Lebanese Civil-War.

I was joined by Tom Spurgeon, Bill Kartalopoulos and Joe McCulloch to discuss a variety of comics from 2012. This survey is not a best of, but instead works that we wanted to cover for better or worst. There is some really great work in here, and some that may not be as good. Thanks to Tom, Bill and Joe for taking the time to join me. They are all stellar thinkers on comics that I am always happy...

Here is the conclusion of my interview with Steve Bissette . Our conversation covers a wide range of comics topics. Thanks to Steve for taking the time to chat with me. Follow Steve’s blog for more on some of the topics we discuss and his own work.

Vermont cartoonist, Stephen Bissette joined me for an epic length conversation covering a wide range of all topics comics. You can buy his work directly from him here . As well as here .

Baltimore cartoonist, Noel Freibert joined me to chat about his comics, anthology Weird and the Closed Caption Comics Crew . We start the show with a song from his band Witch Hat.

Invincible Summer Zinester, Nicole Georges , joined me to talk about her new book, Calling Dr Laura. It’s a great piece of autobio comics working through some personal challenges. On the back of her own experience calling Dr. Laura, Nicole has her own awesome advice column to check out. Catch Nicole on her extensive upcoming tour on the east and west coasts.

It’s a return for Chris Wright, starting 2013 off with a strong start. His latest book is Black Lung from Fantagraphics. Chris has an amazing unique style that works really far in this work.

Funny man, Nate Bulmer was in town to do a signing at Lucky’s, so he generously came to town a day early to come on the Inkstuds for a live recording. His new book is Eat More Bikes from Koyama Press as well the tumblr of the same name .

Tumblr wunderkind, Simon Hanselmann joined me to chat about his ongoing web work and the world of Megg, Mogg and Owl. Simon’s work can be found on his own tumblr, Girl Mountain and as well as his amazing Truth Zone strip on Comics WorkBook .

French cartooning duo, Ruppert and Mulot , joined me to talk about their new English collection, Barrel of Monkeys . I am really big fan of the work that they do. Together, they have created a really advanced body of work, pushing new levels of unique story telling.

Nao of Brown cartonist, Glyn Dillon joined me to chat about his new work as well as his early days in Vertigo.

  Publisher, Cartoonist and general comics busyman, Box Brown joined me to chat on a variety of topics. Ranging from his Retrofit project, Secret Prison 7 and making his own work.

After quite some time, Inkstuds returns with another edition of a critics roundtable. As usual, I am joined by a stellar group of amazing critics. Jeet Heer, Tom Spurgeon and Joe McCulloch round up this edition and bring their top game. Our reading material was Pope Hats Issue 3 – Ethan Rilly Los Bros Hernandez – Love and Rockets: New Stories Vol 5 Peter Bagge – Reset Gabrielle B...

Toronto cartoonist, Nina Bunjevac joined me to chat about her new collection, Heartless, from Conundrum press. It’s a fine piece of work that weaves together a lot of interesting comics traditions into a very powerful personal work.