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To celebrate 50 years of the Space Age, Nick Abadzis joined us to discuss his new book, Laika. Laika is a wonderful piece of historical fiction, looking at the history of the first animal in space, the russian dog, Laika. Published by First Second books , Laika is a great insite in the world of coldwar USSR and some of the unique characters that surrounded this special event.

Chris Staros and Brett Warnock joined the Inkstuds to discuss 10 years of publishing Top Shelf Comix . Top Shelf has been at the forefront of publishing interesting creators, breaking in new talents like Craig Thompson and Jeffrey Brown, and old pro†s like Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell. The line is nice diverse selection, aimed at attracting a nice wide audience, keeping readers excited for new...

David Heatley is the imaginative man behind the self published series Deadpan. His work is a nice mix of revealing autobiographix and surrealist dream comix. His work can be found gracing the cover of the upcoming Best American Comics 2007 collection from Houghton Mifflin. If you are going to be at SPX, he designed the passes. Not only do you get to hear us talk about his comix, we also play some...

Today we took a break from our continueing series of interviews and looked back over the summer at some of our favorite books. I think we all agreed that Gipi is our collective favorite cartoonist right now. Whats your favorite book of the summer.

Johnny Ryan has to be the funniest creator in comix. His stuff is so offensive on all sorts of levels, that I can barely stop laughing to be able to read more. It was a fun interview, and he is a pretty interesting guy. If you haven†t read Angry Youth Comix, you should start reading it soon.

This week on the old Inkstuds podcast, I am supplying of interviews conducted by myself at the recent Comix and Stories convention in Vancouver. My first interview was with Ken Boesem, than man behind Barking Raven Press and creator of the Village comic strip in Vancouver†s LGBTQ newspaper, Extrawest. Steve Lecouilliard is a local animator turned cartoonist. His new mini-comic is called Much the...

Hey Inkstuds friends and listeners – I am putting together another comix rock n roll show. Basically, its gonna be an hour of music by cartoonists. So my request, is that if you are a cartoonist and you do music, send me some MP3†s to inkstudsradio @ gmail.com. If people don†t send me anything, then i will play an hour of nothing but Kochalka and the Action Suits, and I think there is mo...

Farel Dalymple is one of the most interesting young creators in comix today. For the last seven years, he has been slowly putting out Pop Gun War , a fabulously subdued story of a young boy with wings and the madness that surrounds him. With his early work in the Meathaus collective , Farel has been developing a complex interwoven universe of characters that has been continuing to come into a life...

In the course of doing the Inkstuds show over the last two years, I have been able to talk to some of the most interesting, talented and important cartoonists working today. This week I am taking a side step in normal programming, and talking to one of my cultural hero†s. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge has been doing art and music for well over 30 years. From his early days in the art performance grou...

Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end. Here is part 3 of our discussion with Kim Deitch.

Here is part 2 of our discussion with Kim Deitch. It just keeps getting better.

Interviewing someone like Kim Deitch , is the reason I do this show. Kim is a pioneer in the world of comix, creating an intrecat complex universe revolving around Waldo the Cat. Kim has created a sleazy world of drugs, drinks and madness that can surround artistic passions in the veil of wonderfully constructed world of early 20th century animation studios, Vaudeville and depraved carnivals. His...

Jim Blanchard is an awesome artist that has been doing some great stuff for Fantagraphics. His latest book is called Beasts and Priests is a collection of his portrait work that is sure to please the most discriminating eye. Jim has also been active in the comix world with his comic, Trucker Fags in Denial and inking some comic called Hate.

Joe Chiappetta joined us to talk about his comic, Silly Daddy. Here is how he describes his comix – My life is an action-packed adventure as a Christian husband, father of three and a cartoonist. Imagine Van Gogh with a wife and kids today. Or cross Peanuts with the movie Nacho Libre. That†s Silly Daddy, the Xeric Award winning comic, established 1991. Parenting has never been more profoun...

While being an awesome DJ, Eric San aka Kid Koala has been putting out some pretty darn good comix. With each of his cds he includes a comic and also put out the graphic novel, Nufonia Must Fall. Kid Koala was really fun to talk to, and from the description of his next graphic novel, he is gonna be blowing some people away with sheer coolness.

Here it is. The Inkstuds interview so foul, CITR wouldn†t let me even think of playing it on the air. I got to sit down with Josh Simmons , to discuss his latest book, House from Fantagraphics . We didn†t set out to have an R rated conversation, it just ended up happening that way. Special thanks to Robin Bougie , for joining in on the conversation, playing host to Josh while he was in Vancouv...

This week I played an interview I conducted a couple of weeks ago, with Dr. Daniel Wilson , about his latest book, Where†s My Jetpack. Daniel is a really smart interesting engaging guy, and superfun to interview. This is probably the geekiest interview I have done, but thats ok.

Luke Ramsey and Jim Stoten joined us to talk about comix art and fun. Jim is a cartoonist from England that has come to town to partake in Luke†s artist residency project on Pender Island. They are both super talented artist and are doing some really nice looking work. Check out Luke†s ongoing collaborations at the Islands Fold site.

Eddie Campbell is one of the Inkstuds favorite creators. He is one of the few creators that all hosts involved with the show, can agree upon his awesomeness. Colin and I were lucky enough to be able to chat with Eddie about his latest book, The Black Diamond Detective Agency. We also talked about his past comix goodness and his future projects as well.

Barron Storey is one of the most influential people that I have had the pleasure to talk to. He has been teaching for many years, and counts some of the top creators in comix as former pupils. Those that have had the fortune of being students of Barron, include, Kent Williams, George Pratt, Peter Kuper, Seth Tobocman,  and many more. His new book, Life After Black , is a reproduction of one of hi...

John Porcellino has been putting together King Cat Comics for the last 18 years. His latest book, published by Drawn and Quarterly, King Cat Classix , is a massive tome of awesomeness, collecting the best of from the first 50 issues.

During his world wide tour, Scott McCloud joined us to discuss his books, comix and more. Scott is one of the smartest guys in comix, and is really pushing it forward as a critical media that merits discussion as an artform.

We were lucky enough to be able to meet up with Ron Rege Jr. while he was in town with his band, Lavender Diamond. Ron is the guy behind some really interesting inovative comix. Some titles that you should check out are, Yeast Hoist, Awake Field and Skibber Bee-Bye.

Melinda Gebbie is the talented lady behind the artwork in Lost Girls . Lost Girls is an epic journey of smutty goodness involving Alice from Alice in wonderland, Wendy from Peter Pan and Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz. They all meet in a hotel in Austria, right before the breakout of the first world war. The 3 ladies of different ages, find comfort in each other, and what follows is nearly 300 page...

Gary Groth and Kim Thompson are the guys that brought us the Comics Journal and Fantagraphics . Together, they have injected a critical attitude towards the wonderful world of comix, pushing it forward as an artform. Fantagraphics has published some of the best in alternative comix and continues to be a very important publisher.