Robots From Tomorrow!

In this panel discussion that Greg moderated back in June from this year's HeroesCon, cartoonist Michel Fiffe reflects on finishing his acclaimed indie comic COPRA with the release of issue 50 earlier on the week. Fiffe discusses the emotional journey of concluding the series after 12+ years, his inspirations, his creative process, the X-Men and Ninja Turtle impact on the book, the challenges and...

Greg welcomes DC3Cast's Brian Salvatore back to the show to help out with this Shelf Bound look at DC's 1985 blockbuster event CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS. After catching up on Brian's busy post-Multiversity life, balancing different passions including music, baseball, and family, and various podcasts, it's time for some CRISIS management to figure out the optimal way to tackle the monumental and sp...

There's an ecosystem to comics publishing, like everything else. You've got your Marvel & DC/Big Two on one end of things, your single cartoonist stapling their first minizines that they ran 20 copies off of the printer at their day jobs at the other, and many points in-between. And it's one of those intermediate options, Avery Hill Publishing out of South London, England, that is the focus of tod...

In his latest graphic novel Drafted , readers can see how math did cartoonist Rick Parker absolutely no favors in trying to stay out of the military during the height of the Vietnam War.  The 256-page book, which is the first of Parker's career that he has written AND illustrated, covers that three year period of his time in the U.S. Army in autobiographical detail both funny and heartbreaking. Af...

We live in troubling times. Turn on the news or your phone and that seems to be all there is: trouble.  But according to John Lewis, the late U.S. Congressman from Georgia's 5th District, trouble… doesn't always HAVE to be bad. In fact, there can be GOOD trouble that helps you deal with all the bad. Carrying the Congressman's message of GOOD trouble into these times we find ourselves in, is the Co...

Today's episode comes directly from this year's HeroesCon in lovely Charlotte, NC. Greg had the opportunity to host a few panels this year; the first of which was this spotlight on cartoonist/illustrator Colleen Doran. As described in the show programing guide: Her work has garnered more nominations and awards than we have space to list here, but trust us, it's a looong list. Eisners, Bram Stokers...

"The cycle of renewal in art is peddled by the periodic influx of stuff from somewhere else. That's why you need a man at the crossroads… He will be the purest, most fresh faced wee fellow you have ever met. His ingenuous enthusiasm will beam from his cheery countenance." - - Eddie Campbell on Paul Gravett, Alec: How To Be An Artist Today's guest is Campbell's Man at the Crossroads, and he has bee...

Today's guest is making his SIXTH appearance on the show, which means he's the most returned non-Multiversity guest in the history of the show. Previous episodes have had us talk about various aspects of his almost-30-year career in comics, from intern to editor at such publishers as Valiant, Humanoids, Heavy Metal, A Wave Blue World, and of course, DC Comics. But Joseph Illidge is here now as the...

Today we're talking about Copra , the indie comics darling that fuses 80s mainstream comic sensibilities with modern execution to give us an adventure story that looks familiar... up until it doesn't. In the 12 years since its inception, Copra has taken readers on a journey both on the page and off. This year saw the publication of Creating Copra , the definitive guide to making and self publishin...

Neither your eyes nor your ears are deceiving you -- we're back! Rested, reconfigured, and ready to return to ongoing Robot-ing! Listen to this byte-sized bonus episode to find out where we were and where we're headed!

The topic of today's episode is Brownstone , the new YA graphic novel from writer Samuel Teer and artist Mar Julia, about a 14-year-old girl spending the summer with a father she's never known as they fix up the titular dilapidated brownstone. If that name sounds familiar, it's because Samuel was just on the show last episode talking about the trials and tribulations of bringing this story  from h...

Returning to the show today after a nearly eight-year absence is comics writer Samuel Teer. His new book, Brownstone , about a teenage girl connecting with her Latin heritage and her estranged father without speaking a word of each other's language as they renovate the title structure, hits shelves on June 11th. The road from his last OGN, 2015's Veda: Assembly Required and this one is the topic f...

Having finished with the Man of Steel, today's episode is the first of three looking at the best Caped Crusader stories of the Seventies to the mid-Eighties with the DC3Cast's very own Vince Ostrowski! Come for the Neal Adams, stay to find out more about double-threat Frank Robbins, the mad genius of Bob Haney, Ra's Al Ghul, Bruce Wayne and Sgt. Rock teaming up to fight Nazis, Batman's Congression...

Today's show is not a joke, not a hoax, not an imaginary story! Greg gives his take on the upcoming Marvel & DC crossover omnibi coming later this year, and then dives into the larger waters of comic book team-ups that absolutely totally happened . . .  and with the help of Ross Pearsall's website, he has the covers to prove it! Find out all kinds of things about the crossovers you know about and...

Today's show has not one, not two, but THREE Canadian cartoonists on the mics ready to chat with Greg. Luc Bossé, cartoonist of  Gary, King of the Pick-Up Artists and publisher of Pow Pow Press, Thom, cartoonist of such Pow Pow works as VII, Casa Rodeo, and the upcoming Botanica Drama , and returning guest François Vigneault, a cartoonist whose Pow Pow work includes the French language edition of...

Today's episode is the third of three looking at the best Superman stories of the Seventies to the mid-Eighties with the DC3Cast's very own Vince Ostrowski ! Vince & Greg dive into what makes the Superman of this era different than his more modern incarnation and give you gem after gem of Super-Tales of the post-Silver Age / pre- Crisis Man of Steel. Crises at last! Birthday presents! Planets expl...

Having just talked about the early days of  2000AD , we thought it would be fun to chat with someone with a strip running in the Progs right now. Starting with Prog 2367 was Book Two of the strip "Full Tilt Boogie", the continuing adventures of teen bounty hunter Tee, her grandmother, and their cat as they criss-cross the galaxy. Drawn by Eduardo Ocana, colored by Eva de la Cruz, lettered by Annie...

Today's episode is the second of three looking at the best Superman stories of the Seventies to the mid-Eighties with the DC3Cast's very own Vince Ostrowski ! Vince & Greg dive into what makes the Superman of this era different than his more modern incarnation and start giving you gem after gem of Super-Tales of the post-Silver Age / pre- Crisis Man of Steel. Intercompany crossovers! Intracompany...

As part of his Someday Reading Project, Greg takes a look at the first dozen programmes of The Galaxy's Greatest Comic:  2000AD ! Do those early installments still hold up? Was Dredd the leader of the pack… or the runt of the litter? What controversial boys' adventure comic paved the way for Tharg and all that Thrill-Power? All that and more on today's bite-sized episode!  [This is episode 804 in...

Today's episode is the first of three looking at the best Superman stories of the Seventies to the mid-Eighties with the DC3Cast's very own Vince Ostrowski! Vince & Greg dive into what makes the Superman of this era different than his more modern incarnation and start giving you gem after gem of Super-Tales of the post-Silver Age / pre- Crisis Man of Steel. Kryptonite No More! Must There Be A Supe...

Greg kicks off The Someday Project looking at one of his early comics influences: a magazine-sized mind-bender (at least for someone of his age to read it) unlike anything else on the stands. HEAVY METAL ? Nope. 2000 AD ? Negative. Those are coming soon enough, but today Greg talks about the impact of David A. Trampier's "Wormy" from  DRAGON magazine. Does it still hold up? How can you get a hold...

The winter break is over, and Greg returns to give listeners a peek behind the curtain in this quick preview of what 2024 has in store for the show, including and most importantly, the lowdown on what has been referred to in hushed whispers around the office as... THE SOMEDAY PROJECT! What new devilry is this? All is revealed in today's episode! 

Today's guest is someone listeners of this show will be familiar with, as he name is mentioned often and in tones of reverence. For almost 30 years he has worked with such artists as Jae Lee, Jeff Lemire, Bill Sienkiewicz, JH Williams III, and BERNIE WRIGHTSON to bring color into their art in a way that always enhances, never detracts - no mean feat there.  He's also been a teacher/presenter/lectu...

Today's guest needs no introduction, but we have episode post space to fill so we're doing one anyway.  He's a creator whose balance of romanticism and pragmatism has kept him in the business and thrall of comics for almost 50 years. As an artist, a writer, and a cartoonist, he has almost certainly forgotten more about comics, history and storytelling than most of us will ever know. But thankfully...

The last time today's guest was here for his own episode, it was July 2014, during the final days of the Kickstarter campaign for Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream, the Eisner-winning anthology title assembling a truly dream-worthy roster of creators to pay tribute to Windsor McCay's seminal comic strip. In the nearly ten years since then, he has gone on to found Beehive Books, where he and creativ...