Thick Lines

This is a subscriber-only episode, for the full audio please visit patreon.com/thicklinespod Thank you to Partners and Son for hosting us! Sally interviews Em Frank (Heavenly Days, I Never Found You, Dark Garbage) and Frances Cordelia Beaver (On a Cute One, Spirits Hungover At Work, Give My Best To Your Kind!) live from Partners and Son at PCX. Topics include: why comic books are the easiest art f...

Frances Cordelia Beaver (On A Cute One, 2021) joins Sally Madden to read The Pervert by Michelle Perez and Remy Boydell (Image Comics, 2018) Topics include: a picnic at the graveyard, Milk White Steed by Michael D. Kennedy (Drawn and Quarterly, 2025), Peephhole #1 (despite what Sally says at the top of the episode, the table of contents is CLEARLY labeled with each artist's attributed page numbers...

I was always here, where were you? Thick Lines is back! Sally Madden talks with with Molly Colleen O'Connell about The Green Hand and Other Stories by Nicole Claveloux (NYRC, 2017) topics include gardening, nudity, getting our periods for the first time, and lots more. Thank you for listening!   Katie Skelly and Sally Madden are part of the programming at MoCCA https://www.moccafest.org/ next mont...

Oops! We're back! Katie and Sally catch up on recent reads including Unwholesome Love  (Fictopicto/Partners and Son, 2024) and Final Cut  (Pantheon, 2024) by Charles Burns, Blurry  by Dash Shaw (New York Review Books, 2024), Sunday  by Olivier Schrauwen (Fantagraphics, 2024), My Time Machine  by Carol Lay (Fantagraphics, 2024), John Willie: A Bizarre Life  by Jane Garrett (Schiffer, 2024), plus a...

Full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod . Katie and Sally are back with a bone-chilling countdown of their top three scariest comics. Artists discussed include Josh Simmons, Al Columbia, Kazuo Umezz, Jacques Loustal and Villard, Stephen Gammell, Julia Gfrorer, Conor Stechschulte, Art Spiegelman, Jaime Hernandez, Richard McGuire, and many others. Thank you to our Patreon subscribers for making th...

Katie is joined by cartoonist Anya Davidson ( Night and Dana , School Spirits , Band for Life , Lovers in the Garden ) to discuss Pascin  by Joann Sfar (Uncivilized Books, 2016), translated by Edward Gauvin and Uncivilized Books. Find more Anya at anyadavidson.com  and on Instagram @anyapdavidson . Support the show and get bonus episodes and more at patreon.com/thicklinespod .

Full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod . Sally and daughter hit the aisles of The Small Press Expo in Bethesda, MD on September 14 & 15 to ask creators, publishers, and retailers which formative reading experiences pushed them further into comics. Guests include: Avi Ehrlich (Silver Sprocket) B. Erin Cole Dash Shaw Drew Weing Ellen Marcus Em Jon-Michael Frank Ina Parsons Jason Leivian (Floating...

Full episode available at patreon.com/thicklinespod . Katie and Sally tackle Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth  by Chris Ware (Pantheon, 2000). Topics include Little Nemo in Slumberland , Dan Clowes, The New Yorker , intergenerational trauma, and Flip Wilson. Thank you to our Patreon subscribers for making this episode possible! Follow us on Instagram @thicklinespod .

Katie is joined by cartoonist Chloe Brailsford ( DC Pride 2024 , Sapphic Pulp , Viscere #1 ) for a look at Iris: A Novel For Viewers , written by Lo Hartog van Banda, drawn by Thé Tjong-Khing (Fantagraphics, 2024). Topics discussed include Barbarella, Auranella, Kris Kool, Guido Crepax, Guy Peellaert, and lots more. Find Chloe on Instagram  and Twitter  at @chloe.in.pink. Support the show and get...

Sally is joined by Shannon Spence ( P*NK LAB GRL! Burn it Down! , Kid Internet Connect ) for a chat about their shared backgrounds and interest in medical illustration. Topics discussed include The Andromeda Strain , Frank Bender, Frank Netter, Gray's Anatomy,  and lots more. Follow Shannon at @shannonprints on Instagram. Support the show and get bonus episodes at patreon.com/thicklinespod .

We'll be back with all new episodes starting next week! Katie and Sally are joined by Hellen Jo ( Jin & Jam , Frontier #2 ) to discuss the billboard with her artwork gracing Glendale Blvd., plus a lengthy discussion of her comics journey, studio process, her life drawing classes, boba orders, girl gangs, Korean shamanism, and lots more. Hellen Jo is a Los Angeles based artist who has worked in com...

Full episode at  patreon.com/thicklinespod . Katie and Sally reconvene to catch up on our Fall to-read piles and take a look at the Fantagraphics Winter '25 catalog. Comics touched on: Round World Thinking by Ana Woulfe, Pony Show by Bread Tarleton, Distant Ruptures by C.F., Blurry by Dash Shaw, Processing: 100 Comics That Got Me Through It by Tara Booth, A Guest in the House by E.M. Carroll, Oba...

Originally published June 15, 2023.   Support the show and never miss a bonus episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod .   Katie and Sally discuss Zero Girl by Sam Kieth (Homage Comics, 2001), an at times bizarre vision that only Kieth could breathe to life. Topics discussed include Suicide Girls,  Tampa by Alissa Nutting, and lots more.   Thanks to our Patreon subscribers for making this episode poss...

Full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod . Katie and Sally discuss Peepshow #15  by Joe Matt (Fantagraphics, 2024). Topics discussed include being cheap, Seth, Weezer, tv people, writing letters, and lots more. Thank you to our Patreon subscribers for making this episode possible! Catch Katie reading with Beth Hetland at The Pop-Hop in Los Angeles, CA on Sunday, August 4. Catch Sally at the Boise...

Full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod . Sally gets the scoop on the new Bernadette  magazine with its editors Katie Lane ( Single Camera Sitcom ) and Angela Fanche ( Humility Machine ), recorded live at Partners and Son in Philadelphia, PA on Friday, July 12, 2024. Bernadette  features work from 27+ artists including Lala Albert, Gabrielle Bell, Clair Gunther, Charlotte Pelissier + Juliette Co...

Sally is joined by Bread Tarleton ( Ponyshow , Horse ) for a look at Little Lit: Folklore and Fairy Tale Funnies edited by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly (RAW Junior, 2000), a venture into stories for kids with comics by Dan Clowes, Chris Ware, David Mazzucchelli, Kaz, and many more. Find Bread on Instagram @bread_comix . Support Thick Lines and get bonus content at patreon.com/thicklinespod .

Sally is joined by Corinne Halbert ( Acid Nun , Scorpio Venus Rising ) for a look at My Pretty Vampire  by Katie Skelly (Fantagraphics, 2017). Topics discussed include Herzog's Nosferatu , vampire lore, establishing mise-en-scène,  and lots more. Find Corinne on Instagram @corinnehalbert . Support the show and get bonus episodes at patreon.com/thicklinespod.

Full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod . Katie is joined by Chloe Brailsford ( DC Pride 2024,   Sapphic Pulp , Viscere #1 ) to discuss the perils of being a lonely queer cartoonist with a long chat about My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness  by Kabi Nagata (Seven Seas, 2016). Plus some yapping about blockbuster graphic novels, telling vs. showing, and living vs. trying to live through your wor...

Full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod. Sally is joined by cartoonist and illustrator Bread Tarleton ( Horse , Ponyshow ) for a look at Goodreads darling The Big Skinny: How I Changed My Fattitude  by Carol Lay (Villard, 2008). Find Bread on Instagram at @bread_comix . Thank you to our Patreon subscribers for making this episode possible!

Sally is joined by Dash Shaw ( Bottomless Belly Button , BodyWorld , Cryptozoo ) to discuss Social Fiction  by Chantal Montellier (New York Review Comics, 2023). Topics discussed include how to read a comic, combining comics and poetry, Bubbles Con, Jacques Tardi, The Drifting Classroom , Dylan Dog , Dawn of the Dead , Chris Ware, C.F., Métal hurlant , Becky Chambers, J.G. Ballard, Dash's next boo...

Full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod . Sally goes to the first ever  Nancy Fest  at The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum in Columbus, OH on May 24-25 and takes attendee and staff temperatures on the Nancy renaissance. Thank you to our Patreon subscribers for making this episode possible! Support the show and get bonus episodes at patreon.com/thicklinespod . Follow us on Instagram @thick...

Full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod . Sally is joined by Sam Szabo ( Enlightened Transsexual Comix ) for a mega episode looking at Tender  by Beth Hetland (Fantagraphics, 2024). Catch Sam at Zine Not Dead in Chicago, IL on Saturday, June 15: zinenotdead.com Follow Sam on Instagram at @brainboogerindustries . Get bonus episodes and video content at patreon.com/thicklinespod . Follow Thick Lin...

Sally talks to fellow newly-minted Comics Journal  co-editor Chris Mautner (Comic Books are Burning in Hell pod) about writing about comics, Bubbles Con, who isn't from Pennsylvania, Garfield, working in journalism, being a newspaper man, and what's next for TCJ. Check out Sally and Chris in action at The Comics Journal : tcj.com Listen to Chris on Comic Books Are Burning in Hell: comicsinhell.lib...

Katie and Sally discuss Pink  by Kyoko Okazaki (Vertical, 2013, orig. pub. 1989). Topics discussed include Graham Rawle, Quentin Blake, Jennifer's Body, Jean-Luc Godard, and Lana Del Rey's Phoebe Gloeckner moment. Thank you to our subscribers for making this episode possible!

Full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod . Katie and Sally discuss Last Girl Standing , a prose memoir by the late Trina Robbins (Fantagraphics, 2017). Plus, some show news and a fresh round of the Bad Boyfriend Bracket. Thank you to our patrons for making this episode possible! Catch Sally at Bubbles Con on Saturday, May 4 in Richmond, VA: https://www.bubblescon.com/ Follow us on Instagram @thic...