The ComicsXF Interview Podcast

This week, we chat with writer Steve Horton about his David Bowie OGN, “Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams” with Mike and Laura Allred. Then, we conclude our actual-play RPG, “Troubleshooters and the Jewel-Encrusted Bunny of Destiny.” All this, and listener questions.

This week’s guest is Karla Pacheco, the writer on Marvel’s upcoming "Spider-Woman" series. You may know Karla from her backups in Oni’s "Rick and Morty," her Punisher “Acts of Evil” annual or her recent "Fantastic Four 2099" one-shot.

This week we’re talking with the writer and artist behind Vault Comics’ upcoming series Finger Guns, Justin Richards and Val Halvorson. “Finger Guns” is a comic about two troubled teens who discover they can manipulate people's emotions by doing finger guns at them. And we continue our multipart RPG adventure, “Troubleshooters and the Jewel-Encrusted Bunny of Destiny,” with freelance detectives Wa...

This week we’re back on the interview kick with Stephen Smith and Keith Boyle, the co-founders of Cover Alpha Comics, a new venture that deals in exclusive variant covers. We talk to them about the company, just how they get their covers to market, and how their respective comic shops, Big Easy Comics in Louisiana and I Want More Comics in Colorado, fared in 2019. But that’s not all! Later on, we’...

It's our 100th episode, and we're celebrating by throwing the format completely out the window, as Matthew Lazorwitz and returning guest Veronica Biatrise teach Dan Grote how to play a modified version of Dungeons & Dragons in which two fantasy-realm private eyes investigate a bank robbery.

Our guest this week is Sweeney Boo, whose graphic novel “Eat, and Love Yourself,” a personal tale about eating disorders and body dysmorphia, is out April 14 from BOOM Studios. We talk to her about that, her work on the IDW "Marvel Action Captain Marvel" series, her cat, Star Wars and more. We also have a bonus segment, recorded at Cape Con at the Cape May County Library in September. Matt and Dan...

Say goodbye to the 2010s with Dan Grote, Matthew Lazorwitz and Rob Lynch as they talk about some of their favorite comics of the past decade, from "Black Bolt" to "Chew" to "The Fade Out" and beyond.

Bat-fans unite! Dan and Matt gather WMQ Comics contributor Will Nevin and returning guest/Bat-Trivia Contest winner Chris Sims to talk about the Tom King run of "Batman," drawing to a close with this week's issue #85, and dissect what worked, what didn't and how it will ultimately be remembered. Plus: Stick around till the end for some exciting news from Will.

This week’s guest is writer Paul Tobin, who’s got a fun series out from Vault right now called “Heist, or How to Steal a Planet,” about a guy who wants to do just that little thing. We talk about that series, his upcoming middle grade graphic novel “Wrassle Castle,” and his work on titles like “Bandette,” “Colder,” “Plants vs. Zombies” and “Marvel Adventures,” plus a little about his pretty sweet-...

Friend of the show Charlie Davis returns for a good old-fashioned hang sesh with Dan and Matt, talking the Dawn of X books, their newfound love of wrestler Jon Moxley/Dean Ambrose, and wondering where in the world are Rictor and Shatterstar.

This week, we welcome back Anthony Marques, who a couple months ago became the new owner and president of the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art in Dover New Jersey. He talks about coming up through the school as a student, a security guard, an events coordinator, an instructor and now being the man in charge, getting to know Joe and the other Kuberts, his plans for the school and how he...

This week, writer Paul Allor joins us to talk about reenvisioning G.I. Joe for the modern era, as well as his upcoming Source Point Press project “Goth,” a series of one-shots that purports to examine different types of goths throughout history, from Visi to mall. Plus you’ll learn why Paul’s dog Short Round may be Dan's favorite creator pet to date.

This week Christopher Hastings joins us to talk about his upcoming run on Valiant’s “Quantum & Woody,” his Kickstarter comic “Draculagate,” the Wario Twitter comic he’s been working on, his podcast and sketch comedy work, and much more. Oh, and his dog, Commissioner Gordon.

This week we’re on a podcast cohost double date with Chris and Christi Eddleman from the show Chrises on Infinite Earths, where they dive deep into comic book crossovers good and bad and find out what makes them tick. Chris and Christi also are both part of the DoxTox family of columns at xavierfiles.com, where they and a whole bunch of other smart people write about the current X-books. And on to...

This week, Lonnie Nadler’s here to talk about his new turn-of-the-century horror series from Vault Comics, “Black Stars Above.” We talk about how he picked his creative team, the research that went into the book and the fact it’s his first published comics work as a solo writer, apart from his friend and collaborator Zac Thompson. But first, we present our final New York Comic Con mini-interview....

This week we’re talking with Nola Pfau, editor-in-chief for Women Write About Comics, who is stepping over to the other side of the page with their first published comics work in the anthology magazine Bun & Tea. We talk about that project, their work at Women Write About Comics and their upcoming Excalibur recap column at XavierFiles.com. But first, we’ve got another New York Comic Con mini inter...

Writer Stephanie Phillips returns to talk about her upcoming Dark Horse series, "The Butcher of Paris," about a real-life serial killer who operated in Nazi-occupied France during World War II. We also talk about her previous series, AfterShock’s “Descendant” and Black Mask’s “The Devil Within,” as well as a little hockey and a little about her guitars. Before that, we check in with writer Christo...

Dan Grote goes to New York Comic Con and comes back with interviews with Christopher Cantwell and Martin Morazzo (Dark Horse's "She Could Fly"), David Dastmalchian (Dark Horse's "Count Crowley: Reluctant Midnight Monster Hunter"), Gaby Dunn (BOOM's "Bury the Lede") and Ed Brisson (Marvel's "Ghost Rider" and "New Mutants"). Plus, Dan and Matthew Lazorwitz break down some of the show's big news.

Smoking. Guns. World hunger. Land mines. The Devil's Lettuce. The Three Amigos - Dan Grote, Matthew Lazorwitz and Rob Lynch - reunite to tackle the comics that tackle some of society's biggest issues, for good or ill. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll learn something.

This week, our guests are James Maddox and Gavin Smith, the creative team behind “Dead Legends,” a new miniseries from A Wave Blue World. It’s a revenge tale set at a fighting tournament, full of colorful characters just itching to roundhouse their way to the top. We talk about the book and its influences, favorite martial arts movies and fighting games, the new Tool album, dogs named after Wally...

This week we’re joined by artist Lisa Sterle, whom you may know from Scout’s “Long Lost,” Vault’s “Submerged” and IDW’s recent “GLOW Summer Special.” Lisa’s also got her own deck of reimagined tarot cards coming out this fall, which is super cool. We talk about all that stuff, plus inking and coloring, her D&D character and her dog.

John Allison joins the show to talk about the last days of his BOOM Studios series “Giant Days,” which will wrap up after 54 issues with an oversized special in October. We also talk about his new Dark Horse miniseries, “Steeple,” in which a grizzled daddy of a priest fights sea monsters in an English coastal town, his recently wrapped BOOM maxiseries “By Night,” and the “Giant Days”-”All-Star Bat...

Matthew Lazorwitz takes WMQ&A on the road to Flame Con in New York, where he interviews writer and past guest Vita Ayala ("Prisoner X," "Livewire"), artist Rosemary Valero-O'Connell ("Laura Dean Keeps Breaking up with Me"), colorist Tamra Bonvillain ("Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur," "Once & Future"), Geeks Out President Nic G. and fellow podcasters Jay Edidin and Miles Stokes of Jay & Miles X-Plain...

This week we're chatting with friend of the show Adam Reck, artist, musician, educator and one-half of the podcast Battle of the Atom, in which Adam and co-host Zack Jenkins rank every X-Men story from A to Z. We talk about Adam's X-Men webcomic "Bish & Jubez," his side gig drawing Twitter avatars, his love of early Transformers comics, as well as his history and future as an artist.

This week we’re talking with Cullen Bunn, writer of "Absolute Carnage: Scream," "Manor Black," "Unearth," "Graveyard Slaughter," "Punk Mambo," "Roku" and much, much more. In addition to those comics, we talk about his favorite horror stuff, classic arcade games, the comics scene in Missouri and how karate is a gateway drug to owning your own dojo.