Episode 52- Oldham Comic Con 3

In this episode we discuss our recent trip to Oldham Comic Con 3 held on Saturday May 11th. Nikki tabled on the day and Ian went off interviewing a range of comic creators. These included 2000AD artist David ‘Max’ Millgate, Kevin from Deadstar Publishing, Rok of the Reds artist Dan Cornwell, Zenith artist Steve Yeowell, Oldham Comic Con organiser Dennis Whittle, Asa Wheatley, Kat Willott & Sammy Ward, 2000AD and The Immortal Hulk writer Al Ewing and Phantom legend Keith Williams. We had a great day and intend to return next year.

We review Cannabis An American History by Box Brown and Untitled Generic Space Comedy #1 by Matt Garvey, John Mcfarlane, Allison Hu and Rob Guillory plus Prey for Us by Garvey and J Francis Totti. Tom reviews Hello Dolly by John Tucker. We also give our thoughts on Spider-man Into the Spider-verse and Detective Pikachu.

Finally we take a look at the newly announced exhibitors in the Clock Tower at the Lakes Festival this year.

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Contributions by Mike Williams (@CthulhuPunk) Pete Taylor (@thismanthispete) and Tom Stewart (@uramyx).
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World Comic Recomendations

In episode 51 of the podcast I chatted with Brad Brooks, cartoonist, comic scholar and & co-author of ‘The Essential Guide to World Comics’. It was a pretty wide ranging conversation covering Harvey Kurtzman, what makes comics so special and the pros and cons of digital drawing. I also asked Brad for some World comic recommendations and as well as the ones mentioned on the podcast he sent through a list of some other favourites:

Argentina

The Eternaut

by Hector German Oesterheld and Francisco Solano Lopez

(Fantagraphics)

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Mort Cinder

by Hector German Oesterheld and Alberto Breccia

(Fantagraphics)

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France

The Arab of the Future

by Riad Sattouf (Two Roads)

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France/Belgium

Imbattable (Invincible in English)
by Pascal Jousselin
(Dupuis/Europe Comics)

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The Golden Age

by Roxanne Moreil and Cyril Pedrosa
(Dupuis/Europe Comics)

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France/Iraq

Poppies from Iraq

by Brigitte Findakly and Lewis Trondheim

(Drawn and Quarterly)

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Malaysia/Singapore

The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye

by Sonny Liew

(Pantheon)

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Norway

Dunce
by Jens K. Styve (self-published)

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Spain

Twists of Fate

by Paco Roca
(Fantagraphics)

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US/Switzerland

Ceÿx Seys Ceix

by Kristen Haas Curtis

(self-published)

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Some other publishers to mention are:

Stripburger ( http://www.stripburger.org) in Slovenia

Kuš ( http://www.komikss.lv/) in Latvia

Strapazin ( https://strapazin.ch/) in Switzerland

as all of these publish comics from all over the world, many of them translated into English.

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And I’m going to sneak one in as well…

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Brazil

Two Brothers

by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá

(Dark Horse Horse Books)

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A huge thanks to Brad for sending these in.

Follow Brad on:

Instagram @ninthart 

and Twitter @ninthart

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Cheers,

This Man This Pete!

Episode 51- Brad Brooks and Avengers Endgame

A slightly different episode today. Pete chats to creator Brad Brooks about EC and MAD creator Harvey Kurtzman, the comic making process, digital comics and World comics (he wrote the book on it after all).

We have Tom join us as we spend the final segment of the show talking all about the giant Avengers Endgame. This is a spoiler filled chat however its not until the end of the episode so fear not… we give you warnings if you haven’t seen the movie. We also review John Tuckers CYDO and Ian goes all gooey over his new favourite writer Jeff Lemire and reviews Underwater Welder and Black Hammer (art by Dean Ormston and Dave Stewart).

Mike goes Hellboy crazy and reviews the Hellboy Omnibus editions, the new Hellboy film and plays Hellboy: The Board Game! Tom reviews  Alan Henderson’s Penned Guin: Don’t Judge Me.

Finally go grab a copy of Nikkis new comic Leaf which is out now!

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Twitter: @comicartfestpod
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Find all about the festival at http://www.comicartfestival.com
Logo designed by Pete Taylor at http://www.thismanthispete.com
Contributions by Mike Williams (@CthulhuPunk) Pete Taylor (@thismanthispete) and Tom Stewart (@uramyx).
Title Music: Don’t Fool Yourself by Pop Noir