Inkstuds Radio

YOU FOUND IT: The greatest thing you’ve put in your ears since the plugs you used to block the devil’s lies is FREE and LIVE! Artist, critic and international bon vivant Katie Skelly is readying our world for the August 8 release of My Pretty Vampire (color, Fantagraphics), and we’ve got her for a prudently sub-hourlong chat on work, color, tenacity, economics, and HARDCORE SCAMMING. Save this file to the most secure location in your life because whole societies will rise on its details when the tide of now blessedly crests!

-Joe McCulloch, guest host/weed carrier

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Chip Zdarsky was in Vancouver for our local Comics Art Festival. Brandon and I took advantage of this opportunity to sit down with him and chat about his comics. We locked Chip in my office for about 2 hours and a pretty great freewheeling conversation. Chip’s latest work can be found writing for Marvel Comics’ SpiderMan and Howard the Duck.

His personal work includes his collaboration with Matt Fraction on Sex Criminals and working with Kagan Mcloud on Kaptara, both from Image.

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Hosted by Sloane Leong and recorded at the Vancouver Comics Art Festival – From the magically urban to the ancient and otherworldly, this panel will explore a large body of work from a diverse range of contemporary cartoonists whose stories reinterpret and interrogate this genre’s traditions. With guests Jayd Ait-Kaci, Farel Dalrymple, Evan Dahm, Sam Beck and Kel McDonald.

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Kentucky cartoonist Ben Sears joined me and Brandon Graham to talk about his comics during his visit to Vancouver for Vancaf. Ben’s got a couple of books from Koyama press, the latest being Volcano Trash. His comics have a great life to them. I really enjoy how easily you get pulled into the story telling and weird worlds he creates.

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Bug Boys cartoonist Laura Knetzger joined me to talk about her comics. Her aforementioned Bug Boys collection from Czap Books is a great thick tome of fun exploratory mini comics. She has also been doing some really stellar and thoughtful autobio comics, including Sea Urchin from Retrofit.

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Thi Bui joined me to talk about her debut memoir book, The Best We Could Do, looking at her parents emigration from war torn Vietnam. It’s a really amazing work that succeeds in capture a rich storied history. It has a lot of strengths in Thi’s ability to tell her parents story, and to also historically contextualize it. The book feels very prescient right now in regards to current political climate and experiences, and well worth checking out.

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It’s the return of an old guest, Roman Muradov. Roman’s latest book is Jacob Bladers and the State of the Art from Uncivilized. Roman is an amazing talent in comics, creating beautiful unique works that show his continuous progression as an artist. We discuss his changing work and the directions he explores. His other recent work includes The End of a Fence from the great Kus Comics and is currently running Maurice, Son of Noah online at Hazlitt.

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I sat down with artist, Jonah Kinigstein for his book from Fantagraphics, the Emperor’s New Clothes: The Tower of Babel in the “Art” World. The book is a collection of large one panel comics about his feelings around modern art through the 20th century. Jonah, now in his 90s, is still very active, working on similar work critical about Donald Trump and his space he occupies. Jonah’s work is visceral and fascinating. Jonah has been active through his life as a painter creating gorgeous oil paintings.

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Cartoonist Michael DeForge and SPX organizer Sam Marx sit down to talk about Magic: The Gathering in the lead up to Michael’s tour to promote his new book Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero from Drawn & Quarterly  There’s about five minutes of comics talk in this one, but it goes deep on our own histories with the game of Magic, our favorite cards and archetypes, and our feelings on the game moving forward.

Make sure to pick up Sticks Angelica and see Michael at one of these upcoming tour dates if you can. He’ll have his decks so bring yours

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