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Comics for Grownups Episode 37 with Alex Rothman and Andrea Tsurumi is now out on iTunes. Direct RSS link for Android users here, or listen on the Web here.

In this episode we talk to Pat Dorian about his work, his varied artistic background, and the Grand Comics Festival.

We also review:

Andre the Giant: Life and Legend and Number 1 by Box Brown

Angie Bongiolatti by Mike Dawson

Blimpakind: Drinking Buddies by Talya Modlin

Nobrow 9: It’s Oh So Quiet

Safari Honeymoon by Jesse Jacobs

Suspect Device 4 edited by Josh Bayer

Weapons of Mass Diplomacy by Abel Lanzac, art by Christophe Blain

Top image is the announcement for the Grand Comics Festival. The next two are from Pat Dorian’s Savage Brute and the third is a picture of Pat’s desk, showing how many iterations he goes through in the course of character design. Fourth image is the cover of Box Brown’s Andre the Giant and the final image is the cover of Jesse Jacobs’s Safari Honeymoon.

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Comics for Grownups Episode 35 with Alex Rothman is now out on iTunes. Direct RSS link for Android users here, or listen on the Web here.

In this episode Andrea Tsurumi joins us as a permanent cohost, and the three of us talk with Josh Bayer about his work, his teaching, and his Kickstarter campaign for issue #4 of Suspect Device.

We also discussed:

Climate Changed: A Personal Journey Through the Science by Philippe Squarzoni

I’m Not a Plastic Bag by Rachel Hope Allison

This article about Dark Mountain founder Phil Kingsnorth and this article about the “politics of the impossible” by Jedediah Purdy

Weekend Alone by Noah Van Sciver

Sad Sack by George Baker

Written in the Bones by Christopher M. Jones, illustrated by Carey Pietsch

War of Streets and Houses by Sophie Yanow

Cosplayers by Dash Shaw

The prank movie May the Best Man Win

Nature Show by Matt Lubchansky

Full House DVD Box Set Season 2 by Greg Kletsel

Twinkie the Kid

 

Top image is the cover to Suspect Device #4, by Josh Bayer and Raymond Pettibon. Second image is also from Suspect Device #4 by Josh Bayer. Third image is the cover to I’m Not a Plastic Bag by Rachel Hope Allison. Bottom image is the cover to War of Streets and Houses by Sophie Yanow.

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Comics for Grownups Episode 24 with Alex Rothman is now out on iTunes. Direct RSS link for Android users here.

In this episode we are joined by Charles Forsman, author of the Ignatz-winning The End of the Fucking World and publisher of Oily Comics.

We talk about:

Fantagraphics’ Treasury of Mini Comics: Volume 1, edited by Michael Dowers

Pompeii by Frank Santoro

Blobby Boys by Alex Schubert

(We also talk about Alex Schubert’s short animation for Fox, Killer Driller, and his other animation work.)

We Won’t See Auschwitz by Jérémie Dres

ROM: Prison Riot by Josh Bayer

OMAC #1 by Jack Kirby

Connie to the Wonnie by Connie Sun

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Comics for Grownups Episode 18 with Alex Rothman is now available on iTunes. Direct RSS link for Android users here. In this episode we talk about:

Raw Power #1 and 2 by Josh Bayer

Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust

Study Group Magazine #2

Science Fiction by Joe Ollmann

Tiny Pencil: The Forest Issue

Domovoi by Peter Bergting

Where Eden Once Stood: Veteran Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan by Jess Ruliffson

Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas by Jim Ottaviani and Maris Wicks

A User’s Guide to Neglectful Parenting by Guy Delisle

Plus the sad passing of Kim Thompson.

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Comics for Grownups Episode 15 with Alex Rothman is now available on iTunes. RSS link for Android users here.

In this episode we discuss:

š #13, a compilation from kuš

Red Handed: The Fine Art of Strange Crimes by Matt Kindt

Le Fils du Roi by Eric Lambé

The Complete Deep Girl by Ariel Bordeaux, and in general publisher Robyn Chapman‘s possible ambition to bring out more zines of the 1990s

Post by Molly Brooks

Sand Castle by Frederik Peeters and Pierre Oscar Lévy

Suspect Device #3, a compilation published by Josh Bayer

We Will Remain by Andrew White

3 New Stories by Dash Shaw

Mumbai Confidential Book One: Good Cop, Bad Cop by Saurav Mohapatra and Vivek Shinde

Good Riddance: An Illustrated Memoir of Divorce by Cynthia Copeland

Country Ass-Whuppin’: A Tornado Relief Anthology from 12-Gauge Comics

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