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Back to SearchCarol Tyler's "The Ephemerata": Making sense of the worst of all possible stretches
Episode 857
Longtime comics creator Carol Tyler went through a horrific stretch in her life where she lost numerous loved ones, from her parents, to a neighbor,…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
#856 Jim Keefe interview
Jim Keefe is a longtime comics creator who has worked on the Flash Gordon (art and story) and Sally Forth (art) newspaper strips as well as being Ki…
9 months ago
Jack Kirby's "Captain America" 214 & Annual 3: Cap vs the Space Vampire!
Episode 855
Jack Kirby wraps up his run on Captain America and the Falcon with issue 214, the rather underwhelming conclusion of the Night Flyer story. But wait…
9 months, 1 week ago
Marvel Comics: Telling the Untold Story
Episode 410
FLASHBACK! If you’re into American comics at all, you undoubtedly know how Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and others changed the industry with th…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Critiquing Comics: "Roy Beckwith and the Cursed Continent" and "A French Expat in the U.K."
Episode 246
Roy Beckwith and the Cursed Continent is a western series by Nick Patch, Jarret Katz, and Fabi Marques. It looks great but it runs at a breakneck pa…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
"Superman" (2025): Its commentary on other supermen
Episode 854
Last summer’s Superman movie was a welcome improvement over many recent films featuring the character, and over much of the recent superhero film en…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
The strange history of "Robotech"
Episode 853
What if your first Star Wars movie were Return of the Jedi? You’d have questions! That’s how Tim felt once he got started reading Robotech II: The S…
10 months ago
“Krazy Kat”: Show me the bricks
Episode 369
FLASHBACK! One of the most highly-regarded English-language strips of all time is George Herriman’s Krazy Kat, featuring the odd love/hate triangle …
10 months, 1 week ago
Dan Schkade and "Flash Gordon"
Episode 852
In 2023, King Features Syndicate decided to bring Flash Gordon, originally created by Alex Raymond and first published in 1934, back from rerun purg…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Carl Barks, “The Good Duck Artist”
Episode 358
From 1942 to 1966, many of the Donald Duck comic books published by Dell Comics were written and drawn by Carl Barks. Like most comic book creators …
10 months, 3 weeks ago