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Chris and Matt go to MeCaf (the Maine Comics Art Festival) 2011… in May.  Yeah.  It’s been a little while since our last episode, but we still talked to some awesome people who deserve to be heard!

 

Including:

Gynn Stella, writer/artist/co-founder of Dandelion Studios.

www.dandelionstudios.com (http://www NULL.dandelionstudios NULL.com/)

We also talk about Missi Penya, artist for their book Perils of Picorna.
Zinmay.deviantart.com (http://zinmay NULL.deviantart NULL.com/)
Chris speaks to cartooning educator, creator, and wandering comics journalist Marek Bennett.  Marek’s latest project is a book of travel comics from his journey to Slovakia.  Why Slovakia?  Find out here:

http://marekslovakia.wordpress.com/about/ (http://marekslovakia NULL.wordpress NULL.com/about/)

www.marekbennett.com (http://www NULL.marekbennett NULL.com/)

We talk to writer/artist Steve Seck about his continuing saga of an unemployed beer bottle and an alligator.  Really.  As they try to find love and employment in the big city.

Steve Seck: http://www.secktacular.com/ (http://www NULL.secktacular NULL.com/)

Also from New Jersey, Sara Lindo, who has some sweet tales of Carl, a cone-head looking for love, wall-street cats, and brain buddies.

Sara Lindo:http://www.thelindo.com/ (http://www NULL.thelindo NULL.com/)

and
Dave Kender: writer of the graphic-novel in-progress about the balance of power and perspective between three different generations and cultures in one fictional urban neighborhood known as The Ragbox.

http://www.theragbox.com/ (http://www NULL.theragbox NULL.com/)

Dave also shares the secret creation myth of the Boston Comics Roundtable, a collective of comics artists and writers in the Boston area:

http://www.bostoncomicsroundtable.com/ (http://www NULL.bostoncomicsroundtable NULL.com/)

 

 

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The boys present a review of Drive Angry: Shot in 3D. They also discover that the reason they don’t record two podcasts in a row at the pub is that’s it’s good to be sober for at least a portion of the recording.

 

Links forthcoming

 

 

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In honor of CCS Appreciation Week Matt, Chris, Denis, and David throw back a few beers and open up about their college days.

 

Links:

The Center for Cartoon Studies (http://www NULL.cartoonstudies NULL.org)

Denis St. John (http://denisstjohn NULL.blogspot NULL.com/)

David Yoder (http://davidyoderisawesome NULL.blogspot NULL.com/)

Atomic Age Cinema (http://atomicagecinema NULL.com/)

SCAD (http://www NULL.scad NULL.edu/)

The Kubert School (http://www NULL.kubertschool NULL.edu/)

That school where you have to draw the turtle. (http://www NULL.artinstructionschools NULL.edu/)

The Comics Journal (http://www NULL.tcj NULL.com/)

 

 

(http://recordings NULL.talkshoe NULL.com/TC-65758/TS-462976 NULL.mp3)

 

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I don’t normally repost things from other peoples blogs, but this is an exception. Kimberly (http://kimwar NULL.blogspot NULL.com/) is my sister and I’ve asked her permission to  pass on this particular blog entry.  As for my reasons for wanting to exhibit her story on ASF?  When I was in elementary school I had gigantic coke bottle glasses, a corrective self adhesive eye patch, and a chip in my front tooth where a bully had pushed me on the ground and kicked me with both feet in the face.   Didn’t we all though?       – Radical Warren

How to Create an Awkward Little Girl (http://kimwar NULL.blogspot NULL.com/2011/01/how-to-create-awkward-little-girl NULL.html)

Today I met an eleven-year-old girl who was getting her first pair of glasses. Her mother told me that next week the girl is going to have braces put on. This means that, by next year, she’ll be in the seventh grade with glasses and braces. And everyone knows that the seventh grade is single cruelest thing ever created (this list goes something like, The seventh grade, Hitler, the DMV, and so on*), and I really wanted to say something to make her feel better, because the mother had gone to the trouble to tell me she was getting braces, but all I could come up with was, “I had glasses and braces at your age. If nothing else, it’ll give you a lot of material for your future comedy routine.”

Its my ability to give stellar life lessons that makes me a good optometric technician. Maybe.

*I know what you’re probably thinking. Hilter is eviler than the seventh grade. Well, you can just go right on believing that if you want, but all I’m saying is, Hitler had to endure the seventh grade. And if his seventh grade experience was anything like my seventh grade experience, it explains a lot of his lifestyle choices.

- Kimberly Warren

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Matt and Chris don’t talk that much about mainstream comics, but they’ve really been enjoying DC comics’ Brightest Day ongoing event. A trade just came out compiling the first distinct arc, so this seemed to be a great chance to talk about it.

Chris fucks up near the end. At one point he says that the Velocity Cruz Reader has the same size screen as the Velocity Cruz Tablet. While they both have 7” screens, the Reader has a 4:3 ratio and the Tablet is available both 4:3 and 16:9. That means that the 16:9 Tablet has less viewable screen area. Chris found this out when he bought a Tablet and then quickly returned it when he realized his comics looked like crap. Glad we got that all settled.

Links:

Brightest Day (http://www NULL.amazon NULL.com/Brightest-Day-Vol-Geoff-Johns/dp/1401229662/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1294874812&sr=8-1)

The Velocity Cruz (http://www NULL.cruzreader NULL.com/)

Matt’s new journal comic (http://www NULL.apostrophepress NULL.com/)

Chris’ new H.P. Lovecraft comic (http://www NULL.apostrophepress NULL.com/)

Girl Guy Gardener (http://www NULL.flickr NULL.com/photos/paulnomad/4839790411/in/set-72157624607498342/) (Girl Gardener?)

Dead Man (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Deadman)

Dead Man (http://www NULL.imdb NULL.com/title/tt0112817/) (The shitty movie)

Dead Man (http://www NULL.deadmanonline NULL.com/) ( The Band)

Dead Man’s Hand (http://www NULL.goodreads NULL.com/book/show/5982902-dead-man-s-hand) (A comic anthology that Matt and Chris edited that has nothing to do with DC comics)

Dead Man’s Porn (http://www NULL.facebook NULL.com/pages/DMP/126597017722?v=app_2309869772) (Another band that has a less appropriate name.)

(http://recordings NULL.talkshoe NULL.com/TC-65758/TS-438775 NULL.mp3)

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Matt and Chris trot trot to MICE.  Did they have a good time? Did they meet anyone? Did they get accosted by a 400 pound dude name “Silent Carl” who demanded that they kiss but thank God Matt knows Kung-Fu? Listen and find out.

Links of Note:

M.I.C.E. (http://www NULL.masscomics NULL.com)

Absinthe (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Absinthe)

Jeveli’s Terminal J Lounge (http://www NULL.jeveli NULL.com/lounge NULL.htm) ( Matt’s love for this place is suspicious in it’s intensity)

Randall Drew (http://randalldrew NULL.com/) (aka “Rough n’ Ready Randall” aaka “Rootin’-Tootin’ Randall)

(http://recordings NULL.talkshoe NULL.com/TC-65758/TS-411445 NULL.mp3)

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In the first of two parts, Chris & Matt interview Dan Mazur, one of the first-time organizers of M.I.C.E. (The Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo) three days before the debut of the show. Experience one of Matt’s proudest moment in segues, Chris’ most triumphant audio tech achievements, and Dan’s acceptance of “the weird, the fringe, and the marginal…”

M.I.C.E. is a free show dedicated to independent, alternative, small-press, and self-published comics, webcomics and ‘zines. It’s taking place at the Art Institute of Boston, 700 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02215 on September 25th from 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM.

Join us next time when we meet up again with Dan after the show (and the inevitable post-show bender) to hear what the experience of putting on a first time comics expo!

Links of Note:

M.I.C.E. (http://www NULL.masscomics NULL.com)

Art Institute of Boston (http://www NULL.aiboston NULL.edu=)

Dan Mazur (http://www NULL.danmazurcomics NULL.com/=)

Boston Comics Roundtable (http://www NULL.bostoncomicsroundtable NULL.com/=)

Boston Train System ( http://www NULL.mbta NULL.com/schedules_and_maps/rail/=)

(http://recordings NULL.talkshoe NULL.com/TC-65758/TS-399913 NULL.mp3)

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This episode is a quick sketching out the details on Steve Bissette’s upcoming (and we mean really upcoming… as in this FRIDAY, Sept. 3rd) public lecture and gallery show about his personal comics art collection. It sounds like a fascinating event. Check it out and Matt’ll see you there!

Here’s the skinny:

Steve Bissette’s Myrant (http://srbissette NULL.com/)

The official CCS announcement (http://www NULL.cartoonstudies NULL.org/index NULL.php/2010/08/26/mentors-and-monsters-selections-from-the-stephen-r-bissette-collection/)

About White River Junction and how to get there (courtesy of the Center for Cartoon Studies) (http://www NULL.cartoonstudies NULL.org/wrj NULL.html)

Wiki on Jack Davis (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Jack_Davis_%28cartoonist%29)

About Cam Kennedy (http://www NULL.camkennedy NULL.com/bio NULL.html)

(http://recordings NULL.talkshoe NULL.com/TC-65758/TS-392956 NULL.mp3)

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Hello, we are Art School Fraud. We’d like to share our love of Cthulhu with you.
Cthulhu Dice is a fun ass game that, like most dice games, is easily converted into an intense drinking game. Although we do have trouble calling it a “dice” game when it only involves one die. Oh well, we will overlook in light of how wonderfully dark it is.

What’s this all about? (http://www NULL.sjgames NULL.com/dice/cthulhudice/)

Cthulhu Dice (http://www NULL.sjgames NULL.com/dice/cthulhudice/) (This is the thing that this is about)

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Matt and Chris begin to pull open the vial that shrouds a young man of Providence in preparation for what will undoubtedly be an epic podcast.

We talk about some stuff:

H.P. Lovecraft’s: Haunt of Horror (http://www NULL.amazon NULL.com/Haunt-Horror-Lovecraft-Premiere-HC/dp/0785132872) (MAX)

Lovecraft (http://www NULL.dccomics NULL.com/vertigo/graphic_novels/?gn=2383) (Vertigo)

H.P. Lovecraft’s: Nyarlathotep (http://www NULL.boom-studios NULL.net/h-p-lovecraft-s-nyarlathotep NULL.html) (Boom)

Fall of Cthulhu (http://comics NULL.wikia NULL.com/wiki/The_Fall_of_Cthulhu) (Boom)

Lovecraft is Missing (http://lovecraftismissing NULL.com/) (Larry Latham)

Call of Cthulhu (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Call_of_Cthulhu_(role-playing_game)) (an RPG by Chaosium Inc.)

Cthulhu Dice (http://www NULL.sjgames NULL.com/dice/cthulhudice/)(a dice game by Steve Jackson Games)

(http://vimeo NULL.com/14469761)

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