The Weekly Pop Culture Audio Podcast Featuring In-Depth One On One Interviews and Discussions From The Entertainment Worlds Of Genre Fiction- Comic Books, Novels, Television, Film, Video Games And More. Created In 2005 By Chicago Radio/TV Host John Siuntres
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Friday, August 22, 2014
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Monday, August 04, 2014
Word Balloon Podcast SDCC 2014 Panels-The Future Of Geek & The Comic Book Podcasters Roundtable
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Happy To Bring You The Audio From The 9th Annual SDCC Podscasters Panel With Heath Corson, John Mayo, Calvin Reid, Tim Beyers, and Glenn Weldon
Plus The Future Of Geek Panel With Rob Salkowitz, Heidi McDonald and Tim Beyers .
Both panels had great looks at the comic book and pop culture industries and where they're going.
Monday, July 28, 2014
Word Balloon Podcast SDCC w Marvel's Joe Quesada Image Publisher Eric Stephenson Michael Moreci Ryan Browne & Jim Heffron
We begin our coverage from this year's San Diego Comic-Con.
We have Image Expo Coverage featuring the keynote address by Image Publisher Eric Stephenson.
Michael Moreci talks about his new Image comic Roche Limit, his Planet Of The Apes comic from Boom! Studios, and writing the new Hack Slash comic, with Steve Seeley.
Ryan Browne talks about taking God Hates Astronauts to Image as an ongoing series.
Jim Heffron tells us about his kickstarter campaign for the Gangs Of Camelot OGN.
Friday, July 18, 2014
Friday, July 11, 2014
Word Balloon Podcast Christos Gage & Chris Eliopoulos
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Not since ancient times has such an august group of greek geeks got together to talk about the Comics Market.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 10 scribe Gage joins us to talk about the current run, working with Xander (Nicholas Brendan) , and Dan Slott on Spider-Man .
Chris also has a Comix Experience Master Class Seminar coming up August 9th about staying in the comics biz after that first gig.
Chris Eliopoulos is back to talk about his I AM childrens books with Brad Meltzer, including the new one I AM ROSA PARKS. We talk about COWBOY, his 25 years as a letterer/production guy, and much more.
Monday, June 30, 2014
Word Balloon Podcast Sam Humphries and The Legendary Star Lord
Writer Sam Humpries talks about the New Star Lord Comic, debuting July 2nd. Are we on the verge of a new important Marvel hero, soon to be bolstred by The Guradian Of The Galaxy Movie opening August 1st?
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Word Balloon Podcast The Business Of Geek, With Tim Beyers
Todays episode is brought to you by CAPES, CHAD WEST'S SUPERHERO E-BOOK AT AMAZON, and IN STOCK TRADES
Friday, May 30, 2014
Word Balloon Podcast Flashback 2008 After Dark With Ed Brubaker & Matt Fraction
This is truly one of my all time favorite conversations. Ed & Matt were just wrapping up Iron Fist, and Matt was about to join Ed writing X-Men starting with #500. We have a ball talking about Cap, DD Secret Invasion, Thor Iron Man, and hilarious TV & movie talk that's only funnier hearing it with 2014 ears.
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Word Balloon Podcast Matt Fraction, Fred Van Lente & Crystal Skillman , and Marc Andreyko
On Today's Word Balloon, we catch up with Matt Fraction for another Fireside Chat.
Matt & Chip Zdarsky are enjoying massive popularity with their Image Book Sex Criminals, which is at the top of the NYT Best Seller List , not to mention Time Magazine's Comic Book Of The Year, and even more mainstream press critical acclaim. We talk about the book, plus his other Image series Sattelite Sam co-created with Howard Chaykin , and the continuing Hawkeye series for Marvel with David Aja and Annie Wu.
Then an amazing Kickstarter campaign to support a play about the life and career of Jack Kirby is discussed with the husband & wife creators behind the project, Fred Van Lente & Playwright Crystal Skillman. We talk about KING KIRBY which is part of the Comic Book Theater Festival happening in June at The Brick in NYC. We talk about the unique challenges of presenting this as a stage play, Crystal's meeting with the legendary Producer/Director Hal Prince , and more.
We wrap up with writer Marc Andreyko, who amidst controversy has taken on the writing chores on Batwoman for DC, and delivering an excellent superhero rocedural with strong charcter moments . Marc talks about the book,and projects with Clive Barker for BOOM! , a fun spy book for IDW, and his Cinderella arc that just wrapped up in Vertigo's FAIREST.
Monday, May 12, 2014
Word Balloon Podcast Hasan Minahj On The Stand Up Planet Documentary , Steve Skroce's Doc Frankenstein Returns and The 2014 C2E2 Podcasters Roundtable
On This episode of Word Balloon, Hasan Minajh talks about his project Stand Up Planet, a documentary series that debuts Wed May 14th at 7pm on the cable channels LINK TV, PIVOT, The So Cal Public TV station KCET and streaming live at standupplanet.org. This 2 part docu takes an amazing look at stand up comedy in the third world, and is worth your attention. Featured in the show are comedians from India and South Africa, and words of wisodm from comedy legends Bill Cosby, Norman Lear (All In The Family) , and Carl Reiner (The Dick Van Dyke Show)
Comic Artist Steve Skroce joins us to talk about the return of Doc Frankenstien and his work with Filmmakers and Comic Book Vets The Wachowskis on his Burlyman Comics, and their films including The Matrix Trilogy, Cloud Atlas, V For Vendetta, and this summer's Jupiter Ascending.
We wrap up with a C2E2 Podcaters roundtable featuring Steve Dismie of Comic Book Queers Wendy Freeman of Double Page Spread , Chris Marshall of Collected Comic Library and John Mayo of Comic Book Page
Word Balloon Patreon Exclusive Robert Atkins Business Tips For Comic Book Artists
As promised we begin the feature "Private Talk In Public Places". These are WB interviews with creators and other good thinkers in the geek industry. Sometimes they'll just be fun talks, other times tips on craft and ways creators can improve their skills.
Robert Atkins is one of the smartest artists I know, in terms of treating his art like a small business. In this interview he maps out many ways he builds his audience. From selling/giving away his daily warm-up sketches to building his following by partnerships with creator owned books .
To get this exclusive conversation and future Private Talks, subscribe to Word Balloon for only $1 a month at the Patreon page http://www.patreon.com/wordballoon
Tuesday, May 06, 2014
Word Balloon Podcast Phil Jimenez Gail Simone Greg Pak, Charles Soule Nicola Scott Neil Gibson Jim Terry Tony Fleecs Thom Zahler
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On this episode of Word Balloon, we start with Phil Jimenez who's getting ready for his May 10th live art seminar for Comics Experience . We talk about the Master Class on action and acting on the comic page . We also talk about Wonder Woman, Infinite Crisis and his take on the Marvel & DCU today .
The we wrap up our exclusive C2E2 floor interviews
Gail Simone is back to talk about Batgirl, Red Sonja and Lara Croft.
Greg Pak talks Superman-Batman and Action Comics
Charles Soule talks Swamp Thing Red Lanterns Superman-Wonder Woman, and Letter 44
Nicola Scott talks Earth-2
Brit Neil Gibson discusses his horror anthologies Twisted Dark and the challenges of breaking intio the american comics market
Artist Jim Terry talks about his Dark Horse Comics series The Sundowners with Tim Seeley
Tony Fleecs and Thom Zahler talk My Little Pony and Thom's upcoming episode of Ultimate Spider-Man
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Word Balloon Podcast C2E2 wrap w Brian Bendis Amanda Connor Jimmy Palmiotti Kyle Higgins Sam Humphries Mike Perkins & More
Massive C2E2 Con Coverage with lot of in-depth interviews on the floor and on the phone
Time Cues
Brian Michael Bendis on The Powers TV show, Uncanny X-Men and Guardians Of The Galaxy 00:00-104:08
Amanda Connor & Jimmy Palmiotti On Harley Quinn 104:09-120:58
Mike Perkins On Deathlok 120:59-136:13
Kyle Higgins On Image's C.O.W.L. 136:14-155:52
Pro Wrestlers Chris Daniels & Kazarian 155:53-202:35
Pete Tomasi on Batman & Robin 202:35-210:41
Marvel Press Conf w Sam Humphries on Star Lord 210:42-248:39
Sean Dove On The Last Days Of Danger Kickstarter 248:40 - 259:54
Dave Gruba & Rene Castellano on the Tales Of The Wolfman Kicktsarter
2:59:55-End Of Show
Friday, April 25, 2014
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Word Balloon Podcast Scott Allie Fred Van Lente and Dan Wickline
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Dark Horse Comics Editor/ Writer Scott Allie checks in to talk about 2 new books from the Hellboy Universe, the laytest isues of Abe Sapien (written by Scott) and Hellboy In Hell written and drawn by Mike Mignola. We also previe what dark Horse is Doing at C2E2 next week.
Fred Van Lente joins us to talk about his new run on Conan The Avenger starting April 23rd. Plus a new 10th anniversary edition of Action Philosophers, his take on Magnus Robot Hunter Archer and armstrong and more!
Finally we present a portion of the next Aw Yeah Podcast with guest dan Wickline, who writes for Zenescope Top Cow and Bleeding cool. Dan has an episode of Metal Hurlant coming up on the Syfy channel this month, starring James Marsters (Spike from Buffy & Angel) too!
Tuesday, April 08, 2014
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