Word Balloon Podcast The Flash 75th Anniversary Special

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Word Balloon Podcast WAITING FOR BATMAN WITH FRANK QUIETLY WALT SIMONSON BRIAN AZZARELLO FRANCESCO FRANCIVILLA

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WAITING FOR BATMAN...OBSERVATIONS FROM FRANK QUIETLY CHRIS BURNHAM MATT WAGNER WALTER SIMONSON BRIAN AZZARELLO PAUL CORNELL
FRANCESSCO FRANCIVILIA AND FILMMAKER BRET CULP

Word Balloon Podcast Scott Snyder On Batman's 75th, American Vampire & Wytches From Image

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Word Balloon Podcast Ed Piskor and his Hip Hop Family Tree Comics

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The history of Hip Hop Music and Culture is explored in Pittsburg Cartoonist Ed Piskor's excellent weekly series, online at Boing Boing and in the gigantic treasury edition published format from Fantagraphics Books. We discuss the interesting performance art intersections that helped evolve the Hip Hop Movement from playing at rec rooms in the bronx, to the world wide phenomenon it became.
Ed talks about his big break working with Harvey Pekar, his self published work, and more.

Word Balloon Podcast Jason Aaron's Southern Exposure

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Word Balloon Podcast Alex Segura On Archie's Riverdale TV series, The Dark Circle Heroes and His Crime Novel Silent City

Alex Segura From Archie Comics drops by to give the lowdown on the news of Fox developing a new live action tv series called RIVERDALE, and to go behind the scenes with Archie's Dark Circle line of Super Hero books.Upcoming reboots of The Black Hood & The Shield will join Dean Haspiel & Mark Waid's The Fox. Alex discusses the new directions and life at Archie Comics.We also talk about his crime novel SILENT CITY which has a follow up in the works. 

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Word Balloon Podcast BATMAN MEMORIES FROM NEAL ADAMS JEPH LOEB MARTY PASKO & STEVE ENGLEHART

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Word Balloon Podcast NYCC Talk With Brian Michael Bendis

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It's Time for The New York Comic Con, and Brian Bendis will be showing the first footage from the Powers TV show, and participating in Marvel 75th anniversary panels. Bendis joins us to tell stories about the pruduction of Powers hanging with the cast and crew and prepariing for the premiere coming in just a few months. bendis assures us that the 1st episode will be available free on many Sony online streaming platforms like crackle.com and others. 

There's lots of TV and movie talk, as the superhero genre prepares for a very crowded 2015. How has 2014 "set the table" for what's to come? Bendis even has positive thoughts about the upcoming Captain America 3 

We also talk in depth about his comic books Miles Morales Ultimate Spider-Man, The X-Men books, United States Of Murder Inc., and of course Guardians Of The Galaxy.

Plus, final thoughts on the closing of the Jinxworld Bendis Message Board, the 22 year old online community that launched many comic creator careers, and THIS VERY PODCAST! 

Word Balloon Kelley Jones Rob Gillory Tim Seeley Mike Norton Jenny Frison

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From Cincy Comicon, first a career spanning spotlight with Kelley Jones  the incredible Batman artist talks about his time with the caped crusader, his influences, love of Horror, and many other great works 

Then The Chew Revival Panel.The Image books crossed over this year, and then the creators joined me onstage to talk about their careers, books and view of today's comic book business. With Rob Gillory, Tim Seeley Mike Norton and Jenny Frison

Word Balloon Podcast Tony Millionare Jim Terry Hilary Barta Sean Dove Live from Cincy Comicon

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2 great panels from Cincy Comic Con.

First a one on one interview with the irrepresible Tony Millionare , the Creator Of sock Monkey Uncle Gabby and Drinky Crow, along with Billy Hazelnuts and others. Tony talks about his life, career path, and what the current market enviroment is like for an indie comic strip artist. You can read Tony's weekly efforts at his website makkies.com 

Then a live scene missi9ng film discussion with comic artists Jim Terry (The Sundowners) Hilary Barta (Simpsons Sponge Bob ) and Sean lDove (Revival The Last Days Of Danger) 

Word Balloon Podcast Matt Fraction Chip Zdarsky Jason Latour Tony Moore Mike Norton Mark Kidwell

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2 Great panels from The Cincy Comicon 

Fraction and Zdarsky face a live audiebnce for a free wheeling sex criminals Q&A session.

Then the real Southern Bastards Jason Latour Tony Moore Mike Norton and Mark Kidwell talk about their southern roots, and how their heritage influences their art and stories. 

Word Balloon Podcast Andy Schmidt Kelley Jones Ben Templesmith Tim Seeley Jeremy Haun Franco & Scoot

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Andy Schmidt joins us to talk about his time editing Marvel Cosmic, including the formation of the current Guardians Of the galaxy Roster, and The Comics Experience Online School, which has a new project deal with IDW.

The Batman At 75 panel from Cincy Comic Con With Kelley Jones, Time Seeley, Ben Templesmith and Jeremy Haun. A great discussion about The Caped Crusader

Franco & Scoot McMahon from Aw Yeah comics tell us about Spot on Adventure , a new funny web comic with a novel story tellling approach that readers can guide through their participation via Patreon.

Word Balloon Podcast The International School Of Comics Steve Bryant's Athena Voltaire & Scene Missing THE GAME

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On this episode of Word balloon, it's back to school as we tour the Chicago campus of The International School Of Comics. Instructors Emma Rand Annalisa Vicari and Robin Mckay sat down to discuss the school's philosophy of how to teach commercial art to prospecrtive students.

Then Steve Bryant drops in to discuss the upcoming Dark Horse Comics Athena Voltaire Compendium, collecting and remastering the entire series to date,  including many new pages of story content.

Finally a new Scene Missing Segment recorded live at Challengers Comics in Chicago. We play movie trivia game show style with artists Jim Terry and Hilary Barta 

Word Balloon 9th Anniversary Show With Brian Michael Bendis

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Word Balloon Podcast Scott Allie Hope Nicholson and Gabriel Hardman

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Word Balloon Podcast Skottie Young Rick Remender Tom Brevoort & The Silver Age Of Comic Book Art, With Arlen Schumer

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Word Balloon Podcast SDCC 2014 Panels-The Future Of Geek & The Comic Book Podcasters Roundtable

Download The MP3 Here 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.

Word Balloon Podcast SDCC w Marvel's Joe Quesada Image Publisher Eric Stephenson Michael Moreci Ryan Browne & Jim Heffron

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We begin our coverage from this year's San Diego Comic-Con.

Days before the wide release of Guardians Of The Galaxy, Marvel Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada explains the origin of the comic and film. 

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.

Word Balloon Podcast SDCC Preview With Publishers Weekly's Calvin Reid and Geek Biz Author Rob Salkowitz

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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.