Word Balloon Podcast Declan Shalvey On Injection His New image Book w Warren Eliis & Listener Calls From The Word Balloon Hotline

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Word Balloon Podcast Comic Book Writing Tips From Matt Hawkins and Tom King

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Matt Hawkins the publisher of Top Cow discusses the evolution of the company, from it's Darkness & Witchblade beginnings to the lean operation of today. Matt is a military tech enthusiast and uses that interest to inform his books like Wild fire and Think Tank, he also has a new cyber-caper heist story, The Tithe about cyber crimes at a Mega Church. Matt shares many writing tips, and lots of insight into today's comics market.

Tom King joins us to talk about Grayson, the DC book he co-writes wirth Tim Seeley, and gives us his impression of the recent DC talent summit in Burbank. Tom also tells us a bit about his plans for Teen Titans, co-written with Will Pfiefer and A revamp of The Omega Men 

Word Balloon Podcast Super Hero TV talk w Arrow's Marc Guggenheim & Greg Weissman Of Young Justice & Star Wars Rebels

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Great chance to talk with 2 TV writer producers who are at the top of live action television and animation. Both will be at Long Beach Comic Expo this weekend and have great insight on the current superhero explosion television is experiencing.

Writer- Exec Producer Marc Guggenheim talks about Arrow Flash. Given the success of both shows, it's no surprise that it was annouced this week that the characters Atom, Professor Stein and Black Canary are being devolped for their own future CW TV series. NOTE- This conversation took place before the announcement , but Marc did give insight about the success of introducing these new characters and in theory about expanding the DCU TV universe on The CW.

Then, Animation Writer Exec Producer Greg Weissman looks back at Gargoyles, Young Justice, Spectacular Spider-Man, his current work with Star Wars Rebels, and the realities behind producing comic book/toy adaptaions for kids television. 

Word Balloon Podcast Kelly Sue DeConnick On Bitch Planet Pretty Deadly Marvel & More - Art & Franco's Comic Empire keeps growing

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 Kelly Sue DeConnick talks about her Image books Bitch Planet and Pretty Deadly Her Marvel work and Women In Comics . Art & Franco talk about the Itty Bitty Universe Tiny Titans DC Super Pets Franco's Dino Mike book series and more !

Word Balloon Podcast Matt Brady and The Secret History Of Newsarama - Scribd Joins The Comics Digital Marketplace

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First up, Scribd is a service like Netflix, that allows monthly subscribers to borrow unlimited e-books, audio and now comics. The company has made deals with publishers like Marvel IDW Top Shelf  BOOM! and Archie making over 10,000 graphic novel collections available to read on any phone or device. VP of Editorial and Marketing Julie Haddon joins us to explain the service.
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Then Matt Brady the co-founder and former editor of Newsarama comes by . Matt has a new BOOM!Studios comic out in March The Big Con Job, co-written with Jimmy Palmiotti. We talk about the book (think Ocean's 11 meets Galaxy Quest) . Then we get into an indepth look at the history of the comic newsblog Newsarama from it's beginnings to the point in 2009 when Matt stepped away from comics journailism. A lot has changed with publishers and media companies involvement in the 5 plus years Matt's been away from the beat and he has thoughts and observations on DC Marvel and the ability to cover news now comapred to his 20 years doing it. (41:28- End Of Show)

Word Balloon Podcast Late Night With Brian Michael Bendis - Jeff Lemire's Descender

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Word Balloon Podcast Jeph Loeb Talks Marvel TV David Gallaher & Steve Ellis's Bottled Lightning Studio Comics

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Word Balloon Podcast Tom Brevoort On Marvel's Secret War and Tim Beyers on the superhero business

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Marvel Executive Editor Tom Brevoort lays out the big picture on Secret War and lots more.

Tim Beyers looks at the current TV season upcoming films and what's going on omn the business side of Disney/Marvel Warners/DC and many other geek corporations. 

Word Balloon Podcast Brian Bendis & Sam Humphries Meet The Press, Paul Jenkins Takes Over Spawn & Jeremy Haun On Constantine and Kickstarter

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Word Balloon Podcast Rick Remender & Tom Brevoort On The Record -Howard Chaykin Live From The Studio

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First a Marvel Press Conference With Rick Remender & Tom Brevoort on the reboot of Uncanny Avengers coming Jan 28th.

Then Howard Chaykin joins us from his drafting table to talk about The Shadow, Satellite Sam, and lots more.

Word Balloon Podcast 2014 A Look Back W Jimmy Palmiotti & Amanda Connor, Joe Quesada, Axel Alonso, and Diana Schutz

Jimmy and Amanda talk Harley Quinn

Joe Quesada on the success of Guardians Of the Galaxy for Marvel Films

Axel Alonso on his big picture philosophies at Marvel

Diana Schutz Of Dark Horse on the perception of comics in the academic world and the mainstream pop culture

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Word Balloon Podcast Behind The COWL w Kyle Higgins & Alec Siegel Chuck Dixon Talks Action Novels and Batman

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First an in studio visit with writers Kyle Higgins and alec Siegel, co creators of COWL from Image

Then Chuck Dixon via skypoe tells us about his new action advernture novel Levon's Trade. We also talk Batman The Punisher and Chuck's Wall St Journal editorial from this past June.

Word Balloon Podcast Eric Powell The Goon's 15th anniversary & Mark Waid Talks Archie & Superman

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Great chat with Eric Powell about The Goon. He just wrapped up a pivotal story arc that leaves the Goon in a bad place to pick things up in February.

Then Mark Waid comes on to talk about the reboot of Archie and the Riverdale gang he's doing with Fiona Staples. Then we have Mark Art Baltazar & Franco talk with a fellow Superman fan about their favorite Superman runs, the daily comic strip from the 1960's, and Mark's observations on the latest Marvel summit.

Word Balloon Podcast Nick Spencer Axel Alonso & Wil Moss On Ant-Man -Heath Corson On The DC Animated Universe

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First up, A Marvel Next Big Thing Press Conference with Ant-Man writer Nick Spencer laying out Scott & Cassie Lang's futures. Editor Wil Moss and EIC Axel Alonso fill in more details to this podcast audience, and the comics news blogosphere.

Then screenwriter Heath Corson joins me in studio to talk about his work on DC's animated films Justice League War, Batman assault On Arkham, and the upcoming January 27th release Justice League Throne Of Atlantis, featuring the animated origin/debut of Aquaman in the new animated continuity. We also talk about the current TV comics landscape and shows like Gotham The Flash, Arrow etc...

Hear me interviewed by Jon Clarke on the Cafinated Comics Podcast

I had a lot of fun talking with Jon Clarke on his podcast about the podcast, chicago comics, and broadcast communities .

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and here's the blog post link 

Word Balloon Podcast Mike Mignola Talks Hellboy & The BPRD Karre Andrews On Iron Fist The Living Weapon

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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.