Recorded live at New York Comic Con, artists Hayden Sherman, Rachael Stott, and Russell Dauterman and cartoonist Trung Le Nguyen joined the podcast to talk about why they love comics, with each happening in individual segments. Up first, Sherman (1:22) discusses what fuels their love, controlling the read, what unlocked comics, artist's artists, where influences come from, how making comics impacts reading them, and more. Then Stott (17:25) joins to talk about early loves in comics, finding the unexpected, the impact of the individual, her relationship with the medium, smooth comics, and more. Dauterman (34:35) follows to discuss his love of comics, the appeal of the new, what's changed for him as a reader, looking to the past, what keeps him excited about comics, and more. Lastly, Nguyen (51:29) discusses the universality of images, accessibility, comics DNA, how making comics changed things, the process of comics, and more.
DC Executive Editor Chris Conroy, who works on the Absolute, Black Label, and Vertigo lines at the publisher, joins the podcast to talk about the newly returned Vertigo Comics line. Conroy discusses his Vertigo background, how it changed his reading habits, what led to Vertigo's return, adding clarity to how things work, the evergreen side of DC, the team behind Vertigo, its strategy to creative teams, how they built the line, its aesthetic, balancing the future and the past, the gap between announcements, the line's size, what he wants the line to mean, and more.
Artist Doc Shaner joins the podcast to talk about his life and career in comics. Shaner discusses working from home, his schedule, the impact of comic strips, wanting to be a cartoonist, Buddy Cops, showing a different side of yourself, getting into comics themselves, his music brain, drawing for yourself, developing your style, Comic Twart, which project he learned the most from, working with friends, New Champion of Shazam, the Strange Adventures experience, being the bright and shiny guy, how he works, video games, being off the stands, holding onto joy, and more.
Podcasters Badr Milligan (The Short Box Podcast) and Chris Hacker (The Oblivion Bar podcast) join the show to talk about the comic podcasting world and our upcoming panel at NYCC before we fantasy draft seven hyperspecific things we love about comics. Milligan and Hacker discuss how podcasting has ruined our brains, podcast living, our upcoming panel at NYCC, and more, before we fantasy draft hyperspecific things we love about comics, including self-adhesive bags and boards, a special Marvel relationship, superhero comics that approach the line of stupid, seeing art lines in writing, Marvel Treasury Editions, Wednesday Comics' format, and more, before a pair of guest judges come on to help declare a winner.