“disrupting the idea of superhero vs super villains and more about what happens within any community”-- Music critic Matt Perpetua is writing about X-Men comics on his new site https://www.houseofx.org. He is also the sole writer of the independent music site Fluxblog since 2002, more recently expanding beyond the site itself to playlist curation on Spotify. In addition to the site, has also contributed to Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, NPR, and New York Magazine, and was the founding editor of BuzzFeed Music.  Follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/perpetua His music blog http://www.fluxblog.org/ is a must read for anyone who loves music criticism. For Matt's educational and electrifying playlists visit: https://open.spotify.com/user/123059001 Here's the Industrial one we spoke about: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/78IIa57I7SnB4AWrDsMtXH

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Matthew Perpetua talks X-Men, music and being a critic

Our critically aclaimed coverage of Doom Patrol--DC Universe's critically acclaimed show--continues with this episode on Season 2. Joining me are guests: Sarah Daniel Rasher is an erstwhile professor of Shakespeareology who now tries to save the world through educational data. They also occasionally write about figure skating and Star Trek on the internet.  Winn Periyasamy is a Fordham law student and advocate working and organizing in New York City. She has her master's in public health and her writing has appeared in the Guardian, the Nation, and more. You can follow Winn at @wperiyasamy Here's the essay on Cyborg I recommended https://themiddlespaces.com/2015/03/31/humanity-not-included/   

Doom Patrol Season 2

"I’m so thankful that my job is to sell people art." - John Arminio, Comix Connection. Guest John Arminio shares what it is like working at a comics store during this unprecidented time and how fans can support comics retail staff. Plus he makes some great suggestions of comics to buy. John is a long-time comic book devotee and retailer who peddles his wares at Comix Connection in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Along with comics, another of his great passions is film, and you can hear him discuss that artistic medium on recent episodes of the podcasts Hellbent for Horror, Film '89, and 26 Movies from Hell. John has joined Graphic Policy Radio before to talk about: Doom Patrol http://bit.ly/DoomPatrolgp Secret Six http://bit.ly/Secret6fix  The Best Comics of 2019 http://bit.ly/2019comics Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/QuasarSniffer  Visit the Comix Connection here: https://www.facebook.com/comix.connection/  

Working in a Comic Book Shop During COVID

Comics' harassment crisis isn't just caused by the names you've seen in the comics news. It is enabled by an entire system of employment and fandom built on exploitation. Good thing there are some brilliant and brave people joining me to talk about what we can to do create meaningful change in the industry. Guests: Jay Edidin writes comics, short fiction, and narrative nonfiction; covers culture, arts, science, and gender as a journalist and essayist; edits comics, transmedia, and genre fiction; and is half of the podcast Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men. Jay was named ComicBook .com 2017 Comics Person of the Year for his investigative coverage of harassment issues at D.C. Comics and his work to foster diversity and inclusion in comics culture. Joan Hilty is a comics editor who came up in the 90s queer comics scene as a cartoonist, then had a 15-year editorial run at DC Comics/Vertigo, and now works with many of the Top 10 comics publishers in licensed publishing at Nickelodeon. She’s taught at Maryland Institute College of Art and is currently on the Cartooning faculty at School of Visual Arts. In 2014 she wrote about her experience with harassment in the industry for the Guardian, which was later a part of Jay’s Buzzfeed reporting leading to the ouster of a top editor at DC. Kwanza Osajyefo: Author and creator of BLACK, a comic that asks: what if only black people had superpowers. Kwanza has been a part of the comics for nearly 20 years. Beginning his career as an online producer at Marvel before moving into other media roles. He later returned to comics and launched DC Comics' digital publishing initiatives. Referenced: https://www.somanyofus.com/ : a website created by people targeted and manipulated by Warren Ellis.  

Stopping abuse in the comics industry: not just a few bad apples

Tina Horn is the creator and writer of the sci-fi sex-rebel comic book series SfSx (Safe Sex). She hosts and produces the long-running kink podcast Why Are People Into That?!.  SfSx is the near-future story of the underground queer sex workers known as the Dirty Mind, who use their powers of bondage and intrigue to free their incarcerated friends and fight the power! SfSx: Volume 1: Protection is out now in trade paperback. Tina's reporting on sexual subcultures and politics has been in Playboy, Rolling Stone and more; she is the author of two nonfiction books and has contributed to numerous anthologies including the queer horror collection Theater of Terror and the feminist essay collection Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World. Tina has lectured on sex worker politics and queer BDSM identities at universities and community centers all over North America, and works as an on-set consultant for theater and television including the dominatrix scenes of Pose. She is a LAMBDA Literary Fellow, the recipient of two Feminist Awards, and holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing from Sarah Lawrence. Tina is currently working on her first scripts for film and television. You can follower her on Twitter and Instagram https://twitter.com/tinahornsass her podcast: https://tinahorn.net/podcast/

Comics Writer Tina Horn on SfSx: Freedom & Safety in the SciFi Sex Dystopia

"I want to show that the people behind the desk can look like me, "-- Cristina ‘Steenz’ Stewart is a St. Louis based cartoonist, editor, and professor. She's the cartoonist on the syndicated comic strip ‘Heart Of The City’, the co-creator of Dwayne McDuffie Award winning Graphic Novel Archival Quality, and is featured in short story anthologies such as Eisner and Ignatz Award-Winning Elements: Fire, Mine!, and Dead Beats. Steenz launched and edited the popular RPG periodical Rolled & Told. She participates in and creates community building comics related programming, and is a frequent panelist at comic cons. Steenz currently teaches cartooning at Webster University while editing titles from Mad Cave Studios. She's  https://www.oheysteenz.com/ and https://twitter.com/oheysteenz  

Cartoonist Christina 'Steenz' Stewart: From the Library to the Heart of the City

From getting a Marvel internship out of spite to getting her own dream project graphic novel underway.  Nadia Shammas is an Arab-American comic writer and native Brooklynite. She's best known for being the creator of CORPUS: A Comic Anthology of Bodily Ailments and the author/co-creator of SQUIRE, a YA Middle Eastern fantasy set from HarperCollins next year. You can find her and her movie takes on https://twitter.com/Nadia_Shammas Join us as we we get real about feelings about health, art and capitlism. Also goth. PS here's the GP radio episode about workplace harassment in the comics industtry that I referenced in my added intro: https://bit.ly/comicsworklawyer

Comics Writer Nadia Shammas: Bodies, Goth & No Olive Branches

Lux Alptraum is a Peabody-nominated producer and writer whose work had appeared in The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, and Hustler. Her first book, Faking It: The Lies Women Tell About Sex — And the Truths They Reveal, explores our cultural obsession with feminine deceit. https://twitter.com/luxalptraum Mey Rude is a Los Angeles-based trans latina lesbian. she’s a journalist who’s worked for autostraddle, them.us and out magazine, as well as a sensitivity reader and trans consultant on novels, comics, tv shows, and video games. she’s consulted on titles like Lumberjanes, Bitch Planet, and Cosmokights and is obsessed with queer representation in media. https://twitter.com/meyrude MUST read  "Do We Need the Police? ‘Steven Universe’ and ‘She-Ra’ Suggest We Don’t" https://collider.com/abolish-the-police-steven-universe-she-ra/ by Tahir Duckett

She-ra & the Princesses of Power S5 w Lux Alptraum & Mey Rude

Kitty Pryde, sorry, I mean Kate Pryde, is coming out! She's stealing a boat, getting drunk on Wolverine’s stash and becoming a pirate/liberator of mutants everywhere. Join us for a deep dive into Marauders issues 1-9 from Gerry Duggan, Matteo Lolli, Stephano Casseli, Michelle Bandini and others. X-Perts: Chingy L Gay is a writer, comedian, and critically acclaimed ex-girlfriend. She writes about queer identity, nerd shit, and her weird sex life and has been featured at MTV News, Out Magazine, Jezebel, Autostraddle and Kotaku. https://twitter.com/TheGayChingy Dani Kinney is a Sensitivity Reader at Salt & Sage Books, a Trans & Intersex Educator and Policy Consult. They're also a writer at Graphic Policy and Women Write About Comics where they've authored works such as "Hold Fast: Marauders and the Anti-Fascist Model", "New Intersections: Krakoa and the Queer Body Politic", and " Subterranean Mutant Semiotics: Morlocks, X-Factor, and the Privilege of Passing".  And yes they know they take the mutant metaphor a little too seriously. https://twitter.com/sjw_LauraKinney     

X-Men Dawn of X: Marauders, Be Queer Do Crimes

Elsa Charretier joins us from the south of France to talk about her latest comic, the noir tale November with Matt Fraction.  Elsa is a self taught artist known for co-creating the award winning scifi romance The Infinite Loop with writer Pierrick Colinet. Since then, she has been dividing her time between creating new creator-owned books (Superfreaks) and drawing established characters like The Unstopable Wasp, Starfire, DC's Bombshells and Star Wars' most fashionable depiction of Admiral Holdo.  Volume 2 of Novemeber will be out June 2nd. Follow her online: https://twitter.com/e_charretier

Artist/Writer Elsa Charretier: November in Mer-May

Interview with comics artist/writer Jerry Ordway continues! Jerry's been making superhero comics for DC and Marvel for 40 years. He's the guy who made people care about Shazam and the All Star Squadron again. He inked Crisis on Infinate Earths. He's partnered with writers like Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Michael Moorecock & Neil Gaiman. His essay on age discriminiation in the industry put a name to a significant problem in comics http://ordstersrandomthoughts.blogspot.com/2013/03/life-over-fifty.html In part two of our interview we talk about why we love hand lettering, the nightmare of Superman continuity, how he approached his groundbreaking graphic novel The Power of Shazam, on working with Michael Moorecock on Tom Strong, Warren Ellis on Planetary and creating a Loki story for Neil Gaiman's Norse mythology book!   Whether you're new to Jerry's work or a long time fan you'll learn a ton about the process of inking and drawing comics (traditional and digital), industry history, Alan Moore anecdotes and why he actually likes drawing boats and buildings (and how he does it so darn elegantly). 

Crisis on Infinite Jerry Ordway Part 2

Comics artist/writer Jerry Ordway has been making superhero comics for DC and Marvel for 40 years. He's the guy who made people care about Shazam and the Justice Society of America again. He inked Crisis on Infinate Earths. He's partnered with writers like Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Michael Moorecock & Neil Gaiman.  Welcome to a special two part interview. Whether you're new to Jerry's work or a long time fan you'll learn a ton about the process of inking and drawing comics, industry history, the secret workings of Letter Columns--and why Jerry tends to avoid name dropping bands in his comics, or drawing Lobo.  In part one we cover the start of his career, what it was like working on the one of the 1st big comics mega events, what makes the JSA tick, how he approaches Shazam and his indie horrorwork Semiautomagic with Alex di Campi.  Follow Jerry on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JerryOrdway

Crisis on Infinite Jerry Ordway: Part 1!

Travel back as we delve into a classic Venture Bros episode: Operation PROM. Thanks for being patient with the podcast right now: I've been slammed with work. I thought I'd make it up to you by covering a Venture Bros episode from Season 4, before we started podcast. We're here to help you catch all the references to feminist philosophers and 70s rock bands and Marvel comics. And to help you think about all the themes about all the failure, all the nostalgia and all the other stuff that Venture Bros are made of.  I, Elana Levin https://twitter.com/Elana_Brooklyn, am joined by my co-host, Historian/Professor/pop culture nerd Steven Attewell https://twitter.com/StevenAttewell.  If you want more podcast coverage of older episodes of the show, let us know on Twitter which episodes you want us to cover! And stay tunned for more interviews with comics creators next week!

The Venture Bros podcast: S4 Ep 16 Operation P.R.O.M.

Warren Ellis' Castlevania show for Netflix is about powerful old men who want to bring the world down around them and the OT3 who say "nope" to all that. I'm joined by two critics who know their anime way better than I to talk about the show: Kat Overland is a freelance culture critic and the small press editor at Women Write About comics. Leslie Lee the 3rd is a writer and host of Struggle Session. We open with a Spoiler-free discussion of if you should watch the show. Answer: yes, there are lesbians. And the Byronic is actually likeable.  Then deep dive into the show: "Sad beautiful men" & "everyone is very tired". "The Moorcock-ian psychedelic space horror in the basement"- https://twitter.com/Elana_Brooklyn"Isaiac is a Conan story" - https://twitter.com/leslieleeiii"Hector is a nihlist yet a woobie" - https://twitter.com/dogunderwaterCarmila’s “I’m With Her” energy Our four vampire wives Demons from Buffy and Battle Angel Warren Ellis is the most atheist of all     

Castlevania: A Very Warren Ellis Anime. with Leslie Lee III & Kat Overland

The comic strips you grew up with, and your great-grandma grew up with, are probably from King Features Syndicate: a comics syndicate over 100 years old! Tea Fougner is the Editorial Director for Comics at King Features Syndicate and joins us to talk about comics strips past and present. As Tea says, “Comics is a format, not a genre." Find out: Which vintage adventure strips will modern readers enjoy?Popeye: OriginsThe kweerness of Krazy KatThe 1970s splenders of Apartment 3GThe Lockhorns are someone’s hip memePopeye on socialism and economic policy“Mandrake the Magician was Doctor Strange before Doctor Strange”How to read King Features comics. Literally.Popeye is compassionate Tea tweets as https://twitter.com/teaberryblue.

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