Professional skate border, comic shop owner, musician and now comic book writer Ruben Najera joins us to talk about The Best Archie Comic Ever! Of course, a lot of other things are discussed as well.
The Best Archie Comic Ever! Cover By Tim Seeley.
Continue readingThe sixties comic She’s Josie takes up the first half of the show talking about the creators, Saturday morning cartoons and changes during the first decade of the series. Accidents And Old Lace And Other Stories, the comic industry after the code, realizing what a visionary Jack Kirby was and having to tell the origin story in most comic book movies.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Autour de Lucie
She’s Josie 7 By Dan DeCarlo, Frank Doyle And Rudy Lapick.
Continue readingAnother final Valerian volume came out, which of course leads to a discussion of Snowpiercer and the movies created from these comics. The recent My Comic Shop Country, cartoonists we lost and work we read in the past are covered at the end.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: 49 Cell Phones
Deep in the heart of Parts Unknown, Don, Al and Dallas discuss Slice Radio, Afterlife with Archie, some comic shop documentaries, the Origin of Rook Murphy, Warren comics, art commissions, Bernie Wrightson, Art Adams, John Buscema, Howard Chaykin’s Iron Wolf, Mike Mignola, Flex Mentallo, Charles Atlas, Count Dante, Jack and Stan’s Fantastic Four, civil rights in 60’s comics, the portrayal of minorities in 40’s and 50’s comics, and we wrap it up with Uncanny X-Men circa 1980’s.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Ruby Sting
The Rook From Warren Publishing.