TELL ME SOMETHING I DON'T KNOW

Keenan Marshall Keller is the creator of Galactic Breakdown, a.k.a. Space Battleground 666 - the comic book saga of Roids, a Largo, FL. drug dealer whom is inexplicably beamed into the far off reaches of the galaxy and becomes an Intergalactic space warrior!! He is also 1/3 of the DIY underground art and zine publishing collective, Drippy Bone Books. As part of Drippy Bone Books, he has published fellow cartoonists Derek M. Ballard's You Will All Die in Pain and Pat Aulisio's F'Real Real. He is also the curator of Freak Scene, an art show of contemporary underground comix, featuring the work of Johnny Ryan, Benjamin Marra, Tom Neely, Victor "Bald Eagles" Cayro, Jason Karns, and others, opening July 6th at Synchronicity in LA. Learn more and damage your retinas at drippybonebooks.com.

Box Brown is a cartoonist, illustrator and comic publisher from Philadelphia. His comics have been featured in Mad Magazine and his illustrations have been on Wired.com. His web and print comic Everything Dies was named a notable comic of 2011 in the Best American Comics Anthology and was honored with two Ignatz Awards. His comics publishing outfit, Retrofit launched in 2011. He’s currently working on a comic biography of pro wrestler Andre the Giant. Follow him @boxbrown.

Artnoose is a writer, zine-maker, DIY-punk, and letterpress artist, best known for her bi-monthly, autobiographical zine, Ker-Bloom! which began in 1996. She currently resides in Pittsburgh and is part of the Cyberpunk Apocalypse writers co-op. You can order issues of Ker-Bloom! on her Etsy shop (etsy.com/shop/artnoose) and see more of her art on Flickr.

Ed Piskor is a cartoonist. He began his comics career drawing American Splendor, Macedonia, and the Beats with writer Harvey Pekar. His first graphic novel, Wizzywig, about the history of phone phreaking and computer hacking, debuts this summer from Top Shelf. You can read his newest comic, Hip Hop Family Tree, weekly on boingboing.net's Brain Rot. Follow Ed on Twitter: @EdPiskor.

WARNING: What you are about to hear is a very frank and urgent discussion with a 16-year-old suburban, American teenager. In order to protect all those involved during the course of this interview, the subject shall be referred to only as teenager x.

Rob Liefeld is the creator of Deadpool, Cable, X-Force, Youngblood, Supreme, Bloodstrike, Prophet, Glory! He founded Image Comics in 1992 with Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, Erik Larsen, Jim Valentino, and Marc Silvestri. Currently he writes and draws Deathstroke, plots Savage Hawkman and Grifter for DC, and oversees the Extreme Universe titles at Image. Follow Rob on Twitter @robertliefeld and see more of his art on robliefeldcreations.com.

Nina Barbuto makes things - lots of things. She is an architect, installation artist, Executive Director/Founder of Assemble, the Children's Studio Educator/Teaching Artist at the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Weekend Program Manager at the Carnegie Science Center, and a co-founder of I Made It! Market. Currently her work can be seen at the Mattress Factory as part of their Gestures exhibit. You can learn more about Assemble at assemblepgh.org and follow Nina on Twitter @nbarbuto and her blog http://ninamariebarbuto.blogspot.com/.

Paul Nosa sews imaginations! Give him five words and he'll sew you a drawing (our words were "Hot Air Balloon Cat Pilot"). Since 2004, artist/musician Paul Nosa has been making drawings with a souped-up, custom-built solar and/or bicycle powered sewing machine called the Solar Sewing Rover! Learn more about Paul's art on pnosa.com and follow his tour across the country. Check out the video clips below to see examples of Paul Nosa in action! This video focuses on Paul's Solar Sewing Rover and how he generates his own energy:

Wayne Wise is a comic book retailer at Phantom of the Attic in Oakland, a Xeric-grant winning cartoonist, a writer, and a comics educator. He's also a bit of a philosopher as this episode will attest! His work includes the comic Grey Legacy and the novels King of Summer, Bedivere, This Creature Fair, and Scratch. To learn more about Wayne's work, visit www.wayne-wise.com.

Cecil Castellucci is the highly acclaimed author of the young adult novels Boy Proof, The Queen of Cool, Beige, Rose Sees Red, and First Day on Earth, as well as the graphic novels The PLAIN Janes and Janes in Love, and the hybrid graphic novel The Year of the Beasts (with the incomparable Nate Powell). Before that, she was in the indie rock band, Nerdy Girl. To learn more about Cecil's background, check out episode 32 of the Other People with Brad Listi podcast. Keep up with Cecil Castellucci at www.misscecil.com and follow her on Twitter @misscecil and crushlibrary on Tumblr.

Farel Dalrymple is the creator of Pop Gun War, It Will All Hurt, and Wrenchies, a co-founder of Meathaus, and the artist of Omege the Unknown and Prophet #24. You can see lots of his art and learn more about his work at fareldalrymple.com. Be sure to check out his webcomic, It Will All Hurt, on Study Group every Friday.

Our first guest is Tom Scioli, the creator of American Barbarian (Adhouse Books), Unmortals: The Myth of 8-opus, and the co-creator of Godland (Image Comics). You can read American Barbarian online and learn more about Scioli at ambarb.com.