Word Balloon Comics Podcast

The man behind Kitchen Sink Press talks about the history of underground comix, from the 60s to today. We'll discuss the way they were distributed to head shops. How did these handmade books get around? We also talk about his relationship with Will Eisner, and his role as a comic historiaan writing biographies of Harvey Kurtzman and Al Capp

Jason Sacks has co-written the Twomorrows book American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1990s s. You'll hear a long discussion about the infamous decade of booms and busts

A New King's Speech as we discus Tom's past present and futire works . From The Walmart Superman series to Batman and the current arc Kinghtmare. We look back at Mister Miracle and scratch our heads over the puzzles laid out in Heroes In Crisis.

A New King's Speech as we discus Tom's past present and futire works . From The Walmart Superman series to Batman and the current arc Kinghtmare. We look back at Mister Miracle and scratch our heads over the puzzles laid out in Heroes In Crisis.

Today we reflect on George Perez, who's retireing this year. We revisit an Aug of 2009 interview with Geroge that looks back at his whole career. Thoughta on his Teen Titans re-boot that saved DC Comics, Events books and more Then Brad Meltzer is back to talk about his new book The First Conspiracy about the plots to kill George Washington during the revolutionary war days.We also talk about Stan Lee, Will Eisner  Jerry Robinson, Bill Finger, and a family visiit to the CW Flash and Riverdale sets in Vancouver

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Cullen chats about Witch Hammer his new graphic novel and more

Bryan Hill is back to talk about his new comics a Killmonger mini series from Marvel that is a prequel to the events of The Black Panther film. What were the events and choice that led Erik Killmonger down his dark path?  Also his new Vertigo crime book American Carnage , where a light skinned black FBI agent infiltrates a white supremacist group. It's a hard hitting compelling new series. Plus we go into detail about his work on The Titans TV series streaming on the DC Universe channel. Bryan wrote 2 episodes of season 1. Also preview of Bryan's upcoming Outsiders DC book, thoughts on the current Film and TV markets, and a look at Creed 2. 

Victor Gorelick has been with Archie Comics since 1958, and he tells us his point of view of the company's last 60 years, from the Archie bullpen of the 50s and 60s to the breakthru success of Sugar Sugar to today's titles like Archie 1941 and Kevin Kelly, the TV hits Riverdale and Sabrina and much more

Brian Collins joins us to explore his grandfather's comic strip legacy. Kreigh Collins was a great illustrator that landed a syndication deal for his Girl Adventure strip Mitzi McCoy. He spent the run of the strip experimenting with story tones from humor to straight up noir , finally resulting in leaving Mitzi's stories and focusing on Mitzi's adventuring ancestor. A Prince Valliant sort of character Kevin The Bold.  The new book from Lost Art Books, Mitzi McCoy- The Lost Art Of Keigh Collins Vol 1 is an interesting examination of an artist trying to gather his audience and finding the right mix to make a comic strip hit.   

Great to catch up with Marc on his latest projects. First we discuss his fantastic John Constantine  Animated Film City Of Demons, that even got it's own prime time special on the CW to promote John's involvement on Legends Of Tomorrow . We talk about Matt Ryan's undying loyalty to the fun of playing John on 2 tv series and several animated films!  The we get into Marc's creator owned books like the fun Dr Who-esque Impossible Inc from IDW, and the very Vertigo esque The Girl In The Bay From Karen Berger's Dark Horse Imprint Berger Books, the re-release of Moonshadow coming in 2019 and more.

Note This was recorded a few weeks before the Death of Stan Lee The Ny Times ran this comic strip tribute to Stan from Brian . We talk about the fun we had at NY comic con, brian's hang time with Frank Miller, lots on Superman, Young Justce and the whole Wonder Comics line, Jinxworld updates and more