Word Balloon Comics Podcast

Happy To Bring You The Audio From The 9th Annual SDCC Podscasters Panel With Heath Corson, John Mayo Calvin Reid, Tim Beyers and Glenn Weldon Plus The Future Of geek Panel With Rob Salkowitz, Heidi McDonald and Tim Beyers . Both panels had great looks at the comic book and pop culture industires and where they're going.

We begin our coverage from this year's San Diego Comic-Con. Days before the wide release of Guardians Of The Galaxy, Marvel Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada explains the origin of the comic and film.  We have Image Expo Coverage featuring the keynote address by Image Publisher Eric Stephenson. Michael Moreci talks about his new Image comic Roche Limit, his Planet Of The Apes comic from Boom! Studios, and writing the new Hack Slash comic, with Steve Seeley. Ryan Browne talks about taking God Hates Astronauts to Image as an ongoing series. Jim Heffron tells us about his kickstarter campaign for the Gangs Of Camelot OGN.

SDCC Preview With Publishers Weekly's Calvin Reid and Geek Biz Author Rob Salkowitz

Not since ancient times has such an august group of greek geeks got together to talk about the Comics Market. Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 10 scribe Gage joins us to talk about the current run, working with Xander (Nicholas Brendan) , and Dan Slott on Spider-Man . Chris also has a Comix Experience Master Class Seminar coming up August 9th about staying in the comics biz after that first gig. Chris Eliopoulos is back to talk about his I AM childrens books with Brad Meltzer, including the new one I AM ROSA PARKS. We talk about COWBOY, his 25 years as a letterer/production guy, and much more.

Writer Sam Humpries talks about the New Star Lord comic, debuting July 2nd. Are we on the verge of a new important Marvel hero, soon to be bolstred by The Guradian Of The Galaxy Movie opening August 1st?

Word Balloon Podcast Zachary Levi Brad Meltzer Rick Remender & Tom Brevoort

Word Balloon Podcast Jonathan Hickman & Brian Buccellatto

Business analyst Tim Beyers from The Motley Fool is back to talk about the current Superhero Media Scene, and tells us who's doing it right or wrong. From network cable and streaming tv, to this season's blockbuster films, to the comics they come from.

To celebrate the podcast's 9th Anniversary we go back to a June 2008 conversation on the phone with Ed and Matt. They were just starting their new colaboartion on X-Men with issue 500 and wrapping up their Iron Fist work.  Great chats about all their then current books, plus hilarious pop culture talk, including drunk Orson Welles, tv & movie reviews and more.

On Todays Word Balloon, we catch up with Matt Fraction for another Fireside Chat.Matt & Chip Zdarsky are enjoying massive popularity with their Image Book Sex Criminals, which is at the top of the NYT Best Seller List , not to mention Time Magazine's Comic Book Of The year, and even more mainstream press critical acclaim. We talk about the book, plus his other Image series Sattelite Sam co-created with Howard Chaykin , and the continuing Hawkeye series for Marvel with David Aja and Annie Wu. Then an amazing Kickstarter campaign to support a play about the life and career of Jack Kirby is discussed with the husband & wife creators behind the project, Fred Van Lente & Playwright Crystal Skillman. We talk about KING KIRBY which is part of the Comic Book Theater Festival happening in June at The Brick in NYC. We talk about the unique challenges of presenting this as a stage play, Crystal's meeting with the legendary Producer/Director Hal Prince , and more. We wrap up with writer Marc Andreyko, who amidst controversy has taken on the writing chores on Batwoman for DC, and delivering an excellent superhero rocedural with strong charcter moments . Marc talks about the book,and projects with Clive Barker for BOOM! , a fun spy book for IDW, and his Cinderella arc that just wrapped up in Vertigo's FAIREST.

On This episode of Word Balloon, Hasan Minajh talks about his project Stand Up Planet, a documentary series that debuts Wed May 14th at 7pm on the cable channels LINK TV, PIVOT, The So Cal Public TV tation KCET and streaming live at standupplanet.org. This 2 part docu takes an amazing look at stand up comedy in the third world, and is worth your attention. Featured in the show are comedians from India and South Africa, and words of wisodm from comedy legends Bill Cosby, Norman Lear (All In The Family) , and Carl Reiner (The Dick Van Dyke Show) Comic Artist Steve Skroce joins us to talk about the return of Doc Frankenstien and his work with Filmmakers and Comic Book Vets The Wachowskis on his Burlyman Comics, and their films including The Matrix Trilogy, Cloud Atlas, V For Vendetta, and this summer's Jupiter Ascending. We wrap up with a C2E2 Podcaters roundtable featuring Steve Dismie of Comic Book Queers Wendy Freeman of Double Page Spread , Chris Marshall of Collected Comic Library and John Mayo of Comic Book Page

On this episode of Word Balloon, we start with Phil Jimenez who's getting ready for his May 10th live art seminar for Comics Experience . We talk about the Master class on action and acting on the comic page . We also talk about Wonder Woman, Infinite Crisis and his take on the Marvel & DCU today . The we wrap up our exclusive C2E2 floor interviews  Gail Simone is back to talk about Batgirl, Red Sonja and Lara Croft. Greg Pak talks Superman-Batman and Action Comics  Charles Soule talks Swamp Thing Red Lanterns Superman-Wonder Woman, and Letter 44 Nicola Scott talks Earth-2  Brit Neil Gibson discusses his horror anthologies Twisted Dark and the challenges of breaking intio the american comics market  Artist Jim Trry talks about his Dark Horse Comics series The Sundowners with Tim Seeley Tony Fleecs and Thom Zahler talk My Little Pony and Thom's upcoming episode of Ultimate Spider-Man 

Massive C2E2 Con Coverage with lot of in-depth interviews  Time Cues  Brian Michael Bendis 00:00-104:08 Amanda Connor & Jimmy Palmiotti 104:09-120:58 Mike Perkins On Deathlok 120:59-136:13 Kyle Higgins On Image's C.O.W.L. 136:14-155:52 Pro Wrestlers Chris Daniels & Kazarian 155:53-202:35 Pete Tomasi on Batman & Robin  202:35-210:41 Marvel Press Conf w Sam Humphries on Star Lord 210:42-248:39 Sean Dove On The Lat Days Of Danger Kickstarter 248:40 - 259:54  Dave Gruba & Rene Castellano on the Tales Of The Wolfman Kicktarter 2:59:55-End Of Show 

Word Balloon Podcast Wonder Woman History With Tim Hanley C2E2 preview with Scott McMahon & Jai Nitz

Dark Horse Comics Editor/ Writer Scott Allie checks in to talk about 2 new books from the Hellboy Universe, the laytest isues of Abe Sapien (written by Scott)  and Hellboy In Hell written and drawn by Mike Mignola. We also previe what dark Horse is Doing at C2E2 next week. Fred Van Lente joins us to talk about his new run on Conan The Avenger starting April 23rd. Plus a new 10th anniversary edition of Action Philosophers, his take on Magnus Robot Hunter Archer and armstrong and more! Finally we present a portion of the next Aw Yeah Podcast with guest dan Wickline, who writes for Zenescope Top Cow and Bleeding cool. Dan has an episode of Metal Hurlant coming up on the Syfy channel this month, starring James Marsters too!