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332. Gene Ha on his AAPI experience

Gene Ha is becoming a regular on the show! For AAPI Heritage Month, I wanted to share conversations with Asian Americans about their experience growing up in the US. Gene was kind of enough to share his childhood memories growing up in South Bend, Indiana.

331. Nicola Scott on Wonder Woman Historia, art and collaboration

Nicola Scott is the incredible artist who works on Iconic characters such as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. She also worked with Kelly Sue DeConnick on Vol.3 of the Eisner Awarding winning series Wonder Woman HISTORIA. In addition she collaborates with my dear friend Greg Rucka on Black Magick. You’ve heard of that guy right? If not there are about 55 episodes to check out!

330. Cliff Chiang on comics, drawing and collaboration

Cliff Chiang is an Eisner award winning artist who has been working in the comic book industry for over 20 years. Cliff has worked on Paper Girls, Wonder Woman, Batman, and he most recently wrote, drew, colored and lettered Catwoman: Lonely City.

326. Gene Ha on Wonder Woman Historia, AI and the spirit of art

Gene Ha is an award winning artist who worked on Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons with writer Kelly Sue DeConnick. I am grateful Gene agreed to return to the show to discuss his collaboration with my friend KellySue and share his expertise on all things art

323. Phil Jimenez on the political landscape, tribalism and social media

Phil Jimenez is an Eisner, Inkpot, Diamond and Wizard-award-winning writer and artist who has worked for DC Entertainment, Marvel Entertainment, and a host of other comic book companies for nearly 30 years.

278. Phil Jimenez on Wonder Woman, mentors and gratitude

Phil Jimenez is an Inkpot, Diamond, and Wizard-award-winning writer and artist who has worked for DC Entertainment, Marvel Entertainment, and a host of other comic book companies for nearly 30 years.

He is best known for his work on Tempest, The Invisibles, New-X-Men, Wonder Woman, Infinite Crisis, Amazing Spider-Man, and now Wonder Woman: Historia, the Black Label graphic novel written by Kelly Sue DeConnick who I had on the show a few weeks ago.

261. Spencer Ackerman Book Club on the Ottoman Empire and NAS

Spencer Ackerman was a guest on my show discussing his book Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump. During our conversation he mentioned he was reading a book called My Name is Red and was so enthusiastic about it, I decided to give it a read.

239. Gene Luen Yang on comics, education and AAPI issues

Gene Luen Yang began making comics and graphic novels in the fifth grade. In 2006, his book American Born Chinese was published and became the first graphic novel to be nominated for a National Book Award and the first to win the American Library Association’s Printz Award. It also won an Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album-New.

174. Greg Rucka on Lazarus, Lady Sabre, and politics

In this episode, Greg Rucka and I answer listener questions. We cover everything from Lazarus, Lady Sabre, Sascha Bordeaux and why Greg is so outspoken about politics.

154. Matt Fraction on what the future holds for comics

Matt Fraction is an award-winning writer of comics. I am grateful that I am able to speak to so many incredible creators through this covid19 pandemic.

132. Matt Fraction on writing comics, hard work, and empathy

If you look up Matt Fraction, you will find a bio that sounds a little like this: Matt Fraction writer of: (writer): SEX CRIMINALS (Image), Jimmy Olsen (DC), CASANOVA (Image), HAWKEYE (Marvel), and NOVEMBER (Image) writes comic books out in the woods and lives with his wife, the writer Kelly Sue DeConnick, his two children, two dogs, a cat, a bearded dragon, and a yard full of coyotes and stags. Surely there is a metaphor there.

125. Diana Schutz on her life in comics

Diana Schutz worked as an editor at Comico and Dark Horse Comics for many years. Some of the best-known works she has edited are Frank Miller’s Sin City and 300, Matt Wagner’s Grendel, Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo, and Paul Chadwick’s Concrete.