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The Weekly Pop Culture Audio Podcast Featuring In-Depth One On One Interviews and Discussions From The Entertainment Worlds Of Genre Fiction-
Comic Books, Novels, Television, Film, Video Games And More. Created In 2005 By Chicago Radio/TV Host John Siuntres

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Friday, May 30, 2014

Word Balloon Podcast Flashback 2008 After Dark With Ed Brubaker & Matt Fraction



This is truly one of my all time favorite conversations. Ed & Matt were just wrapping up Iron Fist, and Matt was about to join Ed writing X-Men starting with #500. We have a ball talking about Cap, DD Secret Invasion, Thor Iron Man, and hilarious TV & movie talk that's only funnier hearing it with 2014 ears.

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Word Balloon Podcast Matt Fraction, Fred Van Lente & Crystal Skillman , and Marc Andreyko



On Today's 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.

Monday, May 12, 2014

Word Balloon Podcast Hasan Minahj On The Stand Up Planet Documentary , Steve Skroce's Doc Frankenstein Returns and The 2014 C2E2 Podcasters Roundtable


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 station 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


Word Balloon Patreon Exclusive Robert Atkins Business Tips For Comic Book Artists

As promised we begin the feature "Private Talk In Public Places". These are WB interviews with creators and other good thinkers in the geek industry. Sometimes they'll just be fun talks, other times tips on craft and ways creators can improve their skills. 

Robert Atkins is one of the smartest artists I know, in terms of treating his art like a small business. In this interview he maps out many ways he builds his audience. From selling/giving away his daily warm-up sketches to building his following by partnerships with creator owned books .

To get this exclusive conversation and future Private Talks, subscribe to Word Balloon for only $1 a month at the Patreon page http://www.patreon.com/wordballoon



Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Word Balloon Podcast Phil Jimenez Gail Simone Greg Pak, Charles Soule Nicola Scott Neil Gibson Jim Terry Tony Fleecs Thom Zahler


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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 Terry 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