Colleen Coover joined us to yak about her comics. Colleen has a very diverse range of works that all maintain the same wonderful fluid style. For the adults, she has Small Favors and for the kids, you can find her work in X-men First Class, Banana Sunday and much more.
One of my listeners sent me a scan of a letter that Dave Sim is sending out for anyone that wishes to correspond. In the past he has been pretty open about exchanging viewpoints and debating, but this latest piece is just damn weird. He is requesting that if you want to correspond with him, you must agree that he is not a misogynist.
Read for yourself and make your own opinion. What do you think, is Dave in the right for limiting who has access to him, or is he furthering his descent into seclussion. As an added bonus, don’t forget about our interview with Dave from a couple of months ago, I doubt we would be able to interview him again.
I have heard statements questioning the validity of letter. It’s genuine, I have no reason to make up news. On the other side of the coin, there is an online petition that the Cerebus Yahoo group has started.
Hey Folks.
Here is a rundown for the next couple of months in the Inkstuds world.
May 8 - Colleen Coover
May 15 - Bruce Grenville - Curator of Krazy show at Vancouver Art Gallery
may 22 - TBA
May 29 - TBA
June 5 - Jessica Abel and Matt Madden
June 12 - Blake Bell - discussing his book about Steve Ditko
June 19 - Everyone’s favorite Douchebag, Danny Hellman will be joining us to discuss his Typhoon anthology.
I am thinking of having July being a focus on Canadian comix. What do you guys think. I already have some people in mind of who to interview and it would be a nice highlight of Canadian goodness.
also, at the end of the summer, I will be doing a night of Animation of the Vancouver Art Gallery. The playlist still has to be figured out, but I am talking to some folks and working on getting together some fabulous material. Kim Deitch will be a part of this event and he some pretty awesome aces up his sleeve.
Cloudscape Comics is a local Vancouver collective of some talents cartoonists. Jonathon Dalton has previously joined us, but this time he was accompanied by Jeffrey Ellis, the ringleader of bunch. Both boys just returned from Stumptown and Jonathon’s latest book recieved a fair amount of buzz for its accordian like format.
Brandon Graham is my main man. His books, Multiple Warheads and King City are both logical extensions in the evolution from the great sci-fi comix of the Moebius and Manara. I highly recommend reading his work if want to have a fun read. Oh yeah, he is a part of that Meat Haus group, and the have a new book coming out soon.
PS, I am a douche and forgot to mention that he just got nominated for an Eisner award. Yay Brandon.
