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Graphic Policy Radio

A podcast at the intersection of comics nerd media and movements for social change. Elana Levin interviews comics artists, writers, critics, historians and also activists, organizers who love comics and pop culture.

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00:57:00

The Venture Bros. Podcast: Season 7 Ep 10: The...

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2018/11/12

We survived the election to bring you in-depth analysis of the Season 7 Finale. Join us for a look at the season’s themes, Empire Strikes Back vs Barbarella (only one of them has Terence Stamp playing Dildano) and a whole lot of Guild of Calamitous Intent ritual borrowed from the Masons. Steven explains who the fuck is Saphrax (and also who’s Hank & Dean’s mom!) and we get into the twin’s psychology again (Jungian and otherwise). Fair warning: Elana’s knowledge of the Masons largely comes from

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01:00:00

Batman's Secret Files with Cheryl Lynn Eaton

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2018/10/23

Batman: Secret Files #1 features comics writer and critic Cheryl Lynn Eaton's debut Batman story! She joins us to talk about her comics and critical writing about DC, Wildstorm and the latest Marvel Netflix series. A New York metropolitan native (now safely nestled in the outskirts of Atlanta), Cheryl Lynn Eaton has contributed to pop-culture sites as a columnist and reporter, held court as founder of the Ormes Society, maintained a position as an editor for an academic press, written for comic

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00:42:00

The Venture Bros. Podcast: Season 7 Ep 9: The...

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2018/10/09

Things get Freudian, Jungian and John Carpenter-ian in the penultimate episode of Venture Bros Season 7. Join @Elana_Brooklyn and @StevenAttewell on a journey up the Hudson River to a real life secret island castle and meet the Villian With 1,000 References. We play Myth Busters about such topics as lawn darts and “chelation”. So listen to the podcast here, on Graphic Policy Radio’s iTunes or find all of our Venture Bros episodes on this playlist. PS: Here’s the short story sequel to The Thing

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01:00:00

The Venture Bros. Podcast: Season 7 Ep 8: The...

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2018/09/26

Come for the long game Venture Bros. lore, stay for the explanation of Curtis Sliwa & the Guardian Angels. Which far fetched as it sounds, is a real thing. Our podcast examines the themes of The Venture Bros show and all of its cultural and historical references. In this episode Steven Attewell and Elana Levin draw on their knowledge of NY, pop culture and discuss significant themes this season. Listen here, or on Graphic Policy Radio’s iTunes or find all of our Venture Bros episodes on this

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01:14:00

The Venture Bros. Podcast: Season 7 Ep 7: The Unicorn...

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2018/09/21

This week’s episode, The Unicorn in Captivity is a perfect illustration of why we do this podcast: it is rich with Christ symbolism and Kubrick references. The episode is named after and significantly features one of a series of High Renaissance unicorn tapestries I just so happen to have studied, set in NY’s none-more-goth museum, The Cloisters. This is the Venture Bros. podcast for people who want to dig into the narrative parallels between our two unicorns; Rusty Venture and The Monarch as well

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01:07:00

Ramon Villalobos, Comics Artist, talks Border Town...

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2018/09/19

Ramon Villalobos is a professional comic artist living in Stockton California. He's worked on books for Marvel such as Nighthawk, Secret Wars:E is for Extinction, America, among others and now Border Town (co created with Eric M. Esquivel) for Vertigo Comics. "When a crack in the border between worlds releases an army of monsters from Mexican folklore, the residents of Devil’s Fork, AZ, blame the ensuing weirdness—the shared nightmares, the otherworldly radio transmissions, the mysterious goat

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00:52:00

The Venture Bros. Podcast: Season 7 Ep 6: The...

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2018/09/12

The Venture Bros has rich continuity and character arcs over years. Layer on pop culture and historic reference with thematic significance? It's a lot. So join pop culture & NY history experts Elana Levin and Steven Attewell for our podcast examining each episode of the Adult Swim show. Season 7 episode 6: The Bellicose Proxy Wherein: Newish villain Augustus St. Cloud is exploredArchitecture reveals a lost subway locationThe Guild is bad at being a labor organizationAnais Nin books your mom may or

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01:00:00

Adventure Time with Finn & Jake series Finale:...

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2018/09/05

How many times did you cry watching The Adventure Time Series Finale? Come along with me as we discuss the meaning of the series finale of this revolutionary Cartoon Network show. We’re joined by Oliver Sava who leads the Onion A.V. Club’s Adventure Time coverage, also freelancing for Vulture, and Chicago Reader. @OliverSava And Jameson Hampton, a non-binary adventurer from Buffalo, NY who writes a lot of code and reads a lot of comics. They're a regular contributor for WWAC and you can find them

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01:01:00

The Venture Bros. Podcast: Season 7 Ep 5: The...

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2018/09/04

The Venture Brosshow has rich continuity and character arcs that play out over many years. Then layer on pop culture and historic references with thematic significance? It’s a lot to sift through. So join pop culture and history experts Elana Levin and Steven Attewell for our Podcast examining each episode of this hit Adult Swim show. This is Season 7 episode 5: The Inamorata Consequence. Learn about the human brain, Fudgie the Whale, yesterday’s video games and enough father drama to win a Tony

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00:54:00

The Venture Bros. Podcast: Season 7 Ep 4: The High...

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2018/08/29

Love The Venture Bros cartoon but afraid of missing the plethora of historical references and layers of meaning behind each episode? Join pop culture and history experts Elana Levin and Steven Attewell for our Podcast examining each episode of this hit Adult Swim show. This podcast is about Season 7 Episode 4: The High Cost of Loathing Professor Attewell puts his campus teaching experience to use explaining Stuyvesant University. I reveal the dark truth behind HankCo’s Air BnB, We see parallels to

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00:56:00

The Venture Bros. Podcast: Season 7 Ep 3: Arrears In...

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2018/08/22

Love The Venture Bros cartoon but afraid of missing the plethora of historical references and layers of meaning behind each episode? Join pop culture and history experts Elana Levin and Steven Attewell (whose secret identity is that he’s an actual historian) for our Podcast examining each episode of this hit Adult Swim show. This podcast is about Season 7 Episode 3: Arrears in Science It's got everything from Frankenstein metaphors to the Gershwin Brothers' Synagogue. 60s songwriter/producers

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00:45:00

The Venture Bros. Podcast: Season 7 Ep 2: The Rorqual...

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2018/08/14

Love the Venture Bros. cartoon but afraid of missing the myriad of historical references and layers of meaning behind each episode? Join pop culture and history experts Elana Levin and Steven Attewell (whose secret identity is that he’s an actual historian) for our Podcast examining each episode of Season 7 of this hit Adult Swim show. This episode is about Season 7 Episode 2" "The Rorqual Affair". The Venture Bros. cartoon on Adult Swim references everything from Hannah-Barbara to Marvel, David

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00:44:00

The Venture Bros. Podcast: Season 7 Premiere - The...

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2018/08/09

Love the Venture Bros cartoon but afraid of missing the myriad of historical references and layers of meaning behind each episode? Join pop culture and history experts Elana Levin and Steven Attewell (whose secret identity is that he’s an actual historian) for our Podcast examining each episode of Season 7 of this hit Adult Swim show. This episode is about Season 7 Episode 1: “The Venture Bros & The Curse of the Haunted Problem. The Venture Bros. cartoon on Adult Swim references everything from

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01:03:00

San Diego Comic Con 2018

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2018/07/24

San Diego Comic Con is an economy in itself. This is the US's biggest pop culture convention and it has massive implications not just in nerd friendly TV, Movies and oh yeah, comics -- but also in politics. Get the Graphic Policy Radio style scoop on the convention on our site and also from this week's guest and resident San Diegan: Arturo R. Garcia has worked as a journalist across the media spectrum - newspapers, television news and now as a reporter and fact-checker for Snopes.com. For the past

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01:08:00

Marvel's Ant-Man & The Wasp: Not just WASPS

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2018/07/19

Marvel's latest superhero block-buster Ant-Man & The Wasp is a light-hearted heist movie about a crook turned superhero. It's also about found family, the criminal justice system and women in science. Also the Mexican community's profound love of Morrissey. It also features the MCU's 1st Woman of Color villian. Narrative Strategist and life long geek Felicia Perez joins us to talk about the movie. Felicia is the Innovation Director at the Center for Story-based Strategy (one of the organizations

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01:06:00

Back in Black: Tini Howard on Euthanauts,...

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2018/07/17

Tini Howard is a writer and swamp witch from the Carolina Wilds. Currently, she writes Euthanauts, Assassinistas (with Gilbert Hernandez) for Black Crown Comics (fmr Vertigo editor Shelly Bond's new imprint) and Hack/Slash: Resurrection, with occasional stories for two of her favorite things: Rick and Morty and WWE. Her previous work includes Power Rangers: Pink, The Skeptics (Black Mask Studios), and a contribution to the hit Secret Loves of Geek Girls. She is writing the upcomming Captain America

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01:30:00

Legion Season 2 on FX with Leo from #BlackComicsChat

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2018/07/10

Season 2 of Legion on FX, the nominally X-Men based prestige TV show, gave us a lot to talk about from mental health to memes to retro aesthetics. Leonardo was such a great guest talking Legion Season 1 what with his background in mental health we're thrilled to have him back! Leonardo Faierman was born in Buenos Aires, raised in Queens, on the playground was where he planned most of his schemes. Since then he’s plowed a jagged path as a writer, editor, podcaster, comic creator, and mostly

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00:57:00

Going Beyond with Taneka Stotts

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2018/06/26

Taneka Stotts is a queer little tumbleweed that has found herself back in the home embrace of the desert known as Los Angeles. After spending quite a few years as a spoken word artist, Taneka's focus shifted to comics, a medium full of collaboration and imagination. Taneka writes the webcomics "Full Circle" which was recently nominated for a 2018 Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity, Love Circuits," as well as the Eisner-nominated webcomic, "Déjà Brew". Along the way Taneka has edited and

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01:06:00

The Cardboard Kingdom with Chad Sell & Katie Schenkel

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2018/06/20

The Cardboard Kingdom is a graphic novel about kids, creativity, and cardboard! The book follows a variety of children who all live and play in the same neighborhood -- throughout the many chapters, you'll see each child's story unfold, overlap with other kids' adventures, and finally converge upon an epic final quest before summer's end! The graphic novel is a collaboration between Chad Sell (you've probably seen his Drag Race art) and ten writers from all over the country with a strong

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01:13:00

Interview Christopher Sebela: Hearthrob, Crowded and...

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2018/06/12

Christopher Sebela is a two-time Eisner-nominated writer, designer and publisher living and dying in Portland, Oregon. He’s co-created books like Crowded, Shanghai Red, House Amok, Evolution, Heartthrob, High Crimes, We(l)come Back, Dead Letters as well as publishing his comics Short Order Crooks and The Death Defying thru his Two Headed Press. He also writes things in other peoples’ sandboxes like Ghost Rider, Harley Quinn, Kiss/Vampirella, Detective Comics, Captain Marvel, Injustice: Ground Zero

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