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Deconstructing Comics

Tim Young and friends

Deconstructing Comics is a podcast by and for comics creators — especially those who haven"t hit their creative stride yet. Whether you"ve got a comic going and you"re trying to promote it, or you haven"t even started yet and need some help getting rolling, we hope you"ll come here for inspiration and tips. And there"s plenty of interest for non-creators, as well!

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#754 "Peanuts": Schulz's Silent Sundays 1957-1961

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2022/10/26

Charles Schulz’s Peanuts is a master class in how to do a comic strip. This week Kumar and Tim are focusing on a five-year period of Schulz’s career, 1957 to 1961, and 25 Sunday strips that demonstrate Schulz’s skill at dialog-free comics. You might want to read the strips before listening; see below! Brought to you by: The Quarter-Bin podcast Our supporters on Patreon Snoopy and Linus 2/10/57 Snoopy waiting for Linus to share a candy bar with him 6/30/57 blowing on each other 9/15/57 Snoopy

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#753 Kirby's Fourth World: "Old Gods and New"

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2022/10/19

John Morrow is co-founder of Two Morrows Publishing, a company that owes its start to John's interest in Jack Kirby. His Kirby fan newsletter grew into the company that's now publishing his history of Kirby's Fourth World, much of it told in Jack's own words: Old Gods and New. This time, Emmet talks with John about Marvel's fear that DC would end them after Kirby switched sides, how distribution quirks may have led to the premature end of the Fourth World books, how myth runs through all of Kirby's

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Critiquing Comics #222: "Berserker Monk"

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2022/10/15

Berserker Monk is a violent, but slightly humorous, comic that's been pitched as "Tarantino meets The Last Airbender." The creators -- Josh Thompson, Gabriel Roldan, Leland Bjerg -- are currently kickstarting it. How are Tim and Jason feeling about this comic? Listen and find out.

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#752 Shanti Rai's "Sennen"

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2022/10/12

What are the people like on the other side of the mountain? Are there any there? Where does the stuff, the objects, the food we enjoy in our daily lives come from? These questions are central to Shanti Rai's first graphic novel, Sennen. In this episode, Tim and Jason review the book, and then Tim talks to Shanti about how her bicultural background helped inspire the book, and the unexpected obstacle that slowed down its creation. Brought to you by: To the Batpoles! podcast Our supporters on

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#751 Rachel Pollack's "Doom Patrol"

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2022/10/05

In the mid-'90s, Grant Morrison's innovative run on Doom Patrol was followed by that of Rachel Pollack, who took advantage of Morrison's legacy, the greatest variety of sexual minority characters of any mainstream comic at the time, to express her feelings about being trans and a lesbian herself. Her run also examines a number of standard comic book tropes. This run, which was far ahead of its time, has been unavailable in a collection for some time, but these issues (64 to 87) are finally to be

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#750 Jack Kirby's "The Demon"

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2022/09/28

After leaving DC's Jimmy Olsen book, Jack Kirby needed something else to keep his monthly page count up to the level he had contracted for. One of the books he came up with was The Demon, the result of his being asked to do a "monsters and mystery" book. But Kirby didn't have a lot of interest in that genre; was that to the disadvantage of the book, or to its advantage? Tim and Emmet discuss this 16-issue series. The Bebop Bao Kickstarter Brought to you by: The Batgirl to Oracle podcast Our

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Critiquing Comics #221: "Steamgear Inc."

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2022/09/21

Alexandra (her friends call her "Ax") is trying to get in touch with hero team Steamgear Defenders; she wants to become a member. But will they turn out to be all they're cracked up to be? Will she even get there, with so many people getting in her way? The comic is Steamgear Inc. by Snuffy Sam, with the most unusual art Tim or Adam have ever seen. Does that mean it's good? We discuss. Brought to you by: The Superman Fan podcast Our supporters on Patreon

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#749 Marta Chudolinska: "An insider and an outsider"

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2022/09/14

Marta Chudolinska (who-doh-lean-ska), the child of Polish immigrants to Canada, makes comics and other art in Toronto. Koom talks with her about her ongoing project Babcia, about her grandmother and her family's history in Poland. Brought to you by: Wayne Manor Memoirs podcast Our supporters on Patreon

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Critiquing Comics #220: "Amazing Tales" #5

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2022/09/07

This time, we critique the fifth installment in David Dye's "Amazing Tales" anthology series. In the main story, we again join the troops of Dropship Fifteen, in a story that gets a bit harrowing... but not without some humor. Adam joins Tim to talk through the issue. Brought to you by: The Quarter-Bin podcast Our supporters on Patreon

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#748 Elizabeth Sandifer on Netflix's "Sandman"

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2022/08/31

While Netflix's Sandman series has gone over well with many fans, not everyone is pleased. This week Emmet talks with comics commentator Elizabeth Sandifer, who has found the series to be vastly inferior to the original comics, and gives us her reasons in a very entertaining and informative way. Brought to you by: To the Batpoles! podcast Our supporters on Patreon

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#747 "Suzanne: The Jazz Age Goddess of Tennis"

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2022/08/24

Suzanne Lenglen was a trendsetting tennis star in the 1920s, among the first to challenge the notion that tennis players had to be amateurs, running themselves into debt to keep competing, in order to participate in tournaments. Tom Humberstone's first full-length graphic novel Suzanne: The Jazz Age Goddess of Tennis, soon to be released, is a finely honed work of historical fiction on her life and influence. Tim and Jason review the book in this episode; then, Tim interviews Humberstone about the

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#746 Manga Mermaid Madness!

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2022/08/17

Patrick Ijima-Washburn (a.k.a. "Patrick W.") has been doing some deep research on certain themes used in manga. Last year, he told us about scary cats in manga; this time it's (mostly scary) mermaids -- or, to be gender neutral, "merfolk." Thinking it would be a topic easily covered, he was soon caught in a tsunami of manga fish-people, from adaptations of "The Little Mermaid," to creepy human-like creatures that live in the water, Creature of the Black Lagoon style. He shares his findings here,

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#745 Noah Van Sciver and "Joseph Smith and the Mormons"

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2022/08/10

Joseph Smith and the Mormons is an objective look at the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Author and artist Noah Van Sciver took a bit of heat from the church for not portraying things in line with church teaching. Adam interviews Noah in this episode, as they compare notes on moving on from their respective religious upbringings, plus Noah describes his process and tools, adjusting to fatherhood, and what kind of comics work to do next. Brought to you by: The Superman

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#744 "Fist of the North Star"

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2022/08/03

If you're looking for over-the-top -- way, way over -- action and violence, then Fist of the North Star, by Buronson and Tetsuo Hara, is the comic for you! Kumar and Jordan breathlessly recount their experience reading the comic, which -- despite the ridiculousness of the story -- is done sincerely, not cynically. Brought to you by: Wayne Manor Memoirs podcast Our supporters on Patreon

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Critiquing Comics #219: "Rougarou" and "The Poet and...

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2022/07/27

This week, a Critiquing Comics double feature: During the U.S. Civil War, a confederate soldier is changed into a dangerous creature by a mysterious woman. His comrade, now a marshal, tracks him after the war as he takes more innocent victims. But is everything as it appears? Tim and Jason enjoy the twist in Rougarou, by Giles Clark and Jose Rondon. Our second entry takes us further back in history, to 1790, when poet-painter William Blake claims to have met a horrific lizardlike creature, the

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#743 "Stray Bullets"

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2022/07/20

David Lapham's Stray Bullets "humanist crime" series began in 1995 and shows a number of characters interacting between the 1970s and 1990s, with the stories told nonsequentially. Kumar and Matt dodge the bullets to turn in this review. Brought to you by: The Law of Equivalent Exchange: A Fullmetal Alchemist manga podcast Our supporters on Patreon

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#742 "Crisis on Infinite Earths"

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2022/07/13

Crisis on Infinite Earths was an attempt by Marv Wolfman and George Perez to clean up DC Comics continuity and make the publisher's line more reader-friendly. The story showed the Anti-Monitor trying to eliminate all of the many versions of Earth that had appeared in DC stories, and the few surviving Earths ended up merged into one. Numerous characters didn't make it through the story alive; characters whose original, defunct publishers had been absorbed by DC now found themselves to be native to

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"Ant-Man" (2015)

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2022/07/06

It's another episode of TIM CATCHES UP WITH THE MCU, in which we wrap up Phase Two with Ant-Man. When this movie was released in 2015, some thought this might be where Marvel Studios would finally stumble. Did they? Tim and Mulele discuss. (Originally published September 14, 2019.) Brought to you by: Dear Reader: A Jane Eyre Podcast Our supporters on Patreon

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Critiquing Comics #218: "A Lungful of Brine"

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2022/06/30

This time, Jason introduces us to his former student Dan Tappan's first Kickstarter project, a nautical horror anthology with the appropriately horrifying title A Lungful of Brine. Tim joins him for a review.

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#741 Anneli Furmark

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2022/06/29

Anneli Furmark is a Swedish illustrator and comics creator whose latest book is Walk Me to the Corner, in which two married middle-aged women become attracted to each other. Anneli talks with Koom (at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival) about why this book isn't an LGBT book, about her painting technique and layout choices, and more. Brought to you by: The Superman Fan podcast Our supporters on Patreon

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