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Release The Geek

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The next best thing to experiencing something yourself is to hear people talk about their interests, sharing their experiences and stories. And the best stories are those that come from passion - striving to overcome obstacles on your way to succeeding in your chosen field, funny anecdotes, hardships endured. "Release The Geek" is our weekly forum to chat to people who are geeky about something - they could be successful, semi-so, or on their way to achieving a level of it but they"ve all

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00:23:34

Esports Growth with Paul 'ReDeYe' Chaloner!

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2019/12/19

With the One Esports DOTA 2 World Pro Invitational starting this week in Singaport, Release The Geek turns its attention to growth industry of esports. Paul 'ReDeYe' Chaloner is an esports panel host, compere, shoutcaster and consultant for the industry at large. When we first spoke to Paul back in 2016, he was a guest in South Africa to help promote, at that time, the country's largest esports event. We chatted about the growth of esports globally and how the SA scene compared skill wise to best in

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01:01:58

Interesting Coffee with Brian Stelfreeze!

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2019/12/12

Brian Stelfreeze is an American painter, penciler, inker, and colourist. From humble beginnings in a small town in South Carolina, Brian now has the distinction of having worked for nearly every major US comic book publisher, with an incredible run of over 50 cover illustrations for DC's Shadow of the Bat. Brian's work with Ta-Nehisi Coates on Black Panther was also instrumental in defining the artistic style of the hit movie - Chadwick Boseman at one stage revealed in an interview that the

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00:46:08

Beyond Watchmen & Judge Dredd with John Higgins!

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2019/12/05

John Higgins is a colorer and artist who has an incredible array of comic book credits under his belt - from over 100 appearances in 2000 D to his great run on Hellblazer with Garth Ennis, his work on The Boys, Swamp Thing, Pride & Joy and so much more. How much more? John also just happens to have worked on two of the greatest comic book stories ever - Batman: The Killing Joke and genre-defining Watchmen.

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01:15:22

Episode 145: Comic Artistry with Dean Rankine!

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2019/11/21

From a young age, all Dean Rankine wanted to do was draw. While today, Dean is a well established Australian comic book artist, he'd still describe himself as a big hairy kid - but a kid who has now worked for a range of companies and a variety of titles including Australian MAD magazine, The Simpsons comic book for Boingo and a cover for the Rick and Morty comic. Dean is now a popular mainstay on the Australian pop culture convention scene, and has developed his own fan following with his popular

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Episode 144: Comic Con Geekery with Kuo-Yu Liang!

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2019/11/14

Ku Liang has potentially one of the best jobs you can think of - working with the coolest events around the globe and trying to figure how to make them even better? Ku is the Global Director of Business Development at ReedPop - the company behind some of the biggest comic and pop culture conventions in the world including New York Comic Con, the MCM chain of events in the UK (which is running its Birmingham event this weekend, where guests include Star Wars's C3PO Anthony Daniels and geek hall of

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Episode 143: Comic Artistry with Patric Reynolds!

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2019/11/07

Patric Reynolds is a comic book illustrator, who has worked with some incredible names over the past decade. A former public school teacher, Reynolds took the jump in 2009 to become a comic book artist, and hasn't looked back. Patric has some impressive credits to his name, including many "Mignolaverse" titles including Hellboy & the BPRD 1954 and Abe Sapien - and we chatted to him during his recent visit to South Africa courtesy of Comic Con Africa

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Episode 142: Halloween Geekery with LeeAnna Vamp

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2019/10/31

With great thanks to the team at Comic Con Africa and the Death Wish Coffee podcast ‘Fueled by Death’, we celebrate Halloween by interviewing the ‘ghoul of your dreams’, LeeAnna Vamp!

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Episode 141: Comic Con Museum Geerky with Adam Smith!

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2019/10/24

Back in March, RTG got to visit the brand new site of the Comic Con Museum in San Diego, checking out the ‘Cover Story’ Exhibit. We then chatted to Executive Director of the Museum, Adam Smith, about his path to geekdom and how he came to helm what will be a true temple of pop culture history.

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00:02:27

RTG: Season 5 Primer - Sub-Podcast 2

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2019/10/22

Many things have been happening in the Release The Geek world - here's what's been going on before the launch of Season 5 later this week.

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Episode 140: World Cosplay Summit Geekery with Ed Hoff!

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2018/05/21

Ed Hoff shares the origin story of the World Cosplay Summit - the biggest cosplay event in the world!

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00:54:52

Episode 139: Unclipped Adventure Geekery with Tegan...

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2018/03/23

Tegan Phillips started drawing comics to win bicycle, and turned it into ‘Unclipped Adventure’ - a full time job with her comics gracing tshirts, jugs and greeting cards.

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00:53:54

Episode 138: Indian Cricket Geekery with Chetan Narula!

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2018/03/09

One of the things that marks us geeks is passion. Geek passion is on display everywhere - from heated arguments online around whether Superman could beat the Hulk, to cosplayers spends dozens, even hundreds of hours making precise replicas of costumes as an homage to the character.Passion in geek culture is undeniable, which makes the topic of this podcast potentially relatable, even if most geeks aren't necessarily interest in it.This week's podcast is going to discuss sport, (Please, geeks, give

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Episode 137: Composer Geekery with Carlo Mombelli!

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2018/03/02

Our last RTG episode spotlighted Gina Nelson, lead artist on the new mobile game Dragon's Watch. During our chat, Gina discussed what the design team was looking for when it came to the theme music for the game - they really wanted to music to be more than just 'background noise', but an enriching aspect of the game.As it happens, Gina's father, Carlo Mombelli, is a South African bassist, composer, and educator - she suggested that he submit some samples to the game design team and they loved what

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Episode 136: Dragon's Watch Geekery with Gina Nelson!

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2018/02/23

Gina Nelson is a young South African developer who became enamoured with the computer game industry and quickly decided that this was the career for her. After working with local game dev company ‘Luma Arcade’, Gina set off to the UK to seek her fortune, and has landed the role of Art Lead for London games studio ‘The Secret Police’ - a company that comes with some impressive credentials.In late 2017, Gina, as part of the ‘The Secret Police’ team, launched their first game: 'Dragon's Watch' - a

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Episode 135: Phoenix Fire Geekery with Natalie Rivener!

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2018/02/16

Back in 2015, we interviewed Johannesburg author Natalie Rivener, who had taken on the task of co-ordinating an array of South African authors to self-publish an anthology of stories. The group were instructed to use the imagery of the phoenix as their short story inspirations and the Flight of the Phoenix became available from Amazon via digital and print-on-demand versionsNow, three years later, Natalie has braved the perils of herding cats once again to produce a new anthology, with the idea of

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Episode 134: 'Our Immaculate' Geekery with Jason Hes!

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2018/02/02

In 2016, we interviewed Kelan Gerrity from ‘Sera Blue’, a new age publishing company based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Kelan, a writer herself, offered a very interesting promotion - if you purchased a copy of her book, ‘Crimson Skies’, you could submit a story idea that ‘Sera Blue’ would edit and publish for free.After a long and challenging process, due to the quality of the entries, Sera Blue declared a winner - Joburg based writer Jason Hes, for his horror novel submission, ‘Our

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Episode 133: Bravado Gaming Geekery with Andreas...

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2018/01/26

For a number of years, Bravado Gaming has been THE dominant force in the South African esports scene. Last weekend (Jan 21st), Bravado got 2018 off to great start by taking out the World Electronic Sports Games African qualifiers which sees them off to China in March to compete in the World Finals.But that isn't the biggest news around Bravado Gaming. On January 17, the team announced that the CS:Go squad are relocating to the United States - South African teams have always struggled to compete

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Episode 132: X-Wing Geekery with The Mole Men!

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2018/01/19

The ‘Star Wars: X-Wing Miniature Game’ has, in a few short years, managed to become the top ranked tabletop game around the world. So how is it doing in South Africa? Release The Geek chatted with Gerhard Pretorius and Shaun Rushmer from the Mole Men Gaming Group, based in Johannesburg, to discuss the game, its basic mechanics, and the factors that make it one of the most popular tabletop games around.

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Episode 131: Comic Creator Geekery with Jim Zub!

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2017/12/15

To believe Jim Zub's bio on his website, he's merely a writer, artist and art instructor based in Toronto, Canada, but that would belie the incredible amount of work Jim does.Not only does he currently have multiple comic projects on the go at one time, including The Uncanny Avengers for Marvel and Wayward, a modern supernatural story about teens fighting Japanse mythological monsters for Image ... but he's also an animation teacher and program co-ordinator for a local college. Further, he manages a

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Episode 130: Comic Creator Geekery with Dave Gibbons!

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2017/12/08

Dave Gibbons is, to put it simply, a titan in the comic book field. While it's easy to say that he might be best known for his collaboration with Alan Moore on Watchmen, Inkpot and Jack Kirby award winner Gibbons has massed more than an enviable body of work: he co-created Rogue Trooper alongside Gerry Finley-Day for 2000 AD, also working on Judge Dredd, Dan Dare, the Harlem Heroes and the ABC Warriors for the same publication; Gibbons worked with Moore again to create what is widely acknowledged as

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