The quite excellent Bat Segundo literary podcast has a brace of recent shows online, including a chat with Austin Grossman, author of Soon I Will Be Invincible, the superhero prose novel I’ve recommended here a few times recently (an immensely enjoyable read, especially for comics fans) and a three-part series of podcasts recorded at the Alternative Press Expo, which takes in guests such as Alex Cahill, Bryan Lee O’Malley, Stephanie McMillan and many others. From the site’s description of the subjects covered in the first episode: “The glut of autobiographical comics, Fat Camille, an unexpected skirmish between old media and new media, consulting cartoonists for tax advice, writing age-appropriate comics, handmade books, compartmentalized paneling, urban wildlife, the pigeon ecosystem, satanic raccoons, copraphilia, inverted superheroes, laconic comic book writers, whether or not robots are the savior of humanity, country bands and domain squatting, life’s rich pageant, retail humiliation, ripping off George Harrison, efforts to exploit the comic book circus atmosphere, waffles and freedom fries, turning interviews into comics, how to get rid of excess self-published comics, and superhero political comics.”
(cover to The Last Island by Alex Cahill, one of the guests on Bat Segundo’s coverage of the Alternative Press Expo)
The Alternative Press Expo coverage beings with show #124 and continues on through #125 and 126. Regular readers of the blog will probably recall me recommending the Bat Segundo show before; it isn’t specifically comics or science fiction as it deals in contemporary good writing of all sorts, but it does feature creators from SF&F and comics quite often. Besides which it is always a splendid podcast series and well worth bookmarking.
Mon, Aug 6, 2007
Books, Comics and cartoons, Podcast