Episode 257: A Publisher Spotlight on Conundrum Press
Episode description
Time Codes:
- 00:00:27 - Introduction
- 00:02:28 - Catching up, and listener mail!
- 00:11:34 - Duran Duran, Imelda Marcos, and Me
- 00:31:09 - Dreams in Thin Air
- 00:53:24 - Morton: A Cross-Country Rail Journey
- 01:07:05 - Getting Out of Hope
- 01:22:29 - Mister Morgen
- 01:34:31 - The Collected Neil the Horse
- 01:59:56 - Wrap up
- 02:02:25 - Contact us
This week on The Comics Alternative Andy and Derek return to one of their favorite publishers, Conundrum Press, for their next publisher spotlight. They had previously released a similar episode on Conundrum two and a half years ago, and they wanted to do so again with their fall 2017 releases. The six titles under discussion vary in style and topic, although the first three books the guys review are all memoirs: Lorina Mapa's Duran Duran, Imelda Marcos, and Me, Michael Nybrandt and Thomas Mikkelsen's Dreams in Thin Air, and David Collier's Morton: A Cross-Country Rail Journey. After that they turn to James Cadelli and his first graphic novel, Getting Out of Hope, and then the surreal story collection Mister Morgen by Croatian poster artist Igor Hofbauer. Finally, Andy and Derek conclude with one of their favorite of the fall releases, The Collected Neil the Horse, by Arn Saba (now Katherine Collins). This is a classic black-and-white comic from the early 1980s that definitely deserves this kind of attention.
The closing music of this episode, in fact, is created by Collins for Neil the Horse!