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Word Balloon Comics Podcast

John Siuntreswww.spreaker.com
1 on 1 interview show featuring the creative minds behind Comics TV Film Novels & Animation. Hosted by Chicago Pop Culture expert, John Siuntres

Episodes

Star Trek Prodigy Talk With Julie and Shawna Benson

Paramount Plus announced the cancellation of Star Trek Prodigy, which surprisingly is one of the Best Nu Trek shows, furthering the stories past Star Trek Nemesis. Like Picard season three instead of being another prequel series, this show features smart all ages writing. As we hope for a new platform for season 2, We revists last decembers chat with Julie and Shawna Benson who wrote several episodess of this great series.

Jun 24, 20232 hr 24 minTranscript available on Metacast

The 1985 studio with Chaykin Simonson Cowan and Sienkiewicz

From Baltimore Comic Con Dean Haspiel hosts this Baltimore Comic Con conversation with the artists he assisted in their 1985 studio. Great memories of a key moment in comic history. Stories aboit DC Marvel the creator owned market and more.

Jun 19, 20232 hr 3 minTranscript available on Metacast

A John McCrea Hang Out

From classics like Hitman and Mars Attacks-Judge Dredd to a new Carnage story for Marvel, John covers it all. We talk about his recovery from a long bout with COVID that affected his drawing ability and why he's never felt comfortable drawing Superman.

Jun 16, 20231 hr 24 minTranscript available on Metacast

70s Nerd Magazine memories with Michael Kronenberg

Mike has a great new cover honoring Neal Adams in the latest Back Issue. It also has Mike's Neal interview from the book he co-authored with Michael Eury The Batcave Companion. This gives us an excuse to talk about those great 70s and 80s nerd culture magazines like Creepy Errie and Famous Monsters of Filmland along with artists like Basil Gogos .

Jun 15, 20232 hr 6 minTranscript available on Metacast

Reprint Valerie Perrine The Mystique Of Miss Tessmacher with Stacey Souther

This weekend TCM showed this incredible documentary check it out, and support Valerie and the fim. Filmmaker Stacey Souther made an incredible documentary about Valerie Perrine , who made us all fall in love with her Superman performance not to mention Lenny, Slaughterhouse Five, WC Fields and Me and other films. Step 1 Buy the documentary here https://t.co/bzS0iu8MrV?amp=1 . Step 2: More importantly you can donate to help offset the costs of care for @TheValPerrine here: https://gofund.me/e29e4...

Jun 12, 20231 hr 13 minTranscript available on Metacast

Steven T Seagle Talks Toons X-Men Sandman and more

We cover a lot of ground with Steve. From House Of Mystery , Sandman Mystery theater to Superman, his X-Men Run and many of his creator owned stories . Plus lots of TV anf ilm animation from Ben 10, to Big Hero 6

Jun 08, 20232 hr 34 minTranscript available on Metacast

Rob Liefeld Tells Stories Out Of School Pt 1

Deadpool Badder Blood hits stores today. Rob talks about the new mini series, We also chat about the WGA strike many stories of the 80s and 90s and Rob's awesome podcast Robservations which you should all check out.

Jun 07, 20231 hr 12 minTranscript available on Metacast

The History Of Comic Con Podcast Series with Mathew Klickstein

There is a 6 part deep dive podcast series that explores the creation and evolution of The San Diego Comic Con Called "Comic Con Begins" . From it's hotel basement beginnings to today's status as the Ultimate Nerd Culture event that the whole world follows every year. With tons of interviews and archival audio. It's a time travel experience. Podcast creator and comic book writer Mathew Klickstein (You Are Obsolete) and SDCC founding member Roger Freedman discuss the creation of this iconic festi...

Jun 05, 20231 hr 27 minTranscript available on Metacast

Portrait Of Joelle Jones 2018

From 2018, Joelle talks about her Catwoman run, plus her collaborations with Jamie Rich Tom King and others . and, a lot of talk about Joelle's great crime series Lady Killer from Dark Hors

Jun 04, 20231 hr 7 minTranscript available on Metacast

Heroes Covers and More With Doc Shaner

Doc Shaner has been dazzling us with his versions of iconic heroes from Flash Gordon to the Hanna Barberra heores. We talk Shazam, Adam Strange, Mary Marvel Superman, and much more

Jun 01, 20232 hr 45 minTranscript available on Metacast

Stuart Moore Talks Marvel Ahoy and More

Stuart discusses his new Marvel Avengers Novel from Acodyte Books in The Crisis Protocol series. We also talk about new projects from Ahoy Comics.

May 30, 20231 hr 10 minTranscript available on Metacast