Deconstructing Comics
Deconstructing Comics is a podcast about the craft of comics. Tim, Kumar, Emmet, and guest reviewers discuss a variety of comics (both recent work and classics) and present interviews with a variety of comics creators -- mainstream, indy, and even international! And in our occasional "Critiquing Comics" episodes, We'll even critique YOUR comic!
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 the casual comic book or graphic novel fan, as well!
"Tim is probably the hardest working podcaster in the community. He's an insightful and articulate comic reviewer and somebody I always enjoy talking to." -- Jason McNamara, writer, "The Rattler"
“Some of the best interviews I’ve ever heard! You guys review the type of comics I love and that’s really hard to find. So thanks for unique and knowledgeable.” -- Jack Wallace, Disposable Fiction Comics
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 62 minutes
- Episodes
- 111
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
#559 Drawn & Quarterly and Canadian comics
FLASHBACK! This week a wide-ranging discussion between two Canadians, Koom and Ian, about comics in Canada. The talk centers on Montreal-based publisher Drawn & Quarterly, and two books from their c…
01:49:14 |
Wed 23 Apr 2025
#210 Jillian Tamaki interview(s)
FLASHBACK! Skim is a coming-of-age graphic novel written by Mariko Tamaki, and drawn by her cousin Jillian Tamaki. Jillian works primarily in the field of illustration; how does she find that differ…
00:48:18 |
Wed 16 Apr 2025
#839 The Fantastic Four on Film: “Rise of the Silver Surfer” (2007)
This week we look at the movie that was based on the “Galactus Trilogy” of Fantastic Four #48-50, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. How does it stand up against the comics, and against the …
01:37:11 |
Wed 09 Apr 2025
#838 The Fantastic Four on Film: The Galactus Trilogy
One of the most famous Fantastic Four stories is the “Galactus Trilogy” from Fantastic Four 48-50 in 1966. This story has been adopted more than once, including in the 1990s FF cartoon, and in 2007’…
00:51:53 |
Wed 02 Apr 2025
#837 Jack Kirby’s Captain America 206-208: The Tiger, the Swine…and the Fish
When Steve and Sam foil an attempt by police from south of the border to arrest their friendly waiter, the cops decide to arrest Steve instead! Hey, beats heading home empty handed! What looks like …
01:16:26 |
Wed 26 Mar 2025
#836 “Clyde Fans” reviewed by two fans
In Clyde Fans by Seth, two brothers run a fan company for fifty years. One might expect it to be prosaic, but instead it’s an immersive and epic exploration of the sense and meaning of life, every l…
01:31:27 |
Wed 19 Mar 2025
#835 “Raised by Ghosts”: A time capsule, but relevant to anyone who’s been a teen
Briana Loewinsohn, who got a lot of praise two years back for her graphic memoir Ephemera, is back with a new book, Raised by Ghosts. It’s a slightly fictionalized look at Briana’s teen years, actin…
00:47:05 |
Wed 12 Mar 2025
#834 Jack Kirby’s “Cap and Falcon” vs a bodybuilding corpse
What’s that Kirby Crackle octopus chasing Cap and Falcon? And didn’t it used to be an oddly muscular, bald (naturally) corpse? It’s Agron, who gives our heroes some headaches in Captain America and …
00:49:08 |
Wed 05 Mar 2025
#833 Jack Kirby’s “Cap and Falcon” 201-203: Who are “the Night People”?
The Night People are looking for a superhero. But who are the Night People? Where do they come from? And what does one have to sacrifice to become their superhero? Tim and Emmet discuss Captain Amer…
01:16:44 |
Wed 26 Feb 2025
#832 Michael Cohen: Comics price guides, “Peanuts”, and more
Michael Cohen has created comics such as Strange Attractors and Tangled River, and is credited with helping to create the first known comic book price guide. He’s also co-host of the Unpacking Peanu…
01:01:42 |
Wed 19 Feb 2025
#831 The Fantastic Four on Film: “Fantastic Four” (2005) pt 2: What does Doom want?!
While the 2005 film Fantastic Four gives us, debatably, a well-casted group of heroes, with plenty of comics-accurate details, the script does no favors to Dr. Doom. What are his goals, other than “…
01:08:56 |
Wed 12 Feb 2025
Critiquing Comics #242 “The Star Tide Shores” vol. 1
The Star Tide Shores is an action space adventure comic that isn’t afraid to get a little deeper emotionally than, say, Star Wars. Tim and Adam enjoyed reading the first volume, by Henry Goeldner an…
00:19:39 |
Sat 08 Feb 2025
#830 The Fantastic Four on Film: “Fantastic Four” (2005) pt 1: “I am hot, and I’m not afraid to cry”
After the fiasco of the 1994 unreleased Fantastic Four movie, development proceeded on a big-budget FF film, which finally hit theaters in 2005 — a better film than the ’94 attempt in some ways, but…
01:15:36 |
Wed 05 Feb 2025
#829 Jack Kirby’s “Captain America’s Bicentennial Battles”
Captain America was the obvious choice of a character to help Marvel celebrate the USA’s bicentennial in 1976. The job of doing that went to Jack Kirby, co-creator of the character. Naturally, that m…
01:19:54 |
Wed 29 Jan 2025
#828 Japan’s mythical “oni” in manga
Oni are mythical monsters similar to the ogres of Western tradition. Like many of the legendary Japanese creatures, their characteristics are often adopted for manga characters, including series suc…
01:07:27 |
Wed 22 Jan 2025
#827 “Cross Game” Omnibus 2: Subtle Shifts
The second omnibus volume of Mitsuru Adachi’s Cross Game focuses largely on a scrimmage between the varsity team and the “portables”, which doesn’t go how anyone expects it to. Things are shifting s…
00:44:38 |
Wed 15 Jan 2025
#826 Hugh D’Andrade’s “The Murder Next Door”: Your trauma is your trauma
When Hugh D’Andrade was ten years old, his next door neighbor was mysteriously murdered, and he saw the body. In his forthcoming graphic memoir The Murder Next Door, he explores the trauma this caus…
00:57:05 |
Wed 08 Jan 2025
#825 Brad Guigar talks promoting your webcomic, even (especially?) if it’s NSFW!
Brad Guigar, creator of Evil Inc., has been putting his comics on the Web for over 20 years, and this week he’s here to talk about how he made that his day job, the challenges of promoting your work…
01:05:20 |
Wed 01 Jan 2025
“Spider-Man: Far from Home” (2019)
Tim is now completely caught up with the MCU! Mulele joins him to discuss the most recently released (as of this episode’s recording) Marvel Cinematic Universe film, last summer’s Spider-Man: Far Fr…
00:45:14 |
Wed 25 Dec 2024
#824 “Eternals” (2021): Where it went wrong (and right!)
Now that we’ve become familiar with Jack Kirby‘s original Eternals comics, repeatedly referring to the 2021 MCU film along the way, it’s time to sit through all two hours and 37 minutes of it again …
00:56:52 |
Wed 18 Dec 2024
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