RiYL
Recommended if You Like: longform conversation with musicians, cartoonists, writers and other creative types.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 47 minutes
- Episodes
- 726
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
Episode 146: Carla Speed Mcneil and Denis Kitchen
Our final round of interviews from Baltimore Comic Con includes two artists who have had a profound impact on the American underground/independent comics community. Carla Speed McNeil has produced th…
01:00:32 |
Mon 04 Jan 2016
Episode 145: Judd Winick
In A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers describes the auditioning process for The Real World: San Francisco. The spot the McSweeney’s founder tried out for was won by another artist,…
00:48:08 |
Wed 30 Dec 2015
Episode 144: Chip Kidd
Of course Chip Kidd put out a book with Art Spiegelman. In an age when the transition to digital seems all but inevitable, both artists have a vested interest in the book as object, crafting tangible…
00:32:08 |
Mon 21 Dec 2015
Episode 143: Colin Hay
“All you really want to do is get yourself excited, get your wife excited, get your friends excited,” Colin Hay explains with a smile. “Beyond that, who knows? You want to say to someone who’s upstai…
00:40:26 |
Wed 16 Dec 2015
Episode 142: Jules Feiffer
The artist has been something of a hero before I’d even heard his name, through his illustration work in the aforementioned classic children’s book and as the screenwriter of Robert Altman’s perfectl…
00:53:16 |
Wed 09 Dec 2015
Episode 141: Scott Fagan
By all rights, the story of South Atlantic Blues should have ended in 1968. Released the same week as Van Morrison’s masterpiece of pastoral angst, Astral Weeks, the record failed to garner any notic…
01:23:26 |
Tue 01 Dec 2015
Episode 140: Jim Starlin and Brian Stelfreeze
Two conversations with extremely talented — and patient — artists conducted at Baltimore Comic Con. Both were also prefaced by waiting quietly for their signing lines to slow down before taking time …
00:49:13 |
Sat 28 Nov 2015
Episode 139: Lucy Sante
I’ve been wanting to have Lucy Sante on the show for some time now, and a recently appearance at the Brooklyn Book Fair finally afforded the opportunity to sit down with the author. Immediately after…
00:59:48 |
Wed 25 Nov 2015
Episode 138: Sara Varon
It had been a while since I’d last spoken with Sara Varon. At the time, the artist had a handle of comics and kids books under her belt, including most notably — and recently — Robot Dreams, a deligh…
00:41:38 |
Sun 22 Nov 2015
Episode 137: Stan Sakai
Like many of roughly my age bracket, my first exposure to Usagi Yojimbo was as an action figure — a badass samurai rabbit that fit in perfectly in world where Ninja Turtles roam the streets of New Yo…
00:36:18 |
Wed 18 Nov 2015
Episode 136: Jennifer Hayden
“The head space for a lot of people post-any kind of cancer is ‘I gotta get going,’” Jennifer Hayden explains with the positive energy of an all-star slugger holding a World Series trophy aloft. What…
00:45:43 |
Fri 13 Nov 2015
Episode 135: Dylan Horrocks
This one gets pretty raw. No surprise, really, given the nature of Sam Zabel And The Magic Pen, a semi-autobiographicalish comic that deals with the nature of and relationship between creativity and …
00:51:29 |
Tue 10 Nov 2015
Episode 134: (Bonus) Joe Biel
“It's a good story,” Joe Biel wrote in an email from a few weeks back. “It’s our 20th anniversary book and my big reveal is that I have Asperger’s.” When Good Trouble comes out from Microcosm in Marc…
01:04:23 |
Fri 06 Nov 2015
Episode 133: Kinky Friedman
He calls it “the curse of being multi-talented” and insists that it is, in fact, a curse. Musician, author, politician, comedian, and all around gadfly, Kinky Friedman is one of the those rare multi-…
00:33:58 |
Wed 04 Nov 2015
Episode 132: Olivier Schrauwen
When I asked for interview suggestions for my five day work trip to Berlin, Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon suggested Olivier Schrauwen, heaping praise upon the Belgian expat and categorizing him among …
00:57:58 |
Wed 28 Oct 2015
Episode 131: Raina Telgemeier
It had been eight or so years since I last interviewed Raina Telgemeier. After a few years spent adapting the beloved young adult series The Babysitter’s Club into a handful of graphic novels for Sch…
00:53:54 |
Wed 21 Oct 2015
Episode 130: Jaime Hernandez
“It comes down to a lot of educated guessing and trying to handle it like a grown up,” explains Jaime Hernandez. We’re seated on a curb outside the San Diego Convention Center and the subject of the …
00:38:40 |
Tue 13 Oct 2015
Episode 129: Ed Piskor and Marc Bell
I first encountered Ed Piskor’s work through the cartoonist’s collaborations with the legendary Harvey Pekar. The duo released the book Macedonia in 2007, highlighting The American Splendor author’s …
01:22:30 |
Wed 07 Oct 2015
Episode 128: Congressman John Lewis, with Nate Powell and Andrew Aydin
It was one of the most surreal things I’ve experienced, legendary civil rights leader turned congressman John Lewis leading a procession of small children through the packed halls of the San Diego Co…
01:16:59 |
Wed 30 Sep 2015
Episode 127: Anders Nilsen
In one sense, perhaps Comic Con is the ideal setting for this conversation. It’s a conversation about authenticity, about the unintended artifice of a sketchbook created for public consumption. By al…
00:40:08 |
Tue 22 Sep 2015
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