Podcast 47 - Halloween

October 29, 2015

It's Halloween (hypothetically), and that means time for spooky comics. We'll lure you into a false sense of security with dazzling insight into a range of comics before shitting you right up with the jump scare that is our horror roundup. So this week we talk about:

Wet Moon - Sophie Campbell
Shadoweyes (and hey, there's a Kickstarter for a new printing) - Sophie Campbell
I Hate Fairyland - Skottie Young & Jean-Francois Beaulieu
Super Giant Battle Gecko - Naniiebim
Rumble - John Arcudi & James Harren
The City - James Herbert & Ian Miller
The Fox Sister - Christina Strain & Jayd Aït-Kaci
Space Dumplins - Craig Thompson & Dave Stewart
The Twilight Children - Gilbert Hernandez, Darwyn Cooke, Dave Stewart
Doctor Strange - Jason Aaron & Chris Bachalo
Two Brothers - Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá, adapted from Milton Hatoum

And here's some horror for ya:

When the Darkness Presses - Emily Carroll
The Hole the Fox Did Make - Emily Carroll
His Face All Red - Emily Carroll
Out of Skin - Emily Carroll
The Groom - Emily Carroll
The Prince and the Sea - Emily Carroll
All Along the Wall - Emily Carroll
Through the Woods (print collection) - Emily Carroll
Gunnerkrigg Court - Tom Siddell
Cradlegrave - John Smith & Edmund Bagwell
Shadows of Salamanca - Christophe Bec & Stefano Raffaele
Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath - I.N.J. Culbard, adapted from H.P. Lovecraft
Wytches - Scott Snyder, Jock, Matt Hollingsworth
Rat God - Richard Corben
Delphine - Richard Sala
Adamtine - Hannah Berry
Anya’s Ghost - Vera Brosgol
Mercury - Hope Larson
Kate Beaton's Family Halloween
Uzumaki - Junjo Ito
Bongcheon-Dong Ghost (really scary if you switch adblock off, we think) - Ho Rang
Ghost in Masung Tunnel - Ho Rang
This extremely spoopy comic - Kris Straub

Complete Lovecraft eBook

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Podcast Episode 13 - Horror Comics

January 31, 2014

There are a whole bunch of horror comics, and we help navigate you through some of the best of the last 50 years, stopping to define horror along the way and make off-colour jokes.

Contains slight spoilers for Adamtine at 30 minutes. Skip ahead if you're a delicate type.

Comics we covered this week:

That article about sexiness in Young Avengers.

Podcast Episode 6 - Kids' Comics

August 31, 2013

As any number of hacks will tell you, comics aren't just for kids anymore. But have things gone too far the other way? What are the good kids' comics? And who better to talk about that than three people who are not and do not have children? No one, that's who.

If you're feeling like spending some money, please consider supporting the Cartozia Kickstarter, or picking up the Music by Programmers album, which includes tracks by the composer of our them music, Chris Whitworth, Funds raised support maths and computer education at Bletchley Park and the National Computer Museum.