Podcast 53: France (and Belgium)

How angry is it possible to be about Tintin, a comic where a boy and his dog solve mysteries and occasionally assert the supremacy of Belgium? Really quite, it turns out. That's right, we're covering the comics of France and Belgium (in rage-spittle).

Plus! Learn who's an alcoholic (it's Captain Haddock, and Roger). Which Franco-Belgian comic character has "bad trousers"? What are good names for the Cornish? We'll tell you. You'd better believe we'll tell you.

Our title music is by Canon Hannon's Ham Cannon.

We covered:

• Long John Silver: Neptune - Xavier Dorison & Matthieu Lauffray
• The End of a Fence - Roman Muradov
• Sex Criminals - Matt Fraction & Chip Zdarsky
• Orbital - Serge Pelle & Sylvain Runberg
• An Tain - Colmán Ó Raghallaigh
• Harrow County: Countless Haints - Cullen Bunn & Tyler Crook (PDF Preview)
• Miss Don't Touch Me - Hubert & Kerascoet
• Tintin - Hergé:
  • Cigars of the Pharaoh
  • The Blue Lotus
  • The Black Island
  • The Secret of the Unicorn
  • Red Rackham’s Treasure
  • Asterix - René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo:
    • Asterix the Gaul
    • Asterix and the Goths
    • Asterix and Cleopatra
    • Asterix the Gladiator

Podcast Episode 33: She Makes Comics

This week we watched Marissa Stotter's documentary She Makes Comics, a history of women in comics creation and fandom. We also run down some recent comics that we've been reading.

I've got to level with you, Lucy says "anus" repeatedly in this episode for no discernible reason. Also you can find out what swimming certificates we each have. Shall we?

This week we read:

• Saga - Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples
• Wytches - Scott Snyder and Jock
• Friends With Boys - Faith Erin Hicks
• I Don’t Like My Hair Neat 2 - Julia Schiele
• The Side Effects of the Cocaine - Sean T Collins/Isaac Moylan
• Satellite Sam - Matt Fraction and Howard Chaykin
• Velvet - Ed Brubaker, Steve Epting, Elizabeth Breitweiser
• Sex Criminals - Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky
• Casanova: Acedia - Matt Fraction, Michael Chabon, Gabriel Ba, Fabio Moon
• Miss Don’t Touch Me - Hubert and Kerascoet
• The Sculptor - Scott McCloud
• Nameless - Grant Morrison, Chris Burnham, Nathan Fairbairn
• Trees - Warren Ellis and Jason Howard

And that Matt Kindt comic Roger was talking about was Divinity.

Podcast Episode 18 - TCAF

Dave's been in The Canada, attending TCAF, so we talk about comics and comics shows and Canada. We also talk quite a lot about everything that is wrong with society, and some things that are wrong with Star Trek.

• Beautiful Darkness: Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët
• Hip Hop Family Tree: Ed Piskor
• The Undertaking of Lily Chen: Danica Novgorodoff
• Andre The Giant - Life and Legend: Box Brown
• Celeste: I.N.J. Culbard
• Pregnant Butch: A.K. Summers (and here's Roger's review / critique)
• The Spectral Engine: Ray Fawkes
• Trees: Warren Ellis and Jason Howard
• The Strumpet: Various
• Silly Kingdom: Katie Shanahan and Steven Shanahan (and their podcast which I cannot pronounce, but is very good, Shanahanigans).

We also mentioned Lucy Bellwood's Oh Joy Sex Toy strip, and the Kickstarter for the book of the first year's strips - get on that.