Podcast 71 - More Comics By Women

Y'know that shade over half the population who make about ten percent of Big Two comics, probably about half of the rest, and whose work gets about five percent of the attention? Yeah, those folks: women?

You remember women, right - the ones who don't get to say "I done made a comic" without some internet dickdribble making death threats.

In the spirit of celebrating great work (and of not being that guy), this week we're spotlighting a bunch of comics with female creators. 

Why not by men? Because we're PC-brigade, anti-man, white genocide committing, safe-space loving, freedom-hating liberal fascists, of course! Also because fuck you and your barely-veiled misogyny. 

Now shut up and read these lovely comics.

(We're sorry about the faint background church bells in this episode. If you like, you can think of it as an elaborate performance metaphor about patriarchal religion ruining everything? But mainly, the church down the road would not shut up for about an hour.)

We covered:

• Space Battle Lunchtime - Natalie Riess
• Silvia Carrus' web comics
• Princess Princess Ever After - Katie O’Neill
• Otherworld Barbara - Moto Hagio
• Power Ballad - Molly Brooks 
• Marie Enger's web comics
• Carta Monir:
  • Ghost Call
  • Don’t Wanna Close my Eyes
  • Rosemary Valero-O’Connell
    • If Only Once, If Only for a Little While
    • Unkind+Unwell
    • Amarinthine
    • Hallie Daggett (biography)
    • Phylum
    • Aphton Corbin:
      • Paper bag test
      • Day 27
      • Tillie Walden:
        • On a Sunbeam
        • The End of Summer
        • Skim - Mariko Tamaki & Jillian Tamaki
        • Drama - Raina Telgemeier 
        • The Nameless City - Faith Erin Hicks
        • Livestock (preview) buy it here - Hannah Berry
        • Jogging - Anna F Hallstrom
        • Greasy's Guide to Nookie & Fairytales for Bad Bitches - Comic Book Slumber Party

Moar Comics!

Some of the lists we used as starting points:

• 10 female cartoonists you need to know (2017) - Zainab Akhtar 
• 10 female cartoonists you need to know (2016) - Zainab Akhtar 
• #VisibleWomen - Kelly Sue DeConnick's hashtag thread
• Comics about women, by women - Comics Alliance

Obviously we've missed stuff, and this skews web/current. What else y'all got?

Podcast 45 - Gay Stuff (and cheese)

This week, Dave was off in the America doing a business travel, or gentrifying Portland or something. We're not quite sure. Apparently there were food trucks. This left Lucy and Roger to go feral in the best way they know: by eating an enormous fancy cheeseboard and talking about queer comics.

We delve into the origins of lesbian & gay cartooning, eat a "cute brie", pontificate on structural inequalities, and feed Rogger his first Cheesestring.

That part ain't pretty, but the rest is comics.

Books we covered:

• #WicDiv - Team Tumblr
• Injection - Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey, Jordie Bellaire
• Oh Joy Sex Toy  - Erica Moen and many delightful guest artists
• The Ditch - Kristian Carstensen
• Space Dumplins - Craig Thompson
• Wendel - Howard Cruse
• Stuck Rubber Baby - Howard Cruse
• Dykes To Watch Out For - Alison Bechdel
• This One Summer - Jillian Tamaki, Mariko Tamaki
• Skim - Jillian Tamaki, Mariko Tamaki
• No Straight Lines (anthology) - ed: Justin Hall In particular, excerpts from:
  • Poppers - Jerry Mills
  • Child Labor - Mary Wings
  • Cy Ross and the SQ Syndrome - Burton Clarke
  • The Tortoise and The Scorpion - Carl Vaughn Frick
  • I Know You Are But What Am I - Robert Triptow
  • The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green - Eric Orner
  • Sexile - Jamie Cortez
  • Instruction - Robert Kirby & D. Travers Scott
  • Side By Side - Mioki (basically porn, hey - we don't always warn you...)
  • Kyle's B&B - Greg Fox
  • Seven Miles A Second - David Wojnarowicz, James Romberger, Marguerite Van Cook
  • Honor Girl - Maggie Thrash

There's a PDF preview of the first few pages of No Straight Lines here

cheese

Cheeses we ate:

• Neufchatel
• Taleggio
• Sussex Slipcote (so good)
• Chevre
• Cheesestrings

The podcast wine today was an unremarkable Chinon.

We also asked for queer webcomic recommendations.

So why not do that in the comments, if you're a generally kind sort.

Podcast Episode 23 - Spies

Spies are everywhere. Probably. They're hard to see and we're paranoid. It's the booze.

There are plenty of fantastic spy comics, running from crazy hi-octane in the campiest, most sci-fi Bond mould to quiet, tense and introspective thrillers. This week we go over some of our favourites and talk some right old nonsense.

This week we covered:

• Nothing is Forgotten - Ryan Andrews
• Seconds - Bryan Lee O'Malley
• Moon Knight - Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey, Jordie Bellaire
• Skim - Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
• Rat Queens - Curtis Weibe and Roc Upchurch
• Judge Dredd: Trifecta - Al Ewing, Simon Spurrier, Rob Williams, Henry Flint, Simon Coleby, D'Israeli, Carl Critchlow
• The Bojeffries Saga - Alan Moore and Steve Parkhouse
• The Coldest City - Anthony Johnston and Sam Hart
• Modesty Blaise - Peter ODonnell and Enric Badia Romero
• Casanova - Matt Fraction, Fabio Moon, Gabriel Ba
• Secret Avengers - Various
• Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D - Jim Steranko
• Desolation Jones - Warren Ellis and J.H. Williams III
• Global Frequency - Various
• Red - Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner

That book on Bond:

• The Man Who Saved Britain - Simon Winder

And a lovely song with the word "Spies" in the title: