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 62 - Food

Food! For most of us it's a sludgy nutrient paste we shove into the front of our withered forms to stretch their existence out for another grim and grey span. But did you know it can also be delicious? It's true! We found many comics on the topic, and now we're sharing their wisdom with you.

We covered:

• Self-Obsessed - Sina Grace
• Wolf - Ales Kot and Matt Taylor
• On a Sunbeam - Tillie Walden
• Southern Bastards - Jasons, Various
• Andre the Giant - Box Brown
• Check Please - Ngozi Ukazu

Food

• Oishinbo  Vol 1: "Japanese Cuisine" - Tetsu Kariya and Akira Hanasaki
• Oishinbo Vol.2: "Sake" - Tetsu Kariya and Akira Hanasaki
• Oishinbo Vol.3: "Ramen and Gyoza" - Tetsu Kariya and Akira Hanasaki
• Rutabaga: The Adventure Chef - Eric Colossal
• Cook Korean - Robin Ha
• Banchan In Two Pages - Robin Ha
• Modern Fried Snake - Ryan Armand
• I Think You’re Sauceome - Sarah Becan
• Cooking Comically - Tyler Capps
• Drawn Butter - L. Nichols
• Chew - John Layman/Rob Guillory
• Wonton Soup - James Stokoe
• What Did You Eat Yesterday - Fumi Yoshinaga
• Food Baby - Lucie Byron

Podcast 61 - Fantasy

We bravely set out to find the very best in fantasy comics, but we got badly sidetracked and got eaten by a Groo, a monster from a videogame that shares its name with a fantasy comic we didn't actually cover. Will that do? I tried.

There's a weird lack of fantasy comics, so we try to figure out why what Mr Hart so kindly refers to as "Elves and Swords and Bollocks" isn't as prevalent as other genres.

We covered:

• A City Inside - Tillie Walden
• Oishinbo - Tetsu Kariya, Akira Hanasaki
• Black Monday Murders - Jonathan Hickman, Tomm Coker
• Dicebox - Jenn Manley Lee
• Echo’s Rift  Jennifer Potter
• Unsounded - Ashley Cope
• Stand Still, Stay Silent - Minna Sundberg
• The Lost Oracle - Lho Brockhoff
• Cry Havoc - Si Spurrier, Ryan Kelly, Nick Filardi, Matt Wilson, Lee Loughridge
• Weirdworld - Sam Humphries, Michael Del Mundo
• Injection - Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey, Jordie Bellaire
• Pretty Deadly - Kelly-Sue DeConnick, Emma Rios, Jordie Bellaire
• Ghastly - "Ghastly" (This is very not safe for work you guys)

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction entry on fantasy comics.

Podcast 59 - Manga

This week we try to correct for our utter ignorance about manga, reading as much as we can in two weeks and then spouting opinions all over the place.

A theme emerges in Roger's reading. Not a good theme.

We covered:

• Bad Machinery - John Allison
• The Goddamned - Jason Aaron, R.M. Guera, Giulia Brusco
• Saga - Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
• The Sixth Gun - Cullen Bunn, Tyler Crook, Brian Hurtt, Bill Crabtree
• Filmish - Edward Ross
• A City Inside - Tillie Walden

Hey Kids! Manga!

• Abandon the Old in Tokyo - Yoshihiro Tatsumi
• Oishinbo: A la Carte - Tetsu Kariya and Akira Hanasaki
• Ode to Kirihito - Osamu Tezuka
• Angel Heart - Udou Shinohara
• Amakusa 1637 - Michiyo Akaishi (this isn't anywhere legit, sorry)
• Barefoot Gen - Keiji Kakazawa
• One-Punch Man - “One” and Yusuke Murata
• Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service - Eiji Otsuka
• Tekkon Kinkreet - Taiyo Matsumoto
• Project X Cup Noodle - Tadashi Katoh and Akira Imai

You might also like:

• Manga database - http://hidamari.moe/
• UK Anime Network

Podcast 56 - Darwyn Cooke

With the sad news that Darwyn Cooke has died, we look back at the best of his career.

We covered:

• We(l)come Back - Christopher Sebela, Jonathan Sawyer, Claire Roe
• Delilah Dirk and the King’s Shilling - Tony Cliff
• Space Riders - Alexis Ziritt and Fabian Rangel Jr.
• The Rattler - Jason Mcnamara & Greg Hinkle
• The End of Summer - Tillie Walden

Darwyn Cooke books:

• DC: The New Frontier
• Graphic Ink
• Catwoman
• The Twilight Children
• Parker: Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3, Vol 4, Martini Edition
• Batman: Ego

Podcast Episode 50 - The Best Comics of 2015

Here at the old Consequential.net, we like to think that we cover the very best comics week on week. So it stands to reason that our selections for the best of the year are a rarefied breed indeed, yes? Yes. We're not saying these books will get you laid, but they probably won't get you sent to prison either. Great! Plus, someone wins a prize! Could it be you? Yes!*

*Accuracy dependent on competition entry.

We apologise for the occasional high-pitched noise in this episode. It was caused by a particularly acute case of The Clanks. Roger is being exorcised and deloused and it won't happen again.

Also, for your enjoyment:

• Christmas recipes!
• Find out which candy is "disgustingly minty"!
• Other things as well.
• You can read all of the competition pitches we received, like we had to.

We covered, in no particular order:

• Supermutant Magic Academy - Jillian Tamaki
• Mulp - Matt Gibbs & Sarah Dunkerton
• Porcelain - Benjamin Read & Chris Wildgoose
• Descender - Jeff Lemire & Dustin Nguyen
• Solomon - Carlos Pedro
• Limbo - Dan Watters & Caspar Wijngaard
• Wet Moon - Sophie Campbell
• Saint Cole - Noah Van Sciver
• Fante Bukowski - Noah Van Sciver
• Roller Girl - Victora Jamieson
• Wytches - Scott Snyder & Jock
• Aama - Frederick Peeters
• I Love This Part - Tillie Walden
• Space Dumplins - Craig Thompson
• Nimona - Noelle Stevenson
• Munnu - Malik Sajad
• Fantasy Sports - Sam Bosma
• Injection - Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey, Jordie Bellaire
• Sing No Evil - J. P. Ahonen & K. P. Alare
• Kaptara - Chip Zdarsky and Kagan McLeod
• The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl - Ryan North and Erica Henderson
• Necropolis - Jake Wyatt
• Wild's End - Dan Abnett, I.N.J. Culbard

Podcast 49: Thought Bubble 2015, The Best Bits

Roger and Dave are back from Thought Bubble, and they brought gifts! For Lucy, not for you. That would be weird. Listen on as we fight for approval in the inaugural Lucy Boyes £5 Challenge. Also: the best stuff we picked up at the festival. If that wasn't enough, we have interviews with Dan Watters & Caspar Wijingaard, Tillie Walden, Comic Book Slumber Party, Julia Scheele with One Beat Zines and Mat Barnett of Alien in the Outfield. Hey, it's competition time! Our end of the year show is coming up, and we want you to pitch us a comic. The ones we like best will be reviewed on the show as though they existed, because we're horrible, judgemental people. The one we unanimously decide we like the most will win one of our favourite books of the year, and probably some bespoke slash fiction*! Send a brief comic pitch to info@consequential.net, and good luck. You know what we like.

This week we talked about:

• Mean Girls Club - Ryan Heshka
• Limbo - Dan Watters & Caspar Wijingaard
• I Love This Part - Tillie Walden
• The Waltz - Nuno Duarte & Joana Afonso
• Red - Jess Milton
• Bob, Non-Union Psychic - Adam Volle, Lance Lucero, Francisco Resendiz
• Fairytales for Bad Bitches - Comic Book Slumber Party
• Identity Zine - One Beat Zines
• A Woman Falls in Love With the Devil - Isabel Greenberg
• The Golden Cannibal Girl - Douglas Noble
• Dick Cream - Jordana Globerman

*Probably.