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Legendary writer and artist Matt Wagner hops on Sequential Heart to chat about Mage: The Hero Denied, the concluding chapter of a comic epic started in the early '80s. Wagner dives into his modern magic opus as well as his fascination with proto-myths and golden age characters, including his time writing Django/Zorro alongside filmmaker Quentin Tarantino.
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Cartoonist, archer, gymnast and modern Peter Pan analogue Ben Hatke joins us for our latest episode. We chat about his upcoming graphic novel, Mighty Jack and the Goblin King, a thrilling update to the classic fantasy that also weaves larger pieces of his library together. Hatke also discusses the blurring of genre storytelling, how to properly draw archery and his growing stable of furry family members.
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In this new episode, Eric and Sean sit down with artist extraordinaire Cliff Chiang to dissect his take on '80s nostalgia, suburbia and towering monstrosities in Paper Girls, the sci-fi epic written by Brian K. Vaughan and published by Image Comics. Chiang also walks us through his expansive history in comics, going from a Harvard graduate to an editor at Vertigo before tackling classic runs on The Human Target and Wonder Woman.
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For this week's Sequential Heart, Chris Pasetto and Lukas Ketner—the creative team behind Kill the Minotaur— call in to chat about their horrific, gory take on Greek mythology and what those tales mean today. Sean and Eric also pay their respects to Adam West, the luminary '60s Batman actor who passed away last weekend.
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In this episode of Sequential Heart, Daniel Warren Johnson joins Sean and Eric to discuss Extremity, an unapologetically visceral dissection of violence, vengeance and forgiveness. Johnson chats about shredding limbs and riffs and his life-long adoration of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.
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Wait, what!? A new episode of Sequential Heart? Eric and Sean yank out the defibrillator to pump new life into Paste Magazine's comic book podcast, kicking off its second season. In this very special episode, writer and artist Leila del Duca discusses her new dimension-spanning graphic novel, Afar, as well as wrapping up art duties on Shutter and kicking off new romance projects.
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In this episode, Copra writer, artist, colorist, letterer and badass Michel Fiffe discusses the art of being a one-man comic company. His self-published psychedelic black-ops epic just reached its fourth volume (and our Best Comics of 2016 list). To celebrate, Sean and Eric chat with Fiffe about his tireless work ethic, the benefits of independence and the glory of obscure '80s back issues.
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This week, Eric and Sean usher in the holidays by going to their local watering hole with Lauren McCallister, the indie cartoonist behind publisher True Life Comix. Creating such brazenly honest works as Bad Sex and Teen Girl Killed, McCallister straddles the line between memoir and drama with distinct line work and unflinching narration. In this episode, the crew reflects on their favorite personal comics as well as the best comics of 2016.
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This week, Sean and Eric chat with Benjamin Marra about his graphic novels American Blood and Terror Assaulter. Passionate, bloody, profane and hilarious, Marra mixes exploitation and machoism into high art, concocting tales of vigilantes and government operatives waging holy hell on anyone who crosses their paths. Marra also discusses his fine-arts education, the beauty of exaggeration and baseball in this episode.
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Just in time for Halloween, Sean and Eric arise from their crypt of long boxes to stumble upon Raina Telgemeier, a cartoonist so scary good at her job that her latest work made the guys weep with fear and joy. Ghosts is the story of a young girl, Catrina, who moves to a northern California town with her sister who's diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis only to find a hidden, spectral populace. The tale revels in gloriously spooky imagery while addressing the realities of illness and mortality. Raina discusses the book as well as the magical spell she's cast on The New York Times Best Sellers list in this spirited podcast.
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In this episode of Sequential Heart, Sean and Eric sit down with Monstress writer Marjorie Liu. Her addictive ongoing comic, published by Image and illustrated by Sana Takeda, weaves a massive fantasy tapestry anchored by one woman, Maika Wolfwolf, surviving through a post-war landscape on the brink of implosion, while also wrestling with a literal demon seeking to escape from her flesh. Liu discusses the comic's sprawling scope and the weighty themes of ethics and racial identity under its skin. Also: lots of cats.
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This week, Sean chats with Box Brown on the bustling floor of New York Comic Con about his latest graphic novel, Tetris: The Games People Play. A layered examination of pixellated nostalgia, politics and philosophy, the graphic novel embraces the same obsessive research and personality as Brown's previous OGN, Andrew the Giant: Life and Legend.
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In this episode of Sequential Heart, the multi-talented Vera Brosgol stops by to chat about her new charming picture book, Leave Me Alone, as well as dive into the Russian folktales and culture that inspire her oeuvre, which also includes the YA chiller Anya's Ghost. Ms. Brosgol also hints at her next graphic novel, an autobiographic look at one memorable summer camp experience from her childhood.
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Ethan Young, who netted Paste's best comic of 2015 with the historicalsucker punch Nanjing: The Burning City, debuts two new projects this month set in the sci-fi arena. Pilgrim Finch is the dialogue-less narrative of one creature's journey through the cosmos while The Battles of Bridget Lee updates the folktale of Mulan in an industrial, interstellar battlefield. Young stops by the podcast to discuss these two projects, his illustrating process and his plans for New York Comic Con.
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Cartoonist extraordinaire James Kochalka brings his vibrant, hilarious energy to this week's Sequential Heart. The auteur behind the sublime daily comic strip American Elf and the excessively more juvenile (but occasionally sublime) comic/cartoon SuperF*ckers, Kochalka discusses profanity, his creative process and catharsis through comics.
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In this episode of Sequential Heart, Eric and Sean descend into the world of Matt Kindt, the veteran writer and illustrator of high concept genre epics including 2 Sisters and Mind MGMT. His current project, Dept. H, plumbs into the watery abyss of a murder mystery set on the ocean floor, colored with striking fluorescents and steely grays by Sharlene Kindt. Matt discusses his influences for the book, the frightening sea fauna he's concocted and the twists and turns that await future stories.
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The Wicked + The Divine has remained one of the most intriguing, trail-blazing comics to engage new audiences in the last decade, unfolding one hell of an ambitious story of belief. A cutting analysis of pop culture and devotion, the title follows a reckless group of kids imbued with the divinity of various multi-cultural deities. Instead of cultivating lasting change with their followers, the new gods fight, fornicate and perform grand musical ceremonies. In other words, you can put the almighty in a teenager, but you can't take the teenager out of the almighty. With this sprawling epic wrapping its first in-story year, Sean chatted with the creative team of Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie at this year's San Diego Comic-Con about religion's relationship with music, how the fictional cast matches against their real-life equivalents and the perils of working out at convention hotels.
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Sequential Heart is proud to announce this week's guest, writer and illustrator Nate Powell. Aside from crafting some of our favorite DIY punk tunes of the past decade, Nate is the illustrator of the March trilogy, a graphic novel autobiography of Congressman John Lewis' journey through the civil rights movement and beyond, co-written by Andrew Aydin. Nate dives into his process of articulating these events with emotion and gravitas with the release of the concluding entry this month, as well as the books' new status as educational milestones. Also: a new comic about princesses who eat onions.
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After taking a two week unplanned break (sorry everyone!), Sean and Eric invite Hip Hop Family Tree mastermind Ed Piskor onto the line to explore his history of music and comics growing up in Pittsburg. They also dive into Ed's five favorite hip hop albums of all time and the cartoonist's unannounced future projects about computing and hacking.
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Eric and Sean visit Jeff Smith at his Cartoon Books headquarters in the latest Sequential Heart. The cartoonist behind RASL and Tuki Save the Humans will release a new chapter in his sprawling, industry benchmark fantasy, Bone, next week with a special Coda chapter to celebrate its 25th anniversary. The trio discusses revisiting this timeless comic, the status of a planned movie adaptation and the second year of Smith's Columbus-based cartooning festival, CXC.
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