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Mark Maia is a BAFTA winning creators who has worked in video gaming, has a long running YouTube show about board games, and has tossed his name in the comics Arena with a different story about werewolves, vampires, and zombies. He sits down for an interview about the book So Called Living, his comics journey and why he has the need to create new things. From the wilds of Canada, Cory!! introduces you to Mark Maia!

Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/so-calledliving/so-called-living-books-3and4
So Called Living website: https://www.socalledliving.com/
YouTube for all things boardgaming: https://www.youtube.com/c/BoardGameCoffee

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For this episode, Cory!! interviews Dave Swartz about his comic Confederate Monster, a story of Frankenstein (and his monster) during the Civil War! They also discuss the logistics of funding a project on different platforms, how Frankenstein works in the time period of the original novel, and much more.

It’s a great talk about a unique idea in comics.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/daveswartzart/confederate-monster-issue-4?ref=clipboard-prelaunch

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Long time friend of the podcast Patrick McEvoy is back doing Kaiju, and this time, it’s both a tie-in to a past work AND a prequel to a classic movie. Titanic Creations founder Mac McLintock joins Cory!! as we talk about Gorgo Legacy, a new graphic novel prequel to the British “Giant Monster” movie that played endlessly on TV back in the 60’s and 70’s and spawned a Steve Ditko comic tie in!

We also discuss the creation of Titanic Creations, a company making high end Kaiju toys and graphic novels, our shared love for Giant Monsters, and how Mac has lost his mind in offering such great stuff at bargain prices.

You can pledge on the crowdfunding for Gorgo Legacy at This Link

You can also get all of the Titanic Creations cool stuff at their website: https://titaniccreations.com/

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In this episode, Cory interviews writers Wells Thompson and Dalton Shannon.  They are on the show to push their Kickstarter for the trade paperback collection of their all ages comic Mechaton, but the interview talks about their other works and includes discussions about: 

• How they met and decided to work together on comics
• How each fell into the world of comics
• The way Kickstarter has opened up comics for new creators
• The artists they work with, and how each brings a different skill set and storytelling story to the project
• Why the protagonist of Megaton feel different than other heroes
• How they learned to love comics
• Their writing process

All of this and much, much more!

Mechaton Volume 1

Wells Thompson’s webpage

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wellsthompson/mechaton-issue-1

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Tonya Kay is a dancer, actress, director, teacher, host and the Most Dangerous Woman in Hollywood. She sits down with Cory!! to talk about her varied career, her desire to always learn more, how her creative skills have driven her to new challenges and constant growth. You may know her as Creature from “Who Wants To Be A Super Hero”, her Grinder Girl act in burlesque, Doktor Gerde Ernst in the Puppetmaster movies, the host for The Lalas burlesque troop, or her many, many other roles and performances.

We also talk about her latest project, “High Heels”, a short film about about mentorship and honoring our elders set against the colorful backdrop of Vaudeville’s burlesque, drag and cirque arts.

You can support the film here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/high-heels/x/248796#/

And see EVERYTHING Tonya is working on here: https://linktr.ee/tonyakay

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Patrick McEvoy has been a guest before, and we’ve talked about his previous graphic novels World War Kaiju and the two Codename Arkham books. This time, he and Cory!! chat about his work outside comics in gaming, advertising, other graphic novels and comics, and his return to the world of Giant Monster Fights to Titanic Creations, Soul War.

Patrick’s graphic novels are available here.

The graphic novels discussed in this episode is right here!

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This time, Cory!! sits down with Omar Valdivieso, who runs Near Mint Collectibles on YouTube. The Uncanny Omar talks about his lifelong love of comics, being a fan of American comics when he moved to the US, and how comics gave him a new career when the pandemic hit. We also talk about how he got to the the person who announces Marvel Omnibuses, moving from comics to trade paperbacks and what sparked the love of Big Books!

All of this and much, much more!

Watch Omar’s Videos at: https://www.youtube.com/@NearMintCondition/videos
Join his Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/nearmintcondition

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If you go to Ronny Cox’s IMDB page, you will see a list of credits showing the definition of a “Working Actor”. From Deliverance to Star Trek: Prodigy, What you may not know is that he is a working musician who (before the pandemic) played over 100 gigs a year. He has done tons of interviews about hsi acting, but I wanted to dig deeper and talk about his roots as a musician, how he found his way back to performing, and all of the side roads along the way./
Ronny’s story is one of true love, friendship, and telling stories and I hope you enjoy this conversation with him.

His website is : https://www.ronnycox.com/

You can listen to his music on Spotify, and the playlist is right here.

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Artist and friend of the show Patrick McAvoy nudged me to interview Tom, and in doing so I was introduced to his work. Tom has worked with Man of Action Studios on animation projects, his own comics and graphic novels and much more. He has new projects we discuss in this far ranging interview about his career, writing for comics, animation, rebooting characters, teaching writing and so much more.

Tom’s website is here: http://tompinchuk.com/

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The X-Men character Thunderbird was killed in his second appearance back in 1975. He now returns in a one shot special issue by All Elite Wrestling’s Nyla Rose and Steve Orlando. Cory!! sits down with Nyla to talk about the comic and all of the things that Nyla Rose has done with her career so far, such as:

• Being AEW Women’s World Champion
• Bring the first trans wrestler signed to a national promotion
• Being the first trans wrestler to win a world championship
• Being the first Native American to write a full issue of a Native American character at Marvel
• Acting in a Canadian Comedy
• Headlined episodes of AEW’s national cable shows

All of this, the process of writing a comic as a first timer, the things that translate from wrestling to comics and much, much more! To pick up Nyla’s issue of the X-Men Thunderbird One Shot:

https://www.marvel.com/comics/issue/96238/giant-size_x-men_thunderbird_2022_1

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