Category Archives: Solitaire Rose Radio

Dan Mohr has shown up on Kray Z Comics and Stories, is a long time friend of Cory!! and an artist of the webstrips Everyday Gods and World Wide News. 

Dan talks about the genesis of both strips, his own journey to becoming an artist, and lots and lots of fun stories between Cory!! and Dan.  It’s like sitting in on a conversation with two friends at a coffeehouse without some hipster int he corner writing his screenplay on a manual typewriter!

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Angel Medina has worked in comics since the 80’s on Iconic series such as Warlock and the Infinity Watch, Dreadstar, Kiss, Spawn and much more. We talk about how he started drawing comics, breaking in in the 80’s, what he loves drawing and what it is like to build a career as a comic book artist as the field goes through massive shifts in how business is done.

Cory sits down with Angel to talk comics, creativity and what it means to own your work in a far ranging interview!

Head on over to his Facebook page!

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Artist Paul Fricke sits down with Cory!! to talk about getting into self-publishing in the mid-80’s with Trollords, moving the series to other publishers, moving to working at DC and then to the corporate world and tons of things in-between. Paul talks about becoming a teacher, a children’s book author, starting a new series of all-ages comics. Paul also talks about how his art has changed over time, how a near death experience has changed his life and much more in this wide-ranging interview.

Paul’s links:

Official Alex Toth site (which Paul helps run): http://www.tothfans.com/

Paul’s Alex Toth blog: http://www.bluemoonstudios.com/tothpix/

Art & Blog: http://www.bluemoonstudios.com/

Webcomics: http://bluemoontoons.com/

Cartoon Jam – All Ages Comics: https://www.patreon.com/cartoonjam?ty=h

https://www.facebook.com/bluemoonpaul

https://twitter.com/bluemoonpaul

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Cory!! dropped by the Cartoonist Conspiracy, which is a get-together for comics artists of all level of experience to get together and put together a Jam comic. He sat down with some of them to talk about the gathering itself, their own art and whatever else came up as he munched on grilled cheese, drank Earl Gray and they drew a comic about “When I was 13 and the cops showed up”.

The finished book is available here:

http://www.cartoonistconspiracy.com/conspire/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/April-Mpls-Jam-16.pdf

The artists interviewed and this websites are:

Latham Luepke

http://knavesend.thecomicseries.com/

http://samwisespadeforhire.thecomicseries.com/

http://porcelainavenger.thecomicseries.com/

Steve Stwually

http://www.stwallskull.com/

Ty Randolph – who is not on the internet with her art yet.

O. L. Laditan

http://olladitan.com/

http://www.rockinthistown.com/#/podcast/

http://www.playtimeformonsters.com/comic/a-caped-hero-patrols-the-sky/

Dave Sandberg

https://www.youtube.com/user/zentrash

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In this episode, Cory!! interviews Spiderbaby, also known as Terrance Griep about how his career in writing comics led to his career in wrestling, having his alter ego show up as a comic book character, breaking in to the business and much more!  You can follow Terrance on Twitter or Facebook.

And you can buy his upcoming comic book appearance here!  Do it!

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Doctor Who has wrapped up another season, so Cory!! and his niece Mindi Engel sit down to talk about it episode by episode.  SPOILERS AHOY!!

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For the 50th episode of Cory!!’s solo podcast, he sits down with the writer of Nexus, Badger, Flash, Punisher and Star Wars comics Mike Baron.  They discus his first comics writing, his writing process, moving into writing novels and much, much more!

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I sit down with Mike “Sparky” Johnson, the best reporter in the field of writing about Professional Wrestling to talk comics, his past, how comic books saved his hearing, finding the job of your dreams and memories of professional wrestling.  All in one interview!  Go visit Mike’s website at PWinsider.com

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Matt Brundage is the co-artist on the comic book Art Ops, and you may not know his work, but he’s been at it for a long time. He’s drawn parts of the comic adaptation of Chasing Amy, worked at Spumco, done corporate art and has always been a comic book fan. Matt and Cory talk comics, art, storytelling and life in a wide ranging interview. Quit reading and listen and you’ll love his work!

He talks about Pentel Art Brushes:

Copic Markers:

A video of Matt and Mike Allred working on Art Ops 3:

Matt’s Facebook page:

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