Category Archives: Solitaire Rose Radio

In this episode, Cory!! Interviews Dan Price about the most interesting title in the Homebrew comics line:  Bigfoot Knows Karate.  After talking to Homebrew Publisher, Christopher Michael, he HAD to know more about this series.   

Dan Price is a comic writer/artist from Austin, TX. He has worked on several indie comic titles such as Lesser Known Comics, Latex Avenger, Halloween Man Meets Latex Avenger, Masters of the Obvious for Hound Comics, and Excelsi-ish! for the Stan Lee Foundation. Cory talks to Dan about Bigfoot Knows Karate, how he got into comics, where the idea comes from, switching from humor to other genres, and much more!

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You can buy back issues at HBHcomics.com

And the Kickstarter is at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bigfootknowskarate/bigfoot-knows-karate-chapters-1-3?ref=profile_created&category_id=250

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After more than 20 years of creating characters, and writing stories, Christopher Michael is the creator of CRIT, and the universe they live in. When he decided to create CRIT, he used a resource that he knew well: Dungeons and Dragons. What is a cool and different way to write a story? Organically through the actions of players. But the problem was that there were no source books with material he wanted to use, so he took the rules and created his own game to master. Chris records the game sessions, and turns the story into the comic you read.

• He started taking his plots from a D&D group and turned it into a comic
• He taught himself how to draw to create his comic
• How the company came together
• Navigating the current distribution world for comics right now. 
• We go through all of the books Home Brew will be printing, their Kickstarter timeline and the timeline for shops to get the books.

Buy his books at: HBHcomics.com

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Rich Davis is someone who has done a lot of different things in his life, playwright, star on the Netlfix series “Swap Shop”, concert booker, volunteer with 2 Presidential campaigns, and comic book writer. His new Kickstarter is for Angel/Hunter, which he discusses with Cory!! as well as his previous comics Cult of Dracula (a twist on the Dracula mythos) and Promoethia in Chains.

Angel/Hunter’s Kickstarter is right here: Solitaire Rose Radio 87: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/angelhunter/angel-hunter?ref=profile_created&category_id=252

AND you can get his previous books from Amazon and your local comics shop!

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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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