No deep dive of this legendary comic exists online from a cartoonist's perspective, let alone 3 cartoonists! The boys, Ed Piskor, Jim Rugg, and Tom Scioli continue to unpack the Frank Miller 1986 Batman classic over the course of 4 jam-packed episodes, one chapter at a time!
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No deep dive of this legendary comic exists online from a cartoonist's perspective, let alone 3 cartoonists! The boys, Ed Piskor, Jim Rugg, and Tom Scioli continue to unpack the Frank Miller 1986 Batman classic over the course of 4 jam-packed episodes, one chapter at a time!
Part 1 here:
You can support the channel by grabbing some stuff from our Spreadshop!
No deep dive of this legendary comic exists online from a cartoonist's perspective, let alone 3 cartoonists! The boys, Ed Piskor, Jim Rugg, and Tom Scioli continue to unpack the Frank Miller 1986 Batman classic over the course of 4 jam-packed episodes, one chapter at a time!
Part 1 here:
You can support the channel by grabbing some stuff from our Spreadshop!
No deep dive of this legendary comic exists online from a cartoonist's perspective, let alone 3 cartoonists! The boys, Ed Piskor, Jim Rugg, and Tom Scioli unpack the Frank Miller 1986 Batman classic over the course of 4 jam-packed episodes, one chapter at a time!
You can support the channel by grabbing some stuff from our Spreadshop!
Dennis in Hawaii by Alan Wiseman and Fred Toole
One of the most popular comics in American history gets the Kayfabe book club treatment with Ed Piskor, Jim Rugg, and Tom Scioli.
In 1958, Pines and Hank Ketcham sent the Dennis the Menace comic book crew to Hawaii to research a 100 page Dennis the Menace special. The resulting comic book went on to phenomenal success and 9 printings over the subsequent decade.
Jaime Hernandez and Dan Clowes both sing its praises. What makes this comic book so special and how does it look 60 years later? Join us to find out!
What better way to celebrate 2019, the year before the Neo-Tokyo Summer Olympics, than to revisit Katsuhiro Otomo's classic manga in a book club format with the Cartoonist Kayfabe crew, Ed Piskor, Jim Rugg, and Tom Scioli . Miss the earlier videos? No problem:
Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg discuss a few comics from one of the best cartoonists of their generation!
Eleanor Davis' books:
• You & A Bike & A Road
• Libby's Dad
• BDSM (Frontier 11)
• How to Be Happy
• Why Art?
Eleanor Davis art & comics on Instagram
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Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg continue to dissect the turbulent comic book speculator boom on the 1990s while looking through antique copies of Wizard Magazine.
What to expect in this issue:
* Malibu's Ultraverse is announced!
* Chris Claremont's life after X-Men. An interview.
* Joe Quesada is talking is hopes and dreams about wanting to leave a mark on the industry.
* Ron Wagner, the Morbius Artist, cuts promos on the series writer, Len Kaminski
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Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg have long mentioned wanting to get their hands on a nice collection of Jamie Hewlett's Fireball comics from Deadline Magazine, so Jim decided to make one on his own. In fact, he hand bound three books before this recording.
BOOK BINDING TUTORIALS:
Sewing Printed Signatures – Part 1. This video gives a clear demo of how to kettle-stitch signatures
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Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg continue to dissect the turbulent comic book speculator boom on the 1990s while looking through antique copies of Wizard Magazine.
Some of this issues contents:
• Jae Lee takes center stage and talks Youngblood: Strikefile, WildCATs Trilogy, Namor, John Byrne, and more!
• Liefeld interview 2: Youngblood, Bloodstrike, Brigade, Prophet, Image, editors, publishers, and late books
• Star Trek comics
• Ray Bradbury comics at Topps and the all-star lineup of artists drawing them: Richard Corben, Al Williamson, Mike Mignola!
• Topps' Kirbyverse comics: Steve Ditko draws the Secret City!
• The Comics Code, Mike Allred in Palmer's Picks, and Wizard's editor vows to never read manga – a proclamation that upsets Jim and Ed so much that they make a new t-shirt in response:
• PLUS – the winners of the Cable cover contest in Brutes & Babes!
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The boys, Ed Piskor, Jim Rugg, and Tom Scioli got hold of a couple animation cels from the classic anime and couldn't help but show them off. A fun glimpse into the analogue way of producing animation. Come for the cels, stay for the Katsuhiro Otomo storyboard books.
Also, in case you missed the Cartoonist Kayfabe coverage of the Akira manga:
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Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg continue to dissect the turbulent comic book speculator boom on the 1990s while looking through antique copies of Wizard Magazine.
Some of this issues contents:
* Jack Kirby comes back to comics via his line of Topps Comics
* Palmer's Picks. Rick Veitch
*Jae Lee's Youngblood Strikefile is on the horizon!
* Larry Hama's origin story
* Mike Mignola talks about drawing the Topps adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula
* Dave Sim writes an issue of Spawn
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Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg unpack the tale of Human Torch creator, Carl Burgos's, bitter attempt to agitate the mainstream comics publishers of the 1960s with his very own Captain Marvel character (and Plastic man, Dr Doom, Dr. Fate, and The Bat).
For further reading:
Marvel, The Untold Story, By Sean Howe.
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The main event begins! The boys, Ed Piskor, Jim Rugg, and Tom Scioli give their kayfabe commentary on the first volume of Katsuhiro Otomo's Magnum Opus, Akira!
Get your hands on the newish 35 year anniversary box set and read along!
Two earlier episodes tracked Otomo's previous works leading up to Akira:
Part 1, Fireball
Part 2: Domu: A Child's Dream
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What's an outlaw comic? Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg attempt to answer that question as they examine this misunderstood comic book subgenre. Outlaws comics are a strain of offensive, ink-drenched, violence-soaked indie comics began to spread through the direct market in the 80s and 90s. These comics featured nightmarish visions of graphic torment far beyond the vanilla, Comics-Code-approved 4-color fantasies. Welcome to comic book hell!
SUPPLEMENTAL LINKS:
Ed and Jim highlight Bootleg Comics
Tim Vigil
Faust 1
Faust Love of the Damned movie trailer
Benjamin Marra
Terror Assaulter
American Blood
Traditional Comics ad
Lawrence Hubbard
Real Deal Comix
Jason Karns
Fukitor
Hart D. Fisher
Boneyard Press ad:
Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg continue down the 1990s comic book speculation bubble:
• ANIA – the Association of Black Publishers is born!
• Image and Malibu breakup
• Palmer's Picks: Ted McKeever, Eddy Current, Metropol, and more!
• Elfquest's influence on a young Eddie P
• Spawn 9 and its legacy: Todd McFarlane v Neil Gaiman
Supplemental Links:
Todd McFarlane 2002 deposition
ANIA – Unsung Heroes of the Black Comics Movement,
1992 CBS Evening News Feature on Omega 7 Comics
The title says it all, Ed Piskor, Jim Rugg, and Tom Scioli got their grubby hands on some Jack Kirby artwork (inked by Mike Royer) from his 1970s period at Marvel. No ink-line or artistic decision goes unnoticed once this classic page gets put under the microscope.
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SUPPLEMENTAL LINKS:
Jack Kirby Pencils and Inks (Note: any comic book store or book store can order this book for you)
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Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg continue down the 1990s comic book speculation rabbit hole to discuss Wizard 17 from January 1993. In this issue:
• Brutes and Babes: Bart Sears on Cover design including Hip Hop Family Tree, Street Angel, and X-Men: Grand Design
• Valiant gets the spotlight
• Fabian Nicieza writing and editing a lot of books
• Tom Palmer's X-mas recommendations
• Dave Sim passes the halfway point of Cerebus and reflects on Image, Wizard, self-publishing, the direct market, and Jack Kirby's revolutionary work at the dawn of the Marvel Universe
• Roy Thomas adapts Francis Ford Copolla's Bram Stoker's Dracula for Topps and Mike Mignola
• Batman is sad
• Wizard puts out a call for homemade fanzines!!!
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A comic book can go through many stages before it reaches its final form. This Show and Tell episode with your hosts Ed and Jim tracks Piskor's comic, Wizzywig, from its humble beginnings as a xeroxed zine shipped from his mama's basement to the more familiar hardcover graphic novel that's easily found in your local comic shop.
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Ed and Jim's investigation into the 1990's comic book speculation boom and bust continues! In this issue:
*The second wave of Image Comics creators is officially upon us with the release of Darker Image issue 1.
*Cartoonist Lea Hernandez drops some knowledge about the trials and tribulations of the comic book business.
*Palmer's Picks: Hepcats, and the first announcement of Peter Laird's monumental Xeric Grant for self publishers.
* Kevin Eastman creates the Words and Pictures museum!
*A Dale Keown interview talking about his soon to be published Image title, Pitt!
* Fan Favorite artist, Kelley Jones speaks to Wizard about his drawing career, from Neil Gaiman's Sandman comics to an Alien series published by Dark Horse comics
* Speaking of Neil Gaiman's Sandman, Wizard investigates the comic to see how it compares and contrasts with previous iterations of the DC Sandman character, dating back to the 1940s.
* All this and tons more.
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