Word Balloon Comics Podcast
John Siuntres
1 on 1 interview show featuring the creative minds behind Comics TV Film Novels & Animation. Hosted by Chicago Pop Culture expert, John Siuntres
Episodes
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Jun 19, 2023 • 2h 3min
The 1985 studio with Chaykin Simonson Cowan and Sienkiewicz
From Baltimore Comic Con Dean Haspiel hosts this Baltimore Comic Con conversation with the artists he assisted in their 1985 studio. Great memories of a key moment in comic history. Stories aboit DC Marvel the creator owned market and more.
Jun 18, 2023 • 55min
The History Of Queer Comics with Documentarian Vivian Klieman
Ealier this year PBS ran Vivian's excellent History Of Queer Comics Doc "No Straight Lines" . We discuss the cartoonist profiled.
Jun 17, 2023 • 1h 8min
Ande Parks Talks Ciudad and Nexflix Extraction Movies
Ande wrote Ciudad, a great special forces action comic with the Russo Brothers. The book became the basis for the Netflix films Extraction and Extraction 2 starring Chris Hemsworth.
Jun 16, 2023 • 1h 24min
A John McCrea Hang Out
From classics like Hitman and Mars Attacks-Judge Dredd to a new Carnage story for Marvel, John covers it all. We talk about his recovery from a long bout with COVID that affected his drawing ability and why he's never felt comfortable drawing Superman.
Jun 15, 2023 • 2h 6min
70s Nerd Magazine memories with Michael Kronenberg
Mike has a great new cover honoring Neal Adams in the latest Back Issue. It also has Mike's Neal interview from the book he co-authored with Michael Eury The Batcave Companion. This gives us an excuse to talk about those great 70s and 80s nerd culture magazines like Creepy Errie and Famous Monsters of Filmland along with artists like Basil Gogos .
Jun 14, 2023 • 1h 21min
Comic Strips History and B/W TV with Andrew Pepoy
Andrew has a new Kickstarter going for his new collection of his good gurl art adventure series Simone and Ajax . check out the details at pepoy.com
Jun 12, 2023 • 1h 13min
Reprint Valerie Perrine The Mystique Of Miss Tessmacher with Stacey Souther
This weekend TCM showed this incredible documentary check it out, and support Valerie and the fim.Filmmaker Stacey Souther made an incredible documentary about Valerie Perrine , who made us all fall in love with her Superman performance not to mention Lenny, Slaughterhouse Five, WC Fields and Me and other films.Step 1 Buy the documentary here https://t.co/bzS0iu8MrV?amp=1 .Step 2: More importantly you can donate to help offset the costs of care for @TheValPerrinehere: https://gofund.me/e29e4f0a
Jun 11, 2023 • 26min
Celebrating Pride Month With Archie's Dan Parent
Kevin Keller's creator from 2013
Jun 9, 2023 • 1h 57min
Trek Watch Strange New Worlds Season 1 review
Jun 8, 2023 • 1h 34min
Steven T Seagle Talks Toons X-Men Sandman and more
We cover a lot of ground with Steve. From House Of Mystery , Sandman Mystery theater to Superman, his X-Men Run and many of his creator owned stories . Plus lots of TV anf ilm animation from Ben 10, to Big Hero 6
