Word Balloon Comics Podcast

Criminal is back with a new graphic novel in August by Sean and Ed Brubaker. Sean teases the story, plus talks about the upcoming tv adaptation from Amazon Prime. We also talk about his art process, working with his colorist and son Jacob, and a kickstarter campaign that features Sean's early work in UK comics 

Crystal is an accomplished off broadway playwright with a new play called OPEN an LGBTQ story about love and magic. We discuss the play, her writing seminars, historic broadway stories, and George Clooney's GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK, about the war between Communist witch hunter Senator Joe Mccrathy and CBS new anchor Edward R Murrow. Crystal also shared some rare Peter David encounters, and the recent loss of Jules Feiffer who made comics and wrote the first great superhero coffee table book The Great Comic Book Heroes in the 1970s. 

Bob worked with Peter for years as his editor on Star Trek Comics and a co writer of the Crazy 8 collective . He has Marvel DC and Star Trek stories about Peter and more . Is there a final David novel si the works? 

Tim and I discuss his work on Alan Scott in anticipation for his 2024 Green Lantern mini series.plus we discuss other DC Pride heroes . We also talk about Tim's animation work. 

More Who Obsevation from Paul including his audio Who Dramas for Big Finish, the TV adaptation of his Doctor Who Novel Human Nature, and the height of the 2010s British made Sci-Fi TV shows because of the success of Doctor Who. Torchwood,Primeval and more.

On this episode of Word Balloon we're joined by Dr Stanford Carpenter the driving force behind ComicPalooza University. He has big Juneteenth plans and gives us the details

From Art and comic biz tips to hating to draw tranpfmers Steve makes me cry laughong 

I gguested on my buddy Tim Monroe's great podcast 

Mike Norton is back and has a bunch of stuff to talk about. His indie comic series Revival co-created with writer Tim Seeley has been adapted as a new SYFY tv series starting June 12thHe's drawing a new Krypto series for DC starting this month.And returning to his long running adventure series Battle Pug, with a newe graphic novel in the works. 

Me and The League Of Word Balloon Listeners had our first Book Club. Joining Us were Brian Michael Bendis and Tom King ,to discuss Ed Brubaker and Sean Philips First Volume Of Criminal from 2006 . Lots of fun insights from everyone. 

What did that ending really mean? My thoughts 

More TV and Movie talk including our hopes for the Superman Movie and More 

Baseball Hats, Naming a car after a batman bad guy, and a 3rd mama mia movie, all part of the discussion on this edition of the aw yeah podcast 

Morgan shares the exhibits of The Super Musuem inm Metroplois IL and promotes June's Superman Festival which will feature stars and creators connected to the Man Of Steel 

In anticipation of next Sunday's WB live book club, here's my first 2006  interview with Ed Brubaker about Criminal Vol 1.The subject of our book club episode. We also talk daredevil Captain America The X-men and Iron Fist

a profile of voice director andrea romano who guided many great hanna barbera and warner bros animted series.first a 2008 chat about the boondocks the jl new frontier movie and morefollowed by a short 2013 red carpet chat saluting the batman brave and bold cartoon at ny's paley centerthen from 2020 a zoom table read of a scene from a justice league cartoon featuring the entire seven cast members, and clancy brown as luthor. 

this week we look at The First James Bond adaptation created 8 years before 1962's Dr. No starring Sean Connery.It's Casino Royale from the CBS Anthology Show Climax! Starring Barry Nelson as American Spy Jimmy Bond, and Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre

On This edition of Scene Missing Gabe Hardman Jeff parker and I talk about one of our favorite western film writers and sometimes director