Word Balloon Comics Podcast

Art talks about his radical move to start making creator owned books that he is self publishing and selling exclusively at his website electricmilkcomics.com, and a public events and cons. Plus we look at classic DC and other projects.

Brad talks about his I AM JIM HENSON biography drawn by Chris Eliopolis that explores the life and career of the Man Behind The Muppets

A look back at A Tale of Sand a Ramon Perez Graphic Novel From BOOM! adapted from a 1967 unmade Jim Henson Screenplay edited by Stephen Cristy

From 2009 A Great Chat with the Former Publisher and longtime DC Comics Writer

Filmmakers Kevin Konrad Hanna and Jim Demonakis discuss their new comic documentary

We Check in with Rob to chat about how the pop culture market is emerging from the height of Covid.

Gary was The Captain in the Irwin Allen Sci-Fi TV series Land Of The Giants and The Monster In I Was A Teenage Frankenstein . He's also the model for Mr Fantastic In Alex Ross's new OGN Fantastic Four Full Circle. We talk about his incredible life and career

From 2018Today Rich Koz aka Horror Host Svengoolie . A Chicago TV institution now a national celeb thanks to MeTV. Rich started as Svengoolie in 1979 when every big city  still had local television entertainment . Every weekend he’d host a classic or cheesy horror film and do jokes parody songs and comedy sketches inbetween film scenes. He was there after the original horror hosts of the 50s and 60s like Vampira and Ghoulari but well before Elvira Joe Bob Briggs and Mystery Science Theater 3000. As Rich points out each show has its own style.We talk about how he makes his show the movies and celeb guests and shout outs he’s received from many pop culture stars. We also get into our mutual love of the 3 Stooges and stooge mysteries like The Fake Shemp films. Catch Svengoolie every Saturday night at 8pm Eastern on MeTV

This was supposed to be a full WB Live but we had a couple tech problems, so it became this 2 parter. A celebration of Outer Limits Co-Creator Joseph Stefano , The man who wrote the Screenplay for Hitchcock's Psycho First Dave Rash joins Gabe Hardman Ian Brill and myself to talk about the new book from Gauntlet Pres FROM THE INNER MIND TO…THE OUTER LIMITS SCRIPTS OF JOSEPH STEFANO. . order the book at gauntletpress.comThen Stefano's son Dominic joins us giving his perspective on his father's works from Outer Limits to Hitchcock's Psycho to friendships with Gene Roddenberry and Sally Kellerman

FROM NOVEMBER  2005. THE MAN BEHIND GRIMJACK, DC'S SUICIDE SQUAD , THE KENTS, WASTELAND , AND THE SPECTRE JOHN TALKS ABOUT THE RETURN OF GRIMJACK AT IDW , HIS STAR WARS WORK FOR DARK HORSE , AND COLLABORATING WITH ARTISTS, LIKE TIM TRUMAN AND TOM MANDRAKE. PLUS 1980'S CHICAGO MEMORIES OF FIRST COMICS, WINDY CITY INSTITUTIONS LIKE THE BUCKET OF SUDS BAR, AND THE COMEDY GENIUS OF THE SECOND CITY AND IMPROV OLYMPIC , MUNDEN'S BAR WRITER DEL CLOSE.

Radio host and OTR Historian Steve Darnall talks about The amazing radio dramas of the 40s and 50s that will chill your bones this season. Many of the shows discussed are free on YouTube and The internet archive