Listen to 90 mins on Ditko, Everett & My Upcoming Projects

Want the latest update on the next Steve Ditko Archives (v4), Bill Everett Archives (v2), and our Secret History of Marvel Comics book that's due later this year?

Click here for the Distinguished Comic Book Podcast page run by Zack Kruse and Ben Tiede. Episode #38 is 90 minutes of yours truly discussing the aforementioned topics with Zack and Ben, easily downloadable into your tacknology. We also take a look behind the scenes at Fantagraphics with how these projects are put together, and discuss the Golden Age of comics that we've existed in for the past 10 years on two fronts. First, the stunning amount of archival reprint material put out by companies like Fantagraphics, Marvel, DC, etc. Second, the superb quality of graphic storytelling by the likes of Joe Sacco, Guy Delisle, Seth, Chester Brown, Chris Ware, etc. We're in the golden age of (cable) television drama and of comics, and we discuss the latter at length.

Listen to my Inkstuds.com interview re: Everett & Ditko

Click HERE to listen to a podcast of my hour-long Inkstuds.com interview, conducted this past week for Vancouver radio with Robin McConnell. We spend the hour discussing all things Bill Everett and Steve Ditko. Our main focus is on my upcoming book, Amazing Mysteries: The Bill Everett Archives v1 - debuting at this year's San Diego Comicon which features Bill Everett's non-Marvel Comics work from 1938-1942, collected for the first time. However, we also delve into my Steve Ditko Archives series, as we look forward to volume three coming out towards the end of 2011. Check out the rest of the interviews on Robin's site - he is the premier interviewer when it comes to gathering the industry's talent to talk about comics (case in point - the interview before mine was with one of my all-time favourites - Joe Sacco). Click HERE to listen to the 2008 Inkstuds interview for the release of my Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko book.

First Interview about my Bill Everett Book on Meltcast.com!

Last Saturday at the San Diego Comicon, I had the great fortune of being interviewed at the Fantagraphics Booth about my Bill Everett book by Meltdown Comics (biggest comic store in Los Angeles) Manager, Chris Rosa. Having Chris be a huge Sub-Mariner fan didn't hurt either.

Click HERE to access the podcast. The interview runs over 10 minutes and it most certainly covers the key themes in the book about why Bill Everett was such a special talent and so important a figure in the history of the medium. We're aiming to have me come to the West Coast once the book is out and Meltdown Comics will be my first stop in L.A.!