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The podcast where the best in the small press comics scene make one hell of a big noise! The Awesome Comics Podcast is a podcast where the best and brightest in the world of small press and independent comic books get their time to shine. You’ll find out about books you’ve never heard of but you will love. Theres great informative interviews with creators, full of helpful tips for any aspiring comic book creator just starting out. Theres also a ridiculous amount of humour running throughout. Listen, laugh and leave us a review to let us know what you think!
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Monday Nov 16, 2015
Monday Nov 16, 2015
Monday Nov 09, 2015
Monday Nov 09, 2015
IT'S AN EXTRA SPECIAL BUMPER EPISODE THIS WEEK!
Monday Nov 02, 2015
Monday Nov 02, 2015
This week Laura Trinder, artist of the brilliant Night Post, does her best to improve the behaviour of Vince, Dan and Tony and almost succeeds until things go downhill in the usual ACP fashion. Theres plenty of talk about Night Post, Laura's art process and what she's got lined up next and more. We also discuss the responsibility of creators at conventions and as always theres plenty of awesome books you need to check out. We also discover Dans original twitter handle (and its amazing), Vince lets slip his past moomin character comparison, Tony gets upset that the show will never have a guest from Geordie Shore and Laura reveals that one of the hosts has given her nightmares!
Monday Oct 26, 2015
Monday Oct 26, 2015
Its episode 17, and to celebrate our first Halloween Special Vince, Dan and Tony talk to Chris Sides and Chris Travell of Redshift Press about their dark work, including upcoming ghost tale Whispering Sands. We discuss the horror genre in the sequential medium, the difficulties in making something truly scary in comics, our horror 'thresholds', the importance of context and how cinema has influenced todays crop of horror creators (which leads to plenty of nice horror movie chat). Theres some great spooky and horrific books for you to check out, Vince does his best Boris Karloff, Dan begins a reaction video paradox and Tony reveals what he gives any Trick or Treaters who dare to approach his house.
WARNING: This one will haunt you.
Monday Oct 19, 2015
Monday Oct 19, 2015
It's a laugh filled mega episode this week as awesome artist and one third of Reckless Hero Studios Chris Imber joins the ACP trio this week to talk about his action-packed series The Last Sheriff, his work past, present and future with RH and his fascinating art process. Theres also talk about influences from the 90s, and plenty of convention chat as not only has Tony returned from NYCC but he and Vince were at Leamington Comic Con, where they got a few audio clips stuffed with unprofessionalism! Theres tons of shout outs for brilliant people and events you should check out, as always loads of comics you NEED to be reading, Dan explains how he draws on trains, Vince and Tony discuss wearing the same clothes and Chris gets in on the action and does his best to get sponsored by a crisp company.
Saturday Oct 10, 2015
Saturday Oct 10, 2015
It's a real history lesson this week as John Freeman of Down the Tubes, Crucible and many more joins Vince, Dan and Tony to talk about all things comics. Theres talk about the latest webcomic site Tapastic and its benefits for comic book creators, Johns own creations over the years and everyone has a reminiscing session about the books they had access to and read when they were kids. If you're in the mood for some history about the UK comic scene then this is the episode for you. Also theres some proper talk about the Lakes International Comics Fest, Vince attempts to say the name Alan Moore in the sexiest way possible, Tony tells us whether he is allowed out of the country for NYCC and Dan reveals he's been watching more violent 80s action films.
It's an episode which is also a time paradox by itself - so get ready for timey wimey nonsense galore!
Monday Oct 05, 2015
Monday Oct 05, 2015
Up and coming artist Brian Vander joins Vince, Dan and Tony to chat about his action sci-fi book World of Grey, the origins of it and his art influences and process, which lends to a lot of arty chat. There is also some serious talk about faux-rage journalism and harassment in the comics world and we all discuss the murky topic of selling major I.P. as prints at conventions. Fear not though, theres also the usual madcap humour, brilliant book recommendations and sexy times had by all. Dan reveals his adventures with trains, Vince wants to start a Predator 2 revolution and Tony gets giddy with excitement over his upcoming trip to New York Comic-Con. DON'T MISS IT!
Monday Sep 28, 2015
Monday Sep 28, 2015
Rob Jones, one of the evil geniuses behind new small press publisher Madius Comics, joins our intrepid trio to talk about their current and upcoming titles, the amazing crop of creators he's worked with, what its like to publish a bazillion titles at once, lettering comics and so much more! Theres also talk of over-pricing of some small press comics, Guns McVanguard's impressive push up display, Tonys double entendre comic picks and Vince's good name gets absolutely obliterated once more in the most horrific way yet.
Monday Sep 21, 2015
Monday Sep 21, 2015
Monday Sep 14, 2015
Monday Sep 14, 2015
Its Episode 11 of ACP and this week we're joined by Sarah Millman to talk about her fantastic time-travelling pug-starring webcomic The Heart of Time, her experiences making webcomics, her writing process and influences, the joy of pug dogs and so much more! We also all get feisty and chat about artists bad experiences with having their artwork used without credit, theres some Doctor Who chat, Tony and Dan discuss their futures as annoying dads and Vince is seemingly degenerating into a creepy old man.
Its an episode for anybody. Well, apart from titans in the meme game! CHECK IT OUT NOW!!
Mentioned on this episode are Sarah Millman, The Heart of Time, John Cullen Comics, John Cullen, You Thought We Wouldn't Notice, Dean Beattie, Random Trials, Our Friend Satan, Silicon Heart, Dani Abram, Worry Wart, Ink Outbreak Comic Rocket, Sarah Graley, Our Super Adventure, Phonogram, MCM Glasgow, Anastacia Catris, NICE Con, Electricomics, New York Comic Con, Leamington Comic Con, Nottingham Comic Con, The Red Mask From Mars on Comixology, Vanguard on Comixology, The Demon Archives, Tet, Paul Allor, Cognition, Ken Reynolds, Orful Comics, Rob Cureton, RentQuest!, Sian Jefferson, Vanguard, The Red Mask From Mars, Down the Tubes