Category Archives: Graphic Policy Radio

Ms. Marvel: Kamala Khan & Desi Community Power

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“I want Ms.Marvel to give us the kind of personal fuel to continue to do this work and keep our eyes on the campaigns we’re trying to win.” —Sabiha Basrai.

Ms. Marvel, the MCU’s latest on Disney+ gets a close read from our expert panel. We open with a spoiler-free pitch of why we enjoyed the show then cover the full TV series.

Darakshan Raja is a Pakistani – American organizer and Bhangra DJ. She is the founding executive director of Muslims for Just Futures (MJF), a grassroots organization that builds power in Muslim communities through collective care, organizing, advocacy, and movement-building. https://twitter.com/DarakshanRaja

Harini Marchadi is a college student studying biology and history. She is particularly interested in questions of nationalism in formerly colonized nations and interactions between countries affected by colonialism. https://twitter.com/harini_marchadi

Sabiha Basrai is a graphic designer and social justice organizer involved with economic justice, immigrant rights, and anti-war organizing since the mid-1990s. For the last 16 years, Sabiha has been a co-owner of Design Action Collective where she works at the intersection of visual arts and activism. designaction.org

Sabiha shared a list of some of her fave orgs fighting for justice here and in South East Asia. They won’t all fit in my show notes so read them here: https://twitter.com/Elana_Brooklyn/status/1549938780022374400?s=20&t=n5a2G7PaqgcZbFBILt5n7w

Young Justice Phantoms pt 2 w/ Dr. Khaliden Nas & Nathaniel Hubbard

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Fish people thruples & critiques of the space prison system abound as DC‘s Young Justice animated series returns on HBO Max to conclude its 4th season. Guests that helped me cover the first half of this season have returned to update our DCAU mood boards with the Emerald Empress and some Fourth World worthy art.

Dr. Khaliden Nas is a writer & researcher with a PhD in Media and Culture Studies from the University of Sussex. His work explores the realities of queer subjectivity, self-conception, otherness and the intersections of culture and identity. https://twitter.com/alsopurp

Nathaniel Hubbard, or Hub, is a podcaster and writer. He is the co-host and producer of Titan Up the Defense  a podcast where he and his brother cover Teen Titans and Defenders comics in chronological order. https://twitter.com/ttwasteland_

Catch up on our coverage of the first half of season 4 here https://bit.ly/YJ4Marzz

PS. Dick Grayson clearly picked up all the red yarn Hub had to throw away when his Cameleon Lad conspiracy theory fell apart. But has Khaliden cooked up a whole new theory for Beast Boy’s corgi? “Name a shapeshifter— that’s who it is.”

“Dick Grayson is no Detective Chimp” — Hub. 

Radical: My Year With a Socialist Senator– Graphic Novelist Sofia Warren

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NY’s 1st Socialist State Senator in 100 years, get’s the graphic novel treatment in Sofia Warren‘s new graphic memoir — Radical: My Year With a Socialist Senator. 

New York, Socialism, community organizing and COMICS are near the top of my list of interests so I’m excited to have cartoonist Sofia Warren on the show to talk about her book. Reading this graphic memoir might make you feel a little more hopeful and inspired and certainly a lot more well informed about how political organizing can win change for the better at the local level — no matter where you are.

Here’s Sofia’s instagram.

And here’s the Opertation Save Abortion online event July 17 I promotes in my intro.

Ace Arrow! DC Comics Pride Month with artists/writers Brandt & Stein

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DC Comics Pride Month anthology features an all ace creative team telling a story of now canonically ace Green Arrow, Connor Hawke! Artists/Writers Ro Stein and Ted Brandt join me to discuss their work. Also, for Marvel Voices Pride they’ve co-created Shela Sexton (Escapade) and Morgan Red, Marvel’s newest trans woman and transmasc nb mutants respectively.

We’ll hear about Ted and Ro’s background as artists as well as their work creating and interpretting queer characters at the big two publishers. 

Keep up with Ted on twitter at — https://twitter.com/ten_bandits and Ro https://twitter.com/RoStein404

Happy pride! 

Neal Adams: Comics Artist, Advocate, Industry Innovator and Drawer of Hot Batman

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Neal Adams was a giant: from his art to his fight for artists’ rights we’ll talk about his legacy and work. This roundtable is for Neal Adams newbies and experts alike. You’ll even hear some new personal stories about Adams’ unique status as The Dad of Comics.

Joining me are:

Bryan Stratton is a writer, digital consultant, and co-host of the Marvel by the Month podcast, which covers each month of Marvel Comics history in chronological order. https://marvelbythemonth.com/

Emily C. Martin, illustrator, comic artist, teacher, podcaster and amateur martial artist. Martin is on Patreon as megamoth as well as Twitter, and mega_moth on Instagram and co-hosts Progressively Horrified Podcast. https://progressivelyhorrified.transistor.fm/

Ramon Villalobos is a Stockton California based comic artist and host of the comics podcast Mex Flentallo.

Emmett Hobbes : Comics Writer/Artist makes the heist comic you need in your life

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“A diagnosis should set somebody free. It should be a descriptor, not a definition” – Emmett Hobbes.

Royale: The Prussian Blue is a Lupin III-meets-Pan’s Labyrinth caper. A renowned white-hat burglar stumbles into London’s supernatural underbelly to win his target back from an untouchable (and mysterious) art collector. It’s a very queer and extremely well crafted heist comic that truly stands out and you can read it on the Webtoons app. 

Writer and artist Emmett Hobbes joins me to talk about his work, neurodiversity, queerness and also the comics classic Preacher. Of course!

Follow him here: https://twitter.com/emmettcomix

Or his website; https://www.emmettcomix.art/

Royale credits: Story and ink: Emmett Hobbes | Color: Hank Jones | Costume design: Erik Ojo and Seth Smith | Edited: Ethan Leblanc and Spencer Gooding | Technical assist: Traceton Randolph | Published exclusively by Webtoon Originals

Our Flag Means Death: All Pirate Flags Are Valid (and some are accurate)

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“[Blackbeard] is presenting as a queer character, not just within our time, but within his own time” – Tea Fougner.

“It’s historical fiction about pirates if the executive producers were all tumbler users” – Cayden Mak.

Pirate Tea and First Mate Cayden Mak have boarded the show to talk about Taika Waititi and David Jenkins‘ glorious new show on HBO, Our Flag Means Death. It’s a queer pirate romcom with roots in history and a remarkable diverse cast. 

The conversation is spoiler-free till about 13 minutes in. There’s a special intro to this episode about a real life crisis that’s happening– and what you can do about it (one place to start – https://transequality.org 

My guests:

Tea Fougner (who is 30% pirate facts by volume) is the editorial director for Comics at King Features Syndicate and co-chair of Programming for Flame Con, the world’s largest LGBTQ+ comic convention. Tea co-modded a 200-person pirate RPG for three years and has a 13-hour piratecore playlist on Spotify. Listen here  https://t.co/Abq5wIkips & follow https://twitter.com/teaberryblue

Cayden Mak https://twitter.com/cayden has spent the past decade organizing people for racial justice leveraging many aspects of technology and pop culture formerly of 19 Million Rising (an Asian American Pacific Islander civic organizing group I love. 

Kieron Gillen, writing Immortal X-Men, Die and RPG advice

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Embrace the Neo-Claremontism and “warped Mutant Catholicism” as writer Kieron Gillen returns to X-Men comics as the writer of Immortal X-Men with artists Lucas Werneck and David Curiel. He’s revisiting Mr. Sinister and Hope Summers, two characters he’s left an indelible mark on, who have new prominence in the Krakoan Era of X-Men. There’s politics, backstabbing and of course music. 

Here’s his Immortal X-Men Playlist – https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1slXJJdxhqg2CxDKQHepog

At about 1 hr and 5 minutes in Kieron offers some great advice to RPG players. 

Here’s our most recent episode together – https://bit.ly/DieCanon

Check out Kieron’s games https://kierongillen.itch.io/

His enlightening newsletter https://buttondown.email/KieronGillen/

Moon Knight: a superhero with (several) jobs and many memes

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Comics critic Harry Kassen guides a journey through the many phases of Moon Knight‘s Marvel comics series from 1975 through today — just in time for his big Disney+ TV debut. Moon Knight isn’t just a source of absurdist memes — he reflects changes in the comics medium. We’ll look at some of the best runs of Moon Knight with an especially close look at comics art legend Bill Sienkiewicz who’s style came into its own through the series. 

So join us to learn about the alteregos, the angst and most of all the artists that make Moon Knight more than Marvel’s color-shifted Batman. 

Be sure to follow guest expert comics critic Harry Kassen at https://twitter.com/leekassen 

Image notes:

All full page comics images are Bill Sienkiewicz pencils. Inks on #2 – Bob McLeod #3 & 5 Klaus Janson #6 Frank Giancoia. “Has anyone dated Moon Knight” is from Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev. “I have an enemy” is words Jed MacKay, art Alessandro Cappuccio, Rachelle Rosenberg.

Alex Segura: Secret Identity, Noir Comics and Archie

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Anthony Award-winning writer Alex Segura talks about his new book Secret Identity, a rollicking literary mystery set in the world of comics. The book combines comics and prose for a vivid1975 NYC featuring new protagonist, writer Carmen Valdez. We discuss our shared love of the noir genre and his time writing Archie meeting The Ramones and Blondie and other delights. 

Check out the book https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250801753/secretidentity

And follow Alex online: https://twitter.com/alex_segura

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