267 - THIS COMIC MADE ME A FAN OF...

We've all got out favourite creators, but do you remember the comics and books that instantly made you a fan? The pod gang talk about some of their moments like this and include some picked out from the listeners. Theres also talk about detailed sequential art, creative competitions, great indie books to check out and LOTS of silly comics banter!


Great stuff to check out this week - Alan Davis, Excalibur, Erik Larsen, Spider Man, Len Wein, Jim Lee, Knights vs Pirates, Robyn, Skrawl, Penned Guin: Consequence, Pop Kill #2, Fire Power: Prelude, SHE at the Tower of All That is Known, Thunders, Gareth Hopkins

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266 - CREATING THE KNIGHTS VS PIRATES GRAPHIC NOVEL! (W / JAY MARTIN AND CHRIS IMBER)

After a 2 year wait, the epic graphic novel Knights vs Pirates is upon us, and this week the pod gang are joined by its creators (and long time friends) Jay Martin and Chris Imber to talk about its beginnings, the process and what to expect in a 110+ page book of action and history! Theres also lots of laughs, great indie book recommendations and so much talk about making comics, so don't miss it!


Great stuff to check out this week - Knights vs Pirates, Reckless Hero, Jay Martin, Chris Imber, Chris Jenkins, Arthurian Legend read by Sean Bean, Image Revolution Documentary, Luke Cooper, The Hollow Girl, Skrawl KS, The Penned Guin: Coincidence, Second Coming, Ahoy Comics, Merrick the Elephantman, Mahoneys, Humanoids Humble Bundle, Carthago, Antarctic Press, Planet Stories #1, Scout Comics, Star Bastard, Andrew Clemson, Jethro Morales

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265 - BRAINSTORMING COMICS! (W / DAVID ROBERTSON)

A whirlwind of creativity abounds, as the Awesome gang try out a creativity exercise using the awesome Narrata playing cards to brainstorm a bunch of comic book pitches! From dinosaurs, death row, sex crazed villains and tragic love stories involving tortoises and horses - this ones got it all! Not only that but the amazing David Robertson (Break the Cake, Bell Time) joins in on the fun and helps recommend some awesome indie comics you should check out too!


Great stuff to check out this week - David Robertson, Fred Egg Comics, Mount a Rescue, Bell Time, That Comic Smell, Narrata Storytelling Cards, Humanoids Humble Bundle, Knockout & Tiger Style, Skrawl, Knights vs Pirates, Sappy Flu Year, Tim Kelly, Usagi Yojimbo - Bunraku, The Boy Who Became a Dragon, Hedra

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264 - CREATING CHARACTERS, COMICS AND THE WORLD OF DREXLER! (W / NATHAN KELLY)

This week the gang are joined by the awesome artist Nathan Kelly (Drexler), and together they talk about his work in the self publishing scene and his brilliant book Drexler! Theres talk about collaborating with writers, crowdfunding, character designs, writing and more. Theres also plenty of comics to add to your wishlists, as everyone talks up tons of collected books that are currently on offer!


Great stuff to check out this week - Nathan Kelly, Drexler, Feral Kingdom Comics, 100 Bullets, GI Joe, Heroes Con, Unparalleled Comics, Dave Kennedy, Renato Jones and the 1%, Kaare Andrews, Black Science, Usagi Yojimbo, Stan Sakai, The Art of Ed McGuiness

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263 - WORLDBUILDING, WEREWOLVES AND TERRIER COMICS! (W / WILLIAM HAZLE)

The gang talk about 70s horror hosts, horror comics, and more with William Hazle (Ailsa Dark/Tales of Imagination and Mystery). The chat ranges from the scottish comics community, crowdfunding, worldbuilding around characters, awesome indie comics and more. Add to that a ton more great indie books to check out and you got 2 hours of fun comic book chatter!

Great stuff to check out this week - William Hazle, Ailsa Dark, Clean, Skyworld/Psycho Comics, Drink and Draw, Vietnam Zombie Holocaust, Our Final Halloween, The Freeze, Victory Point, Avery Hill Publications

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262 - COMICS QUESTIONS AND IMMATURITY AHOY!

This week in ACP Towers the gang talk about some influences old and new, art styles, original art pages, the launch of Spacewarp, some great indie recommendations to check out and go off the rails into childish humour. Its crude, absurd and as always all about comics. What more do you need?!

Great stuff to check out this week - Spacewarp, Saga of the Shield Maiden, Galaxy Grappling Alliance, The Comics Store, Bubbles Fanzine, Batman/Superman: Public Enemies, Ice Massacre: Vol 1

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261 - COMICS, WORKSHOPS AND THE BEANO! (W / LAURA HOWELL)

The Beano is an institution in British Comics, and its about time the ACP talked about it! And who better than long time Beano artist Laura Howell! The gang talk about her work in the Beano, how the comic has changed with the Times, their process during lockdown, comic workshops and more! As well as that there's more great comics to check out convention updates and also a moment of pondering how they all made it to 5 years of the Awesome Comics Podcast being a thing!

Great stuff to check out this week - Laura Howell, The Beano, Wheres Gnasher?, The Bizarre Adventures of Gilbert and Sullivan, Regular Show, Galaxy Grappling Alliance KS, Saga of the Shield Maiden KS, Asa Wheatley, Holly KS, Big Hype Comics, Fire Power - Prelude, Mount a Rescue, David Robertson, Rolled a One, Chris Baldie, BHP Comics, The Cimmerian: Red Nails

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260 - THE ONGOING ADVENTURES OF AN INDIE COMIC BOOK ARTIST! (W / RORY DONALD)

The gang are once again joined by a guest, and this time its friend of the show and long overdue guest Rory Donald (Griff Gristle). Together the gang talk about indie comic book stores supporting small press, working on independent comics, the small press community, art process and upcoming projects as well as a whole heap more. Theres also lots of books, campaigns and stuff to check out too so be sure to check out the show notes to get your hands on them all!

Great stuff to check out this week - Rory Donald, Hoards of Surrey, Griff Gristle, Resurrection Men, Strange Apparitions Comic Shop, Galaxy Grappling Alliance, Access Denied, Hell in Stalingrad, Holly, The Penned Guin, The Spark, Scalped, Hostage, Casanova, Dragman, Steven Appleby, Grit, Scout Comics, Brian Wickman, Lets All Die, Handwritten Entertainment

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259 - RANTS, RAVES AND COMIC BOOK FAVES!

This week there is talk about cancellations, social media, poor animated adaptions, Thought Bubble, Manga and more, and also tons more of amazing comic book stuff to check out and get ready for. Plus there's amazing comic book and graphic novel recommendations to add to your wishlists.

Great stuff to check out this week: Outer Darkness, The Awesome Drink and Draw, Help Londons Cartoon Museum, Omen to That Podcast, Hoards of Surrey KS, Dark Ark, The Killing Joke Animated Movie, Ailsa Dark, Path of the Assassin, Green Lantern/Green Arrow, A Letter to Jo, Kelly Williams, Top Shelf Publications

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258 - LET'S TALK COMICS! - AN AWESOME Q&A

This week the ACP crew get together to talk about some comic greats, answer a raft of questions that lead to some thought provoking creative discussion, shout out about things you need and discuss some amazing books that you need to check out. Sprinkle in a little stupid humour and lots of laughs and you've got over 2 hours to comics talk to chew on!

Great stuff to check out this week: Denny O'Neil, The Spark 1-4 KS, Kia Wordsmith #2 KS, Our Final Halloween KS, Drexler, Nathan Kelly, Southern Bastards Vol.2, Shaman Kane, David Broughton, The Black Rubric, Left, BEM #27, Excellence, Khary Randolph, Brandon Thomas, 

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257 - DIAMOND, WRITING AND COMICS TALK!

The three amigos get together to discuss the current situation with Diamond and DC, writing comic scripts for artists, recommend some great comics and creators to discover and more.

Great stuff to check out this week: MI666, Andy Bloor, Atomic Hercules, Frankenstein Texas, Dan Whitehead, David Hitchcock, Horserer, Southern Bastards, Pop Kill, Ron Wilson, The British Invasion

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256 - COMICS, CULTURE AND PERUVIAN CYBERPUNK! (W / GUSTAFFO VARGAS)

This way the amazing Gustaffo Vargas (Manu) joins the gang to discuss his epic Peruvian Cyberpunk comics, which turns into an awesome chat about narrative storytelling, cultural representation in comics, process and more. Theres also fantastic indie comics to check out and tons more comic book fun in an episode not to be missed!

Great stuff to check out this week: Gustaffo Vargas, Manu, Lima, Trujillo,  MI666, Andy Bloor, Adrian Hashimi, Barking, Lucy Sullivan, Write it in Blood, Protector, Chew/Outer Darkness, Stan and Jack, Pete Doree

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255 - STUTTERHUGS, HEX VETS, ANNE RICE AND BOOM! (W / SAM DAVIES)

The Battle of Anne Rice begins this week, as the brilliant Sam Davies (Stutterhug, Hex Vet) joins the gang to call their bluff about vampire novels and most importantly to talk about her awesome (and vast) webcomic work and publishing her series Hex Vet with Boom Studios. It's a great chat about all things comics, from process to instagram comics, patreon accounts and a raft of new and amazing books to add to your wishlists!

Great stuff to check out this week: Sam Davies, Stutterhug, Sams Patreon, The Shape of Things, Hex Vet, Boom Comics, Pandemics in Panels, Comics Unencumbered, The Spark Issue 3, The Lonesome Era, Jon Allen, Bybloemen, The Worst Journey in the World, Tealin, Picturebooks for Bad People, John Tucker, It Eats What Feeds It, Scout Comics, Maximum Alan, BHP Comics

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254 - BEASTS, BOOKS AND BATTLE BADGERS! (W / STEVE SIMS)

The Beast Hunting Battle Badgers join the ACP this week, courtesy of their creator Steve Sims. Together the gang talk about what led to the awesome comic series, influences, plans for the future and then get into a great in depth discussion about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Usagi Yojimbo (amongst tons of others)! Theres also great process chat, lots of book recommendations and a heated topic that almost leads to a premature show ending!

Great stuff to check out this week: Steve Sims, Battle Badgers, Usagi Yojimbo, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Blacksad, Mulp, Sara Dunkerton, Head Lopper, The Oswald Chronicle, Murder Hobo, Scout Comics, Tom Ward, Merrick: Puppets, Self Made Hero, Altitude

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253 - WE GET QUARANTINED! (W / JORDAN THOMAS)

This week the ACP talks about going in Quarantine with Jordan Thomas (Frank at Home on the Farm), but only because thats the name of his awesome new comic featuring 28 artists! Theres talk of that, his previous critically acclaimed series, Kickstarter campaigns, working with so many artists, Avatar and so much more. Theres also tons of great comic chat, immaturity and of course, terrible sponsorship ads!

Great stuff to check out this week: Jordan Thomas, Quarantine, Frank at Home on the Farm, The Junction, Necropolitan, Cadavers, Moon, Nicole Bates, Trigger Mortis, Stunt, Join the Future, Aftershock Comics, Silicon Heart, Sam Roads, Kat Cardy, Big White, Brian Wickman

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252 - INK, OWLS AND FOLK HORROR COMICS! (W / SARAH GORDON)

The gang are joined by the brilliant Sarah Gordon (Vicious Creatures, Strip) this week to talk about all things comics, her work and discuss the genre of folk horror in comics. Theres discussion about the art of creeping your reader out, making your own inks, nightmarish children's characters from TV and burning giant wicker owls! Theres also fantastic indie book recommendations, tons of creative chat and of course tons of hilarious ACP fun.

Great stuff to check out this week: Sarah Gordon, Vicious Creatures, Strip, Sajan Rai, Illustrated Haiku, My Friend Dahmer, Good Comics, Raze, Claire Spiller, Masters of British Comic Art, Rob Davis, The Book of Forks

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251 - SPARK CON 2020!

Episode 251, recorded live from Spark Con 2020! Was it a success? Did it work? Was there any listener questions answered live on air?

Find out here!

Great stuff to check out this week: Jensk K, Dunce, Trujillo, Gustavo Vargas, Lise Richardson, But Everything is Terrible, TKO Press, Sentient, Spider Man Into the Spiderverse: The Art of the Movie, Magnetic Press, Streamliner,

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250 - NEED WE SAY MORE?

After 250 episodes of weekly indie comics talk and waffle, do the 3 amigos have anything left to discuss? Find out if they do, and who might turn up to say hello.

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249 - FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROK! (W / DAN CORNWELL)

It's Aliens, Football and 2000AD this week as the gang are joined by artist Dan Cornwell (Rok of the Reds, Judge Dredd) to talk about his work, his amazing journey into full time comics, original artwork and more. Theres also chat about art threads, professionalism and personality in comics and llamas as well as the usual fantastic book recommendations!

Great stuff to check out this week: Dan Cornwell, Rok of the Reds, Rok the God, 2000AD, John Wagner, Zarjaz, Dogbreath, 11 O Clock Comics, Awesome Comics Talk, Cryowulf, Sam Roads, Murder Falcon, Daniel Warren Johnson

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248 - COMICS, MONSTERS AND BABIES - OH MY! (W / JASON MCNAMARA)

This week the ACP crew are joined by a writer after our own heart Jason McNamara (Nocturnal Commissions, Sucker) to talk about his work, horror, collaborating with amazing artists and the ongoing journey of self publishing comics. It's a fun and often hilarious chat with one of our new favourite writers. Theres also plenty of comic book community chat and brilliant recommendations to check out.

Great stuff to check out this week - Jason McNamara, Nocturnal Commissions, The Rattler, Sucker, Shorthand, Greg Hinkle, Less Than Hero, Gangster Ass Barista, Billionaire Island, Ahoy Comics, Orphans #3

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