Indie comics writer and creator Marvin Wynn joins us this week to discuss his book the Edge.

No stranger to hard work Wynn has transformed a love of reading instilled by his poet grandfather at an early age to a side career writing a genre defying super powered epic through Second Sight Publishing.

Join host André and this Pittsburgh native as they discuss entering comics through cartoons, why Marvel comics has done Cyclops dirty and the staggering amount of effort it takes to make it in the wacky world of independent comics!

Rob Guillory is an Eisner Award-winning American comic book artist.

Born, raised and currently based in Lafayette, Louisiana, Guillory is most known for his eight-year run on Image Comics’ CHEW. The book went on to achieve much success, winning two Harvey Awards (including Best New Talent for Guillory), two Eisner Awards, and has been translated into a dozen or so languages.

Guillory is currently writer/artist on his hit creator-owned series FARMHAND from Image Comics. Listen in as André and he talk humble beginnings, the long journey to bring Chew to the big screen and art school pretensions!

A Disney/ABC Writing Program semi-finalist, Karla Nappi has worked in writer rooms and on film/tv sets in both New York City and Los Angeles.

Karla developed a comic book series based off her pilot script “Duplicant." She's run two successful Kickstarters for the first three issues of the series, and recently signed with Second Sight Publishing

Currently, Karla is pitching the animated supernatural suspense series, "Nabarang," which was created with Filipino-American animator and paranormal expert Sapphire Sandalo.

Karla and André have a great discussion about shifting careers, late in life motherhood, science fiction inspirations and why society demands you have a baby!

Jim Zub is a writer, artist and art instructor based in Toronto, Canada. Over the past twenty years he’s worked for a diverse array of publishing, movie and video game clients including Marvel, DC Comics, Disney, Capcom, Hasbro, Cartoon Network, and Bandai-Namco.

He juggles his time between being a freelance comic writer and a professor teaching drawing and storytelling courses in Seneca College’s award-winning Animation program.

André and Jim discuss creating new characters in the Marvel sandbox getting to write his favorite fictional character Conan the Barbarian and how fulfilling it is to work on projects he's loved since childhood.

In 2014 Bryan began working as a graphic designer and fan artist after leaving a career in the military and law enforcement behind. Bryan embraced his love for comic books and the art form and began to create cover art for Scout Comics, some retailer exclusive variant covers and countless front pages for crowdfunded projects. Tired of drawing other people's creations and not having his own, Bryan created his own comic universe that he continues to expand upon.

A man driven by a creative force that he can't understand André and Bryan discuss that drive and the interesting and often rocky road that led him to a career in indie comic books.

This week our host catches up with an old friend and fellow film set patron Special Effects artist Marc Deveault!

Marc is a retired military medic with 20 years of experience including tours of duty in Bosnia, Haiti and Afghanistan.

Marc began his career doing casualty simulation for the military which ignited his passion and childhood dream of doing special effects. He then moved to Nova Scotia, after retiring from the Forces, and started to make his mark in the Maritimes. Some of his work includes "Big Driver" (Stephen King adaptation for TV), "Lizzie Borden Chronicles" (with Christina Ricci, Lifetime), "X-Men: Apocalypse" and "Frontier" (With Jason Momoa, Netflix/Discovery).

André had a part in Big Driver and the two discuss their time on set, Marc's time in the military and how it lead to a career in SFX and why that has helped him and other veterans deal with PTSD.

Ben Dunn is an American comic book artist. Although born in Taiwan, he grew up in Kentucky, Taiwan and San Antonio, Texas. It was in Taiwan that he was first exposed to Japanese manga. In 1984 he founded Antarctic Press, an American comic book company specializing in Manga-style titles including Robotech and his own creator owned projects. In 2003, he sold Antarctic to start his own development company, Sentai Studios.

Dunn was also one of the primary artists involved in the short-lived Marvel Mangaverse project. In 2006, Dunn worked as an animator for the science-fiction film "A Scanner Darkly." His most notable creations for Antarctic are the comic book series Ninja High School and Warrior Nun Areala the basis of the Netflix Series Warrior Nun.

Fat Apollo, Michael McCluskey, is a mixture of all things geeky and nerdy rolled up in a crunchy comedic shell. A constant at local and international conventions Mike has made himself an integral part of nerd culture in Nova Scotia and rubbed elbows with many in the comics circuit.

Fat Apollo has, 4 times, been voted “Sexiest Person in Halifax” (ending Ellen Page’s undefeated seven-year run), 2nd most Halifamous celebrity and Best Local Character by readers of The Coast magazine.
Now residing in his hometown of Halifax, Fat Apollo was a charter member of the long-running Geeks Versus Nerds comedy show debating Nathan Fillion and Teddy & Ajay of Innerspace. His one-man show “Storytime with Fat Apollo” is a hit at conventions everywhere, and he lives on twitter @realfatapollo.

André and Mike catch up talking about his history in the Navy and how that lead to him championing many social justice causes. His famous Boxing father, Mayor mother and why Gamera is related to Steve Martin! How you ask? Tune in to find out!

We start our second season of featured interviews with the creator behind the adaptation of Jim Henson’s Lost screenplay Tale Of Sand for Archaia Entertainment and an artist for Marvel Comics X-Men, Nova, Spider-Man, Hawkeye and the creator owned image title Stillwater!

Ramón K Pérez is an established cartoonist, illustrator, and designer with over two decades experience in the creative field. He is a multiple Eisner and Harvey award winning artist and has also garnered such accolades as The Honour Book and Official Selection 2008 Silver Birch Non-Fiction Awards, ForeWord Reviews’ 2010 Book of the Year Award, and The Shuster Award for best graphic novel 2012, amongst numerous nominations, for his collaborative works in children’s literature, digital media, and comics.

Ramon is also the Managing Director of the prominent Royal Academy of Illustration & Design (RAID) an artist co-working community and powerhouse creative agency known as The RAID Studio. Their repertoire of clients include Warner Bro’s. Canada, Hasbro, CBC, Corus, and Showcase, amongst many more.

On the season finale of Season 1 we celebrate 1 year of The Graphic Histories podcast by speaking with someone André thinks may be the nicest guy in the Atlantic Canada comics scene Mason Harold Hal Hilden!

Mason H. (Hal) Hilden is a Bluenoser, who currently resides in Saint John, New Brunswick, with his wife Stacy, daughter Hayley, Sy the dog, and Foo the cat.

Over the last 20 years, Hal has written comic-books, including one professional work, Political Power: Stephen Colbert, for Tidalwave Productions. He has also dabbled in mini-biographies, interviews, baseball articles, and animation scripting.

Hal recently began writing fiction, and believes that Black Hare Press may have created a monster by accepting his submissions.
He goes by Hal while writing comics, and Mason H. For his fiction.