André once again dips into the extremely talented pool that is the Toronto based comic art scene to chat with a talented and vibrant creator!

Paris Alleyne is a Toronto-based comic-book artist. He has done work as a colourist for Ninja Turtle, Ghostbuster, GI Joe, Captain Canuck, and Riftworld comics. His art has appeared in Marvel, DC, IDW, Chapterhouse, Black Comix Returns and his own independent Haven comics.

Paris speaks about noticing the power of art in comics with an unconventional Superman story, why art was always his end goal and how important it was to him to carve his own path as an artist aside from his work as a colourist.

The world of alternate covers is a rich and vast one and on this episode we speak with a man who navigates it well!

Rich Woodall is best known for his creator owned books Johnny Raygun, Kyrra: Alien Jungle Girl, Zombie Bomb, and The Electric Black. Rich's work can also be seen in the Savage Dragon, Invincible, Atomic Robo, and several sketch cards series from Upper Deck, Topps, and Rittenhouse Archives.

Rich discusses how comics gave him a sense of home as he traveled a lot growing up. Getting an unlikely start working for Fruit of the Loom and returning to his first love comic books and finding a sense of home once again.

Mr. Monster has been an enduring figure in the minds of many comic fans our host included! André chats with the creator of that iconic figure Michael T. Gilbert!

Michael’s stories have been featured in Heavy Metal, Slow Death, Star*Reach, Quack!, Batman, The Spirit and Walt Disney’s Comics & Stories and American Splendor. Over the years he’s written or drawn comics starring Superman, Batman, Dr. Strange, Elric, The Simpsons, SpongeBob and the Disney characters. But Michael’s signature creation remains his fearless monster-fighting superhero, Doc Stearn … Mr. Monster! Mr. Monster celebrates his 40th birthday in 2024 with new Mr. Monster stories appearing in Dark Horse Presents.

The two talk about Michael's breaking into comics with Craig P. Russell and bonding over a love of Steve Ditko. Discovering sword and sorcery comics while working on Elric, breaking into Marvel Comics and a beautiful tribute to his premiere creation Mr. Monster coming hopefully in 2024!

In the sweet vanished past... a young André was fascinated with an independent comic he read about in Wizard magazine. That comic was Box Office Poison and it opened a wide world to that young reader about what alternate comics could offer. The creator of the book was this episodes guest!

Alex Robinson has written and illustrated several graphic novels, including Our Expanding Universe, Too Cool to Be Forgotten, Box Office Poison and Tricked. He and his work have won several industry awards, including the prestigious Eisner Award and prize for best debut in Angouleme, France.

Alex discusses the differences between a cartoonist and graphic novelist. How Wizard magazine gave his first book a real opportunity to succeed. Creating a distinctive format in podcasting and what industry legends he studied under that inspired a key character in his debut book.

Merry Christmas! André celebrates the holiday by chatting horror with a connoisseur of the subject all the way from Australia, writer, editor and jack of all trades when it comes to publishing Christopher Sequiera.

His published work includes poetry, prose , and comic-book scripts. Sequeira's creator-owned work includes "Sherlock Holmes: Dark Detective", Pulse of Darkness, Rattlebone: The Pulp-Faced Detective and The Borderlander.

He has also written for American publishers, notably contributing a Dazzler story, "I'm Gonna Stake You, Sucka" in X-Men: Curse of the Mutants – X-Men vs. Vampires No. 1. Chris discusses being one of nine children, the unorthodox way he broke into publishing and his lifelong fascination with horror, Jack the Ripper and vampires!

Joe Eisma and André share a love of a great many things John Carpenter films, Grant Morrison's X-Men and scintillating conversation!

Beginning his comic career with a bang on Morning Glories, Joe also worked on Nick Spencer's book Existence 2.0/3.0. His first published work was A Dummy's Guide to Danger: Lost at Sea by Viper press in 2008. He recently completed Holo Ween a Star Trek horror comic that turns the Next Generation Crew into Classic film monsters.

Eisma talks about his fathers love of reading, finding a community and career on Brian Michael Bendis's message board. Working with Nick Spencer and the unusual way he discovered Morning Glories was optioned for television.

André talks with a consummate professional and consistent comic creator and artist Ron Randall!

An early contributor to Dark Horse comics with his creator-owned series Trekker which appeared in early issues of Dark Horse Presents in the 1980s, Randall would also go on to spend time as artist for the major comics companies Marvel and DC, perhaps most prominently spending time as artist on DC Comics' popular Justice League Europe series in the 1990s.

Ron talks about working with Alan Moore on Swamp Thing, Evolving technology in the comic art industry and working on the Dragonlance comic adaptations something André voraciously read in his youth.

André finds a guest who is also a fan of this very show!

Kalman Andrasofszky got his start producing massive amounts of art for roleplaying games such as Dungeons & Dragons, Star Wars, and Vampire: The Masquerade among others. In 2003 Kalman co-created and illustrated the comic book series iCandy for DC, since then he has gone on to freelance extensively for comicbook publishers including Marvel, DC, Valiant and BOOM! Studios. He's produced art and covers for such titles as Spider-man, X-men, Captain America, Fantastic Four, Dazzler, NYX, X-23, Tomb of Dracula, and Gi Joe.

Kalman teaches André about the scret history of Micronauts, why Marvel Covers where so basic for so long and why Halloween brings about a tongue and cheek call of cultural appropriation from out guest!

As Halloween approaches André speaks with a man who had a hand in a ton of projects that were big parts of our hosts formative years.

Steven E. Gordon started in animation working on Ralph Bakshi's animated feature Lord of the Rings as a "roto-photo" artist while still in High School. He quickly moved up to work as an assistant animator and eventually animated (roto-scoped) several scenes and was given animator credit on the finished film. He worked for Ralph Bakshi on and off for years on many Bakshi films including American Pop and Fire and Ice working alongside Frank Frazetta. he went on to work on The Black Cauldron, Cool World, Batman: Sub Zero, X-Men: Evolution, The Swan Princess, Anastasia, Titan A.E. and Wolverine and the X-Men eventually becoming an animation director as well.

Steven and André talk about making more money than his teachers while in high school working in animation, his connection to Nova Scotia, Working with Ralph Bakshi, Frank Frazetta, Stan Lee and the differences in film directing and animation directing something he has a lot of experience in.

The patriarch of The Federation of Podcasts drops in to discuss his origins in podcasting as he gets to know the black sheep of his federation a little better while being interviewed in the process!

Born in Nova Scotia but winding up in Toronto Dave has fostered a love of sci-fi, podcasting and reality television into an entire federation of programming featuring friends...some old and some new. As co-host of Live Long & Podcast as well as The Super Mader Bros. he delves into all things Star Trek and reality television, respectively.

Dave speaks on how becoming a father at a young age benefited his development as an adult, finding podcasting through Kevin Smith's Hockey career, how the idealism of Gene Roddenberry's creation led to his career in philanthropy and he gives a compelling argument to our host that may make reality television more accessible to him.