The Death of Superman was an event that rocked the comics world so hard the reverberations are still being felt to this day! On this episode we speak with the editor for Superman comics at that time and the man who made it possible!

Mike Carlin started out in the business at DC Comics as a high school intern in 1974 and was later hired by Marvel Comics as a writer and artist on Crazy Magazine. Rising to the rank of Editor for Marvel he eventually moved to DC comics where he oversaw the Superman Family of titles and then went on to be Creative Director of their Animation division before retiring in 2023.

Mike discusses being introduced to comics by his mother an avid Superman and EC horror fan, His friendship with Marc Gruenwald, Working with John Byrne and the pure insanity that was the media storm when his creative team decided to kill The Man of Steel.

Two of André's worlds collide in one interview...marketing and movies!

Craig Miller is a well-known and respected writer/producer with over 200 credits. He has worked in live-action and animation, written scripts, developed series, pitched to studios and networks, produced, cast, approved storyboards, character designs, and animation – the entire gamut of what goes into creating, selling, and producing a TV series.

Craig talks about coming to movie marketing through conventions. A grassroots approach to getting eyes on films, transitioning into writing for animation and shares some amazing stories about many of the cult films he worked with!

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!