An Elegant Weapon

This weeks guest is Joe Shuster Award nominated artist Keith Grachow. Keith tells his story as we discuss his history, his work for Disney as a digital inker and colourist and his comics work on Arcane Awakening, Polybius Dreams and Saltwater, for which he has been nominated for the Gene Day award for self publishing.

Artist/writer/colourist and letterer Michael Bloom sits in to discuss his project, Italiano. Check out the kickstarter now and pledge to support this super exciting and original new book!

 

LIVE from The Sidekick Comic Cafe at The Toronto Comics Anthology's Sunday Social 7 featuring chats with contributor Marcia Iwasaki and Lead editor Steven Andrews.

 

We close out our Motor City Extravaganza 2017 by diving deep into the trenches of Artist's Alley. Part 3 features conversations with Source Point Press's Ben Goldsmith and Keyla Valerio of The Seance Room, Kasey Pierce of Norah and Pieces Of Madness, and Gary Sobek. Dan Dougherty of Touching Evil and Beardo, The El Arto crew with John Marroquin, Aman Aman, Jack Fragg and Erick Gutierrez. Fellow podcasters Dave Patterson of Dave's Nerd Compendium and Heather Miles of the Pod Bros. network. Comic's 'n More owner and podcast host Chris Brown and to finish us off a little bit of the dirkalicious one, Dirk Manning of The Tales of Mr. Rhee and NightmareWorld.

 

 

 

The Jedi Ras is joined by Marvel/IDW artist Jay P. Fosgitt to discuss Neil Gaiman's American Gods.

 

Thus begins The Weapon's coverage of Motor City Comic Con 2017! In this part one, The Jedi Ras is joined by Drunk On Comics host Tony McKay for a chat with the headmaster of Source Point Press Publishing, Travis McIntire and artist Rob Hogan, followed by a talk with Stan Konopka, the writer of SPP's latest hit, The Rejected. 

The Jedi Ras embarks on a journey across the 905 to visit three local shops for Free Comic Book Day. First up is Altered States Comics in Clarkson Village and a chat with Stephany Lein and Craig Ferguson, followed by a jaunt over to Comic Connection Oakville for a talk with the mighty uncooth one, Mike Rooth. The journey comes to a close at Gotham Central Comics and Collectables with conversations featuring The Heroes of The World, Aaron Broverman, Paul Miranda, Gibson Quarter and Jason Fabok! And all in under 12 parsecs!

Support your LCS's! Support brick and mortar!

 

Writer Sam Noir sits in to regale us with tales of his adventure at this years' Celebration and Run For The Dark Side. We also dive deep in to Legends, The Last Jedi, Rebels and much much more. This episode was recorded at Altered States Comics in Clarkson, On.

 

May the Fourth be with you!

 

This week's guest is writer Stan Konopka. We discuss his new graphic novel The Rejected coming soon from Source Point Press and premiering at Motor City Comic Con and his role as the comics coordinator for The Great Philadelphia Comic Con.

 

A chat with Marvel, DC. Lucasfilm and Hasbro artist Ken Lashley LIVE from The Great Philadelphia Comic Con 2017.