
What mad forces compel comic artists to chain themselves to drawing tables day and night? altcomics tracks down cartoonists from all ends of the funny book business—graphic novels, comic strips, gag cartoons, web comics—and tries to find out what makes them tick. Your host is Marc Arsenault, proprietor of Silicon Valley’s Wow Cool shop and General Manager of the comics publisher Alternative Comics... more
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 7 | Founded | 9 years ago |
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Jim Rugg makes comics, books, drawings, illustrations, and designs. His books and comics include Street Angel, Afrodisiac, the PLAIN Janes, Rambo 3.5, Notebook Drawings, and Supermag. He has exhibited drawings at iam8bit, Gallery1988, Mondo, and the ... more
Peter S. Conrad is a cartoonist, illustrator and graphic novelist based in the South San Francisco Bay Area - AKA Silicon Valley. He is responsible for the long-running "Attempted Not Known" series in all its many forms. You have probably seen his dr... more
Alternative Press Expo 2017 Day 2 in San Jose. Interviews from the show floor with Kirby Museum representatives Mark Badger & Bruce Simon and former syndicated weekly cartoonist of The City and current graphic novelist Derf Backderf (My Friend Dahmer... more
Straight out of San Jose from MACLA (Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana) as part of APE 2017 - The Alternative Press Expo - SPOTLIGHT ON STEVE LAFLER- Marc Arsenault hosts a free-wheeling discussion with Steve Lafler talking about his long... more
AltComics talks to Too Much Coffee Man creator Shannon Wheeler about his new book Sh*T My President Says and what it takes to become a New Yorker Cartoonist. alt.comics.shannonwheeler
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Get a sneak peak at the altcomics show with clips of our opening trilogy of interviewees: Jim Rugg, Peter S. Conrad and Shannon Wheeler.
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This is the introductory edition that does little more than say hello. Hello. Future episodes will have a little more meat on the bones. Interviews with Shannon Wheeler (Too Much Coffee Man), Jim Rugg (Street Angel), Peter S. Conrad (Attempted Not Kn... more
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