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Pop Culture Squad's Interview SquadCast

Pop Culture Squad's Interview SquadCast

Pop Culture Squad

This podcast is the collection of Spotlight Interviews recorded by the staff of Pop Culture Squad. There are lots of discussions with comic book creators and pop culture personalities about their work and process. Most of these interviews are transcribed along with other material at www.popculturesquad.com.We are @popculturesquad at Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Pop Culture Squad's Interview SquadCast episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Pop Culture Squad's Interview SquadCast for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Pop Culture Squad's Interview SquadCast episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Pop Culture Squad's Interview SquadCast - Ep. #032 SquadCast Interview with Fell Hound

Ep. #032 SquadCast Interview with Fell Hound

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02/07/23 • 22 min

In our latest episode We are happy to bring you a conversation bright new star in comics. Our guest Fell Hound is about to have here second solo comic published. It is a graphic novella called And We Love You. Fell wrote and illustrated this book. I have to say I am a fan.

This book which will be published this month from Scout Comics is the second book in the universe of Commander Rao. Her first book generated Ringo Award nominations and both of them started as crowdfunded projects on Kickstarter and were subsequently picked up for widespread release by Scout.

And We Love You is a prequel to Commander Rao, and it takes place about 10 years before the first story. As you will here in the conversation with Fell, I was absolutely blown away by this comic. It is full of emotion and poignent scenes.

It was great getting a chance to talk to Fell about this excellent book.

You can find our review of the book and some preview art at popculturesquad.com

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Pop Culture Squad's Interview SquadCast - Ep. #031 SquadCast Interview with Tony Fleecs and Tim Seeley
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01/20/23 • 48 min

In the latest episode of the Pop Culture SquadCast we sat down with a pair accomplished comic creators and talked about the book that they are creating together.

Both Tim Seeley and Tony Fleecs are known for creating excellent and inventive comics over the past couple of decades, and this one is off to a great start.

The two cartoonists are creating a book called Local Man that focuses on a superhero who is at a low point in his life and has to go back to his hometown and solve crimes without using his super powers.

Local Man is being published by Image Comics and issue one comes out next month.

We spent some time in our conversation talking about the interesting way that Seeley and Fleecs have worked together to create this comic. Since both have been writers and artists and letterers on comics, they are able to divide up the work in creative ways.

We also talked about their take on the state of the comic industry and what being and independent creator means today.

We hope you enjoy the conversation.

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Pop Culture Squad's Interview SquadCast - Ep. #030 SquadCast Interview with Actor Michael Nathanson

Ep. #030 SquadCast Interview with Actor Michael Nathanson

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01/06/23 • 20 min

We are roaring back into the new year with more exclusive Pop Culture Squadcast interviews. This latest episode was recorded last month while we were at LA Comic Con. The folks there were able to connect us with this opportunity for an exclusive one-on-one interview.

Actor Michael Nathanson has recently launched a unique and interesting podcast called Playing Dead, and he was gracious enough to spend some time with us talking about the project. We discussed the origins of the concept and some of the interesting things he learned through the process.

The concept for this podcast is that Nathanson, who played Sam Stein in Marvel's The Punisher on Netflix, spends time talking to actors and other film professionals about the experience and mechanics of dying on-screen. It is a great concept, and the interviews are extremely well crafted and executed.

Nathanson is a very talented actor who has been in dozens of roles in TV and Film. In addition to his main cast role on Season 1 of The Punisher, he was also a major part of the Cinemax series The Knick as Dr. Levi Zinberg. He has appeared in films such as Young Adult, Side Effects, and The Wolf of Wall Street.

Our conversation, while focusing on Playing Dead, also veered into the realm of Geekdom. Nathanson grew up reading comic books and loving sci-fi. We nerded out a little bit, and I hope you enjoy the conversation.

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Pop Culture Squad's Interview SquadCast - Ep. #029 SquadCast Interview with Cavan Scott and Nick Brokenshire
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11/11/22 • 35 min

Welcome Back

In our latest episode of The Pop Culture Squadcast We are happy to bring you a conversation with a pair of creators who have a very cool comic project coming to shops soon. Writer Cavan Scott and artist Nick Brokenshire will be debuting Dead Seas from IDW Publishing in December.

This pair of longtime collaborators have a massive list of comic work between them. We have already reviewed the first issue of their new creator-owned book Dead Seas which you can find on popculturesquad.com. I was super excited to get the opportunity to talk about it with them.

Cavan Scott has written quite a bit of Star Wars content in novel, audio book, and comic form over the years. He also has written for properties such as Pacific Rim, Transformers, Doctor Who, Adventure Time and more. His creator owned comics include Shadow Service from Vault and The Ward from Dark Horse Comics.

Nick is an comic artist who has worked on Star Wars, Transformers, and The Once And Future Queen among others.

We talked about the process of making their latest collaboration and spent some time talking about the differences of growing up a fan of the comic media in the UK verses America.

We hope you enjoy the SquadCast
You can check out the transcript on the main article for this interview. HERE

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Pop Culture Squad's Interview SquadCast - Ep. #028 SquadCast Interview with Jeffrey Burandt and Sean Von Gorman of Ghost Planet
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09/15/22 • 46 min

Our latest spotlight interview brought us to a team of collaborators about to bring a sci-fi horror comic to stores near you this October. Writer Jeff Burandt and artist Sean Von Gorman have Ghost Planet releasing on October 19th from Scout Comics.

We spoke with the two creators about the inspiration for the book as well as the interesting history of what went into getting it published. Ghost Planet is a forty-page one-shot comic about a family of space explorers that land on a planet with a terrible secret. The first two chapters were released on Webtoon as part of a weekly challenge.

This pair have been frequent collaborators and we talked about some of the cool things that they are working on besides Ghost Planet.
You can find some pics and a review of the comic on popculturesquad.com

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Pop Culture Squad's Interview SquadCast - Ep. #027 SquadCast Interview with Shelly Bond

Ep. #027 SquadCast Interview with Shelly Bond

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08/15/22 • 61 min

Our latest spotlight SquadCast interview is with comic editor and publisher Shelly Bond. She is a returning guest and we were able to spend some time talking about her latest project Fast Times in Comic Book Editing.

Her latest effort from Offregister Press, the company that she runs with her husband Phillip Bond, is part memoir and part editorial handbook focusing on her time working on the Vertigo Imprint at DC Comics.

She had a hand in some of the most important comics of the 90s and that helped shape her into the superstar comic editor that she is today.

We talked about Shelly's projects including the recently completed Filth and Grammar: The Comic Editor's Secret Handbook, and Geezer. We also talked about comic books in general and why they became her passion.

You can see the more about the kickstarter and other info on popculturesquad.com

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Pop Culture Squad's Interview SquadCast - Ep. #026 SquadCast Interview with Cecil Castellucci

Ep. #026 SquadCast Interview with Cecil Castellucci

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08/12/22 • 45 min

Our guest this episode is Cecil Castellucci, who is one of my favorite writers. We talked about a her new book Shifting Earth from Dark Horse Comics.

Cecil is a fantastic writer and never fails to capture my attention. I am very excited to get this recorded conversation to our audience. We delved into some of the interesting process that she uses to write and talked about her motivation for the stories she tells. We also talked about some of the non-comic things that she is doing.

She is one of the most interesting people I have every spoken to and we hope you enjoy listening to the conversation as much we enjoyed having it.

You can see the review and other info on popculturesquad.com

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Pop Culture Squad's Interview SquadCast - Ep. #025 SquadCast Interview with Phillip Kennedy Johnson

Ep. #025 SquadCast Interview with Phillip Kennedy Johnson

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07/05/22 • 72 min

A couple of weeks ago, we caught up with rising superstar comic writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson. Johnson is super busy creating comics, but we talked about the three biggest announced projects that he is working on.

Recently, it was revealed that he will be writing the new series of James Bond from Dynamite Entertainment, with artist Marco Finnegan providing the visuals. That series begins next month in August.

We also spoke about what is going on in the pages of Action Comics from DC Comics where Ricardo Federici, Johnson's partner in crime from the Last God has taken over primary art duties from Daniel Sampere.

As is usually the focus of our comic creator chats, we spent quite a bit of time talking about Phillip's writing process and techniques. Some of that highlighted the excellent work that he has been doing on the Marvel Comics series Alien with artist Salvador Larroca.

It is always illuminating to talk to Phillip and we have transcribed some of the interesting newsy bits of the conversation at PopCultureSquad.com. Give the SquadCast a listen and let us know what you think.

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Pop Culture Squad's Interview SquadCast - Ep. #024 SquadCast Interview with Mark Russell

Ep. #024 SquadCast Interview with Mark Russell

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05/12/22 • 60 min

In this episode of the Pop Culture SquadCast we spoke with writer Mark Russell. It's been about seven years since Mark burst on the scene with his breakthrough book The Flintstones from DC comics.

Since that time, he has delivered a string of smart, thought provoking stories in the medium including Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles, Second Coming with Ahoy Comics, Red Sonja from Dynamite Entertainment, Billionaire Island, Not All Robots from AWA Studios, and so much more.

We spent some time in this conversation talking about his two upcoming series which are Superman: Space Age on which he is work with legendary artist Mike Allred. And The Incal: Psychoverse that he is doing with Yanick Paquette.

If you are a fan of Mark Russell's work at all, you know that we had to touch on some current events and nature of human society. It was a lot of fun.
You can find some links and a partial transcription here.

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Pop Culture Squad's Interview SquadCast - Ep. #035 SquadCast Interview with Philip Bond and Will Potter of Geezer
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04/13/23 • 43 min

We are great supporters of independent and, especially, crowdfunded comics. One of the best individual new comics that we read last year was Geezer #1, which was funded on Kickstarter and published by Off Register Press.

Geezer tells the story of the almost remembered and not quite successful Britpop band Geezer. It is brilliant concept that writer Will Potter and artist Philip Bond have rendered into a uniquely sized comic book. The misadventures of this imaginary band dovetail perfectly with real life events and style choices that put the story squarely in the timeline of the height of popularity of real bands like Blur and Oasis. There is a terrific cast of characters and Bond's visually artistry is magnificently displayed in a seven inch square format to match the size of vinyl record single.

Issue number two of this series, which expected to be a five-issue event, is nearing the end of its crowdfunding run on Kickstarter. We had the opportunity to talk to both Will and Philip about the project. There are some fantastic stories in this SquadCast about the origins of the project and what they hope for the future of the series.

The campaign ends noon Eastern Daylight Time on Saturday April 15th. That is plenty of time to back this project and listen to this fun interview with a great pair of blokes. We hope you enjoy the conversation and check the PopCultureSquad post to see more about the campaign.

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FAQ

How many episodes does Pop Culture Squad's Interview SquadCast have?

Pop Culture Squad's Interview SquadCast currently has 37 episodes available.

What topics does Pop Culture Squad's Interview SquadCast cover?

The podcast is about Marvel Comics, Society & Culture, Comics, Comic Books, Podcasts and Dc Comics.

What is the most popular episode on Pop Culture Squad's Interview SquadCast?

The episode title 'Ep. #031 SquadCast Interview with Tony Fleecs and Tim Seeley' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Pop Culture Squad's Interview SquadCast?

The average episode length on Pop Culture Squad's Interview SquadCast is 44 minutes.

How often are episodes of Pop Culture Squad's Interview SquadCast released?

Episodes of Pop Culture Squad's Interview SquadCast are typically released every 31 days, 12 hours.

When was the first episode of Pop Culture Squad's Interview SquadCast?

The first episode of Pop Culture Squad's Interview SquadCast was released on Nov 26, 2019.

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