The Graphic Histories Podcast

André continues the momentum of great conversations in 2025 with a guest whose writing is deeply inspired by many of the independent comics that shaped the young minds of those looking for something dark and different from their funny books.
Z.M.Thomas is a Native American comic book writer and creator from Prior Lake, Minnesota. He created Trepidation Comics in the summer of 2004 and has worked on several graphic novels including, Abe the Aborted Fetus, The Bible 2, Joseph Smith in Space, Echoes of Dawn, the 11th Hour, and Dead Reckoning.
Z.M. discusses wrestlers from Minnesota, discovering the work of Jhonen Vasquez, having Bibles thrown at him at conventions and how his also famous wife and his Venn diagrams overlap in the perfect way!

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André chats with a fellow Canadian east coaster from a provinces or two north known as "The Godfather of Newfoundland Comics".
Wallace Ryan, an artist and lifelong fan of all things comic-centric, has been at the heart of local comic culture since the mid-1980s, with a passion for larger-than-life characters and compelling stories that leap off the page dating back even further. His journey took him to the Ontario College of Art and Design, where the self-described “art-punk” honed his craft through stints in Toronto and New York City before returning to his roots in Newfoundland. Over the years, Ryan has worked on projects like the collaborative graphic novel Nobody is in Control, his personal passion project The Narrow Way, and Pure Comix, a homegrown celebration of graphic literature launched in 2019.
Wallace talks about his time pitching his work to Archie Goodwin at Marvel Comics, attending art school with some other Canadian comics greats, finding inspiration from Harvey Pekar and living in the a house older than Canada!

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Andre chats with Jeff Blyth a man who has had a hand in all aspects of film making with integral parts in cinematic history!A director, writer and producer whose film experience has taken him and his audiences to every corner of the globe. Millions of visitors to Disney theme parks have seen Blyth's artistry and technical expertise in Circle-Vision 360-degree films shot throughout America, Canada, China and Europe. His film-making skills also span an impressive range of media including IMAX films, theatrical motion pictures, television documentaries, episodic television and video-based computer games.Jeff discusses a very personal documentary he recently created about his father's experiences in WW2, Working with wild animals on the set of Disney's Cheetah, Spending 2 years in China to film Disney's first Circle-Vision film and finding light in the themes of cinema which often turn towards the dark!

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Our host has a chat with a delightful creator who brings a unique voice to the comics medium through a combination of family history and creation myth.
Snake is a poet, spoken word artist, comic creator, who graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media, at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. He has worked in and out of the film and TV industry for the last ten years, as a script reader, prop man and PA. Now he writes comics and letters them.
André and Snake chat about bringing fiction to fact when giving his grandparents a voice in his book, a love of the work of Warren Ellis and reading scripts for the British film industry. Our guest also brings a novel approach when recanting his life with comics.

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André speaks with another trailblazing Canadian comic creator Ronn Sutton!Ronn has provided amazing art for Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (46 issues), Fear Agent, Honey West, The Phantom, Man From U.N.C.L.E., Cases of Sherlock Holmes, Vampira, Spinnerette, Starbikers, Draculina and many more for a variety of publishers that have included Claypool, Dark Horse, Moonstone, Renegade, Northstar, Vortex, Brainstorm, and more.Join the conversation with as our guest details becoming fast friends with Bernie Wrightson, Organizing one of the first major Comic Conventions in Toronto, chilling stories from his time as a court room sketch artist and paying a naked Ted Nugent for a concert!

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