Illustrator, Ben Walker-Storey loves monsters, ghosts, creepers and kaiju. On the Cheap Chills Podcast, Ben talks with other artists and creators about how macabre movies, gothic toys and forbidden comics influenced their life and their artwork. <br/><br/><a href="https://cheapchills.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">cheapchills.substack.com</a>
Cheap Chills - On Art and Monsters
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Illustrator, Ben Walker-Storey loves monsters, ghosts, creepers and kaiju. On the Cheap Chills Podcast, Ben talks with other artists and creators about how macabre movies, gothic toys and forbidden comics influenced their life and their artwork. <br/><br/><a href="https://cheapchills.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">cheapchills.substack.com</a>
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November 13, 2025
Animate fast with Fresco and screen recording
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit <a href="https://cheapchills.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7">cheapchills.substack.com</a><br/><br/><p>I’m trying a new technique to quickly animate things by using screen capture and a new feature in Adobe Fresco. It’s a way to add some quick motion when you don’t have all day.</p><p>Let me know what you think.</p><p>*If this looks at all complicated its because I insisted on having an animated background and separate head for my character. </p>
July 28, 2025
Mattie Lubchansky "Just Draw the Pages"
<p>Apologies for the long gap between episodes. I’ve been chipping away at a few of my favorite kind of projects; the ones that don’t pay. So this podcast has had to take a back seat. It may come back at some point or may not. Follow me on Instagram at Cheapchillsfanclub and do me a kindness? Check out my Twitch channel, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.twitch.tv/cheapchills">Cheapchills</a> to see what’s next.</p><p>This episode is really a break from a break because I have a special guest with a new book coming out.</p><p><strong>Mattie Lubchansky</strong> is an Ignatz award-winning graphic novelist. Their new book <strong>Simplicity</strong> comes out July 29. It’s a vibrant new graphic novel about a timid academic sent out from the walled dystopian security territory of New York City to investigate a cult in the wilds of the Catskill Mountains.</p><p>Mattie and I talk about telling stories as an indie comic creator, political cartoons, podcasting about local government (corruption) and so, so much more!</p><p>We did forget to talk about monsters though so at the halfway point I’ll tell you about a movie I just saw that really hit different; the 2017 Japanese stop-motion film, <strong>Junkhead</strong>.</p><p>Get <a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/simplicity-mattie-lubchansky/21997655?ean=9780593701126&next=t&next=t">Simplicity</a></p><p>More at <a target="_blank" href="https://mattielubchansky.com/">mattielubchansky.com</a></p><p>Watch Junkhead free on <a target="_blank" href="https://tubitv.com/movies/100040381/junk-head">Tubi</a>, Kanopi, and Hoopla </p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://cheapchills.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">cheapchills.substack.com</a>
April 24, 2025
Anders Nilsen - on Tongues & The Too Scary to Watch Challenge
<p>For this episode I’m joined by Anders Nilsen, the artist and author of ten books including Big Questions, The End, Poetry is Useless and Tongues. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Poetry Magazine, Kramer's Ergot, Pitchfork, The New Yorker and elsewhere.</p><p><strong>On Art:</strong> We get into everything from pre-visualizing comic page layout to how Tin-Tin comics feel like plays. </p><p><strong>On Monsters:</strong>The two of entered into a challenge. To watch that movie that we’ve been avoiding our whole lives and compare our thoughts and feelings. For Anders, it was John Carpenter’s 1982 film <strong>The Thing</strong> which he had seen around age 13 and not since. For me it was <strong>The Texas Chainsaw Massacre</strong>. We also get into Repo Man, Harold and Maude and a whole lot of Terry Gilliam talk (Brazil, Time Bandits, Fisher King).</p><p><strong>More from Anders</strong>- <a target="_blank" href="https://www.andersbrekhusnilsen.com/">andersbrekhusnilsen.com</a></p><p><strong>Ben’s portfolio </strong>- <a target="_blank" href="https://benwalkerstorey.com/">benwalkerstorey.com</a></p><p>Below are some affiliate links. You can help support the show by clicking through at no extra expense to you. Thanks!</p><p>Get <a target="_blank" href="https://amzn.to/3RtOnBJ">The Thing</a> on DVD/Blu-ray </p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://amzn.to/42r5kD1">The Texas Chainsaw Massacre</a> on DVD/Blu-ray </p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://amzn.to/42L2Y0L">The Fisher King</a> on DVD/Blu-ray </p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://amzn.to/42Yu3yO">Brazil</a> on DVD/Blu-ray </p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://amzn.to/4lKslZ6">Time Bandits</a> on DVD/Blu-ray </p><p></p><p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://cheapchills.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">cheapchills.substack.com</a>
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