Today's episode has Greg chatting with emerging comics creator and mechanical engineer Clayton Rozman about his upcoming 80-page western horror original graphic novel Yellow Moon, featuring art by Bruno Letizia and lettering by Ferran Delgado. Yellow Moon follows hunter Henry Tremblay and sidekick mutt Spango as they investigate the silent Colorado mountain town of Carpenter Falls, find everyone dead, and become trapped in a snowbound survival-horror creature feature with themes of facing fears.
But while the conversation takes turns talking about horror and atmosphere and using comics-specific tools like lettering and coloring to pull off an experience not easily replicated in other media, a recurring touchpoint is Rozman's engineering day job and how that analytical mindset comes to play in his creative work. Measure twice, cut once, and keep breaking things until you figure out how to keep them from breaking....
[This episode is number 844 in a series.]
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
02:18 – Cold (Email) Calling
04:12 – The Pitch
06:05 – Engineer By Day
09:55 – Learning To Write Comics
16:28 – Denny O'Neil Lessons (and Iron Man Digression)
22:16 – Lettering As Storytelling
29:52 – Finding The Team
34:30 – From Miniseries to Original Graphic Novel
37:18 – The Power of Snowflakes
42:50 – Writing For An Artist
48:45 – Life After The Script
50:44 – Outro
22 Sept 2026
Paul Gravett on QUEER AS COMICS
Greg welcomes comics historian/curator Paul Gravett back to the show to discuss his QUEER AS COMICS exhibit at the newly opened Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration in London. Paul goes deep into not only the exhibit's Tom of Finland origins, but the origin of the Centre as well. He spotlights forgotten cartoonist Barb Kutzner, one of the queer artists this show is finally getting proper recognition for. He talks broadly about comics as a queer medium, neither this nor that, as well as where the show's title came from (it's not where you think!). Paul lays out his curated approach designed to invite unprepared visitors, and its survey of queer comics with a UK emphasis while including wider work; he highlights how comics' hybrid, often self-published nature has enabled queer expression, from Tom of Finland onward. They discuss feedback, exhibition design choices that let visitors handle select comics, and the important role of the advisory board in making the show what it is.
From there the discussion goes to Tove Jansson, one of Paul's other perpetual interests and someone with their own important place in queer comics, and Windsor McCay, before shifting to Paul's own background in comics. Greg gets the man with no nostalgia, no loyalties, and no limits to at least indulge in a little retrospection on their own career. How ESCAPE Magazine helped build a community of 'indivisualists' and what advice he has for a Paul Gravett of 2026 looking to follow his example. All that, plus some Bill Sienkiewicz fanboy-ing, an ARE YOU BEING SERVED explanation, and more!
[This episode is number 843 in a series.]
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
07:36 - Quentin Blake and Illustration and Tom of Finland
10:33 - Finding a New Home
14:28 - What's in a Name?
17:07 - Comics as a Queer Medium
21:48 - Curating Tone and Access
25:58 - Finding the Lost Barb Kutzner
33:46 - It Takes a Village: The Advisory Board and Scope
44:19 - Windsor McCay's Earliest Drawing
47:06 - Tove Jansson
53:32 - ESCAPE Magazine and UK Comics Finding Their Place
1:00:37 - Building a Comics Community
1:06:31 - Anthology Craft and Flow
1:09:07 - Indivisuality and Influence
1:15:27 - Comics for These Times
1:20:45 - Questioning Manga and Markets
1:22:31 - Knowledge in the Aggregate
1:26:42 - Outro
20 Aug 2026
IN YOUR SKIN: The Exit Interview
Aditya Bidikar came onto the show to talk about the first issue of his mainstream comics writing debut, In Your Skin, from Image Comics. Now that the Bollywood body horror identity and parasociality exploration In Your Skin has reached its conclusion, writer Aditya Bidikar is back to talk about the story as a whole, free to spoil as necessary to get to the heart of what he was going for...and he brought backup: Som, his Mumbai-based artist & collaborator who brought In Your Skin to life. While he has worked primarily in film, animation, and VFX, SOM has done comics work before, most notably with Philip Kennedy Johnson on BOOM!'s Crocodile Black. But In Your Skin doesn't read like a book from early in someone's career. It reads as a work of confidence from all sides, and this episode peels back a layer (or three) on its life and legacy.
[This episode is number 842 in a series.]
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
08:22 - Serialization and Reader Confusion
14:55 - Coffee Shop Sketching Method
19:31 - Key Poses
25:23 - Coloring Collaboration
29:39 - The Physics of Skin
34:31 - Unlocking the POV
37:34 - The Epiphany
40:38 - Issue 4 Reveal
48:38 - The End Mirroring The Beginning
53:34 - Where Reader Sympathy Lies
58:23 - The Dude Playing The Dude Playing The Other Dude
01:03:26 - Realism and Art Influences
01:06:44 - Decisions and Options
01:12:56 - That Last Page
01:17:40 - The Necessity of Hope?
01:26:11 - Outro
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