STAPLE 2015 "Pitching Comics" Panel with Janelle Asselin, hosted by Meredith Nudo, a valiant Valkyrie from Houston, TX. Whether looking to pitch your own or just learn more about the process of how comics are made, this is a great primer on all of the above.

An excerpt of this interview was originally featured on Giant Size #33: Heart and Soul, our STAPLE 2015 Special.

• Janelle Asselin on comicbook db, Twitter, her in-its-final-hours Kickstarter for Fresh Romance, and the Rosy Press website, the future home of all things Fresh Romance
• You can find the complete slide presentation used by Janelle right here.
• You can learn more about STAPLE at their website. Make plans to go the next time it swings around (generally/historically, early March).

Monica Gallagher started making comics on the web, but before that, anime and manga (and Elfquest) made her a fan who wanted to create in addition to consume.

An excerpt of this interview was originally featured on Giant Size #33: Heart and Soul, our STAPLE 2015 Special.

• Monica Gallagher on comicbook db, her website, Twitter, and Tumblr
• You can learn more about STAPLE at their website. Make plans to go the next time it swings around (generally/historically, early March).

STAPLE 2015 Q&A with Brooke Allen, Grace Ellis, and Babs Tarr, hosted by Annie Bulloch, Valkyrie owner of 8th Dimension Comics in Houston, TX. Behold (...be-hear?) the origin of "Lumberjumbies", as coined by Brooke Allen and as memorialized on the Lumberjanes page at Wikipedia.

This Q&A was not excerpted or otherwise used on Giant Size #33: Heart and Soul, our STAPLE 2015 Special. Think of this as a Special Edition Extra you'd get in the big of a big, expensive hardcover.

• Moderator Annie Bulloch owns and operates 8th Dimension Comics in Houston, TX and is very active on Twitter.
• Brooke Allen on comicbook db, Twitter, and Tumblr
• Grace Ellis on comicbook db, Twitter, and Tumblr
• Babs Tarr on comicbook db, Twitter, and Tumblr
• You can learn more about STAPLE at their website. Make plans to go the next time it swings around (generally/historically, early March).

Brooke Allen (illustrator, speaks first) and Grace Ellis (writer, speaks second) are two of the co-creators of the mega-smash-hit, *New York Times-bestselling *Lumberjanes.

This interview was originally featured (in full, uncut) on Giant Size #33: Heart and Soul, our STAPLE 2015 Special.

• Brooke Allen on comicbook db, Twitter, and Tumblr
• Grace Ellis on comicbook db, Twitter, and Tumblr
• You can learn more about STAPLE at their website. Make plans to go the next time it swings around (generally/historically, early March).

Terry Moore is the creator of Strangers in Paradise, Echo, and Rachel Rising. We discuss Rachel Rising and the importance of support from grassroots fans and local comic shops.

In Rachel Rising, the we open on a dead protagonist. They discuss the origins of the piece and his motivation for telling this story this way.

Related Episodes

• Excerpted in Giant Size #3: Jokey-Jokey Bang-Bang
• Terry previously appeared on Artist Edition #25: Terry Moore - Real Original Things

Show Notes and Links

• Terry Moore (twitter, website, ComicBookDB) is not only one of the great indie successes in modern comics, but one of the most-beloved creators by dedicated fans, whether they found him by his signature masterwork, Strangers in Paradise, or anything else he's done.
• All of Terry's creator-owned work can be ordered direct from him.
• Add Rachel Rising to your pull list at your local shop. That makes a bigger difference than anything.

Interview excerpted in Giant Size 2: Dimensional Color

Illustrator Ian Churchill (ComicBookDB) has worked on Hulk, Supergirl, Cable, and many others. He created Marineman, and is drawing The Revenge alongside writer/host/bon vivant/mega-geek Jonathan Ross (#1 out next week!). He talks about Miracleman/Marvelman, getting in as a fan, and an era when characters were allowed to be fun instead double-triple-dark.

• The Revenge by Jonathan Ross and Ian Churchill at Image Comics
• Marineman Vol.1 by Ian Churchill
• Miracleman/Marvelman
• Spider-Man from Beyond the Grave: A Rockomic on YouTube
• Doctor Strange by John Romita Sr (below)

Interview excerpted in Giant Size #1: The New SNIKT

Illustrator Herb Trimpe co-created Wolverine, and is often best-known for drawing the Hulk, but his personal fandom began with EC Comics, and, of all things, Donald Duck. Do not miss a chance to talk with him at a convention.

• EC Comics is a brand best-known for horror, and a style quite unlike the superheroes Herb became famous for drawing.
• Carl Barks deserves his recognition as one of the greatest cartoonists in history, and not just for his signature work on Disney's "ducks" (including his creation of Scrooge McDuck).
• Herb particularly loves the work of Wally Wood, John Severin, and Jack Davis, the latter of whom once did a caricature of Herb in the style of his TV Guide cover art.
• Not only did he draw The Defenders, he thinks they were a more interesting subject than the X-Men.

Jonathan Coulton wrote a song called "Code Monkey". His friend, comic book writer Greg Pak, made a joke on Twitter about how they should make it into a comic. He wasn't joking.

Show Notes and Links

• The Code Monkey Kickstarter
• Jonathan's website and where you can find him on twitter.
• Greg's website and where you find him on: twitter, tumblr, comicbookdb
• Subscribe to the Giant Size Channel Feed to get all of the main shows, extras, and uncut interviews like this one all in one place.
• Excerpted on ESN's Thank You For Calling! 18 (6 November 2014)
• TechHive Interview with Jonathan and Greg
• Screen Time 9: Transmedia Superhero (Greg Pak) will be migrated to ESN in November 2014.
• This interview was originally posted on 20 April 2013 as a part of the original 38-episode run of Giant Size (then an interview show) on the 5by5 network. It was re-published on 6 November 2014 using its original posting date to maintain a cohesive, "canonical" back catalogue

Kelly Sue DeConnick (twitter, tumblr, comicbookdb) started out writing comics by working on English-language adaptations of manga. Her work on 30 Days of Night: Eben and Stella led to job after job that eventually brought her to overseeing taking Carol Danvers from "Ms." Marvel to "Captain" Marvel, a long-overdue promotion.

Show Notes and Links

• Subscribe to the Giant Size Channel Feed to get all of the main shows, extras, and uncut interviews like this one all in one place.
• Excerpted on ESN's Giant Size 18: Permission to Kill Thanos (31 October 2014)
• Join up with the Carol Corps and punch holes in the sky of your own. Iron Man used to be "minor league" too...

• Ms. Marvel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Women Airforce Service Pilots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Mercury 13 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight (Martha Ackmann, Lynn Sherr)

• Promise the Moon (Elizabeth Joy Arnold)

• The ballet about the creepy old man who makes a pretty girl-shaped robot is Coppélia. 

• How to Suppress Women's Writing (Joanna Russ)

• This interview was originally posted on 17 November 2012 as a part of the original 38-episode run of Giant Size (then an interview show) on the 5by5 network. It was re-published on 31 October 2014 using its original posting date to maintain a cohesive, "canonical" back catalogue.

Originally posted 09 February 2014. Feed date modified to accommodate archival episode posting in numerical order.