Zero Hour

Graphic Policy's Elana Levin joins me for a conversation about the cross-section of fandom and activism and her own history of growing up a solitary comic fan.

A comic book based biography in podcast form. Every month, Kieran Shiach talks to a new guest about their relationship with comic book culture and how it shaped them into the person they are. Isabella & Blodwen's Rachael Smith sits down with me for take two of our attempt to record a podcast to talk all about autobio comics, crowd-funding campaigns and Sonic The Comic. --- Support Isabella & Blodwen on Unbound! You can read Jack & Lucy in its entirety for free! Please check out the other podcasts under the Good Egg Podcasts banner: Journey Into Misery and Under The Hood Thanks to Joe Hunter for our Zero Hour artwork. Our theme music is Seeing The Future by Dexter Britain, licensed under Creative Commons.

Two-Headed Press' Christopher Sebela joins us to talk all about mail order comics and the prevalence of Tim Burton's Batman.

Assassinistas' Tini Howard joins us for the return of Zero Hour to talk about the nature of fiction when you're a child, why Iron Man was right and working with Gilbert Hernandez.

Rosie Knight joins me for Zero Hour to talk about Love & Rockets, mid-2000s Image Comics and wasting time on bad recommendations.

Gently Murder Me's Rebecca Epstein joins me to talk about Warren Ellis, Spider-Man and letting go of the direct market.

Strip Panel Naked's Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou joins me to talk about Watchmen, Hush and applying critical thinking to the deconstruction of comics craft.

Meg Downey, host of Boy Problems, drops by Zero Hour to talk about Sailor Moon OCs and getting into superhero comics out of spite.

Last Song's Sally Cantirino joins me this week on Zero Hour to talk about Nickoledon Magazine, EC Comics and The Umbrella Academy!

Spidey Zine's Hannah Blumenreich stops by Zero Hour to talk all about X-Men video games, mid-2000s manga and of course, The Amazing Spider-Man.

The Gospel of Carol's John S. Troutman takes part in the Zero Hour to talk about third-hand experiences with superhero fiction and growing up via the wild west of webcomics.

The Once And Future Queen's Adam P. Knave stops by Zero Hour to talk about The Legion of Super-Heroes, The Flash and collaborative comics.

Kim Reaper's Sarah Graley joins the Zero Hour to talk about The Beano, Sonic The Comic and Goosebumps, among other things.

Matt D. Wilson joins the show to talk about Spider-Man, Superman III and reading comics way to mature for a small child's mind.

"Calamity" Jon Morris joins me to talk all about Superman, Superman and Superman. There's some other stuff too, like Crisis on Infinite Earths and his mother's love for the Legion of Super-Heroes.

Unsworn's David Wynne joins me to talk about X-Men, Punisher, UK newsagents and the comics choices therein.

This week we're joined by critic and comics writer Katie Schenkel to talk about comic strips, webcomics, Watchmen and her upcoming series Moonlighters.

I'm joined by one of my closest friends, Elle Collins, to talk about Hawkeye, Batman omnipresence, Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends and weird Vertigo one-shots from the mid-nineties.

We're back for good and joined by James Leask to talk about Batman iconography, newspaper strips and Joss Whedon's comics ouvre.

Chris Sims joins Kieran to talk about Batman throwing a car battery, X-Men comics acquired from Pizza Hut and reading every single issue of The Punisher.