332. Gene Ha on his AAPI experience

Gene Ha is becoming a regular on the show! For AAPI Heritage Month, I wanted to share conversations with Asian Americans about their experience growing up in the US. Gene was kind of enough to share his childhood memories growing up in South Bend, Indiana.

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Phil Jimenez

278. Phil Jimenez on Wonder Woman, mentors and gratitude

Phil Jimenez is an Inkpot, Diamond, and Wizard-award-winning writer and artist who has worked for DC Entertainment, Marvel Entertainment, and a host of other comic book companies for nearly 30 years.

He is best known for his work on Tempest, The Invisibles, New-X-Men, Wonder Woman, Infinite Crisis, Amazing Spider-Man, and now Wonder Woman: Historia, the Black Label graphic novel written by Kelly Sue DeConnick who I had on the show a few weeks ago.

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Greg Rucka

264. Greg Rucka on discipline, learning and creativity

I am always grateful when Greg Rucka graciously takes time out of his busy writing schedule to podcast with me.

In this episode, we avoid current events and delve into some self-reflection on the relationship between creativity and content as well as the importance of discipline.

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Matt Fraction

132. Matt Fraction on writing comics, hard work, and empathy

If you look up Matt Fraction, you will find a bio that sounds a little like this: Matt Fraction writer of: (writer): SEX CRIMINALS (Image), Jimmy Olsen (DC), CASANOVA (Image), HAWKEYE (Marvel), and NOVEMBER (Image) writes comic books out in the woods and lives with his wife, the writer Kelly Sue DeConnick, his two children, two dogs, a cat, a bearded dragon, and a yard full of coyotes and stags. Surely there is a metaphor there.

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Kelly Sue

129. Kelly Sue DeConnick is a Deadly writer

Kelly Sue DeConnick is a writer of comics and an all-around fabulous person. Some of her titles include BITCH PLANET, PRETTY DEADLY, AQUAMAN, & CAPTAIN MARVEL. She is best known for rebranding Carol Danvers’ as Captain Marvel. In fact, the portrayal of Captain Marvel you see in the films can be traced back to Kelly Sue’s version of her character.

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