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1 on 1 interview show featuring the creative minds behind Comics TV Film Novels & Animation. Hosted by Chicago Pop Culture expert, John Siuntres

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Ten years ago this month George Carlin passed away . His daughter Kelly joins us to talk about her father's incredible career and the release of a new DVD box set the explores the comedian's comedic evolution. From his "Mad Men"... more

Where We Live is The Image Comics anthology in tribute to the victims and survivors of The Las Vegas Shootings .Today's episode feature conversations with some of the creative forces behind the project. First Editor Will Dennis is... more

The Legendary Phil Proctor of The Firesign Theater is back to share more stories from his career in films, television, sketch comedy albums and animation voice overs . Phil has a new podcast of stories from his show biz career- The Proctor... more

Word Balloon welcomes artist extraordinaire Dan Brereton. Dan chats about his career from his work creating The Nocturnals series to his spin on the Dick Grayson Barbra Gordon Love Affair Batman : Thrillkiller co created with Howard... more

Big news yesterday that Stuart and Kathryn Immonen are stepping away from comics for awhile. Let's look back on my convesations with Stuart about Nextwave, Ultimate Spider-Man, Fear Itself, His Superman run as writer and... more

Sort of shocking news yesterday that Comic creators Kathryn and Stuart Immonen are stepping away from the industry for awhile to focus on non comics projects. Stuart is getting the majority of the coverage, but Kathryn has always been a... more

What Happens when a Child Media Celebrity doesn't want to be famous ? Kupperman's new graphic novel is a serious look at his father's years as a childhood star of Old Time Radio's The Quiz Kids. The weekly Chicago based... more

Jesse Blaze Snider brings his brand of humor in this new graphic novel. The Rocker's new GN is a hilarious comment on Religion by way of a musical reality show competition His indie go go campaign is underway. He talks about the... more

Lucifer Showrunner Joe Henderson is back with a spoiler filled look at the series finale. We get into the character arcs of season 3 and the excellent performances and storytelling the cats and crew created this year. We also discuss the save... more

Charles is back to promote his debut novel The Oracle Year. A real world look at what happens when an honest to god prophet starts correctly predicting the future and how the reliogious political and social cultures respond . Plus we talk... more

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