Podcast: Bitches on Comics

featuring Sara Century

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featuring Maria Dong

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featuring Eliza Victoria

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Featuring Juliana Hyrri

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We chat with comic creator Fell Hound about her comics Commander Rao and And We Love You, getting into how the larger story came together, the process of self-publishing, and her creative process. Plus, sad lesbians! Revenge! And, most importantly, will Commander Rao kiss us?!

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Publisher Sam Richard of Weirdpunk Books has come on the pod to chat with us about the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of operating an indie…

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Well, well, well, it’s Halloween again, and we’re here as a group to chat about some of our favorite horror films. First up, Monika Estrella…

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The great Wi-Moto Nyoka makes a victorious return to Bitches On Comics! After guesting on Sara’s Mediums of Horror series last year through Patreon, she’s back for our ongoing Spooktacular with a thoughtful discussion on her work through the Dusky Projects production company, including Sara and Monika’s favorite horror podcast, Black Women Are Scary. This conversation is in celebration of BWAS’s third season which is currently underway. Listen to this, and then listen to that! Or vice-versa!

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Carmen Maria Machado makes a victorious return to Bitches On Comics! After helping us close out our Pride Extravaganza, she’s kicking off the Spooktacular with…

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We talk to fiction writer Izzy Wasserstein about her new short story collection from Neon Hemlock: All the Hometowns You Can’t Stay Away From, how the collection came together, the overall shape of the collection and so much more! We also talk Star Wars, hurting our siblings as kids, and why problematic queer characters are so desperately needed.

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We interview Brent Fisher and Michele Abounader about their LGBTQIA+ anthology The Color of Always, getting into gatekeeping in comics, the magic of queer anthologies, building creators up, and telling their own stories. We also discuss their new comics publisher Extra Pages Press and their upcoming projects!

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We talk to the delightful Sara Tomko and Alice Wetterlund about their SYFY tv show Resident Alien, airing now. They get into what it’s like working with a collaborative creative team behind the scenes, how they bonded as friends both on- and off-screen, and why an alien gives us such an incredible lens into what it means to be human.

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We talk to the incredible Wendy Chin-Tanner about the publishing company she runs with her husband Tyler: A Wave Blue World. We discuss their anthologies Young Men in Love, Embodied, and Deadbeats. We also talk about Wendy’s own writing in comics and poetry, her upcoming novel, and her journey as an artist, academic, editor, and mother.

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We have an absolute blast talking to Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti! We talk about The Invincible Red Sonja and what was on their bucket list for Sonja. They also take us behind the scenes on writing Harley Quinn, getting into working with a publisher, how they see all their HQ titles connecting, her relationship with Poison Ivy, and so much more.

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We talk to the incredible comic creator and editor Alina Pete about Indigenous storytelling, her experiences as a Cree storyteller, and translating Indigenous stories to the graphic form. Alina tells us about The Woman in the Woods and Other North American Stories and so much more!

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For our final Pride Extravaganza interview of 2022, we talk to Carmen Maria Machado about her memoir In the Dream House, her short story collection Her Body and Other Parties, and her graphic novel that absolutely rules The Low, Low Woods! We discuss the relationship between reality and speculative fiction, how trauma and abuse form us and who we choose to be in the aftermath, and the nature of being queer creatives.

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In celebration of Pride, we host a roundtable with the good people of Silver Sprocket where we talk zines, zine-making, and the queer nature of zines. Publisher Avi Ehrlich discusses Silver Sprocket’s spirit of not asking for permission and supporting artists to be just that: artists. Creators Archie Bongiovanni (Grease Bats, Mimosa, Yes, I’m Flagging), and Eddy Atoms (Pinky and Pepper Forever) discuss their creative processes, the difference and overlap between comics and zines, how they bring that DIY attitude to everything they do, and more!

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We interview Eliot Laurence about his series Motherland: Fort Salem, getting into what it’s like to create a show that’s lived in your mind for so long, why the show is queerer than you might think, why Raelle and Scylla (Raylla) absolutely rule, and how fandom can fuel art.

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We talk to Hamish Steele, creator of Dead End: Paranormal Park, about his new Netflix series, what it was like to transition from the page to the screen with their original story, why fatphobia sneaks its way into animation, and why trans and queer representation thrives when it’s both overt and subtextual. Not only does the lovely Ayoola Solarin join to interview Hamish, but Ayoola sticks around to give us a super special peek behind the scenes!

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Stephanie Williams is back on the pod! And, this time we’re talking DC Pride, Nubia: Queen of the Amazons, Trial of the Amazons, and everything else Steph has been up to! We dive deep on the love between Nubia and Io (NubIo, if you will), Black queer representation and relationships, and why it matters so much to make Philipus canonically the mom of Diana and wife of Hippolyta. Plus, so so much more. Get ready to laugh, y’all!

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We kick off our Pride Month Extravaganza with the insightful Nadia Shammas talking about her graphic novel Squire, her upcoming graphic novel Where Black Stars Rise, and so much more. We get into writing about empire, gender feels, and the importance of Palestinian stories.

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We interview Grace Ellis, creator of Lumberjanes and Moonstruck, about her new graphic novel with Hannah Templer: Flung Out of Space, Patricia Highsmith’s impact on our culture and literature, Ellis’ deep love of queer comics, and the limits of coming out stories.

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We talk to three comic creators to answer listener questions. Danny Lore (Lunar Room, Queen of Bad Dreams, James Bond) and Natasha Alterici (Heathen, Eat the Rich) discuss the best way to support queer and trans comic creators, getting into buying floppies, checking books out from the library, and much more. Jay Edidin (Captain America Infinity, X-Men: Marvels Snapshots) answers a listener question about transmasculine representation in comics and which comics he recommends.

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We interview writer and editor Jay Edidin about his comics X-Men: Marvels Snapshots and Captain America: Infinity, as well as his zine Ruby Quartz Panic Room, getting into the representation of neurodivergence and queer and trans identities, the White Supremacist appropriation of history, and the pitfalls of bothsidesism. We also cover such hard-hitting topics as: how Wolverine would handle Zoom meetings, whether Cyclops’ skill with geometry is related to his mutant gene, and how Cap feels about unions.

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We interview the incredible Crystal Frasier and Val Wise about their lovely YA graphic novel Cheer Up! Love and Pompoms. We talk about sports stories, teen queer romance, the power of centering a trans girl’s story, and learning to move from performative allyship to actual allyship. We go deep on trans identities, femininity, and how we’re all impacted by misogyny.

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This week we talk to Dailen Ogden and Brittany Matter about their new surreal, trippy comic Dead Dreams: The Lucid Chronicles—click below to support the Zoop campaign to fund Issue #1! We also get into the collaborative process of creating comics, translating the dream state to the page, and questioning the nature of reality.

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We have a few updates for y’all! We discuss Sara’s growing menagerie, the podcast’s new format, and introducing our new host Monika Estrella Negra! You’ve heard her on the pod before–and now she’s back with a vengeance! (slash microphone)

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We interview Stephanie Williams, writer of Nubia and the Amazons, about getting to write Nubia, why our new queen absolutely rules, and making Themiscyra more trans and queer than ever! We talk about the romance between Nubia and Io, discuss the lovely and important Bia, the first known Black trans woman on Themiscyra, and talk about why we love Wonder Woman and the surrounding mythos so much.

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We interview the lovely Robin Richardson and Taylor Curreysmith about their new all-ages graphic novel House of the Queerbodies, which is now on Kickstarter! We get into body diversity, queer and trans representation, the process of interpreting an interpretation of fairy tales, and making art you can see yourself in.

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