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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #349: Jangling Keys
While rivalries between publishers have been a constant since comics began, it’s their points of coming together that feel much more monumental. With the initial publication of Amalgam Comics in 1996 and its fusions of DC and Marvel characters and continuities, we could see how the creators at the time would smash their toys together. Continue reading
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Video: Mickey Mousing Around #4: Responding to the Barn Dance, with Samantha Nickerson
John and Samantha return to bring their literary sagacity to an early cartoon featuring Mickey Mouse’s clumsy feet and a lot of tense rivalry around who will be Minnie’s date at the barn dance. Continue reading
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Episode 692: Fire x Fire x Fire 2025 with Tod Caviness and Dianne Turgeon Richardson!
Episode 692 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). On this week’s show: John concocted a daft poetry game for friends with a body of work substantial enough to withstand randomization of theme and Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia Playlist #150: An Unwanted Milkshake
Sublime eclectic mayhem. That’s been my playlist project and musical life, one that begins with The Muppet Movie soundtrack and later involves performing hymns, death metal, surf, and bluegrass. I’ve played in theaters, tents, and basements, for multi-stage festivals and squirrel rodeos. I’ve written and recorded music for The Drunken Odyssey. Sublime eclectic mayhem. A Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #348: Stitching the Clues Together
It’s been at least a year since I last mentioned John Allison, so I’m going to have to remedy that. It is always fun when a creator you’ve been following for close to two decades is still putting out work that feels completely and uniquely their own, but whose style has remained consistent over all that time. Considering Continue reading
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Video: Reacting to Steamboat Willie
For purely literary reasons, John and Samantha return to react to and discuss Mickey Mouse’s public debut in “Steamboat Willie,” which seems less rough around the edges than “Plane Crazy” and “Gallopin’ Gaucho.” The first cartoon in synchronized sound features a gaggle of sonic gags that still feel fun after nearly a century. Continue reading
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Video: The Drunken Odyssey Academy #3
Here is the third installment of TDO Academy, in which I instill a respect for sentences and paragraphs as units of meaning. Continue reading
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Episode 691: A.J. Rodriguez
Episode 691 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, John speaks with fiction writer A.J. Rodriguez, the June-July 2025 Kerouac Project of Orlando resident. NOTES Check out AJ’s story “Papel Picado” over at “The Common.” Learn more about The Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #359: Dark Fury
“I’ve been betrayed by my own brother,” the Revenging Manta said with incredulaty. “I must face them. It is a point of honor.” The traitorous Albert Simmons faded back into the hoard of gang members while the enforcer, Elle, reached behind his back and produced a mace that he swung to and fro. The Revenging Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia #149: A Smack of Olives
Sublime eclectic mayhem. That’s been my playlist project and musical life, one that begins with The Muppet Movie soundtrack and later involves performing hymns, death metal, surf, and bluegrass. I’ve played in theaters, tents, and basements, for multi-stage festivals and squirrel rodeos. I’ve written and recorded music for The Drunken Odyssey. Sublime eclectic mayhem. A Continue reading
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