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November 10, 2021

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #148: Take a Look

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #148 by Drew Barth Take a Look Making comics is difficult. I’ve only made a few scripts and that was difficult enough when not coupled with art duties. But when working with someone else, the work feels less solitary—the line dividing you from the rest of the world… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart, manga

November 7, 2021

Episode 497: Lenny Dellarocca and Michael Mackin O’Mara, of The South Florida Poetry Journal!

Episode 497 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). On today’s show, I discuss poetry, literary magazines, and Miami Book Fair with editors Lenny Dellarocca and Michael Mackin O’Mara, of The South Florida… Continue reading

Editing, Episode, Literary Magazines, Poetry

November 5, 2021

The Curator of Schlock #376: House II: The Second Story

The Curator of Schlock #376 by Jeff Shuster House II: The Second Story Sequel in name only. There I was, stuck in a prison cell in the town of Mooseville in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. I figured some sort of trial awaited me for the crime of being a tad late with some factory… Continue reading

Episode, Horror, The Curator of Schlock

November 3, 2021

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #147: Telling Tall Tales

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #147 by Drew Barth Telling Tall Tales I’ve been reading comics for a bit—I think I started sometime around 2006—and while that isn’t as long as many other people, I’ve still be around long enough to see the different eras and trends emerge in that time. Among… Continue reading

Blog Post, Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart

November 1, 2021

The Perfect Life #26: Out of Time

The Perfect Life # 26 by Dr. Perfect Out of Time Since Charlie Watts passed away last month, I have really struggled to live my life. I realize this sounds crazy. The Stones are already on tour without him, and while that’s not right, the show must go on. The music must go on. Charlie… Continue reading

Music, The Perfect Life

Charlie Watts, The Rolling Stones

October 30, 2021

Episode 496: TDO vs. The Curator of Schlock #9

Episode 496 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). On this week’s show, Jeff Shuster and I discuss the sensitive contribution to cinema that is Tokyo Gore Police. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES TDO listeners… Continue reading

Episode, Film, Horror, The Curator of Schlock

Beavis and Butthead, Blade Runner, Eihi Shiina, Escape from New York, Ichi the Killer, John Carpenter’s The Thing, Oscar Wilde, Robocop, Russ Meyer, Scanners, Shakespearean Comedy, Streets of Fire, The Trials of Oscar Wilde, Tokyo Gore Police, Yoshihiro Nishimura

October 29, 2021

The Curator of Schlock #375: House

The Curator of Schlock #375 by Jeff Shuster House William Katt for the win! As I was saying, Edwige and I were being held captive by an angry mob in a small village in the province of Saskatchewan. I blacked out after having been zapped by a cattle prod. I woke up in a solitary… Continue reading

Horror, The Curator of Schlock

October 27, 2021

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #146: Old Cat, New City

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #146 by Drew Barth Old Cat, New City Gotham is an essential setting in the DC Universe. We’ve seen it change dozens of times over the years. How far into the future can the city go and still be recognizable? Cliff Chiang pushes Gotham far into a troubled… Continue reading

Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart

October 23, 2021

Episode 495: TDO vs. The Curator of Schlock #8

Episode 495 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). On this week’s show, Jeff Shuster and I discuss a delightfully gory horror musical from the director of four Saw movies. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES… Continue reading

Episode, Film, Horror, The Curator of Schlock

October 20, 2021

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #145: Guess We’ll DIE

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #145 by Drew Barth Guess We’ll DIE Let’s reach our way back to the second thing I ever wrote for this article and talk about what is now one of my favorite comics of this century: Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans’ DIE. It’s been over two years since… Continue reading

Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart

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