Artist Liana Kangas joins Matthew on Comics For You! Liana gets into her origins in fine art, comics retail, and discusses how building a community of incredible comics creators helped her find her path to her amazing career.

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Read Matthew's newest webcomic, Sight Rhyme, for FREE on Tapas: https://tapas.io/episode/3624503

Crashing by Matthew and Morgan Beem: https://www.amazon.com/Crashing-Matthew-Klein/dp/1684059879

Liana's Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/cw/lianakangas

The President and Publisher of Oni Press, Hunter Gorinson comes on to give you some insights behind the scenes of one of the highest pressure jobs in all of comics. What's it take to run an entire publisher? Putting together a pub plan, what you look for in a comics pitch, how to inspire and lead a team to do their best work, we get into everything on this one. The curtain's pulled back on Comics For You.

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Read Matthew's newest webcomic, Sight Rhyme, for FREE on Tapas: https://tapas.io/episode/3624503

Crashing by Matthew and Morgan Beem: https://www.amazon.com/Crashing-Matthew-Klein/dp/1684059879

Oni Press: https://www.onipress.com/

Comics For You welcomes Morgan Perry, Marketing Manager, Book Publishing for Square Enix America! Morgan deep dives into all things manga, manwha, manua. From the best starter reads, to how she works with comic shops to build their manga sections you'll hear an in-depth look into the format.

Want some great reads?

Crashing: https://www.amazon.com/Crashing-Matthew-Klein/dp/1684059879

No Rhyme Or Reason: https://tapas.io/series/No-Rhyme-Or-Reason/info - FREE

The Rhyme Scheme: https://tapas.io/series/The-Rhyme-Scheme/info - FREE

Sight Rhyme: https://tapas.io/episode/3624503

Super excited for our guest this episode! Anthony Del Col is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer/producer of podcasts and comics. His comics and graphic novels include KILL SHAKESPEARE with the latest comic dropping this past April and for sale now, Romeo Vs Juliet, linked to below. He's also written comics and Audible dramas for ASSASSIN'S CREED; he wrote LUKE CAGE: EVERYMAN and the award-winning Business Insider comic I ESCAPED A CHINESE INTERNMENT CAMP, a first-person exploration of a Muslim woman’s imprisonment by the Chinese government which won the the 2022 Pulitzer Award for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary. HIs 2024 BBC esports audio thriller DON’T LISTEN TO THIS was nominated for a 2025 Ambie Award for Best Scriptwriting - Fiction. Matthew and Anthony really get into the craft of writing this episode, distilling writing almost into a recipe, as Anthony outlines all of the different steps he takes with his projects. This is some of the most fun deep diving into the creative process on Comics For You yet!

• Support by ordering a copy of CRASHING
• Don't Listen To This Episode 1 by Anthony on BBC Radio: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00268wy
• Pick up a copy of Romeo Vs Juliet!
• Matthew's FREE webcomic NO RHYME OR REASON

Editor Jake Williams of IDW Publishing stops by to talk all things Godzilla as he helps launch the new "Kai-Sei Era" of titles! Jake tells us about his comic book origin story, how he found the voices for these new Godzilla comics, and the risk/rewards of taking a big swing with a beloved character.

Godzilla #1 is on sale July 23rd at your local comic shop!

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Matthew is joined by incendiary artist Jorge Corona. Jorge’s currently killing it on the beloved and bestselling Transformers series with Daniel Warren Johnson for Skybound but they also talk about Jorge's time in New Gotham and beyond. This was truly a treat to talk shop, Jorge’s beginnings as a graphic design student in Venezuela, his worst comics related injury, what it’s like living in a two artist household, and a heartbreaking story of theft. If you want to understand the grind of making amazing stories this is the episode for you!

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We've reached episode ten!!!! Matthew's joined by Harley Salbacka, Community and Events Manager for Tiny Onion. Harley talks all things about planning, designing, budgeting, and building booths at comic cons in addition to staffing and dealing with the unexpected. Like, when celebrities' flights are canceled! Harley also tells some fun stores of managing a Los Angeles comic shop and selling to customers like Batman himself, Robert Pattinson; Black Panther, the late Chadwick Boseman; "Superman" director James Gunn; and others. This is a fantastically fun chat!

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Matthew and artist Morgan Beem are on. Comics For You this weekend talking all about what it was like working on their book CRASHING, green flags and red flags reviewing pitches, negotiating rates, the crazy work schedule comic book artists are working on and Morgan's latest book YOU BELONG HERE. If you're new to comics this is the perfect episode to dive into!

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