Today we welcome legendary comics writer Joe Kelly to explore his remarkable career! We get into the joint Marvel/NYU Stan-Hattan Project that gave him his start, his redefining run on Deadpool, his acclaimed Spider-Man work, and his time on Uncanny X-Men and Action Comics. Joe reflects on co-founding Man of Action Studios and creating the global phenomenon Ben 10, how he balances solo comics writing with collaborative animation work, his current run on Amazing Spider-Man with artists Pepe Larraz and John Romita Jr., and his approach to storytelling across comics, animation, and film.

You can find and follow Joe on all the major socials @thatjoekelly.

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We sit down with veteran comics artist Howard Simpson (who also works under the pen name Poppy) to explore his diverse career that began after earning his BFA from Tyler School of Arts and working as a commercial artist during the 1980s for major clients including Action News, Bantam Books, Sony, and various Fortune 500 companies. Howard shares his transition from commercial work and fanzine contributions to breaking into professional comics with DC, working on titles like Green Lantern, The Outsiders, Secret Origins, and Young All-Stars, as well as inking Dark Horse's Captain Crusader. We dive into his prolific 1990s work across multiple publishers including First Publishing's Grimjack and Munden's Bar, Heroic Comics' Captain Thunder and Blue Bolt, Icicle, and League of Champions, Topps' Ray Bradbury Comics: Martian Chronicles, and his extensive contributions as penciller, inker, and background artist for Acclaim's Valiant imprint series like Turok, plus his work illustrating Timon and Pumbaa stories for Disney Adventures. Howard discusses the differences between commercial art and comics, working across so many different publishers and genres, the craft of inking versus pencilling, and how the comics industry evolved from the 80s through the 90s.

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Acclaimed comics writer Mike Carey joins the show to take us through his remarkable career! While working as a teacher for 15 years, Mike began breaking into comics with heavy metal biographies and 2000 AD stories, before moving into mainstream with a Lucifer miniseries that unexpectedly became a critically lauded 75-issue run! We dive into his Marvel work on a slew of Ultimate titles and a lengthy X-Men tenure, where he collaborated with some of the most sought-after artists. We also get into Mike's creator-owned series, The Unwritten, with Peter Gross, which explores the power of stories and fiction, his work on Wetworks and Hellblazer, and his Felix Castor prose novels blending detective fiction with supernatural elements.

You can follow Mike on X @michaelcarey191.

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Thank you to Sam Fonseca for our theme music, Sean McMillan for our graphics, and Pat McGrath for our logo.