Where have your intrepid hosts Sam & Marnie been these past few weeks? Where are the new episodes?! This mini-episode "mea culpa" tells all. More full episodes from us soon!By Image Plus Text

Publisher, essayist, comics writer and all-around bon vivant RJ Casey joins Sam and Marnie in a discussion about learning about art (and liiiiife) through writing and thinking critically that launches from RJ's weekly art essay project, “I Like That.” Also in this episode: feeling heavy on safari, the pleasures of finding new work, challenging ours…

Comic artist Eddy Rivera joins Sam and Marnie for a hard look at how our personal histories affect the characters we create and the kinds of stories we want to tell. Also in this episode: gendering corn plants, the tools we use to create more richly developed characters, the ethics of incorporating or appropriating other people's stories in to our …

Sam and Marnie sit down with cartoonist/animator Lale Westvind (Hot Dog Beach, Hyperspeed to Nowhere, Now and Here) to talk about spontaneity in cartooning. Also in this episode: Cartoonists who don't read comics, rules that set you free, and favorite stories by Jorge Luis Borges. Sam recommends: Netflix/BBC TV show "The Fall"Marnie recommends: The…