Discussing the Game of Thrones S8 Premiere with uniquely qualified experts: Steven Attewell is the founder of Race for the Iron Throne, which covers A Song of Ice and Fire chapter-by-chapter from a historical and political angle. In addition to two published collections of the chapter-by-chapter essays, Steven is also the author of "Kings, Hand ...…

In the 1940s this hero’s comics outsold Superman and his movie debut sure is better than the recent Superman movies. We discuss the film, the comics that inspired it and, the City of Brotherly Love that it’s set in. My guests are: Anthony Otero: a two time novelist and a contributor to The Puerto Rico Strong Anthology. He is also a member of th ...…

Writer Cecil Castelluccidiscusses how Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Saga powers her new comics series The Female Furies. Female Furies depicts Big Barda’s own feminist awakening on the hell planet Apocalypse--a world so much like our own. Cecil Castellucciis the award winning and New York Times Bestselling author of books and graphic novels for you ...…

Without his left wing politics Green Arrow is just Batman! Our guests this episode certainly know, having just finished a three-issue run on Green Arrow to close out the series. That's right, our guests are comics most dynamic duo. The New Blue and Gold: Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly. Jackson and Collin are screenwriters and New York Times Bes ...…

Jay Edidin is half of the podcast Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men (“because it’s about time someone did”). He writes comics, short fiction, and narrative nonfiction; and edits comics, transmedia, and genre fiction. Jay was named comicbook.com's 2017 Comics Person of the Year for his investigative coverage of harassment issues at D.C. Comics and ...…

Captain Marvel merits a conversation that can celebrate it’s feminism and anti-Imperialist themes while criticizing its Air Force propaganda packaging. Queer subtext? 90s throwbacks? We’ve got you covered: Chelsea Manning is Captain Marvel!How we're shapeshifters (Elana's essay about feeling like a Skrull for Wired.com )Monica is the hero“Top G ...…

DC's new high concept streaming TV series is based on the cult classic comics. The show is exclusively available on DC's streaming platform DC Universe. Is the show good? Is it worth subscribing to the platform? We discuss the service and the show's first two episodes in depth (first part is spoiler-free). We also geek out on the brilliant comi ...…

“I wanted to be the Adam Hughes of Guys” - Artist Nick Robles discusses drawing wings and tails, the makings of a good pin-up and other professional advice. Nick Robles is a freelance artist from southern Louisiana. Self-taught, he works with digital art as his main medium. He's been published by BOOM!, IDW, BLACK CROWN, VAULT, DARK HORSE and c ...…

Robot means laborer. O Human Star, is a webcomic about a trans robot, the humans who made her and the complex world of robotics and human development they all live in. I interviewed series creator Blue Delliquanti. Blue is the creator of the Prism Award-winning webcomic O Human Star. Blue is also the co-creator of the graphic novel Meal (with S ...…

Brilliant queer television for all ages. Steven Universe is “The First Time I’ve Seen Someone Like Myself on Television”Queer family will heal societyWhite Diamond’s White Hegemony Neoliberalism is brittle, a false fusionGuests try to convince Elana to watch a mecha anime? Ethan Gould is a visual artist and project developer living in Brooklyn. ...…

“I write professional fan fiction. We get paid to do it” Leah Williams is an American writer originally from Oxford, Mississippi. She writes comics for Marvel, BOOM! Studios, Dynamite Entertainment, and more. Her debut novel was a YA Fantasy book titled The Alchemy of Being Fourteen and she is currently writing its sequel, The Divinity of Hitti ...…

Punisher Season 2 is coming so at the recommendation of our guest, I finally decided to cover Marvel Netflix The Punisher Season 1. Sean T. Collins is the co-editor of the comics and art anthology Mirror Mirror II and a critic for the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Vulture, Decider and many other publications. Can two leftists enjoy a TV show a ...…

From comics for kids to adults-only graphic novels, from superheroes-- Marvel, DC, Valiant and Lion Forge-- to creator-owned Twisted Romance, from slice of life to horror, we read A LOT of comics in 2018. Here are some our favorites! Bilal Shelby is a non-binary writer who focuses on queerness in historical and speculative fiction. Alex K Cossa ...…

Alexis Sanchez is the creator and co-founder of Latinx Geeks, an online community for latinxs who love all things geeky and pop culture. She is a student by day and geek fangirl by night. Bill Scurry is a filmmaker and podcaster living New York, with his wife and cat. He's the co-host of the "I Don't Get It Podcast," a frequent contributor to " ...…

Miles Morales’ feature film debut is breaking boundaries and winning accolades. Join us for a conversation about: This most comic book of all comic book movies"It's like Obama’s 8 years"The superpower of invisibility vs hypervisibilityMiles’ charter school (waiting for Spider-Man not Waiting for Superman)Why did we wait so long for a brown Spid ...…

She-ra is Netflix new cartoon is a diverse, queer feminist re-envisioning of a cartoon from the 80s. It’s by showrunner Noelle Stevenson of Nimoa comics fame and we LOVE it. Joining Elana to talk about it are: Mey Rude is a queer, fat, trans Latina, a writer, a tastemaker and a lover of nerds. She lives in LA and you can find her writing at Aut ...…

DIE is a pitch-black fantasy published by Image Comics where a group of forty-something adults have to deal with the returning unearthly horror they barely survived as teenage role-players. If Kieron’s in a rush, he describes it as “Goth Jumanji.” That only captures a sliver of what you’ll find in oversized debut issue—where fantasy gets all to ...…

Daredevil was Born Again in Season 3 of the Netflix series. From brown-washing the FBI to NY pizza history, questionable journalism to plot significant Abstract Art and, Catholic Symbolism as far as your radar can sense. Who better to talk about it all than Pulitzer Award winner Spencer Ackerman, Senior National Security Correspondent for The D ...…

The politics and place of Stan Lee, as told by two self admitted Jack Kirby Jacobins trying to find a balance in a tale of conflict and legends. Stan Lee and: Being Jewish The creative process Civil RightsThe Vietnam WarThe lawsuitsThe digressionsAnd screwing over Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko I'm joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Spence ...…

We survived the election to bring you in-depth analysis of the Season 7 Finale. Join us for a look at the season’s themes, Empire Strikes Back vs Barbarella (only one of them has Terence Stamp playing Dildano) and a whole lot of Guild of Calamitous Intent ritual borrowed from the Masons. Steven explains who the fuck is Saphrax (and also who’s H ...…

Batman: Secret Files #1 features comics writer and critic Cheryl Lynn Eaton's debut Batman story! She joins us to talk about her comics and critical writing about DC, Wildstorm and the latest Marvel Netflix series. A New York metropolitan native (now safely nestled in the outskirts of Atlanta), Cheryl Lynn Eaton has contributed to pop-culture s ...…

Things get Freudian, Jungian and John Carpenter-ian in the penultimate episode of Venture Bros Season 7. Join @Elana_Brooklyn and @StevenAttewell on a journey up the Hudson River to a real life secret island castle and meet the Villian With 1,000 References. We play Myth Busters about such topics as lawn darts and “chelation”. So listen to the ...…

Come for the long game Venture Bros. lore, stay for the explanation of Curtis Sliwa & the Guardian Angels. Which far fetched as it sounds, is a real thing. Our podcast examines the themes of The Venture Bros show and all of its cultural and historical references. In this episode Steven Attewell and Elana Levin draw on their knowledge of NY, pop ...…

This week’s episode, The Unicorn in Captivity is a perfect illustration of why we do this podcast: it is rich with Christ symbolism and Kubrick references. The episode is named after and significantly features one of a series of High Renaissance unicorn tapestries I just so happen to have studied, set in NY’s none-more-goth museum, The Cloister ...…

Ramon Villalobos is a professional comic artist living in Stockton California. He's worked on books for Marvel such as Nighthawk, Secret Wars:E is for Extinction, America, among others and now Border Town (co created with Eric M. Esquivel) for Vertigo Comics. "When a crack in the border between worlds releases an army of monsters from Mexican f ...…

The Venture Bros has rich continuity and character arcs over years. Layer on pop culture and historic reference with thematic significance? It's a lot. So join pop culture & NY history experts Elana Levin and Steven Attewell for our podcast examining each episode of the Adult Swim show. Season 7 episode 6: The Bellicose Proxy Wherein: Newish vi ...…

How many times did you cry watching The Adventure Time Series Finale? Come along with me as we discuss the meaning of the series finale of this revolutionary Cartoon Network show. We’re joined by Oliver Sava who leads the Onion A.V. Club’s Adventure Time coverage, also freelancing for Vulture, and Chicago Reader. @OliverSava And Jameson Hampton ...…

The Venture Brosshow has rich continuity and character arcs that play out over many years. Then layer on pop culture and historic references with thematic significance? It’s a lot to sift through. So join pop culture and history experts Elana Levin and Steven Attewell for our Podcast examining each episode of this hit Adult Swim show. This is S ...…

Love The Venture Bros cartoon but afraid of missing the plethora of historical references and layers of meaning behind each episode? Join pop culture and history experts Elana Levin and Steven Attewell for our Podcast examining each episode of this hit Adult Swim show. This podcast is about Season 7 Episode 4: The High Cost of Loathing Professo ...…

Love The Venture Bros cartoon but afraid of missing the plethora of historical references and layers of meaning behind each episode? Join pop culture and history experts Elana Levin and Steven Attewell (whose secret identity is that he’s an actual historian) for our Podcast examining each episode of this hit Adult Swim show. This podcast is abo ...…

Love the Venture Bros. cartoon but afraid of missing the myriad of historical references and layers of meaning behind each episode? Join pop culture and history experts Elana Levin and Steven Attewell (whose secret identity is that he’s an actual historian) for our Podcast examining each episode of Season 7 of this hit Adult Swim show. This epi ...…

Love the Venture Bros cartoon but afraid of missing the myriad of historical references and layers of meaning behind each episode? Join pop culture and history experts Elana Levin and Steven Attewell (whose secret identity is that he’s an actual historian) for our Podcast examining each episode of Season 7 of this hit Adult Swim show. This epis ...…

San Diego Comic Con is an economy in itself. This is the US's biggest pop culture convention and it has massive implications not just in nerd friendly TV, Movies and oh yeah, comics -- but also in politics. Get the Graphic Policy Radio style scoop on the convention on our site and also from this week's guest and resident San Diegan: Arturo R. G ...…

Marvel's latest superhero block-buster Ant-Man & The Wasp is a light-hearted heist movie about a crook turned superhero. It's also about found family, the criminal justice system and women in science. Also the Mexican community's profound love of Morrissey. It also features the MCU's 1st Woman of Color villian. Narrative Strategist and life lon ...…

Tini Howard is a writer and swamp witch from the Carolina Wilds. Currently, she writes Euthanauts, Assassinistas (with Gilbert Hernandez) for Black Crown Comics (fmr Vertigo editor Shelly Bond's new imprint) and Hack/Slash: Resurrection, with occasional stories for two of her favorite things: Rick and Morty and WWE. Her previous work includes P ...…

Season 2 of Legion on FX, the nominally X-Men based prestige TV show, gave us a lot to talk about from mental health to memes to retro aesthetics. Leonardo was such a great guest talking Legion Season 1 what with his background in mental health we're thrilled to have him back! Leonardo Faierman was born in Buenos Aires, raised in Queens, on the ...…

Taneka Stotts is a queer little tumbleweed that has found herself back in the home embrace of the desert known as Los Angeles. After spending quite a few years as a spoken word artist, Taneka's focus shifted to comics, a medium full of collaboration and imagination. Taneka writes the webcomics "Full Circle" which was recently nominated for a 20 ...…

The Cardboard Kingdom is a graphic novel about kids, creativity, and cardboard! The book follows a variety of children who all live and play in the same neighborhood -- throughout the many chapters, you'll see each child's story unfold, overlap with other kids' adventures, and finally converge upon an epic final quest before summer's end! The g ...…

Christopher Sebela is a two-time Eisner-nominated writer, designer and publisher living and dying in Portland, Oregon. He’s co-created books like Crowded, Shanghai Red, House Amok, Evolution, Heartthrob, High Crimes, We(l)come Back, Dead Letters as well as publishing his comics Short Order Crooks and The Death Defying thru his Two Headed Press. ...…

So what I really wanted was a Lando Movie. Does a Han Solo prequil have much to offer Star Wars fans? How about with a revolutionary droid by his side!? So what do two life long Star Wars fans and political organizers think of the latest installment in the Star Wars empire? I'm joined by Steven Attewell. Steven writes about the intersection of ...…

Deadpool 2 brings the merc with a mouth to the big screen again along with the first canonically queer couple in a major superhero movie. We are Queer Marvel comics fans and we have opinions. Guests: Charles Pulliam Moore is a staff writer atio9where he covers comics and genre culture with a focus on race, representation and queer identity. htt ...…

The Cellarius Universe (CX)— is an original, transmedia cyberpunk franchise that leverages blockchain technology and user-generated assets to create a collaborative, fan-curated story. That means they want you to be a part of the writing process! Do fans want to write a new universe? And how does all this work? What role does diversity and repr ...…

Image Comics presents a surprisingly honest and touching account of a trans girl surviving through sex work in Seattle. THE PERVERT is an unflinching debut graphic novel that is preoccupied with work—what we put into our work and what it takes from us. Continuing the narrative begun in the Eisner-nominated comics magazine ISLAND, THE PERVERT fe ...…

Join us to discuss the Marvel Cinematic Universe' biggest crossover to date. Our guest experts are Marvel fans with an academic bend: Steven Attewell writes about the intersection of history, politics, and pop culture in The People’s History of the Marvel Universe for Graphic Policy. In his day job, He teaches public policy at CUNY’s Murphy Ins ...…

Hey, we haven't seen Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War yet either! But Graphic Policy Radio is going on a journey to the center of Infinity to absorb the legendary comics that inspired Marvel movies' cosmic storylines. Today we focus on the comics of Jim Starlin, the artist and writer who co-created Thanos and who was the source of much of Marvel ...…

Jeremy Whitley, creator of Princeless and Unstoppable Wasp returns to Graphic Policy to talk about two of my favorite comics about pirates: Raven the Pirate Princess & the new series Sea of Thieves, based on the hit video game. Raven the Pirate Princess is full of humor, high seas romance and all the amazing diverse queer and feminist lady pira ...…

Slade Wilson aka Deathstroke may be the worst dad in DC Comics but the solo series he stars in, by writer Christopher Priest and artists including Larry Hama, Carlo Pagulayan, Cary Nord, Diogenes Neves and more, is one of the hottest comics today. Deathstroke is full of politics, violence, poor personal choices, byzantineplots and Episcopalian ...…

DC Comics is revisiting Jack Kirby's Masterpiece, the Fourth World in a new Mister Miracle miniseries wirtten by Tom King and art by Mitch Gerads. It's being called the best comic of the year and a worthy tribute to one of The King of Comic's most personal works. Graphic Policy Radio is going into a deep dive discussing the first seven issues w ...…

After a cataclysmic plague sweeps across America, survivors come together to form citystate-like communities for safety. Out beyond the settlement walls are innumerable dangers: feral animals, crumbling structures, and Abominations; those that were touched by the plague and became something other – something as beautiful as it is deadly. Welcom ...…

Puerto Rico Strong is a comics anthology that explores what it means to be Puerto Rican and the diversity that exists within that concept, from today's most exciting Puerto Rican comics creators. All profits will go to towards Disaster Relief and Recovery Programs to Support Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico Strong is available in comic shops:,March 14, ...…