Presenting “Inkstuds Spotlight”
February 4th, 2014 by david brothers |I try to do a couple of big blogging projects a year, whether it’s blacking out on the whole of Frank Miller’s work on Batman or scratching the surface of why I like Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira. It’s a chance to focus and do just one thing for a while, to empty thoughts out of my head I couldn’t find another place for, and to satisfy my own curiosity. Robin McConnell asked me to think about doing some stuff for his Inkstuds comics podcast over a year ago, and last month, I saw a space in my schedule between a relatively complicated winter and the beginning of con season, had a brainstorm, and took the opportunity.
So here’s what it is: Inkstuds Spotlight is a chance for me to satisfy my own curiosity about what it’s like to “be in comics.” I made the move from fan to employee last year, and it brought with it a whole new set of things to worry about. But I don’t really care about me, because I’m way more interested in what cartoonists, academics, bloggers, critics, and other people in or adjacent to comics do. Hawking books, working tables, coming up with lesson plans, making minis, covering comics, all of that.
Over the course of the next month, I’m going to put up a bunch of interviews in the 30-40 minute range—I’m aiming for two a week, but I may end up with a few more—with people in and around comics, talking about what they do and why. I don’t have a script, preferring to let the conversation go where it wants to go, but I did ask each person how they came to comics and what their comics community is like. Beyond that, it’s anything goes. This won’t be exhaustive or comprehensive, because there are literally not enough hours in the day for that. But hopefully it will be a lot at the very least.
I’m really happy about this and hopefully you’ll dig it, too. To make sure you can’t escape my voice, my friend Joe Hughes at ComicsAlliance is going to syndicate the posts in addition to them going up on Inkstuds, since I really believe that site has something to offer and I probably miss contributing there a little.
The plan is for podcasts to go up on Tuesday and Thursday morning each week, hopefully at 0900 Eastern. We’re looking at slight technical difficulties this morning, but we’ll get it sorted and then you can maximize your crush on me by making my laugh into your text message alert. (I laugh a lot. Sorry.) I’ll link posts here as they go up if you don’t visit either of those sites.
I promise this isn’t a way to trick you into listening to rap music by accident.
Edit: the Inkstuds post is live, and so is the one from ComicsAlliance!
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If you accidentally found your way to making a rap podcast, I wouldn’t be mad.
is this going up through the regular inkstuds RSS feed? excited to hear these.
if there is rap music for the front/end bumper, i don’t think you would have many complaints.
@travis: Yeah, it’ll be on the Inkstuds RSS. The CA posts are supplemental, I figure? Putting them in front of a different audience.
No bumper music, tho. Just in and out, no gimmicks.
I almost never listen to podcasts of any kind because I somehow lack the ability to both do things and listen to things at the same time (even music), but I’m going to try and keep up on these!
These have been really interesting and entertaining! Nice work, and very much look forward to the rest!