Best How To Draw Comics Podcast Podcasts (2025)

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Ep. 237 - M.H. Ayinde on combining sci fi and fantasy in her novels 51:20

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M. H. Ayinde was born in London’s East End. She is a runner, a lapsed martial artist, and a screen time enthusiast. She is the Sunday Times bestselling author of epic fantasy novel A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST (Orbit UK/Saga Press). Her short fiction has appeared in FIYAH Literary Magazine, F&SF, Fantasy Magazine, and elsewhere, and she was the 2021 winn…

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Perfecting Your Perfectionism 1:07:07

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How do you stop polishing and start publishing? Our strategies for overcoming perfectionism! Also — Dave has a little good news about the tariffs on imported books. Today's Show Dave Kellett at San Diego Comic-Con: Booth 1228 How to conquer perfectionism How to introduce a new dialogue font into your comic UPDATE: Tariffs on imported books Susan Ma…

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Ep. 236 - Intisar Khanani on telling diverse stories in fantasy 58:09

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Intisar Khanani is an award‑nominated American fantasy author and former public‑health consultant. Born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, she spent her childhood moving around—living in five U.S. states and time in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia—before settling in Cincinnati, Ohio, with her husband and two daughters. Her writing career began with the self‑published …

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Ep. 235 - J.R. Dawson on retelling myths and legends 55:11

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J.R. Dawson's debut, The First Bright Thing, is a Golden Crown award winner. Her shorter works are in places such as F&SF, The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018, and Lightspeed. Dawson lives on Dakota land in Minnesota with a loving spouse and three dogs. She is a professor at Drexel University's MFA program. Her second novel, The Lighth…

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Whose House Are You In? 1:09:06

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Are you a shameless self-promoter? Brad thinks a little bit of shame might be a good thing. Also — how do you find good comics? Today's Show Whose house are you in? Susan MacTaggart's personal affirmation Dreamhost.com/comiclab Oval vs rounded corber word balloons Finding good comics. Summary In this episode of ComicLab, hosts Brad Guigar and Dave …

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Ep. 234 - Carlo Lucarelli on drawing inspiration from history for his crime novels 48:25

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Carlo Lucarelli is an acclaimed Italian crime writer, journalist, screenwriter, and television presenter. He is best known for his detective novels, including the De Luca Trilogy and the Inspector Grazia Negro series, which have been widely translated and adapted for screen. Alongside his fiction, Lucarelli has hosted popular true crime TV shows in…

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The Raw Deal with Tyler Morrison: Canadian Stand-up Comic/ Famous Roast Battler Chimes in on the Canadian Entertainment Industry & Life These Days 1:55:51

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Got a story? Want to reach out? Send us a text! Jamie Jackson sits down with renowned roast battle icon Tyler Morrison to talk all things comedy & Canada’s entertainment landscape: what it really takes to chase a dream, put yourself out there, & make people laugh. The conversation dives into economic & cultural obstacles for Canadian artists, riffi…

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Ep. 233 - Laura Shepherd Robinson on moving from politics to page-turners 1:00:40

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Laura Shepherd-Robinson is the award-winning, Sunday Times and USA Today bestselling author of four historical novels. Her books have been featured on BBC 2’s Between the Covers and Radio 4’s Front Row and Open Book. Her fourth novel, The Art of a Lie, is out now. We had great fun chatting with Laura and hearing how she decided to move from working…

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I Met My Hero and They're a Zero 1:04:45

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What do you do when someone you looked up to turns out to be a jerk? Also, over a hundred years of comics history reveal a great deal about the importance of artists understanding business. Today's show I Met My Hero, and They're a Zero Susan MacTaggart's Personal Affirmation What 100 Years of Comics History Tells Us You get great rewards when you …

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Page One Extra - 5 Books That Influenced Sarah Pinborough with We Live Here Now 40:59

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Watch this episode as a full video episode on our YouTube channel! Sarah Pinborough is a New York Times bestselling and Sunday Times Number one and Internationally bestselling author who is published in over 25 territories worldwide. Having published more than 25 novels across various genres, her recent books include Behind Her Eyes and Insomnia, b…

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Episode 4- The Wars for the Map: The Seven Years’ War, the Fall of Québec, & Ghosts of New France 29:53

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Got a story? Want to reach out? Send us a text! ❄️ QUICK OVERVIEW: Stone ramparts, swirling snow, and two dying generals—Wolfe & Montcalm—set the stage for a contest that redrew the continent. From the Battle of the Plains of Abraham (1759) to the failed rebellions of 1837, we trace how maps inked in blood became the blueprint for a stubborn, still…

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Ep. 232 - Amelia Blackwell on bringing Jane Austen to the Modern Day 55:22

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Amelia Blackwell has a master’s degree in Creative Writing, a corn snake called Colin, and a deep love of the works of Jane Austen. Although the Boleyns appear in her family tree, it’s through marriage, not blood, which is probably just as well. Georgiana Darcy’s most persistent suitor in her novel A Crime Through Time, Baron John de Halighwell, ta…

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Special Guests Ryan North and Gillian Goerz 1:10:36

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While Dave was at Alaska Comics Camp, he had the opportunity to talk with Ryan North Gillian Goerz! Ryan North is the creator and author of Dinosaur Comics, and has written for the comic series of Adventure Time and Marvel Comics' The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and Fantastic Four. His works have won multiple Eisner Awards and Harvey Awards and made N…

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Ep. 231 - Jonathan Lee on what editing taught him about writing 1:00:58

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Novelist and TV showrunner Jonathan Lee is the author of four novels, including High Dive and The Great Mistake. He is creator, executive producer & lead writer of the BBC/ Netflix drama series “The Bombing of Pan Am 103”. Other TV projects include originating and executive producing the documentary series “Who Killed Jill Dando?” (Netflix, 2023), …

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Ep. 230 - Beth Lewis on Telling Women's Stories in the Wild West 1:01:15

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Beth Lewis is the author of five novels so far, including her debut, THE WOLF ROAD. My latest novel, THE RUSH, came out in the UK on 10th June 2025 and is out in the US on the 7th October. It was July’s Goldsboro Books Prem1ere Book Club pick and a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick. We had a great chat with Beth, hearing about the influences that went int…

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Special Guest Lucy Knisley 1:22:29

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While at Alaska Comic Camp, Dave Kellett had the opportunity to speak with cartoonist Lucy Knisley, a critically acclaimed and award-winning comic creator. She specializes in personal, confessional graphic novels and travelogues. LUCY'S BOOKS Lucy has published more than a dozen books, with several fantastic publishers. These have included: Simon &…

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Tech Harnessing & Publicity for Charity-- Richard's Heroic "Primed for Charity" Story: From PPCLI Infantry Officer to the Cat-Man-Do 45:40

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Got a story? Want to reach out? Send us a text! Check out Canadian Grit's First-Ever Official Interview! Also available on our BRAND NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL WITH VIDEO! 🏴‍☠️ 🌀YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erOPxMEIDFY 🌀Primed for Charity HomePage

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Page One Extra - 5 Books That Influenced DV Bishop for Carnival of Lies 42:29

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Watch as a full video episode on our YouTube channel D. V. BISHOP writes the award-winning Cesare Aldo historical thrillers, published by Pan Macmillan. A writer of many narrative forms, his love for Italy and the Renaissance meant there could only be one setting for his crime fiction. He has previously guested on the main podcast way back in Episo…

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Adventures in Publishing-land - Debut episode! 56:50

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Watch as a full video episode on YouTube! Subscribe to Adventures in Publishing-land's own feed for future episodes or watch on YouTube! Welcome to the very first episode of Adventures in Publishing-land! Join us as we discuss some of the biggest (and strangest) stories in publishing over the past few weeks. This week: 00:17 Intro 01:32 The Unbound…

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Ep. 229 - Fiona Cummins on moving from journalism to writing fiction 1:19:37

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Fiona Cummins is an award-winning former journalist and a graduate of the Faber Academy Writing a Novel course. Rattle, her debut novel, was the subject of a huge international auction and has been translated into several languages. It received widespread critical acclaim from authors and reviewers. She has since written bestsellers The Collector, …

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Special Guest: Jarad Greene 1:12:38

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While Dave Kellett was at Alaska Comics Camp, he had the opportunity to speak with Jarad Greene, a cartoonist who works on staff at The Center for Cartoon Studies and has helped color many graphic novels for younger readers. He is the author and illustrator of the graphic novels A-Okay, A for Effort, and Scullion: A Dishwasher’s Guide to Mistaken I…

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Ep. 228 - Jane Johnson on how her editing experience made her a better author 1:04:20

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Jane Johnson is a novelist, historian, and publisher. She is the UK publisher of many bestselling authors, including George R.R. Martin. She has written for both adults and children, including the bestselling novels The Tenth Gift and The Salt Road. Her latest book is Secrets of the Bees. We really enjoyed chatting with Jane and hearing how it was …

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Episode 3.2- Turtle Island, Interrupted (REDUX): The French Boy in the Smoke 54:28

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Got a story? Want to reach out? Send us a text! 🎧 Episode 3.2 – The Boy in the Smoke 🔥 Champlain, Brouage, and the Fire Before the Flame Before he was a mapmaker, a mediator, or a founder of nations, Samuel de Champlain was a boy — born in smoke, salt, and fire. In Episode 3.2 of Canadian Grit: North of Ordinary, we return to 16th-century France, w…

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Ep. 227 - Michael Cordy on using science as inspiration for his stories 1:00:36

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Michael Cordy's debut novel,The Miracle Strain/Messiah Code, was published in over twenty-five languages and reached the top five in the Sunday Times Bestseller List. Disney bought the film rights for $1.6 million. Another five novels followed: Crime Zero/The Crime Code, The Lucifer Code, The Venus Conspiracy, The Source and The Colour Of Death. Al…

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Alaska Comics Camp 1:01:15

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Dave Kellet returns from Alaska Comics Camp once more rejuvinated, recharged, and reinvigorated! He shares his joy-filled experiences from a week in Juno, Alaska, with about 60 other cartoonists sharing knowledge, friendship, and happiness. In the second half, a cartoonist shares her feelings of depression after losing a couple of cartooning contes…

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Drafting Notes - Does Networking Help as an Author? And How Do You Do It? 19:10

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Watch as a full video on our YouTube channel! Networking. It's a word that is very corporate and as a result off-putting to a lot of writers, but can it help? What are the best ways to go about it, either in person or online? And what shouldn't you do (learn about Marco's "Don't Be A Dick" rule...) Drafting Notes is a new series of podcast episodes…

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Episode 3.1: Turtle Island, Interrupted (REDUX): Director Champlain's Cut 59:35

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Got a story? Want to reach out? Send us a text! Episode 3.1 – Turtle Island, Interrupted (Redux): Director Champlain’s Cut 🔥 The Dawn of Modern Canada Before there was Canada, there was Turtle Island — a name, a memory, a map of stories passed from one generation to the next. But what happens when those stories are interrupted? In this cinematic re…

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Ep. 226 - CL Taylor on finding twists as she writes 1:05:58

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C.L. Taylor is the nine times Sunday Times bestselling author of eleven gripping stand-alone psychological thrillers: THE ACCIDENT, THE LIE, THE MISSING, THE ESCAPE, THE FEAR, SLEEP, STRANGERS, HER LAST HOLIDAY, THE GUILTY COUPLE, EVERY MOVE YOU MAKE and her newest book, IT’S ALWAYS THE HUSBAND, published on 5th June 2025. We loved chatting with Ca…

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How to fight loneliness all by yourself 59:53

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Today's episode is sponsored by Dreamhost. The first step in owning and controlling your own work is building a website, and Dreamhost is there to make that simple, painless, and inexpensive. Go to www.Dreamhost.com/ComicLab for details. The life of a comic artist is often a solitary one. Brad and Dave discuss ways of maintaining social connections…

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Drafting Notes - Writing Short Stories vs Writing Novels 19:20

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Watch as a full video episode on our YouTube channel! It's often assumed that writing novels and short stories use the same skill sets, but is that really true? What can writing short stories teach you about writing novels and vice versa? Should you always start out writing short stories? We discuss all this in the latest episode of Drafting Notes!…

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Episode 2.2- Before Canada Had a Name: From First Maps to First Moon Landing: Leif Erickson, the Avro Arrow, and the Space Race 1:06:45

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Got a story? Want to reach out? Send us a text! What if history wasn’t just a series of dates, but a map of the human soul? In this epic, cinematic journey through time and space, we trace the arc of exploration, ambition, and identity—spanning from Leif Erikson and the Vikings to JFK, the Space Race, the Avro Arrow, and Neil Armstrong landing on t…

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Ep. 225 - Kate Foster on making historical characters feel modern 58:53

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Kate Foster worked as a national newspaper journalist for more than twenty years before becoming an author. Growing up in Edinburgh, she became fascinated by its history and often uses it as inspiration for her stories. Her previous novels include The Maiden, which won the Bloody Scotland Crime Debut of the Year and was longlisted for the Women’s P…

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How to improve SEO for webcomics 1:10:17

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Now that comic creators are returning to websites, SEO (search engine optimization) is once again a hot topic. We'll talk about methods to help search engines index comics. Also, if Brad and Dave were to design a four-year degree for cartoonists, what classes would be on the curriculum? Today's show SEO for webcomics Should you use alt text on soci…

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Drafting Notes - Dealing with Rejection as a Writer 22:30

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Watch this as a full video episode on our YouTube channel! On this week's Drafting Notes, we are discussing that issue that every writer needs to deal with: Rejection! How do you handle it? Is there ever a point in your career where you don't have to deal with it (spoiler: no). And what are our thoughts on being resilient when you receive those rej…

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Ep. 224 - Stuart MacBride on why he loves the thrill of the blank page 57:10

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Stuart MacBride is the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author of the Logan McRae and Ash Henderson novels. He’s also published standalones, novellas, and short stories, as well as a slightly twisted children’s picture book for slightly twisted children. His latest book, This House of Burning Bones, is out now. Despite some technical difficulties (exp…

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The Eyes Have It 1:03:05

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Today's show is sponsored by Dreamhost. The first step in owning and controlling your own work is creating a website, and Brad and Dave have relied on Dreamhost for years. Check out Dreamhost.com/comiclab to find out how you can lock in a rate of $2.59/month for three years! Every beginning cartoonist agonizes over drawing eyes! Why is that — and w…

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Episode 2.1-Before Canada Had a Name: Courage (for Gord Downie): Discovery, Maps, and the Tragically Hip 24:22

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Got a story? Want to reach out? Send us a text! Canadian Grit: North of Ordinary Before Canada had a name, there was only wilderness—vast, unknown, and full of risk. In this powerful two-part episode, host Jamie Jackson takes us on a sweeping journey through time and psyche: from uncharted oceans to the inner maps we carry as human beings navigatin…

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Episode 74 - How Comic Writers REALLY Choose Artists w Michael Oden 1:44:00

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We’re back with another episode of the How to Draw Comics Podcast, and tonight I’m joined by writer and comic creator Michael Oden, the man behind Elysian Fields: Reborn.In this episode, we’re unpacking the comic creation process from the writing side. Michael shares what it’s like working with artists, what he personally looks for when choosing th…

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Ep. 223 - Andrew Hunter Murray on moving from writing for TV to writing novels 1:12:12

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Watch this episode as a full video interview on our YouTube channel Andrew Hunter Murray is a writer, broadcaster and comedian. He co-hosts the award-winning podcast No Such Thing As A Fish, which has received 500 million downloads and toured the world. He also writes jokes and journalism for Private Eye magazine, hosts the Eye's podcast Page 94, p…

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Who are you? What do you do? Why should I care? 1:04:04

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Today's show is sponsored by Dreamhost. The first step in owning and controlling your own work is creating a website, and Brad and Dave have relied on Dreamhost for years. Check out Dreamhost.com/comiclab to find out how you can lock in a rate of $2.59/month for three years! Your social media profile needs to answer three questions clearly: Who are…