"We're Back!" V. 3, Ep. 7

So, it took a while. It took some planning and some soul searching. It took some realization that doing this podcast was something that we enjoyed doing, as long as we were doing it the way we wanted to do it. So, we're back. Perhaps a bit leaner and meaner, but back nonetheless.

This podcast covers the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival that took place back in December, specifically the LYNDA BARRY AND CHARLES BURNS IN CONVERSATION program.

Kurt and I are planning on doing at least 3 podcasts a month, more if time allows, and we're pretty psyched with some of the things we have planned.

Enjoy the recording, and as always comments are welcome via email here: Write.Club1@gmail.com, Twitter here @Write_Club, or in the comments section on this post.

Write Club! "Digital Dilemma" V. 3, Ep. 2

Tim and Rick Lacy settle down to have a nice chat about Digital Comics, prompted by DC Comics boldly throwing their cowl into the new-media millennia. Tim & Rick are soon joined by the original digital barbarian himself, Phil Gelatt, and then things get interesting.

Digital comics, Independent film, Marvel Short movies, D&D with pornstars, and playing games in the world of H.P. Lovecraft. Nothing's off the table for Write Club!



Intro: "Chin Music" Future of the Left
Outro: "Write Club Theme" Scott St. Pierre

"Crazy Horses" V. 3, Ep. 1

Tim, Kurt and Rick Lacy start off an all new volume with an original ramble-cast about everything from Iron Man 2 to Frank Frazetta's recent death and everything in-between!

Catch up with the boys of Write Club!



Intro: "Crazy Horses" The Osmonds

Outro: "Write Club Theme" Scott St. Pierre

Discovering the Voice by Jayme Roxann Wright

When I first decided that I wanted to write a comic book, I was in my early 20’s. I had been collecting several titles at that point- ARIA by Holguin, More than Mortals, XFACTOR, and ANIMAL MYSTIC, anything by Joseph Linsner, LADY DEATH, and SANDMAN. I was tossing around an idea that I am still playing cat and mouse with to this day. This particular story is my baby, so giving it to just any artist scares the bejeesus out of me because I am very particular about how I want my visions to look. When I finally started finding artists, I had to make sure that their artistic style that fit the stories, and that was hard because art created the tone of each book. I feel that the biggest impact of the comic format is that the art drives the emotion and description that would have been written had the story been prose. Most of my stories are darker in origin, so Manga or cartoonish artists won’t fit the visuals. I developed a list of who I wanted to give life to my stories and looked for similar styles.

I was really lucky when Jason Craig approached me to help with his story which was at that time being pitched as a series to STARZ. I had about three weeks to write a TV pilot and Character Bible/Series Outline. It was quite an experience. When it was passed over at STARZ! , we decided that it would work as a new comic series and began to rework it. Writing someone else’s baby is a great experience because you have to literally write what they envision. It is a great lesson in interpreting what people want. It has been a great process, the late night arguing and the endless battles over tiny details, all the while creating a great story that started as a simple one to creating a universe. The creative process is exciting and bleeding some of my blood into it to make it my own is a great reward.

Men develop a comradery quickly with other men; however, a relationship in a professional realm between men and women can be tenuous. I find that there has to be a great degree of respect for each other, which isn’t necessarily needed in male working partnerships. Jason has always treated me with respect and understanding. We are both single parents and both raised in the south despite my Los Angeles location. There comes a deep understanding of how we were raised, and it helps us navigate the waters similarly. Good people attract good people.

The more I develop the voice that I want to have in comics the more I find that wading through the muck and the wide eyed excitement of the comic book business is necessary. It is also why I understand – writers keep to themselves.

Indie Club. Where Independent Creativity Gets Together.

Hello 'clubbers.

Welcome to Indie Club, the new face of Write Club. Just below the spiffy new logo I designed up above we have new links where you can find all of our podcast episodes, comic reviews, a list of articles and a link to email us just to let us know how much you love us (or to help us tweak the design of the site).

Over there on the right hand side, we have a sidebar that will let you link directly to Write Club on iTunes, to get to our forum at TenTonStudios, our 'Best Of' from our first 2 volumes, the Write Club Funnies archive, Game Club reviews/articles, and our weekend postings Sub*Text Saturdays & This Week in Cool.

Below that you'll find out retweet button and Twitter feed. Hit us up and let us know what you think, or if you'd like to contribute or have something for us to help promote. Write Club is here for you.

Also I'd just like to mention we've got two indie comix friendly events coming up:

Reinhard Kleist's Johnny Cash: I See A Darkness signing at Jim Hanley's Universe on April 14th at 6PM.

Dash Shaw's release party for BodyWorld will be held at Desert Island on Thursday, April 15th, from 7-9PM.

We'll be running full steam ahead after the success of last month's GIRLS CLUB, and having run the gamut of alternative comics that was MoCCA this weekend. Lots of things planned, but there's always room for more if you'd like to write, draw, film, shoot, dance, etc. etc. for us, or you'd like for us to do that for you.

Until tomorrow I leave you with the Daily News' coverage of the top books from MOCCA.

K

Write Club: Episode 10- “We Need Your Balls!”

Join Tim Mucci and Kurt Christenson as they ramble on about their writing processes—how they write and why— and pretty much anything else that comes to mind; which includes Kurt's Alan Moore impression.

Intro: “1984” David Bowie

Outro: “Stop Talking About Comic Books or I'll Kill You” Ookla The Mok

Links and Such:

DIY Genetics

Uwe Boll via Something Awful

Jess Nevins

Kurt's Writing

Tim's Writing

We didn't mention them in this episode, but we went there after recording and they just proved how awesome they are, so:

Bergen Street Comics

Oh, and Moore and O'Neill's LOEG Century is three parts: 1910, 1968, 2008. Write Club, self correcting since 2009!

Discuss the podcast HERE!

I'm just acting tough, Ed Brubaker, you don't really taste like pork rinds.

Write Club: Episode 7- "Writers Round Table"

Kurt, Tim and special guest Pete Lenz discuss their favorite authors in this special 2-hour episode packed with special, specialness. Tim discusses H.P. Lovecraft, Pete discusses Philip K. Dick and Kurt breaks it down about Lovecraft and Dick's secret love child Grant Morrison.

Apologies in advance, there was an unforeseen audio hiccup and you may notice a few skips here and there. Major sorries! I'm going to do my best to make certain this does not happen again.

Intro: Combines 2 audio tracks from Rudimentary Peni: "Twitch" & "Imps of The Perverse," with Nick Blinko's Lovecraft monologue. All props go to YouTuber digitalshark.

Outro: “Stop Talking About Comic Books or I'll Kill You” Ookla The Mok

Images above:
Lovecraft = Bruce Timm
Dick = Robert Crumb
Morrison = I have no idea (let me know if you do)

Discuss the Podcast HERE

"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Write Club wgah'nagl fhtagn"