Crowdfinders's Podcast

This time we are very excited to talk to comixology co-founder John D Roberts about the pivots in his life that led him to where he is today as well as the ways in which digitl comics platforms are changing the face of the comics industry for readers and creators alike. Plus there is a rap at the end...   SHOW NOTES: Comixology (get your digital comics here...) https://www.comixology.com/ Comixology Submit (SUBMIT SUBMIT, who knows maybe your comic'll be a hit) https://submit.comixology.com/

Greetings Crowdfinders, this time we talk to Trevor Meuller, author of youth readers indie book and Thrillbent webcomic Albert the Alien. Show notes:   Get your Trevor fix here...   KICKSTARTER:  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/trevoramueller/albert-the-alien-vol-2-the-substitute-teacher-from   WEBSITE:  www.TrevorAMueller.com www.AlbertTheAlien.com www.Thrillbent.com   FACEBOOK:  www.Facebook.com/TrevorAMueller www.Facebook.com/AlbertTheAlien   TWITTER:  @TrevorAMueller   TUMBLR:  www.Tumblr.com/TrevorAMueller   INSTAGRAM: www.Instagram.com/TrevorAMueller  

It is my distinct pleasure to talk to Matt Hawkins, writer and president of Top Cow Comics. If you don't know who that is you are more of a noob than I am. We talk science, education, seizing the moment and most importantly, trciks and tips from his 20 year life in comics. Not to be missed!    Show Notes: Matt's work (there is a ton of it so I just linked to Comic Vine, which credits him in 321 issues!): http://www.comicvine.com/matt-hawkins/4040-48784/ Some Pitching Advice from Matt's Blog: http://matttalks.com/2014/04/some-pitching-advice/ No I Won't Read Your Fu@#ing Script, why giving feedback can be difficult: http://www.villagevoice.com/news/i-will-not-read-your-fucking-script-6704899 Social Media: Twitter: @topcowmatt Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Selfloathingnarcissist?fref=browse_search    

This time around it was my distinct pleasure to talk to Riley Rossmo, an incredible talent with an incredible story. As Riley puts it, he draws because he has to. It's the lens that allows him to put the world into focus.    Check out what Riley's has worked on here: http://www.comicvine.com/riley-rossmo/4040-48815/   Where to find Riley: Website: http://rileyrossmo.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/rileyrossmo1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/riley.rossmo Tumblr: http://rileyrossmo.tumblr.com/  

This week it was my distinct pleasure to talk to Afua Richardson, artists, singer, flautist, activist, all around amazing person and the visionary who brought you the art in the captivating and timely image book "Genius". Show Notes: If you want to shout out to Afua, find here here... http://www.afuarichardson.com/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/DoctaFoosLab https://twitter.com/AfuaRichardson https://www.facebook.com/AfuaNjokiRichardson https://www.pinterest.com/doctafoo/afua-richardson/ http://doctafoo.tumblr.com/ https://vimeo.com/afuarichardson https://instagram.com/doctafoo/ and don't forget... BUY GENIUS HERE: http://www.thetopcowstore.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=91    

John Layman, writer and creator of Chew.  I'm not sure anything else really needs to be said...   Show Notes: Find John Layman on the Twitter @themightylayman Check his WIKIPEDIA PAGE (it's full of lies) Layman's List (must read comics for noobs) Preacher Stray Bullets Scalped Manhattan Projects 6 Guns Letter 44 Locke & Key God Hates Astronauts Princess Ugg Hate CHEW VOLUME 6!!!!

It was mys distinct pleasure ot talk to Erik Bitmanis about his new book Hard Wyred.   Show Notes (Courtesy of Erik) Hard Wyred is a new scifi/comedy comic series that has many of its visuals rooted in classic cyberpunk fiction. Melding together laugh out loud humour, over-the-top action, and some heart felt moments, Hard Wyred looks to play its way into reader’s hearts around the globe. The story takes place in the near future where, through the wonders of the internet, we have now developed a highly advanced, futuristic online world. In this world people can upload their consciousness to an online profile and live out their wildest dreams and fantasies in this amazing new world without ever having to go back to reality. The hero of the story, Sam Wyerznowski, is still very much stuck in the past. This fast paced, technological world has rushed past him and he purposely lags behind refusing to keep up. Once a member of special peacekeeping force known as “Sweepers”, Sam and the Sweepers have since go

This time it was my distinct pleasure to talk to City of Wall creator and comic book convention connaisseur Shaun Noel SHOW NOTES (courtesy of Shaun)   City of Walls- Welcome to the prison-like city of Kowloon. A cluster of conjoinedbuildings run by gangs. Where the ability of an individual to hope isnon-existent. Daniel, Jin, and Ariana are three kids who defy thislife sentence. They intend to escape and are willing to go to extrememeasures to do so. Since escape on foot is impossible, their questleads them to the sky.   Website- WWW.CITYOFWALLS.COM      Facebook- www.Facebook.com/Cityofwalls   Twitter Shaun @WriterShaun               AK Lovelace @StandAlonePro     The company I work with is RedStylo Website www.redstylo.com   Here is the link to buy City of Walls stuff - http://redstylo.com/product/city-of-walls/   Here is a link directly to the print version of City of Walls: Vol 1: Kowloon -http://redstylo.com/product/city-of-walls-vol-1/   The anthologies I worked on are Shakespeare Shaken - My Story “Th

The episode started as a discussion of Josh's controversial TUMBLR POST To the Writers....  But it became a discussion of Vinyl Records, JAZZ, the essence of collaboration and how we need to live by this simple principle: Don't be a dick first.  BUY JOSH'S BOOKS HERE AND CONTACT HIM HERE: Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/joshfialkov Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/joshuahalefialkov Tumblr: http://joshfialkov.tumblr.com Contact: josh at thefialkov dot com.

It was my distinct pleasure to talk with force of nature Jim Zub. Show Notes (stolen from ZUB) Jim Zub is a writer, artist and art instructor based in Toronto, Canada. Over the past ten years he’s worked for a diverse array of publishing, movie and video game clients including Disney, Warner Bros., Capcom, Hasbro, Bandai-Namco and Mattel. He juggles his time between being a freelance comic writer and Program Coordinator for Seneca College‘s award-winning Animation program. His current comic projects include Dungeons & Dragons: Legends of Baldur’s Gate, a new series celebrating 40 years of the classic tabletop RPG, Samurai Jack, continuing the award-winning cartoon, Wayward, a modern supernatural story about teens fighting Japanese mythological monsters, and Skullkickers, a sword & sorcery action-comedy. Find Jim's awesome blog HERE Or shout out to him on the Twitter @JimZub

  In this episode of Crowdfiners Podcast hosted by David Pluscauskas, Benny Lo, an artist working in the video games industry (Saints Row 2, 3, 4), shares his experiences on making his mini comic book series, "Demise" and what drives him to creating amazing art. As a new immigrant during the late 80's, Benny faced a culture shock but video games like the Street Fighter series, and comic books, such as the Storm Riders series gave him an escape.  Lets will find out exactly how his early exposure to video games and comic books also helped inspired him artistically.    Street Fighters is a popular fighting game series. Some of its well known characters are Ryu, Ken, Chun Li, Guile, Akuma/Gouki.   "Storm Riders" is the English translation version of Fung Wan, a manhua series originated in Hong Kong. It is drawn by the well known artist, Ma Wing Shing.  It is also known as "Wind and Cloud".    Find Ben Here (and be sure to shout out to him, he's an awesome dude): https://twitter.com/Spoonfeedheroes http://spoonfee

This week it was my distinct pleasure to talk to the one and only Gabo, AKA Gabriel Bautista, the one and only immensely talented artist behind The Life After and Author of the incredible microfiction book Jupiter, which you will either support on Kickstarter before April 27, 2015 or buy at http://returntojupiter.com/ after. If you know what's good for you, SEE! Sorry for getting all old timey gangster on you there, but I just really dig both this guy and his work that much, and you will too if you give the episode a listen   SHOW NOTES: Courtesy of Gabe. here's a list of social media STUFF:   http://returntojupiter.com http://instagram.com/galvosaur http://twitter.com/galvosaur http://yogabogabo.com http://galvo.tumblr.com   http://entervoid.com http://hipflask.com (the Elephantmen book I worked on, its pretty amazing scifi action, and they have several free issues on the site you can read!)  

This time it was my immense pleasure to talk with Podcaster/Punk Rocker/Comic Creator Chris Tull about his newest project, and the long and winding road that led him there.   SHOW NOTES (Courtesy of Chris Tull): Here ya go, Dave. It was such a pleasure. For the show notes:   Twitter: https://twitter.com/chrisfabulous   Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/cfabcomics   All-Nite Taco Stand: http://cfabcomics.tumblr.com/post/113265587631/all-nite-taco-stand-2015-2-pages-written-by-chris   email: chris.tull00@gmail.com   my band, the Hellstroms: http://thehellstroms.tumblr.com/   my podcast, Weekend Quality with Chris Fabulous: http://weekendquality.libsyn.com/   Oh, also, for you personally, these are the creators I was telling you about. I bet you'd like them (thanks Chris, I will include them in the show notes!).   Adrian Tomine I recommend Summer Blonde http://www.adrian-tomine.com/Booksandcomics.html   Daniel Clowes I like "Like a Velvet Glove Cast In Iron" best. It's super weird. For more grounded stuff, go

This episode it was my distinct pleasure to talk with Eric Seaton, creator of the graphic novel series Legend of the Mantamaji (and award winnig television director, but he's not one to brag so I will do it for him)   Notes on Eric and Legends of the Mantamaji: Television director Eric Dean Seaton’s first graphic novel series is a tale exploding with brilliant art, action-packed adventure, true-to-life characters, and a smart and twisting plotline. Published by “And… Action!” Entertainment, Legend of the Mantamaji tells the story of Elijah Alexander, a rising Assistant District Attorney in New York who learns he is the last of a race of mystical knights called the Mantamaji, who once protected mankind. When an ancient evil is resurrected, Elijah has to learn to turn his back on everything he’s worked for, accept his birthright, and learn how to use his magical warrior abilities to defeat the greatest threat the Mantamaji ever faced—without being distracted by his grief, his anger, and one terrible betrayal. L

Sarah Childs was a great guest, and I learned a lot, but I forgot to ask the question: do you actually sleep?   Show Notes:     Sarah Childs is the artist and writer of The Chronicles of Gyzra, an action adventure manga trilogy written in traditional right to left Japanese format. The series has been described as The legend of Zelda meets Princess Mononoke with a dash of Lost. The final graphic novel in the series is currently in production, with each volume consisting of at least 200, traditionally drawn pages.   To find out more about the series, see artwork from the book and Sarah's other projects visit www.gyzra.com   You can follow progress on the series on social media:   Facebook.com/gyzra   twitter and instagram - @Gyzra   gyzra.deviantart.com   New videos on YouTube every Wednesday at https://www.youtube.com/user/AGamerDraws   Co-host of The Artist Lounge Podcast, a live chat and drawing demo every Monday at 5:30pm PT on the AGamerDraws YouTube Channel   If you would like to talk to Sarah and see

Beau contacted me to be on Crowdfinderds but hewasn't sure if he was a good choice because he had to put his book, INside, on hiatus because he got a traffic fine. It sounded interesting, it was. Not all about comics, but a fun freewheeling discussion.   Show notes courtesy of Beau Byrnes: Hey, man. Bringing the show notes to you.   Firstly the comic plugs and personal contact stuff: @insidecomicbook on instagram, @steakjesus on twitter, steakjesus.tumblr.com, @beaudbyrnes   Counselor George: www.counselorgeorge.com   Showflakes podcast: http://showflakes.wix.com/showflakes    

Had an awesome conversation with Snow Daze creators Marcus Kwame Anderson and Leo Faierman about their web comic Snow Daze. It's quite a journey and not to be missed. Find the comic HERE Find the authors on the twitter: @Leonardoelf @marcuskwame Or just email them: snowydee1980@gmail.com and be sure to look for them on: FACEBOOK TUMBLR GOOGLE+

We interrupt these show notes for a very special Crowdfinders announcement: Image comics author Alex Link, author of the mindbending series Drumhellar and zombie thriller Rebel Blood is here to talk about his work... This just in! He's very funny, and interesting and it is my very special Crowdfinders money back guarantee that you will laugh at least once, and learn at least one new thing while listening to this podcast. If you want to reach out to Alex you can find him on the Twitter @A1exLink, also look for his partner in crime and Drumhellar co-creator, Riley Rossmo, on the twitter @rileyrossmo1. Find out more about his books here: Drumhellar Rebel Blood Dia de los Muertos Pluscauskas OUT!  

Matt Hill from the Chattnaooga Mountains walking the Highwire Matt Hill's Journey - Reading ‘Wild Children’ by Ales Kot and Riley Rossmo. This was the first story that made me believe I could write for the comic medium. Got ahead of myself and submitted ‘War of the Pacifist’ to Image at a time when the story and preview wasn’t strong enough. Terminal C ­ Reddit Winning Comic ­http://imgur.com/a/5QN6F  Terminal C team worked extremely well together. Decided to continue forward with new comic. Discussion of which idea to focus on. Came to a story entitled ‘High Wire’: Stages in the project we are at: Still in the beginning. Piecing together preview material.   Shout Outs 1. Joshua Hale Fiaklov and Gabo ­ The Life After 2. Alex Link and Riley Rossmo ­ Drumhellar D.   Social Media   1. Twitter: @MofPreston   2. Instagram : @matthewofpreston   3. Email: mattofhill@gmail.com   4. highwirecomic.tumblr.com   5. And of course, the website mattofhill.com

Antichris creator Jordan King was an Eastern Kentucky comic book magnate at age 10.  Social media?   AntiChris is a miniseries written by Jojo King, arts/inks done by Manuel Mezquita, and letters/inks by Ken Reynolds. It is available to purchase here: http://www.coast-comics.com/store.html   You can also buy the comic in print and digitally over here as well: http://www.indyplanet.com/front/?product=120236     Look out for the second issue coming soon!   AntiChris follows an orphan named Chris as he is shipped off to a halfway house ran by a secret force. Once there, he meets a number of strange people and experiences revealing nightmares about his mysterious past. It starts to become clear that something is wrong with Chris… Something evil and powerful is lurking inside him…   A few of the characters you can expect to see in AntiChris is Renai, a werepire (half vampire, half werewolf, in case you were wondering), Theresa, the manager of the house with a secret objective, a janitor who has a certain taste for