THE AWESOME COMICS PODCAST

The first Saturday of May every year is Free Comic Book Day, and for the first time ever the ACP crew are talking about this epic yearly event, what it means to stores, what comics to look out for and if indeed the comics are any good! Then the focus shifts to vintage characters getting a new lease of life in the comic pages of the modern age, and the good, bad and maybe strange choices we get in these reboots. All that and tons of great indie comics to check out, events to put on your calendars and more! Great stuff to check out this week - Free Comic Book Day, Mad Cave Comics, Dick Tracy, Space Ghost, Dynamite, Flesh and Ink, Tribute Press, Heroes Con 2024, Eleven O'Clock Comics, Cliff Cumber, Lawless Comic Con 2024, Steamroller Man, Matthew Schofield, Schism, Mark Abnett, The Last Case of Devon and Taylor, Kill the Bride, TBH Comics, Prawn: The Jumbo Shrimp, Pooh vs Bambi, Zenescope Comics, Complete Darkness 1, Clear Run 2, Art Nine Two Comics, The Black Book, Superpatriot

With the 10th Anniversary of Lawless Comic Con about to take place in a few weeks, the ACP crew thought what better time to talk to the organisers about show, what to expect and the crazy good guest list they have this year! Plus there is a discussion about 2000AD and what to look out for if you want to start reading it, a special appearance from the one and only Pat Mills! Plus great indie comics to check out, crowdfunders to look out for (or be surprised at) and of course plenty of laughs! Great stuff to check out this week - Lawless Comic Con 2024, Pat Mills, 2000AD, Future Shock!, Dogbreath, Rogue Trooper, Strontium Dog, Judge Dredd, Hammerstein, Ro-Busters, ABC Warriors, Nemesis the Warlock, Star Lord, Glass City, Flesh and Ink, Tribute Press, Steamroller Man, Kill the Bride, TBH Comics, Love Me, Mad Cave Comics, The Boogyman, Ablaze Comics, Feral, Tony Fleecs

This week the one and only 'Zine Freak' Matt Simmons joins the crew once more to talk about small press comics, and his latest adventure - a small press and zine shop! From the origins of the idea, to the wide range of diverse titles, the joy of the public discovering zines and more, there will no be a more small press-centric chat all year! Plus there's talk about comic shop pull lists, another loss to the comics community and some fantastic comics to check out! Great stuff to check out this week - Matt Simmons, Zine Freak, Mukbang, Clusterfuck Comics, Beth Silver, Gwen and Wendy, With a Pencil in Hand, Trina Robins, Into the Realm, Crunch Comics, OK Comics, Flesh and Ink, Lawless Comic Con 2024, Steamroller Man, Boston Metaphysical Society, Tribute Comics, Spiderman vs Venom, CB Clerk, The Gullet, Rainlight Cope Aesthetic, When the Blood Has Dried, The Guys

This week Matt Strott (Prawn: The Jumbo Shrimp) joins the ACP crew to discuss to be their own personal Golden Age of Comics. The issues, series, moments and creators in comics that crafted us and our reading habits, and a glorious look back at comics that make you smile (an exercise you should all do). Plus there's some great indie recommendations, advice and humour to start your comics week with a smile. Great stuff to check out this week - Matt Strott, Prawn: The Jumbo Shrimp, The Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes, Andy Capp, X-men, Marvel Comics, The New Teen Titans, The Death of Superman, GI Joe, Larry Hama, Eagle Comics, Battle, 2000AD, The Punisher, Jack Kirby, Groo the Wanderer, Usagi Yojimbo, Stan Sakai, Todd McFarlane, Spider-Man, Jason Pearson, Body Bags, Savage Dragon: Blood and Guts, Killraven, Micronauts, Glass City, Boxes, Drink and Draw, Brian Talbot, Steamroller Man, Lawless Comic Con 2024, Zoop, Kill All Monsters, Browner Knowle, Paul Ashley Browne, Superman: The Man of Tomorrow, She's Running on Fumes, Dennis Hopeless, John Callahan, Don't Worry He Won't Get Far on Foot, Do Not Disturb,

This week the ACP head to Arrakis to talk about the world (or worlds) of Dune in comics! Joined by Tom Curry the conversation is a pure unfiltered fan discussion of the Herbert books, comic book adaptions and more. Plus there's great comics recommendations and indie stuff to check out and Tom brings some letters that confuse the ACP trio! Great stuff to check out this week - Dune, Tom Curry, Nick Prolix, Infinite Wheatpaste, Avery Hill Publishing, Paul Ashley Brown, Boston Metaphysical Society, Steamroller Man, Cliff Cumber, Starblazer Magazine, No Second Chance, Zak Cahill, Evolution of Horror, Mike Lee Graham, The Ambassadors, Mark Millar, Frank Quitely, Fractures 2, Collossive Press, Wolfgang Crowe, Prawn: The Jumbo Shrimp, Matt Strott, The Six Fingers, Sector 13

This week the gang talk about the pros, cons, differences in narratives and more when it comes to ongoing storytelling or limited series. Theres mentions of classics in the independent scene and things to bear in mind for new creators and more. Theres also talk of an XMen reboot and the idea of a comics creator directory. All that and of course tons of indie comics for you all to check out in the week ahead! Great stuff to check out this week - Vertigo, Image Comics, Boom, Fantagraphics, Invincible, Hellboy, Terry Moore, Parker Girls, Mage, Matt Wagner, XMen, Avery Hill Publishing, Infinite Wheatpaste, Cartoon Museum, Steamroller Man, Matthew Schofield, My Nervous Breakdown, Stuart Lloyd Gould, ACP Recommends, PeePee PooPoo, Caroline Cash, The Underground Kingdom: Romance, Little Black Book, AWA, A Lungful of Brine, Dan Tappan

This week Sarah Webb (Knave of Hearts) joins the gang to talk about what's handy to know and check out for a newbie to the medium. Comic creators that are worth checking out, comic narratives, breaking out of the panel structure, crazy first convention stories and making comics for the love of it. Theres also plenty of tips, recommendations and a lot of hilarious comics banter to boot, so buckle up for another classic! Great stuff to check out this week - Sarah Webb, Knave of Hearts, Love and Rockets, The Hernandez Brothers, Comics and Sequential Art, Will Eisner, Terry Moore, Chris Bachelo,, Adam Help, Pet Shop, Infinite Wheatpaste Volume 1, Avery Hill Publishing, Jon Sterling: Superspy, Steamroller Man, Geek Syndicate, Lenore, Roman Dirge, Tyrant Fall, Bootleg Spiderman, Outrage Aux Bonnes Moeurs Parla La Voie Du Livre, Dynamite Comics, Madballs vs Garbage Pail Kids

This week the crew talk about SO MANY INDIE COMICS! They do a deep dive on three upcoming books with varying themes, styles and stories and talk about the power of storytelling, classic concepts delivered well and revisiting some old characters! Theres also discussion of mothers in comics, some more Punisher chat and the sad loss of the legendary Akira Toriyama (Dragonball Z). Plus even more indie comics to add to your wishlists and immature humour as you'd expect from the three amigos! Great stuff to check out this week - Cyn, Ibrahim Moustafa, Humanoids, Blue Fox Comics, Wail, Richard Fairgray, Dutch, Image Comics, Bridlington Comic Con, Clear Run 2, Artninetwo, ACP Drink and Draw, Windbreaker, Dave Hingley, Steamroller Man, March of the Mutants, Mugshots, Mad Cave Comics, Jordan Thomas, Something is Killing the Children, Storm King Comics, John Carpenters Night Terrors, Mary Boys: Beef Heads, Proper Comics

Sometimes you don't need any words to tell a story, so this week the crew kidnap Forpe (Drusa, George Mayhem) to talk about the art form that is silent comics! From breaking down the narrative opportunities, challenges and power of wordless comics, to talking about having creative ideas that may already exist and brilliant and inspirational words to carry into your own creative work - this episode has everything. All that AND amazing comics to check out in the next week! Great stuff to check out this week - Forpe, Drusa, Marvel 'Nuff Said, Step by Bloody Step, Si Spurrier, Recall, The Adventures of a Japanese Businessman, Jose Domingus, Jim Woodring, Moebius, Invaders, Clear Run, ArtNineTwo, Lawless 2024, Pleasant Life Comics, Clockwork Werewolves, Hellbound Media, Fully Loaded, Tara Togs, Underground Kingdom Comics, Adam Falp, Inkblot Festival, Reluctant Sadist, Karcis, Blax Trauma Productions, Nathan Edmundson, Feral Kingdom Studios, Werewolf Jones and Sons, Hound, Mad Cave Comics

This week the three amigos get together to talk about the age old old argument of 'who created that character?'. From Marvel and DC classics to particular storyline credits, its a topic of discussion with plenty of different takes that will provoke discussion. Theres also discussion of clickbait comics journalism and Oni Press publishing a new line of EC Comics! All that and tons of immature laughs, fantastic indie books to read and of course, plenty of awesome comics talk! Great stuff to check out this week - Len Win, Rob Liefeld, Deadpool, Ghost Rider, Batman, Spider-Man, Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby, Mark Millar, Civil War, No Mans Land, Marvel, DC, EC Comics, Cole Henley, Cockney Kung Fu, M.I.N.D., Nick Prolix, Lawless 2024, Clockwork Werewolves, Hellbound Media, The Pleasant Life, Shane Chesbey, Fully Loaded, Zoop, The Guys, Windbreaker, David Hingley, The Realist, Night Cruising, Vampire State Building, Ablaze Comics, Skullmasher

This week the ACP gang talk to the one and only Garth Ennis (The Boys, Preacher, Hitman) about his career in comics, war comics, supporting characters, the importance of humour and so much more. If that wasn't enough, there's brilliant comics to seek out, events to add to your calendars and a lot of the hosts being excited about comics! Great stuff to check out this week - Garth Ennis, The Punisher, Preacher, Sara, Johnny Red, Cliff Cumber, Ian Ashcroft, Strangers Publishing, Inkblot Festival, Thought Bubble Festival 2024, Coco Comics Festival, Dans Monsters, Lawless Comic Con 2024, The Guys, TBH Comics, Grim Scary Tales, A Dogs in Dungeons Tale: The Booler Dog Barbarian, Cat Shit One, The Cockney Kung Fu, Nick Prolix, Peacemaker Tries Hard, Kyle Starks, Steve Pugh, Dark Spaces: The Hollywood Special, Claire Roe, IDW Original

There are some amazing comics just around the corner, and the ACP got to sit down with Tony Fleecs (Stray Dogs, Local Man) to talk about the awesome that he's got in the works! Theres talk of co-writing and co-art duties and how that works, the balance of horror and cute animal art, 90s Image Comics and even some My Little Pony discussion! All that and tons of great indie comics to check out as well - don't say we don't spoil you! Great stuff to check out this week - Tony Fleecs, Local Man, Stray Dogs, Feral, Uncanny Valley, Dave Wachter, Image Comics, Tim Seeley, Inkblot Festival, Thought Bubble Festival 2024, Coco Comic Con 2024, Cockney Kung Fu, Lawless Comic Con, The Guys, Dave Hingley, Dan Charnley, London Inferno, EP Editions, Markosia Comics, Requim: Vampire Knight, Pat Mills, You've Been Cancelled, Mad Cave Comics, Kevin Castaniero, Grit, Papperazzi, Extra Fabulous Comics, Zach M Stafford, Good Comics for Bad People

This week the pod trio tackle comics topics of all kinds, from the use of AI in a creators work, to lazy cover design and what would they lose from Image Comics first line up of comics! Theres also more great comics to check out, laughs, nonsense and good exciting news for the year ahead in the land of the ACP! Great stuff to check out this week - GlobalComix, Image, Youngblood, WildC.A.T.S., Savage Dragon, Spawn, Shadowhawk, Cyber Force, Wetworks, Bob Fingerman, Thats Some Business You're In, Zoop, The Mega City Book Club, Fanart February, Lawless Comic Con, Artificial, The Jump, Wesley Griffiths Comics, Good Boy, Source Point Press, Invasive, Cullen Burn, One Press, Joss Bayer

This week the ACP are joined by Bob Fingerman (Minimum Wage) to talk about his career in making comics, from schools to published work, the teachings of classic creators, looking back at a 40 year career of cartooning and so much more! Its a fascinating insight into one of the great minds of indie comics, and as well as that there's also some comics festival travel tips and great comics to check out in the week ahead too! Great stuff to check out this week - Bob Fingerman, Thats Some Business You're In, Minimum Wage, Zoop, NoBrow, Thorgal, Artificial, The Horizon, Ghost Machine, Image Comics

What does it take to make a comic strip for over a decade? Thats the question that the gang ask Alan Henderson (The Penned Guins) this week. From where the ideas come from, building an audience and ending in a satisfying manner its a fascinating journey into the mind of a long term indie comics creator. Theres also amazing recommendations, talk about language translations, marathons, snickers and so much more! Great stuff to check out this week - Alan Henderson, The Penned Guins, Ink Blot Festival, John M. Burns, Rory Donald, Leatherhead Library Con, Lawless Comic Con 2024, Dan Charnley, Dans Monsters, Tribute Press, Vanguard, Home Free, The Eagles of Rome VI, The Enfield Gang Massacre, Our Bones Dust, Party Girl, The Comic Book Story of Beer, Hartlepool Monkey, DC Comics Hostess Snacks Ads

Are you ready for a superpowered ER Nurse? The ACP is, and this week they talk with the creators of 'Copycat' Heath Amodio (The Heathens) and Cullen Bunn (Dark Ark, The Sixth Gunn) about their upcoming book, writers collaborating, taking projects to the screen and scenes that were too extreme for editors! Theres also chat about crowdfunding, first issues, independent and underground comics and more. Great stuff to check out this week - Copycat, Cullen Bunn, Heath Amodio, Zoop, Nightwalkers, Storm King Comics, Long Haul, ACP Drink and Draw, Lawless Con 2024, Alan Henderson, The Penned Guins, Moth Hill, Afterlight Comics, Jazz: Juggernauts Against Zealous Zealots, Green Archer Comics, No Brainer, Edison Neo, Shitty Stories, Cam Hayden, Ultimate Spider Man, Travelling to Mars, Ablaze Comics, Electric Chair, Transformers, Adventureman: Ghost Lights, Matt Fraction, Terry and Rachel Dodson

This week the ACP start another year of talking about the comic book shop experience. From experiences of the past to what they like to see (or not) in the modern shopping experience. Plus there's great recommendations, comic events to add to your calendars and plenty of laughs and nonsense from the gang as usual! Great stuff to check out this week - Forbidden Planet, Phantom Zone Comics, Floppy Tongue Comics, OK Comics!, Gosh! Comics, Orbital Comics, Strange Apparitions, Destination Venus, Lawless Comic Con 2024, The Penned Guin, Alan Henderson, Never Iron Anything Podcast, Afterlight Comics, Moth Hill, The Capital Sci-Fi Comic Con, Collosive, Be Brave, Graffiti Fish, Mal Earl, GI Joe: Duke, The Hunger and the Dusk, Pine and Merrimac, Kyle Starks, Fran Galan, Void Rivals, Duke, Gene Simmons Dominatrix

The ACP get 2024 off to a great start with nothing but comic talk! Comics old, new and somewhere in between, as the gang discuss a new reading challenge and talk about the 1995 Grant Morrison book 'Kill Your Boyfriend' and how it holds up almost 30 years later! Plus there's great indie comics to check out and plenty of classic pod banter to start your new year off with a bang! Great stuff to check out this week - Attack on Titan, Legion of Superheroes: Five Years Later, Usagi Yojimbo, Stan Sakai, Kill Your Boyfriend, Grant Morrison, Vertigo Comics, Never Iron Anything: The Podcast, Utility, BJ Comics, Ben Wheatley, Ninja Kaidan, Black Box Comics, Our Bones Dust, Image Comics, Astro Bots, Simon Furman

What are the podcasts favourite comics of the year? What are their fave moments of the year? What have the community enjoyed? What new comics do you need to be checking out? Find out as the ACP crew look back on an awesome year that was. Great stuff to check out this week - Daniel Clowes, Monica, Local Man, Tony Fleecs, Tim Seeley, The Exile, Erik Kriek, Living the Line Publishing, Vyper: Crimson Dawn, Axe Wielder John, Fables, Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Warwick Fraser Combe, Skullfucker, Parker Girls, Abstract Studios, Terry Moore, 20th Century Men, Image Comics, War Epic, Nathan Chowdry, Petrol Head, Rob Williams, Pye Parr, Hitman, Enguilleme, Zombie Deathball Mayhem, The Deviant, Three Days to Death is Here, Octobriana with Love, Electric Chair 2, Adam Falp

Tis the season of reading comics (spoilers - every season is) and this week the ACP pick out a Christmas comic to read. Its a DC classic from Ennis and McCrea so read along with the gang as they tackle Hitman 22! Then the ghosts of comics past, present and future arrive, but not to warn you. Instead they're here to talk about things you should be checking out! Plus there's great comics to add to your wishlists, discuss and more! Great stuff to check out this week - Hitman, John McCrea, Garth Ennis, Usagi Yojimbo, Stan Sakai, Substack, David Broughton, Lawless 2024, Earth 2 Podcast, The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling, Dan Harris, Inktober 2023, The Penned Guin, Alan Henderson, GlobalComix, Femme Fatale Anthology, Dren Productions, Comichaus, Suzie Spreadwell: Americas Sweetheart, Astorial Compendium of Short Stories, Ed Pinsent, The Bloody Dozen: A Tale of the Shrouded College