The Writers Block
A weekly post-con-style roundtable romp with some of the most outspoken (yet still employed) creators in comics. Show biz war stories. State of the comic union. Furious debates over ‘80s televisions shows. Great lobster bisque recipes. Something for everybody.
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Episode Archive
War Stories Panel from LACC
Episode Number: 84Live from L.A. Comic Con, David and Rylend chat with a gang of seasoned comic professionals - David Booher, Melissa Flores, and Ray Anthony Height - about breaking in, falling out, and surviving the COVID 19 storm.
Episode download: TWB084.mp3
DAVID M. BOOHER
Twitter: @davidbooher
Instagram: @davidmbooher
Website: https://davidbooher.comMELISSA FLORES
Twitter: @misty_flores
Instagram: @misty_flores
Website: mistyflores.comRAY ANTHONY HEIGHT
Instagram: @artofraheight
Website: www.studioskyetiger.comRelease Date: January 4, 2023
Run Time: 55:08Where’s the Front Door? Panel from LACC
Episode Number: 83Live from L.A. Comic Con, David chats with a gang of seasoned comic professionals - Charlie Stickney, Liana Kangas, Scott Koblish, and Chuck Patton - about breaking into the business. Surprise tip: work at a frame store.
Episode download: TWB083.mp3
CHARLIE STICKNEY
Twitter: @charlesstickney
Instagram: @whiteashcomics
Website: whiteashcomic.comLIANA KANGAS
Twitter: @lianakangas
Instagram: @lianakangas
Website: bio.site/lianakangasSCOTT KOBLISH
Twitter: @koblish
Instagram: @scottkoblish
Website: koblish.blogspot.comCHUCK PATTON
Twitter: @ChuckPatton9
Instagram: @chuckpattonart
Website: artofchuckpatton.comRelease Date: December 21, 2022
Run Time: 57:43What Editors Want Panel from LACC
Episode Number: 82Live from L.A. Comic Con, David and Rylend chat with a gang of seasoned comic editors/shot callers - Fanbase Press EIC Barbra Dillon, Heavy Metal CEO Matt Medney, and Top Cow Publisher/COO Matt Hawkins - looking to finally definitively answer the question… What are publishers looking for?
Episode download: TWB082.mp3
BARBRA DILLON
Twitter: @barbrajdillon
Instagram: @barbrajdillonFANBASE PRESS
Twitter: @Fanbase_Press
Instagram: @fanbasepress
Website: fanbasepress.comMATT MEDNEY
Twitter: @matthewmedney
Instagram: @matthewmedney
Website: matthewmedney.comHEAVY METAL MAGAZINE
Twitter: @HeavyMetalInk
Instagram: @HeavyMetal
Website: https://linktr.ee/HeavyMetalMagazineMATT HAWKINS
Twitter: @topcowmatt
Instagram: @mhawk5222
Website: http://matttalks.comTOP COW
Twitter: @topcow
Instagram: @topcow
Website: topcow.comRelease Date: December 14, 2022
Run Time: 47:25Matt Medney and Catherine Loubier
Episode Number: 81David and Rylend sit down with Heavy Metal CEO Matt Medney and politico/clean energy advocate Catherine Loubier to discuss THE FIFTH FORCE, their ecological time travel comic book extravaganza… all while Matt enthusiastically watches the Brazilian soccer team beat the pants off of South Korea.
Episode download: TWB081.mp3
MATT MEDNEY
Twitter: @matthewmedney
Instagram: @matthewmedney
Website: matthewmedney.comCATHERINE LOUBIER
Twitter: @CLoubier
HEAVY METAL MAGAZINE
Twitter: @HeavyMetalInk
Instagram: @HeavyMetal
Website: https://linktr.ee/HeavyMetalMagazineRelease Date: December 7, 2022
Run Time: 1:03:24“Pandemic Survival” Panel from LBCC
Episode Number: 80Live from Long Beach Comic Con! David talks with a gaggle of experienced comic pros - Kris Longo, Bobby Timony, and Barbra Dillon - about how they survived the COVID pandemic personally, professionally, psychologically, and spiritually. To an audience of hundreds. As far as you know.
Episode download: TWB080.mp3
BARBRA DILLON
Twitter: @barbrajdillon
Instagram: @barbrajdillonFANBASE PRESS
Twitter: @fanbase_press
Instagram: @fanbasepress
Website: fanbasepress.comKRIS LONGO
Twitter: @krislongo
Instagram: @kris_longo
Website: modernfanatic.comBOBBY TIMONY
Twitter: @BobbyTimony
Instagram: @bobbytimony
Website: twincomics.comRelease Date: September 28, 2022
Run Time: 45:54“It’s a Living” Panel from LBCC
Episode Number: 79Live from Long Beach Comic Con! David and Rylend talk with a gang of experienced comic pros - Scott Koblish, Christie Shinn, and Don Walker - about how they actually making a living doing what they love, staying paid and keeping projects funded.
Episode download: TWB079.mp3
SCOTT KOBLISH
Twitter: @Koblish
Instagram: @scottkoblish
Website: koblish.blogspot.comCHRISTIE SHINN
Twitter: @HoraToraStudios
Instagram: @HoraToraStudios
Website: https://linktr.ee/HoraToraStudiosDON WALKER
Instagram: don_spaceknight
Website: https://dorkempireink.bigcartel.comRelease Date: September 21, 2022
Run Time: 49:08Kickstarter Panel from LBCC
Episode Number: 78Live from Long Beach Comic Con! David and Rylend talk with an elite gaggle of veteran Kickstarter campaigners - Charlie Stickney (White Ash), Kelly Sue Milano (Hex11), and Steven Prince (Monster Matador) - about the ins and outs of crowdfunding your dream project.
Episode download: TWB078.mp3
CHARLIE STICKNEY
Twitter: @CharlesStickney
Instagram: @whiteashcomic
Website: whiteashcomic.comKELLY SUE MILANO
Twitter: @kellysuesays
Instagram: @kellysuesays
Website: hexcomix.comSTEVEN PRINCE
Twitter: @monstermatador
Instagram: @monstermatador
Website: monstermatador.comRelease Date: September 14, 2022
Run Time: 47:23Pat “Six Figure” Shand
Episode Number: 77David and Rylend have a “creator’s guide” chat with writer Pat “Six Figure” Shand (CHEEKY) and talk pitching, publisher/producer note implementation, the dos/don’ts of “con schmoozing,” and best social media practices… and Rylend leaves about 3/4 into the show to go get Mr. T’s autograph at the Glendale Galleria.
Episode download: TWB077.mp3
PAT SHAND
Twitter: @PatShand
Instagram: @PatShand
Website: linktr.ee/PatShandCHECK OUT PAT’S BOOK CHEEKY ON INDIEGOGO: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cheeky-a-nsfw-graphic-novel/x/1947872#/
Release Date: August 10, 2022
Run Time: 1:41:04Ray Chou
Episode Number: 76David and Rylend sit down with writer Ray Chou (Skies of Fire) to talk about how he and his team built the Kickstarter publishing juggernaut Mythopoeia… and the guys trade ass-chapping Hollywood horror stories.
Episode download: TWB076.mp3
RAY CHOU
Twitter: @mythopoeians
Instagram: @mythopoeians
Website: https://www.mythopoeia.us/Get the Skies of Fire Collected Edition on Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mythopoeia/skies-of-fire-collected-editionKickstarter How-To Blogs
www.mythopoeia.us/blog/kickstarter-breakdown-pt-i-continuing-an-ongoing-seriesRelease Date: August 3, 3022
Run Time: 1:21:48SDCC 2022 Panel
Episode Number: 75David and Rylend are coming to you LIVE from SDCC 2022 where they hosted a POST-PANDEMIC PUBLISHING LANDSCAPE panel with creators David Booher (CANTO), Charlie Stickney (White Ash), Ashley V. Robinson (Jupiter Jet), and David Pepose (Savage Avengers)… Also, Rylend narrowly defeated Lou Ferrigno in a high stakes game of Chinese checkers and Avallone received the key to the of San Diego city after foiling a plot by Hiroto cosplayers to steal NECA’s Last Ronin action figure prototypes.
Episode download: TWB075.mp3
DAVID M. BOOHER
Twitter: @davidbooher
Instagram: @davidmbooher
Website: https://davidbooher.comCHARLIE STICKNEY
Twitter: @CharlesStickney
Instagram: @whiteashcomic
Website: https://whiteashcomic.comASHLEY V. ROBINSON
Twitter: @AshleyVRobinson
Instagram: @seanlewis6026
Website: linktr.ee/AshleyVRobinsonDAVID PEPOSE
Twitter: @Peposed
Instagram: Peposed
Website: linktr.ee/peposedRelease Date: July 27, 2022
Run Time: 50:52Drew Edwards and Paulo J Hernandez
Episode Number: 74David and Rylend sit down with Ringo-nominated writer Drew Edwards and artist Paulo J Hernandez to talk about their collaboration on HALLOWEEN MAN MEETS THE LATEX AVENGER… and the group furiously butts head over a very SERIOUS question… which is the superior movie? GHOSTBUSTERS? Or GHOSTBUSTERS 2? “VIGGO!”
Episode download: TWB074.mp3
DREW EDWARDS
Twitter: @halloweenmancom
Instagram: @drew_halloween
Website: halloweenman.comPAULO J. HERNANDEZ
Twitter: @paulojhdz
Instagram: @paulojhdz
Website: paulojhdz.comBACK HALLOWEEN MAN MEETS THE LATEX AVENGER ON INDIEGOGO: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/halloween-man-meets-the-latex-avenger#/
Release Date: July 20, 2022
Run Time: 1:35:21Adam Lawson
Episode Number: 73David and Rylend sit down with ESCAPE THE NIGHT showrunner Adam Lawson to discuss his new comic endeavor - an actiony collab with Hollywood legend Wesley Snipes - titled THE EXILED… and the three begin the long and arduous process of integrating for seamless viewing and analysis the post pipeline data coming back from NASA’s James Webb telescope.
Episode download: TWB073.mp3
ADAM LAWSON
Twitter: @GiftedRebelsCo
Instagram: @gongfuman/@giftedrebelsco
Website: giftedrebels.comBACK THE EXILED ON KICKSTARTER: http://bit.ly/theexiled
Release Date: July 13, 2022
Run Time: 1:12:00James Aquilone
Episode Number: 72David (high on cough syrup) and Rylend (severely jet-lagged) sit down with editor-extraordinaire James Aquilone to discuss his latest and greatest Kickstarter anthology, Shakespeare Unleashed... also, SCOTUS can eat a fat one.
Episode download: TWB072.mp3
JAMES AQUILONE
Twitter: @jamesaquilone/@MonstrousBooks
Instagram: @james_aquilone
Website: linktr.ee/jamesaquiloneBACK SHAKESPEARE UNLEASHED ON KICKSTARTER: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/manbomb/shakespeare-unleashed?ref=8syg49
Release Date: July 6, 2022
Run Time: 1:32:39David Accampo
Episode Number: 71David and Rylend sit down with writer David Accampo (Wormwood: A Serialized Mystery) for a thematics deep dive and to discuss his new horror anthology series SPECTRAL... and the show quickly and confidently mutates into conversational street fight re: the dos and don’ts of fine prequeling.
Episode download: TWB071.mp3
DAVID ACCAMPO
Twitter: @daccampo
Instagram: @daccampo
Website: davidaccampo.comBACK SPECTRAL ON KICKSTARTER: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chrisandersoncomics/spectral
BACK SHAKESPEARE UNLEASHED ON KICKSTARTER: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/manbomb/shakespeare-unleashed
Release Date: June 29, 2022
Run Time: 1:36:18Jordan Hart and Barbra Dillon
Episode Number: 70David and Rylend sit down with Eisner-nominated Fanbase Press EIC Barbra Dillon and writer Jordan Hart to talk about their collaboration on RIPPLE EFFECTS, a comic series that explores life as a superhero with a disability… and Rylend talks candidly about all of the mildly-evil things he’d do if he somehow lucked into superpowers.
Episode download: TWB070.mp3
JORDAN HART
Twitter: @ripplefxcomic
Instagram: @jordyjordith
Website: www.fanbasepress.ecrater.com/p/39178444/ripple-effects-pre-orderBARBRA DILLON
Twitter: @barbrajdillon
Instagram: @barbrajdillonFANBASE PRESS
Twitter: @Fanbase_Press
Instagram: @fanbasepress
Website: fanbasepress.comRelease Date: June 15, 2022
Run Time: 1:11:30Brian Hawkins
Episode Number: 69David and Rylend have a delightful “career building” chat with writer/editor Brian Hawkins (Aftershock’s THE VINEYARD)… and amid a tense conversational digression re: New York real estate, Rylend makes the rash decision to buy a three bedroom Townhouse in Jersey City that needs a bit too much work.
Episode download: TWB069.mp3
BRIAN HAWKINS
Twitter: @BrianLHawkins
Instagram: @brianhawkinswrites
Website: brianhawkinswrites.comRelease Date: June 8, 2022
Run Time: 1:20:54Eddie DeAngelini
Episode Number: 68David and Rylend chat with comic shop owner/cartoonist Eddie DeAngelini (THE COLLECTORS) about the power of Kickstarter and the ever-mutating comic retailer landscape… and the pod evolves (or devolves), eventually, into a cutting disquisition on responsible and affecting film scoring.
Episode download: TWB068.mp3
EDDIE DEANGELINI
Twitter: @DeangeliniEddie
Instagram: @collectorscomic
Website: https://collectorscomic.comLINK TO THE COLLECTORS KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN: collectorsonkickstarter.com
Release Date: June 1, 2022
Run Time: 1:16:46Shelly Bond
Episode Number: 67David and Rylend chat with Hall of Fame editor Shelly Bond about her past at Vertigo and Black Crown and her present running revolutionary Kickstarter campaigns and teaching classes to inspire the next wave of great comic creators… and the broadcast is interrupted briefly when the kindly Armenian Grandmother living next door to David brings over some freshly baked nazook.
Episode download: TWB067.mp3
SHELLY BOND
Twitter: @sxbond
Instagram: @sxbondimprimatur
Website: offregister.pressRelease Date: May 25, 2022
Run Time: 1:29:01Don Walker
Episode Number: 66David and Rylend do a process deep dive with comic creator Don Walker (AGENT WILD and REAPER CORPS)… and then they get matching, wildly-inappropriate tattoos to celebrate the podcast’s Communicator Awards victory.
Episode download: TWB066.mp3
DON WALKER
Instagram: @don_spaceknight
Website: https://dorkempireink.bigcartel.comRelease Date: May 18, 2022
Run Time: 1:14:16Soulstream’s Saida Woolf
Episode Number: 65David and Rylend sit down with 18-year-old wunderkind Saida Woolf, who started writing and drawing Scout Comics’ SOULSTREAM when she was just 15. Many Doogie Howser jokes are made and Rylend and David remember what they were like at 15… slamming Jolt Cola and burning G.I. Joe figures in Rylend’s case… debating which suit to wear to meet Mr. Chekov at the Mall in David’s case.
Episode download: TWB065.mp3
SAIDA WOOLF
Twitter: @saidawoolf
Instagram: @saidawoolf/@soulstreamcomic
Website: saidawoolf.comRelease Date: May 11, 2022
Run Time: 1:12:54First Book Stories with Adam Rose
Episode Number: 64David and Rylend sit down with Adam Rose to talk the ins and outs of releasing his first book in comic shops (COROLLARY from Source Point Press)… and Rylend presents David with an exciting new business opportunity he enthusiastically describes as "decidedly NOT a pyramid scheme."
Episode download: TWB064.mp3
ADAM ROSE
Twitter: @adamrose74
Instagram: @shazamcapCHECK OUT ADAM AT GOLDEN APPLE COMICS ON MAY 7th: https://goldenapplecomics.com/pages/events
CHECK OUT FA SHENG: ORIGINS ON KICKSTARTER: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theadept2/1281297143
Release Date: May 4, 2022
Run Time: 1:23:35Jess Silvetti and Ethan Kogan
Episode Number: 63David and Rylend sit down with accomplished filmmakers Jess Silvetti and Ethan Kogan to talk about their first foray into comics, SHOCKHEADED PETER (available now via Kickstarter)… and Ethan and Rylend - who’ve known each other for 20+ years - swap stories about the INSANE 45-minute-long musical they filmed while in college.
Episode download: TWB063.mp3
JESS SILVETTI
Twitter: @Jesilvetti
Instagram: @jess_silvetti
Website: www.jessicasilvetti.comETHAN KOGAN
Twitter: @EBKfromLA
Instagram: @EBKfromLACHECK OUT THE SHOCKHEADED PETER KICKSTARTER: shockheadedpetercomic.com
Release Date: March 30, 2022
Run Time: 1:17:21Christie Shinn and Don Nguyen
Episode Number: 62A catch up session with old friends Christie Shinn (DEMON BITCH) and Don Nguyen (PABLO THE GORILLA) morphs slowly-but-surely into a very serious, poignant, and often quite hilarious chat about representation, censorship, and other hot buttons… and also Klingons, Battlestar, and Clint Eastwood and Sylvester Stallone movies.
Episode download: TWB062.mp3
CHRISTIE SHINN
Twitter: @HoraToraStudios
Instagram: @HoraToraStudios
Website: https://linktr.ee/HoraToraStudiosCHECK OUT THE DEMOMN BITCH KICKSTARTER: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/horatorastudios/demon-bitch-you-all-suck
SUPPORT DEMON BITCH AND OTHER STUPID THINGS: www.Patreon.com/HoraToraStudios
WHERE TO FOLLOW DEMON BITCH: Demon B!tchDON NGUYEN
Twitter: @nguyeningit
Instagram: @nguyeningit
Website: NguyeningIt.comRelease Date: March 23, 2022
Run Time: 1:40:09Karate’s Bad Boy Sean Kanan
Episode Number: 61David and Rylend talk with Emmy-winning writer/producer (STUDIO CITY) Sean Kanan about his journey from actor to best-selling author. Rylend gleefully turns the last 15 minutes of the broadcast into an enthusiastic Karate Kid III deep dive (Kanan played the film’s villain) and he and Sean strike a deal to pitch a Mike Barnes Cobra Kai comic at IDW.
Episode download: TWB061.mp3
SEAN KANAN
Twitter: @seankanan
Instagram: @sean.kananCHECK OUT SEAN’S NEW BOOK “WAY OF THE COBRA”: WayOfTheCobra.com
Release Date: March 16, 2022
Run Time: 1:00:54Skylar Patridge and Rich Douek
Episode Number: 60David and Rylend talk with Wonder Woman: Trial of the Amazons artist Skylar Patridge and Superman/Wastelanders: Star-Lord writer Rich Douek about making the jump from indie books to Marvel/DC… and Rylend goes on a Charlie Sheen-esque rant about all of the earthworms, gnarly gnarlingtons, and Vatican Assassin Warlocks jealous of his tendency to #win.
Episode download: TWB060.mp3
SKYLAR PATRIDGE
Twitter: @SkyePatridge
Instagram: @SkyePatridge
Website: skylarpatridge.comRICH DOUEK
Twitter: @rdouek
Instagram: @rdouek
Website: rdouek.comRelease Date: March 9, 2022
Run Time: 1:34:45