The Writers Block

David 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.com

CHARLIE STICKNEY
Twitter: @CharlesStickney
Instagram: @whiteashcomic
Website: https://whiteashcomic.com

ASHLEY V. ROBINSON
Twitter: @AshleyVRobinson
Instagram: @seanlewis6026
Website: linktr.ee/AshleyVRobinson

DAVID PEPOSE
Twitter: @Peposed
Instagram: Peposed
Website: linktr.ee/peposed

David 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.com

BACK THE EXILED ON KICKSTARTER: http://bit.ly/theexiled

David 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.com

BACK SPECTRAL ON KICKSTARTER: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chrisandersoncomics/spectral

BACK SHAKESPEARE UNLEASHED ON KICKSTARTER: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/manbomb/shakespeare-unleashed

David 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.com

David 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.press

David 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.com

David 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.com

ETHAN KOGAN
Twitter: @EBKfromLA
Instagram: @EBKfromLA

CHECK OUT THE SHOCKHEADED PETER KICKSTARTER: shockheadedpetercomic.com

David 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.kanan

CHECK OUT SEAN’S NEW BOOK “WAY OF THE COBRA”: WayOfTheCobra.com

Avallone and Rylend talk with writer David Booher (CANTO, KILLER QUEENS) about the gut wrenching leap of faith that is quitting your day job and committing to full time creative work. They also touch on pitching, meeting editors, and Rylend’s predilection with punching readers in the face.

Episode download: TWB059.mp3

DAVID M. BOOHER
Twitter: @davidbooher
Instagram: @davidmbooher
Website: https://davidbooher.com

David and Rylend talk with cartoonist Stewart Kenneth Moore and writers Brandon Beckner and Scott Sampila about their Clover Press comic book PROJECT MK-ULTRA: SEX, DRUGS and THE CIA… and Avallone finally opens up about the decade he spent as an agency stooge, trading blue jeans and New Coke for state secrets in Moscow Metro stations.

CHECK OUT MK ULTRA VIA THE CLOVER PRESS WEBSITE NOW: https://cloverpress.us/collections/newly-added/products/project-mk-ultra-sex-drugs-the-cia-vol-1

Episode download: TWB057.mp3

STEWART KENNETH MOORE
Twitter: @opipop
Instagram: @booda_von_boodstein
Website: www.stewartkmoore.com

BRANDON BECKNER
Twitter: @parrotpoet1
Instagram: @parrotpoet1
Website: https://www.brandonbeckner.com

SCOTT SAMPILA
Instagram: @sampila
Website: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1399100/

Back from holiday hiatus with a vengeance, David and Rylend talk with writer Amanda Deibert (Wonder Woman, He-Man), cartoonist Richard Fairgray (BLACK SAND BEACH), and Fanbase Press Honcho Barbra Dillon about the post COVID comic book landscape… and Richard gleefully tells us about the time he maced and threw dog poop on an overly aggressive meathead who refused to wear a mask during a global pandemic.

Episode download: TWB055.mp3

AMANDA DEIBERT
Twitter: @amandadeibert
Instagram: @amandadeibertofficial
Website: amandadeibert.com

RICHARD FAIRGRAY
Twitter: @RichardFairgray
Instagram: @richardfairgrayauthor
Website: richardfairgray.com

BARBRA DILLON
Twitter: @barbrajdillon
Instagram: @barbrajdillon

FANBASE PRESS
Twitter: @fanbase_press
Instagram: @fanbasepress
Website: fanbasepress.com

This week, David and Rylend chat with Shaenon K. Garrity and Andrew Farago from the Cartoon Art Museum in San Fransisco about the Gallery’s current happenings and its mission is to ignite imaginations and foster the next generation of visual storytellers… and Rylend shows off pieces from his extensive Beavis and Butthead original animation cel collection while soulfully crooning David Van Driessen’s “Men have feelings, too.”

Episode download: TWB053.mp3
 

ANDREW FARAGO
Twitter: @andrewfarago
Instagram: @andrewfarago
Website: andrewfarago.com

SHAENON K. GARRITY
Twitter: @shaenongarrity
Instagram: @shaenongarrity
Website: shaenon.com

CARTOON ART MUSEUM: https://www.cartoonart.org/about