Collected Comics Library Podcast #167 49,943Kb; 53m 00s http://www.collectedcomicslibrary.com/ The CCL continues its interviews with a conversation with Larry Young, Founder and Publisher of Ait/PlanetLar. Larry and I talk about a wide variety of subjects including what it takes to run an independant company and publishing a vast array of titles that include Astronauts in [...]

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Collected Comics Library Podcast #166 60,170Kb; 63m 54s http://www.collectedcomicslibrary.com/ The CCL continues its interviews with a conversation with Joe Keatinge, PR and Marketing Coordinator with Image Comics. Joe and talk about a wide range of books including, American Flagg, Walking Dead, Aqua Leung, Jack Kirby’s Silver Star and Captain Victory, The Next Issue Project and [...]

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Collected Comics Library Podcast #165 62,253Kb; 66m 08s http://www.collectedcomicslibrary.com/ Today for the podcast I have a really fun and very informative interview with Todd DePastino author of Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front and editor for Willie and Joe: The World War II Years (Fantagraphics). For decades Mauldin had been the voice of the Greatest [...]

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Collected Comics Library Podcast #164 55,233Kb; 58m 38s http://www.collectedcomicslibrary.com/ This past weekend I was thinking of doing more interviews for the main feature of the podcast. But, as you know, the CCL is unlike other comic books podcasts, in that, artists and writers are not the main focus of a collected edition – the editors [...]

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Collected Comics Library Podcast #163 26,873Kb; 28m 23s http://www.collectedcomicslibrary.com/ This week has been full of new and useful tools, for both you and I, here at the website and podcast: a new survey (which I encourage you to fill out), updated and new checklists, Comments are now turned On, a new Home button/link (it’s about [...]

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Collected Comics Library Podcast #162 30,432Kb; 32m 11s http://www.collectedcomicslibrary.com/ We got about 5 inches or so here in Detroit overnight and they closed the schools. This makes it the third snow day this year. Our school system budgets in three for the entire year, if we get anymore, they will tack it on to the [...]

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Collected Comics Library Podcast #161 33,304Kb; 35m 15s http://www.collectedcomicslibrary.com/ It’s my Three Year Anniversary show! My sincere thanks to everyone who supports the CCL Podcast and the Blog!. First up, I have an announcement – I am the new host of the newly revamped TwoMorrows Publishing Tune-In Podcast. It will debut this Saturday, March 1st. [...]

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Collected Comics Library Podcast #160 27,347Kb; 28m 54s As I wrote on Monday’s blog, I went to Chicago this past weekend and sat in with the guys from the Around Comics podcast. While I was there I picked up a few books. One shall remain nameless since I’ll be covering it for next week’s show [...]

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Collected Comics Library Podcast #159 27,394Kb; 28m 57s Tuesday afternoon, I was able to sit down and record the latest episode. I’m glad I was able to then, because I feel a whole lot worse now. I have a sore throat and my head is spinning a bit. I’m going to take it easy after [...]

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Collected Comics Library Podcast #158 36,892Kb; 39m 05s As I mentioned yesterday in the Blog, I’m covering Annihilation for the feature today. Annihilation, for all practical purposes, is still going on in the Marvel Universe with the sequel Annihilation: Conquest and also somewhat in the pages of the new Nova monthly series. Even his trade [...]

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Collected Comics Library Podcast #157 21,371Kb; 22m 31s If you’re like me, you never heard of Darwyn Cooke before DC: The New Frontier came out in 2003. Since then, however, Cooke has been on a tear, working on a wide range of projects including Batman, The Spirit, Catwoman, X-Force, Spider-Man and even Painkiller Jane. Today [...]

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Collected Comics Library Podcast #156 29,886Kb; 31m 36s I recorded this week’s show last night (Tuesday at 9:00pm) after the news hit the wire about the death of Heath Ledger. I, undoubtedly, have a few thoughts on this myself. To put it plainly it’s very sad. At first glance it looks like no foul play [...]

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Collected Comics Library Podcast #155 20,371Kb; 21m 27s As I did last year at this time, it’s time once again for Adopt a Character. Like I say in the show, I did terrible job in 2007 with Thor. I hope to fair better in 2008 with Luke Cage, with a little help from his friend [...]

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Collected Comics Library #154 – Marvel Classic Super Heroes Collected Comics Library Podcast #154 21,747Kb; 22m 55s As longtime listeners know, I don’t know anything about statues, but today, I forgo that and talk about a neat box set: Marvel Classic Super Heroes: A Collector’s Edition by Marvel Comics and Barnes and Nobel Books. Patrick [...]

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Collected Comics Library Podcast #153 24,881Kb; 26m 16s Think of the show today as and extension of the Around Comics Alex Ross interview that was released on New Years Eve. As I state in the show, I was to do a little rundown of all things collected that involves Ross. As you can guess the [...]

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Collected Comics Library Podcast #152 36,337Kb; 76m 59s It’s time once again for the 2007 Year in Review show. Unlike past years I decided not to have individual “Best of” categories and instead do a Top 10 list. As you can see I also broke the podcast down with time stamps. I urge you all [...]

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Collected Comics Library Podcast #151 34,166Kb; 36m 10s In the wake of all the DC news of late, I offer to you, in this week of giving, a simple and yet well thought out, dissertation on what exactly my feelings are towards DC comics this Christmas. To sum up, I’m not very happy about the [...]

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Collected Comics Library Podcast #150 24,393Kb; 25m 45s Damn! 150 shows in the can! There’s only one way to celebrate a big show and that is with a big book! Sin City: The Frank Miller Library Set 1 and Set 2 is what I cover in today’s show. Now I know many of you have [...]

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Collected Comics Library Podcast #149 28,657Kb; 30m 18s Heroes is dead! Long live Heroes! That’s right folks, thanks to the writers strike, Heroes is done. We have no idea when the second half of the second season will be aired. I’m guessing that it’ll turn into season three. But in the meantime we have a [...]

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Collected Comics Library Podcast #148 36257Kb; 38m 24s It’s been a very slow news week mostly due to the Thanksgiving Day holiday. Even so, all the buzz has been about the newly announced six volume Starman Omnibus. You may recall I did a feature on Starman and his creator, Jack Burnley last January for episode [...]

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