The podcast by indie comics creators for indie comics creators! Listen to Sequential Underground #35 right now: Pittsburgh indie scribble master Nate McDonough joins Dan Greenwald, Shawn Atkins, and Nick Marino to talk about his new graphic novel, Don’t Come Back. Nate discusses his Kickstarter campaign for Don’t Come Back (you should become a backer!!!) [...]

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The podcast by indie comics creators for indie comics creators! Listen to Sequential Underground #34 right now: Pittsburgh cartoonist Ed Piskor joins Nick Marino and Shawn Atkins to discuss hip hop history, the formulation of taste, hand lettering, comics reprints, and more. Ed’s recently embarked on an ambitious new project — chronicling the genesis of [...]

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The podcast by indie comics creators for indie comics creators! Listen to Sequential Underground #33 right now: On this week’s Sequential Underground, you get to choose your own adventure!!! We’ve got two podcasts… this is the first one. Visit the SU #33 blog post on the AudioShocker to listen to the second one. Sequential Underground [...]

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The podcast by indie comics creators for indie comics creators! Listen to Sequential Underground #32 right now: A conversation so that it can’t be summed up with only a few small words Tom Scioli joins Shawn Atkins and Nick Marino to discuss indie comics, superheroes, artistic expression, and tons more. Here’s Tom’s trailer for the [...]

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The podcast by indie comics creators for indie comics creators! Listen to Sequential Underground #31 right now: Which side of the table are you on? Dan, Shawn, and Nick discuss being comics creators vs. being comics fans. Dan never wants to lose his passion as a fan, no matter what. Shawn has always approached comics [...]

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The podcast by indie comics creators for indie comics creators! Listen to Sequential Underground #30 right now: What do comics creators deserve? From unknown webcomics creators to the most famous and successful creators in comic books, Shawn and Nick discuss. Do webcomics creators deserve compensation from their fans? Should it be money, gifts, or just [...]

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The podcast by indie comics creators for indie comics creators! Listen to Sequential Underground #29 right now: Two artists with two very different paths… similar passions but opposing pursuits… Katie Henderson‘s first love was animation. She recounts the desires and experiences that led her to follow her current path, living in Los Angeles and working [...]

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The podcast by indie comics creators for indie comics creators! Listen to Sequential Underground #28 right now: Dan, Shawn, Juan, and Nick talk about shows! Conventions, expos, festivals, fairs. We’re talking about SMALL SHOWS (for example, PIX)… …versus BIG SHOWS (for example, NYCC). What makes a comic book show “small” or “big”? Is it scale? [...]

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The podcast by indie comics creators for indie comics creators! Listen to Sequential Underground #27 right now: We’re live at Kiva Han in Oakland, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Earth, Milky Way with our… PIX (Pittsburgh Indy Comics Expo) 2011 recap!!! We’re talking about everything PIX, from comics to attendance to events and more. This episode’s hosts: [...]

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The podcast by indie comics creators for indie comics creators! Listen to Sequential Underground #26 right now: Shawn Atkins, Dan Greenwald, and Nick Marino recap their 24-Hour Comics Day experience at the Toonseum. Shawn did an artistic Gello Apocalypse story, while Nick drew a dramatic Stick Cats tale. Dan talks about past 24HCDs, including his [...]

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The podcast by indie comics creators for indie comics creators! Listen to Sequential Underground #25 right now: Nick and Shawn are joined by writer/artist Wayne Wise, a fixture of the Pittsburgh comics community and a veteran author. We discuss Wayne’s history of self-publishing both comics and prose fiction. From the black and white boom of [...]

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The podcast by indie comics creators for indie comics creators! Listen to Sequential Underground #24 right now: First up, announcements — NYCC, PodCamp Pittsburgh, and more. Then onto today’s conversation: displaying diversity on the page without resorting to stereotypes or character cliches. We discuss character development, dialogue, depiction, features, coloring, and taking inspiration from real [...]

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The podcast by indie comics creators for indie comics creators! Listen to Sequential Underground #23 right now: We’re talking about unusual influences with special guest Nils-Petter Norlin a.k.a. Colonel Panic, artist of the Yamagato webcomic and the YIBR podcast title cards… and a Super Haters Guest Week in September: From billboards to science magazines to [...]

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The podcast by indie comics creators for indie comics creators! Listen to Sequential Underground #22 right now: Scrapped projects! A call in from Ben Beesly a.k.a. Beeslo kicks things off. Then Shawn talks about his dead project that was a combination of Three Stooges and Reservoir Dogs and Seth discusses his Lost in Space meets [...]

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The podcast by indie comics creators for indie comics creators! Listen to Sequential Underground #21 right now: Writing before the script! Shawn likes to start with bits of dialogue or random plot ideas in his sketchbook. Seth makes lists and outlines with pen and paper before he hits the computer to type his script. Dan [...]

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The podcast by indie comics creators for indie comics creators! Listen to Sequential Underground #20 right now: Traditional vs. non-traditional work methods! Dan thinks most comic book artists are hybrids nowadays, Nick isn’t sure how to define traditional, and Shawn thinks that this discussion would have been more of an argument 15 years ago. Nick [...]

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The podcast by indie comics creators for indie comics creators! Listen to Sequential Underground #19 right now: Shawn wants to talk about finding an artistic voice. The SU crew leaps face-forward into this tough discussion with reckless abandon! Nick is confused about the difference between voice and style. Seth thinks voice is inherent. And Dan [...]

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The podcast by indie comics creators for indie comics creators! Listen to Sequential Underground #18 right now: Dan asks: When is it time for a creator to give up making indie comics? Shawn digs what the Webcomic Alliance had to say about the topic. Nick thinks it’s all about economics, emotions, and growth. Dan admits [...]

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The podcast by indie comics creators for indie comics creators! Listen to Sequential Underground #17 right now: On the Digital Webbing forums, we asked creators: “What do you wish someone had told you when you first started making comics?” Dan, Shawn, and Nick read some of the fantastic responses from the DW message boards AND [...]

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The podcast by indie comics creators for indie comics creators! Listen to Sequential Underground #16 right now: Writer’s block! Dan, Shawn, Seth, and Nick discuss difficulties in the writing process and how they work around their own blocks or lack of motivation. BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE! The conversation evolves from writer’s block into scripting. The [...]

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