Fredcast Podcast Episode 37In this episode, i talk about being sick, NAMM, Kobe, and other stuff.you can submit questions to the podcast here:forms.gle/TjSVyYHJQqLvu5EfAthis podcast is now available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and Google Play.YouTube: youtube.com/freddiejoachimSpotify: open.spotify.com/artist/0Ggkf…Soundcloud: @freddiejoachimBand…

Fredcast Podcast Episode 36in this episode, i talk about the past year, holidays, and gaming bs.you can submit questions to the podcast here:forms.gle/TjSVyYHJQqLvu5EfAthis podcast is now available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and Google Play.YouTube: youtube.com/freddiejoachimSpotify: open.spotify.com/artist/0Ggkf…Soundcloud: @freddiejoachimBandc…

Arthur Gregory Slade is a Canadian author from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He was raised on a ranch in the Cypress Hills and began writing in high school. He attended the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon and received an English Honours degree in 1989. His first short story was published that same year. Slade became a full-time writer after the …

Born and raised in Birmingham, England, Ben McCool was a long time fan of US comics. He first began to work with comics when he was employed by Nostalgia and Comics in his home town. There he met and became good friends with the Hitman artist John McCrea and began to learn more about the art of writing comics. Since then McCool has moved to New Yor…

True Patriot is an amazing anthology, visit kitkcster.com to donate!بقلم Fred Kennedy

From Hope: I'm Hope Nicholson and my partner is Rachel Richey. We are long-time comic fans and academics currently based out of Toronto, Canada.We are the holders of the exclusive rights to reprint Nelvana of the Northern Lights.Both Rachel and I are passionate fans of the Canadian Golden Age of comics, and have been for years. We're thrilled that …

Dr. diCarlo is a Philosopher of Science and Ethics whose interests in cognitive evolution have taken him into the natural and social sciences. His research focuses on how and why humans reason, think, and act the way they do.بقلم Fred Kennedy

North grew up in Ottawa, Ontario, where he studied computer science (minor in film) at Carleton University before moving to Toronto for his master's degree in computer science at the University of Toronto, specializing in computational linguistics; he graduated in 2005. He is a humorist, programmer and longboarding enthusiast and also designs t-shi…

J. Torres won the Shuster Award for Outstanding Writer for his work on Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, Love as a Foreign Language and Teen Titans Go. He is also the writer of the Eisner Award nominated Alison Dare and the YALSA listed Days Like This and Lola: A Ghost Story.Other comic book credits include Avatar: The Last Airbender, Batman: The…

Scott Nihill (Producer/Writer) has worked in film, TV and gaming for ten years, he has a background as a fine art illustrator, made a popular series of docs on artists and an interactive doc he directed was nominated for a Webbie Award (flubandutter.nfb.ca). Learn more via scottnihill.com. Riley Adams (Editor) is a TV, film and game writer who I br…

Tracy: As the contract assistant curator for the ROM's engagement of Mesopotamia: Inventing our World, Tracy Spurrier combines her extensive knowledge of ancient Mesopotamia with her love of sharing ancient cultures with the public. Always interested in archaeology, Tracy decided to dedicate her life to the profession following her first introducto…

From Keiths website kgrachow.com: An artist since a wee lad, I have been involved with graphic arts and illustration to some degree all my life. When I was 5, my father started an advertising agency which introduced me to the world of graphics. This interest would continue into college where I earned a BFA with a focus in graphic design. All throug…

Rob is one of my favorite comedians in Toronto. He's a really angry guy on stage, but the weird part is, he isn't really angry at all. Just one of those guys who's gone through a myriad of political ideals and been consistently let down. This is a good one, he tells a story about a drug robbery at the end that is utterly fantastic.…

Shane is awesome. I met him years ago when we started working on Mike Gorbsmith together. I need to get working on that comic again, but haven't touched it in years. David I've met at a few shows and he's super good dude. Very genuine and one of those guys who just does this stuff out of love. You gotta love a dude like him.…

I met Mr Marshall at C2E2 this years and he was a really awesome guy. He edits an entire slew of comics for Dark Horse. We had a really cool discussion about how much videogames have changed over the past few years and also about how patterns of storytelling are so engrained in our minds. I have to say, for me this was a real treat, and did I menti…

Kurtis Wiebe is a Vancouver, Canada based author who's been established in the world of comic writing since 2009. For his contribution to the critically acclaimed Green Wake, Kurtis was presented with the Outstanding Comic Book Writer Shuster Award. Never satisfied with a specific style of writing, Kurtis has branched out to novels, videogames and …

Ed Brisson first became involved in comic creation in the early 1990s. He mostly works as a freelance letterer, and has worked for such companies as Image, ShadowLine, and Blackline Studios, among others. In 2005 he started New Reliable Press, a small publishing company that released eight books, including True Loves and You Ain't No Dancer, before…

Brian Evinou – Brian is an animator and a creator of some very cool comics. He almost punched me in the face when we were at C2E2 this year, so that's gotta count for something. Phil McClorey – Since the very first con I ever went to I've been on rad terms with my good friend Mr McClorey. He's also be kindling my love for D&D and that's just plan s…

Joel Carriere is the president and owner of Dine Alone Records, Bedlam Music Management, and S.C.E.N.E. Music Festival. He is known for managing Canadian post-hardcore group Alexisonfire and alternative group Bedouin Soundclash.بقلم Fred Kennedy

JANEANE GAROFALO, the petite woman with the acerbic wit, had many jobs before breaking into show biz. She worked as a bike messenger, a shoe salesperson (no doubt with Al Bundy's disposition), waitress and temp secretary. Watching David Letterman on TV inspired her, and by 1985 she was doing stand up comedy. Science broadcaster and writer JAY INGRA…

Let's start by saying Scott Hepburn is one of the nicest dudes I've ever met in the comics industry, genuine, kind and incredibly insightful. Then there's that whole "talent" thing. Look at his resume, it reads like my fantasy comics sheet! Orchid, Darkstalkers, Star Wars, Skullkickers, X-Men Age of Apocalypse and MORE! We had a really cool convers…

Kit Harrington - Kit has been known to UK audiences for years but made his big breakthrough to North America playing Jon Snow from Game of Thrones, and he's since been mounted on the walls of countless teenage girl's rooms. He also happens to be my favourite character on the show. Also, we both loved Sharpe … a BBC classic! Rose Leslie - Rose Lesli…

For those who haven't played it, Drinking Quest is a fantasy setting RPG with really simple rules, uses only one dice, and the object is to have a few drinks while you play. In fact, drinking becomes PART of the game. I've played it with a group of my friends and we've always had fun in the process. Jason was an awesome guest, and while we played w…

Ricky Lima – He's a greatly bearded gent that works at Stadium Comics and also creates his own comics. Deep Sea is a fantastic indie title that will mstlikely be available at Fan Expo this summer, and he's already working on a sequel!Adam Gorham – Adam and I work on the comic Teuton together, and he's contributed to a bunch of indie compellations a…

Conor has served in both creative and business positions for film and television companies, contributed over 1,000 stories and articles for media outlets and also provided expert analysis for Canada's Business News Network. That's all well and good, but he also comes to my house and drinks beer!بقلم Fred Kennedy

This guy is my favourite comic writer. Period. I feel lame even just calling him a comic writer. He's my favourite writer, let's put it that way. This interview was kind of weird though cause it wound up being very choppy and conversational rather than a straight ahead discussion. This a big reason why I like having people in studio. But he lives i…

Michael Tymczyszyn is an author and screenwriter living in Toronto, Canada. He lives with his fiance and their dog. Michael is currently finishing writing for Titan Book 2, as well as several other series that will be released by AH Comics in 2013.Follow Mike on Twitter @alphabetkid. Andy Stanleigh is an artist and designer living in Toronto, Canad…

Timothy Truman is an American writer, artist and musician. He is best known for his stories and Wild West-style comic book art, and in particular, for his work on Grimjack (with John Ostrander), Scout, and the reinvention of Jonah Hex, with Joe R. Lansdale. Truman is currently writing Conan and Hawken.…

Kagan McLeod has been illustrating for magazines, newspapers and design firms since 1999, after graduating from Sheridan College's illustration program. He began work as a staff artist for Canada's National Post newspaper, and has since had work published in magazines around the world. He lives in Toronto with his wife, two daughters and hound dog,…

Aaron's career in comics began in 2001 when he won a Marvel Comics talent search contest with an eight-page Wolverine back-up story script. The story, which was published in Wolverine #175 (June 2002), gave him the opportunity to pitch subsequent ideas to editors. In 2006, Aaron made a blind submission to DC/Vertigo, who published his first major w…

Mike and Ed are great guys. They worked on a VERY cool indie series called Murder Book and are now working on a book for Image called Comeback. The first issue is out next Wednesday and I can't recommend it enough. I already read the first issue and I am really excited for number two. It's cool to talk to these guys right now as they're riding the …

Tommy Tallarico is without a doubt one of gaming's greatest luminaries. The veritable video game icon is known throughout the world as one of the most influential video game composers in history, having help guide video game music from the bleeps and bloops of the early 1980's into the rich, CD-quality soundtracks appreciated by millions of fans ar…

In 2005 Ralph and business partner Joe Brusha, co-wrote and published Zenescope's first comic book series, Grimm Fairy Tales, which was an immediate hit with comic book fans all over the world. He went on to co-create the acclaimed Wonderland trilogy along with Brusha and writer Raven Gregory. Tedesco has co-developed and has written numerous Zenes…

Joseph Torres, better known as J. Torres, is an award-winning Filipino-born Canadian comic book writer. He is perhaps best known for his run on DC Comics' Teen Titans Go!. He has also done some writing for animation and television. He's currently working on a very cool project called True Patriot. I encourage you support it by clicking here: www.in…

This week we're joined by Ramon Perez, our first ever Eisner Award Winner! He actually replaced Kevin Long at Paladium Games back in the day. And Kevin Long was one of my favourite artists ever. Look at the work Kevin Long did on the Rifts books and tell me your mind isn't blown to tiny dust particles!!! Anyways, we chat about everything from child…

So Kalman is a comic book artist .. or dare I say ARTEESTE from right here in Toronto. He's also one of the best dressed dudes in the Western Hemisphere. Mind you, I'm not real judge of fashion, but he always makes me look like shlub. Great dude, though. We chatted about Captain Cannuck and a few other random things here. I love hearing his insight…

This guy has done it all. And in this chat (which could have been twice as long and been just as interesting) we talk about everything from pole vaulting, brainwashing cults, icebergs and why Russia is without a doubt the scariest place on Earth. Really, if you want to be a writer listen to what he's talking about. Amazing nuggets of information on…

Jimmy Palmiotti is a writer of the first regard … I don't even know if that sentence makes sense. But what I'm trying to say is he's a great writer, and also a swell fella. He even bought me a drink at FanExpo! I learned that he started in advertising and went on to ink comics and that's how he got his writing career going. And he's done more that …

Aaron Douglas played my favorite character on Battlestar Galactica, Chief Tyrol. We chatted about a bunch of stuff including his new show for Netfilx, Hemlock Grove. It was cool having him in studio being so frank about humanity.بقلم Fred Kennedy

Tony Moore has been one of my favourite comic artists ever since I started reading The Exterminators a few years back. I loved the book. It was tragic how it ended so soon. I suppose he's most famous for being part of the creative force behind The Walking Dead, but I've always liked Fear Agent and the Exterminators. What's kind of weird is the firs…

This week George from the Silver Snail came by the studio and continued a drunken conversation that started a few weeks ago. While at FanExpo we were stuck at a dinner table full of people crapping on Superman. I love Superman, and so does George. Hence forth we felt it was our DUTY to discuss why despite all the silliness involving the man in blue…

David Evans is a Curator in Vertebrate Palaeontology and oversees dinosaur research at the ROM. He is also a cross-appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto. David was born in Ontario and grew up in Kelowna, British Columbia. He first laid eyes on dinosaur skeletons in the galle…

Is an assistant professor at the U of T whose fields of study include: The origins of the stellar initial mass function, The kinematics of star-forming molecular cloud cores and their environments. in particular, examining their sources of support (ex. rotation and turbulence), and bulk motions linked to their evolutionary states (ex. infall and ou…

J. Bone is an Eisner Award nominated Canadian comic book artist and writer who has worked on such titles as DC Comics' Batman: The Brave and the Bold and Super Friends. He was the inker on the Eisner Award-winning one-shot Batman/The Spirit. J.Bone's first published work was Solar Stella for Sirius Entertainment, for which he was nominated for an E…

Jeff Leake hosts The Verge on XM and occasionally does on air shifts at 102.1 The Edge here in Toronto. He's a pretty rad guy, and was a massive influence on me and how I approach radio. He has a really laid back, off the cuff delivery and is probably one of the best interviewers around. He also gives horrible parenting advice for cool people.…

What can I say about George that you don't know already? Well long before he was on CBC and Much he was on the radio. We talk about that and then delve into his love of The Wire and some of his experiences with The New Music. Pretty cool chat, maybe next time we'll be able to get him into the studio!…

Francis co-writes The Flash for DC Comics as well as doing the penicls. Not only that, he's a great guy and has been a profound influence on how I approach working in comics. We talk about all kind of stuff including the introduction of Gorilla Grodd in the latest run of The Flash, to writing as a craft. And we even started discussing what it would…

David Evans is an Associate Curator in Vertebrate Palaeontology and oversees dinosaur research at the ROM. He first laid eyes on dinosaur skeletons in the galleries of the ROM and has been fascinated with dinosaurs and palaeontology ever since. As an undergraduate student David spent several summers working as a field technician for the Royal Tyrre…

Adam Gorham is an artist and all round handy guy. He once built a mechanical arm that operated with pneumatic levers! It's true. He completed his first major work a few years ago. It was a book called The Vampire Conspiracies, and he's currently working with me on a project called Teuton, available at bigsexycomics.com. You can follow him on Twitte…

Ray Fawkes is a prolific Canadian graphic novelist born in Toronto, Ontario. Some of his novels include Spookshow (2003), Pink (2006), The Apocalipistix (2008) and the ever popular, One Soul (2011). Ray's work is, to his fans and critics, incredibly introspective, dreamlike and bombastically slapstick. One Soul, arguably Fawkes' greatest work, is b…