The Comic Cast

This week on the Comic Cast we talk with artist Christian Kotey who has worked as a comic book artist drawing covers for characters such as Judge Dredd, Batman and various other European titles. Christian co-founded DNA Swamp, a Belfast-based comic anthology in 1997. He has worked in the TV and film industry for over 15 [...]

2012. Right. Let’s do this. On our first episode of the new year we review Moon Knight by Brian Bendis/Alex Maleev, Whispers by Joshua Luna, Ultimate Spider-Man issues 1-6 by Brian Bendis/Sara Piehelli and Wolverine and the X-Men by Jason Aaron/Chris Bachalo. We talk to Belfast artist Stephen Downey about his work on Slaughterman’s Creed [...]

This week the Comic Cast chats with colourist, cartoonist & illustrator Jordie Bellaire! Jordie has coloured everything from The Fantastic Four to Hellraiser and is currently the colourist for  Betrayal of the Planet of the Apes from BOOM!. Most recently she coloured Roger Langridge’s tale ‘Old Nick and The Peddler’ in Jim Henson’s The Storyteller [...]

This week on the Comic Cast we talk to Seán Michael Wilson – a Scottish comic book writer living in Japan.  Seán edited the collection ‘AX: alternative manga’ which was selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the ‘best ten comic books of 2010′, and nominated for a Harvey Award. His other work includes ‘The [...]

This week on the Comic Cast we dedicate an entire show to Hergé’s Tintin. Illustrator BRENB joins us as a guest reviewer of Steven Spielberg’s film The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, we visit the official Irish home of Tintin – International Books in Dublin, where proprietor Brendan Storey tells us how [...]

(PHOTO: Entertainment.ie) We are genuinely surprised and thrilled to have won the Best Independent Podcaster award at the 2011 Irish Web Awards last night in the Mansion House. The Comic Cast began life back in 2008 and since then we’ve knocked out a show every two weeks (give or take a week – you know [...]

This week on the recently award-nominated (IWA & ICN)  Comic Cast, we review Daybreak by Brian Ralph, Animal Man #2 by Jeff Lemire/Travel Foreman, Isle of 100,000 Graves by Jason/Fabien Vehlmann, The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists by Seth and Game of Thrones #1 by  Daniel Abraham/Tommy Patterson. On the Irish comic book scene [...]

This week we invite comics writer, graphic designer, artist and co-creator of the horror series Sancho Alan Nolan back on the show to talk about his new series of  comics with the O’Brien Press. Here he talks about creating The Big Break Detectives Casebook, a graphic novel for younger readers, and the Murder Can Be [...]

In part 2 of our mini-interview with Will Sliney, the Cork artist reveals that his next project, to be written and drawn by himself, will be about the Irish mythological hero Cú Chulainn! Download Link: The Comic Cast – Will Slney part 2 also available through iTunes