The Comic Cast

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

The wait is over. DC have begun releasing their new 52. Is this the most exciting thing to happen in comics or has it been the ultimate let-down? Find out as we review EVERY SINGLE ONE of the 14 of the 52 released so far. From Animal Man #1 to Swamp Thing #1, we rate [...]

In the first of a two-part mini-interview with artist Will Sliney, he talks to us about the end of Farscape, joining IDW to work on Killing Shakespeare and doing a cowboy comic-book with Dave Hendrick. Download Link: The Comic Cast 01/09/11 also available through iTunes Show Links: Will Sliney – Official page

On this weeks mammoth show we review Everything We Miss by Luke Pearson (and ask is Pearson the new comics heavyweight?)  and we lock heads over wheter Radio: An Illustrated Guide by Jessica Abel and Ira Glass should have been made as a comic book at all. Also reviewed are The New Ghost by Robert [...]

On June the 18th 2011 Squarebound: an Irish comics creators convention took place in the Irish Writers Centre, Dublin. The Comic Cast was invited to speak at the event and so we decided to create a special video where we asked three Irish comics creators – Maeve Clancy, Philip Barrett and Paddy Lynch – totalk [...]

This week there’s no messing about as we review Flashpoint by Geoff Johns/Andy Jubert, Paying For It by Chester Brown and Astonishing Spider-Man and Wolverine by Jason Aaron/Adam Kubert. We interview Pádraig Ó Méalóid – organiser of SQUAREBOUND: An Irish Comics Creators Convention on what to expect at the event this Sat 18th June in [...]