Episode 13 - dun dun duuuuuuhhhh

Welcome to Small Press Big Mouth episode 13. In this episode Stacey has a good old ramble about Thoughtbubble, The Everyday and Geek Girl and Lee reviews Nexus, 2001 Nights and Awesome Marcus Ninja. Presented for your enjoyment in Geordiebrumophonics whey aye like!
Direct download: Small Press Big Mouth - Episode 13

linkaroos
http://theeveryday.adamcadwell.com/
http://www.atomicboogaloo.com/geekgirl/
http://www.bloodyredbaron.com/
http://www.steverude.com/wp2/
http://www.rudedudeproductions.com/
http://www.webcomicsnation.com/marcusninja/
http://www.lunabrothers.com/bib_sword.php
http://shop.ebay.com/cheekyjoe/m.html?_nkw...p;_trksid=p4340 - David Lloyd Auction!

In Memory of Eric Martin, Auction

http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/geek_syndicate

The Geek Syndicate say this on their ebay page,

"Eric Martin was a huge comic fan who died of a heart attack on November 18th during his sleep. He was aged only 36. Eric was a regular contributor to many of the comic book podcasts out there and their forums. He was also a friend and great supporter of the Geek Syndicate podcast back when we first started and even came on a few episodes. It is because of our friendship with Eric that we at Geek Syndicate, in collaboration with many other people, have decided to organise this auction to help raise money for Eric's eight year old daughter Gracie."

We at SPBM didn't know Eric ourselves but appreciate the people who support us and know how much it means to have someone like Eric around, we realise how much he'll be missed and so we want to do all we can to promote this auction.

I have already bid on the art by Lauren Monardo because she rocks and her art is amazing. You lot pick summat else to bid on y'hear! :-)

Technotard, blogs and comics

So instead of working out how to upload mini interview clips from Dictophone to 'puter and cleaning them up and slotting them into the podcast. I played them down the mic when we were recording on Monday night! Ha Technology FAIL! Worked though.

My latest SFX blog is up on teh SFX Magazine website, few thoughts bout Thoughbubble. http://www.sfx.co.uk/page/sfx?entry=blog_thoughtbubble_2009


Not going to have a chance to review it on the 'cast properly but I picked up #10 of Fetishman at TB09. Fetishman loses his fetish mojo and struggles to get it back. Lactose Intolerant Boy is the star of this show, he's brilliant. Very funny and a bit silly (in a good way) there is no drop in quality as this series goes on. Beautifully produced as always and a really, really reasonable £1.50 an issue. Go on, you know you want to! http://www.fetishman.co.uk/

Thoughtbubble

Well I had a great time at Thoughtbubble this weekend. What a brilliantly run convention, very slick and smooth and problem free. Wish I could have stayed for the party which had Jamie McKelvie and Kieron Gillon as well as Al Ewing doing DJ sets. Gutted to have missed that. I did grab a couple of words from folks on my spanky new dictophone, which hopefully will be appearing on teh next podcast if I can work out how to get it from dictophone to puter!

I picked up a scary amount of comics and very much looking forward to reading them!

Episode 12 is up!!!

Welcome one and all to Episode 12 of Small Press Big Mouth, back after a small illness related hiatus. This time round we have news from Hi Ex the International Comic Con held in Inverness and we review Asterix by Goscinny & Uderzo, Hope Falls and Midnight Kiss by Tony Lee, Murky Depths #9, Space Monkeys by Paper Jam Comics and Coupledom by Andy Waugh, The Upturned Stone and Pigeons From Hell by Scott Hampton, Zombie Survival Guide Recorded Attacks by Max Brooks & Ibraim Roberson aaaaand maybe some more but I’m old and I’ve been ill and I’ve forgotten! Though I can tell you that nothing beats Diagnosis Murder when your ill – fact! Enjoy

http://geeksyndicate.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=551051

Episode 11 is up!

Welcome to Episode 11 of Small Press Big Mouth. This episode is packed chock a block with reviews uping our usual ante and then some. With reviews of graphic novels, webcomics and a passle of hand stapled goodness, where else would you have all your small and indie press needs met?

http://geeksyndicate.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/small-press-big-mouth-episode-11/


Including....

Scott Morse's The Barefoot Serpent
www.scottmorse.com
www.scottmorse.blogspot.com

Howard Chaykin's American Flagg!
www.dynamiteentertainment.com

Septic Isle and Brothers written by Andy Winter and illustrated by Mick Trimble and Andrew Radbourne respectively
www.moonfacepress.com
www.winterworkblog.blogspot.com

The Frightful Fetus by Stephan Lindsay & Jim McMunn
www.captionsandballoons.com/fetus/

Wondermark by David Malki !
www.wondermark.com/

Episode 10!!

Welcome to Small Press Big Mouth episode 10, the BICS special. In this episode Stace and Lee throw the usual format out of the window and just have a good old ramble about BICS.

http://geeksyndicate.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/small-press-big-mouth-episode-10/

Episode 9!

Welcome one and all to Small Press Big Mouth Episode 9, this week Stace and her completely heterosexual, Strictly Come Dancing crazy sidekick: The Lovely Lee review a load of small press and indie gorgeousness including Harker by Tony Lee and Tales of the Hollow Earth by Paul Thompson as well as The Slightly Askew Adventures of Inspector Ham and Eggs (with thanks to Iz) and many more.

Join us for 30 odd minutes of glorious Geordibrumophonics and listen to us both squee about the imminent BICS weekend!

http://geeksyndicate.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/small-press-big-mouth-episode-9/

BICS and that

We had a great BICS, I am still recovering from my late nighter on Saturday night. Met some fabulous new people and caught up with some now firm friends and even some old friends. I bought a shitload of small press comics which I have read about 8 of already - going to have to pace myself!

We are recording a BICS report tonight which will be fun but don't expect coherency!

Turning Tiger

Look at this thing of beauty! This is the variant cover of Rich Clements iminent comic Turning Tiger. Art by the rather fabulous Simon Coleby and colours by the stupendous Vicky Stonebridge. Can hardly wait to get me little mitts on this!

Episode 8 is up!

http://geeksyndicate.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/small-press-big-mouth-episode-8/

Welcome one and all to episode 8 of Small Press Big Mouth where in a special slightly extended edition we chat to comics writer, editor, colourist, publisher, convention organiser and lovely if slightly bad man Richmond Clements! Richmond chats to us about Futurequake press, Hi Ex and his newly signed Vigil book with Insomnia! Here are some links to check out the man himself on the interweb thingy!
http://futurequakepress.blogspot.com/
http://www.insomniapublications.com/
http://www.renegadeartsentertainment.com/
http://www.hi-ex.co.uk/
http://richwriting.blogspot.com/

Weekendy goodness

Having a pretty fab weekend so far...

We recorded Ep8 of the 'cast on friday - our very first Interview Special with the terrific Richmond Clements of FutureQuake, Zarjaz and Hi-Ex fame. We couldn't have asked for a better first guest. Shame the funniest bit of the interview won't be broadcast as it was off the record heh heh heh...
http://richwriting.blogspot.com/
http://www.futurequake.co.uk
http://www.hi-ex.co.uk/

Last night me and the family went to see Dave Gorman at the Victoria Halls in Stoke -what a great night! Wish I could say more but Dave asked the audience to keep the surprises in the show secret for the benefit of future audiences, which is totally fair, so I'll just say I laughed my bum off and I strongly recommend anyone who enjoys laughing check him out ...or rather I should say check out his show as the man's physical appearance isn't especially hilarious, he's just a guy, y'know, he doesn't wear clown shoes or anything. Okay I'm waffling...
http://gormano.blogspot.com/
http://www.davegorman.com/livedates.html

Now I'm off to the flicks to see Whiteout the graphic novel is awesome - I reviewed it last week in the 'cast - so I hope the movie does it justice.
http://whiteoutmovie.warnerbros.com/

Small Press Big Mouth Episode 7

Welcome to Small Press Big Mouth Episode 7, this episode due to summer holiday madness Stace is totally unprepared and Lee is made of snots.

We chat about news and review Falling Sky by Benjamin Dickson, Whiteout by Greg Rucka & Steve Lieber, Ethel & Ernest and When The Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs, Mothman About The House by Ben "BFC" Clark, Suburban Glamour by Jamie McKelvie and Blood Psi by Andy Winter and Keith Burns.

Direct download: Episode 7

Review

I recently read a couple of Hellblazer trades by Andy Diggle, Joyride and The Laughing Magician. I really enjoyed both of them very much, I think the Diggle man is rather awesome and shall have to root out more of his stuff as haven't yet read a duff thing. Published by Vertigo (so not really suitable for the podcast!)

Anyhoo, The Laughing Magician (art by Leonardo Manco and Danijel Zezelj) focuses on a Mage of war who is growing stronger by devouring other magicians and therefore stealing their powers. His goal is to find and consume The Laughing Magician and targets Constantine believing him to be this incredibly powerful and age old Mage. Is Constantine The Laughing Magician though?

This is a very violent and graphic story and pretty gory too. John is such an anti hero and is sometimes incredibly unlikeable but I think this makes him more rounded as a character, ultimately you root for him even when he is being self involved dick, and Diggle has a great handle on the character.

The art is gorgeous from both artists, and the odd Glenn Fabry cover does no harm either. I sometimes dislike it when the artist changes part way through a story, but I didn't find it too jarring here, maybe because the first issue with Zezelj on art is set partly in another version on London so when the art changes it is almost in keeping with a return to London proper.

Overall this is a great, action packed read and the set up for the next volume is cleverly done and I would highly reccommend you get your sweaty mitts on any of Diggles run, I know I shall be!

More Guesting

I am a guest on The Eclectic Podcast this week which is full on warfare over which movie should be declared The Best Comic Book Movie of All Time! If you listened to my Racks ep you may already know my answer to this question! :-) It is a bit of a monster - at nearly 2 hours but it was tons of fun and the guys were very funny and very lovely as well as being scarily knowledgable!

http://www.geekplanetonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=616:the-eclectic-podcast-1x09&catid=81:the-eclectic-podcast&Itemid=14




Stace
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Comic Racks

My Guest appearance on the fabulous Comic Racks podcast is up

http://www.thecomicforums.com/forum2//index.php?showtopic=158907

Iz was fabulous and it was a really fun experience.

Small Press For Brum?

http://downthetubescomics.blogspot.com/2009/08/nostalgia-and-comics-opens-doors-to.html


Good news for the luvverly Lee!

The Geek Syndicate meet Jonathan Ross!

In the spirit of Aliens v Predator, Godzilla v King Kong and Abbot & Costello meet Frankenstein the Geek Syndicate boys have scooped an interview with comics geek and King Of Chat himself.

Do the clicky thing right here, right now: http://geeksyndicate.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/geek-syndicate-meets-jonathan-ross/


During the interview Jonathan tells the lads where his love for all things geek ,especially comics, started. He also reveals why he would never own a comics shop again.

Jonathan explains why is unable to attend comic conventions as much as he would like.

There’s some talk about the adaptation of Mark Millar’s comic Kick Ass that Jonathan’s wife, Jane, is working on as well his view on comic to film adaptations.

Jonathan has his feet firmly placed in the Marvel comics camp. He explains why and shares some of his favourite creations. He also tells a very interesting story about his encounter with Steve Dikto.

The guys discuss with Jonathan why he decided to write his own comic and gives us a few details on the project.

Episode 6 is up!

Clicky here, you: http://geeksyndicate.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/small-press-big-mouth-episode-6/

This time around we chat about the comics of Matthew Craig, Love and Rockets, Princess at Midnight, Nightbus, The Rainbow Orchid and Stace enthuses about the fabulosity of Britten and Brulightly.
We have some sound control issues this ep, sorry about that, think I have that sorted now for next time! The usual just over half an hour of chat brought to you in Geordibrumophonics TM!

La Racks

I just finished recording my guest host appearance on [url=http://comicracks.libsyn.com/]Comic Racks[/url] I feel bad for Iz doing the editing because I kept forgetting I wasn't just chatting to her. So erm professional podcaster still some distance away for me. Iz however is the Shiz - fact.

I shall link when the thing goes up. In the mean time a new ep of Small Press Big Mouth shall be out on either Wednesday or Thursday. I'm sure Lee will put a link up as I am away now for a few days.

In the meantime Be Pure! Be Vigilant! Behave!

love Stace
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New SFX Blog

I have a new blog up on the SFX Magazine website. My odd meadering rant was due to reading this column on the Bleeding Cool site: http://www.bleedingcool.com/category/a-very-modern-muse/ where the writer spent so long telling us it's ok to have tits and like comics she failed to mention any of the comics that she is reading/cares about/is looking forward to/influences her or in fact anything at all to do with comics! Hum

Blah blah blah

We recorded episode 6 last night and we managed to get through it without too many hitches. The Gorgeous Stace is now editing like a maniac while i'm sitting here with me feet up waiting for the chippy to open. Mmmmmm saturdays....

I've got a wee pile of new graphic novels here that I'm either about to read or partway through including Wet Moon v1, Invincible v10, The Astounding Wolf-Man v2, The Boys v3 and The league Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century: 1910 some or none I'll be covering in the 'cast at some point but those I don't I'll blog about on here.

I'm currently terribly excited about the imminent release of The Walking Dead v10, DMZ v7 and The Sword v3. The Sword I talked about in the previous 'cast but Walking Dead and DMZ are two of my three favouritest series in the world right now - the third being Jonah Hex - which I may sneak in a review on on here when The Gorgeous One ain't looking cos its published by DC.

Talking of Walking Dead, very excited to hear a cable TV series adaptation is in development from Frank Darabont (The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption, The Mist). Sounds very very promising to me as I'm a big fan of that guy's work.

NEWS!

http://travellingman.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/we-love-comics-con-sat-5th-sept-travelling-man-leeds-big-names-to-attend/

Thanks to Mark Peyton over on the SFX forum for the heads up, attending this one day We Love Comics day is:

Adi Granov
Andy Diggle
Liam Sharp
Frazer Irving
Peter Docherty

I hope this "travelling con" is coming to Newcastle oh yest I do

Review!

Not really suitable for the 'cast but last week I read Kingdom the first trade by Dan Abnett and Richard Elson published by Rebellion.

This is a story about Gene The Hackman a genetically engineered dog/man . Led by his "urgings" he and his pack are charged with keeping Them off his lawn. After losing his pack Gene finds one of his mysterious "masters" and finds out some information about his purpose. He begins a quest into the world over the Land Bridge to find proof that The Them are capable of much more then even they thought.

This post apocalyptic story manages to be thought provoking, action packed with much scrapping and very funny in places. I think Abnett may be king of the Pun and the art by Richard Elson is flipping glorious. It is extrememly stylistic, with the dogmen having their own version of language and traditions to follow, but that really adds to the atmosphere and the strangeness of the story.

I read this as I know there is a new story beginning soon in 2000AD weekly prog and now I am ridiculously excited about it.

Big number two

Being a gentlemen I naturally let the lady come first so here's my first blog entry.

ummmmmmm...

Oh. Episode 5 went online last thursday and we talk about MoonFreight3, The Dark, The Sword, Fat Chunk:Zombies, Post Nuke and Fools Errand.

...and Stace calls me a male chicken.

As always its hosted by the generous people at www.geeksyndicate.co.uk so check it out as well as the other fabulous podcasts there its all good stuff.

First Post

After a little discussion me and the Luvverly Lee decided to start a blog for extra reviews and recommendations, for links and webcomics, for conventions reports, for news and probably to take the piss out of each other with reckless abandon, probably with many remarks about how the other one talks funny (Lee talks geet funny like ya nah!). We hope to keep it going for at least a fortnight afore we get bored and wander off to laugh at some Free Huggers!