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Robots From Tomorrow!
by Robots From Tomorrow
A comix podcast coming to you from somewhere in the multiverse. Stay safe and enjoy your funny books.
Episodes
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Paul Gravett on QUEER AS COMICS
Greg welcomes comics historian/curator Paul Gravett back to the show to discuss his QUEER AS COMICS exhibit at the newly opened Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration in London. Paul goes deep into not only the exhibit's Tom of Finland origins, but the origin of the Centre as well. He spotlights...
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IN YOUR SKIN: The Exit Interview
Aditya Bidikar came onto the show to talk about the first issue of his mainstream comics writing debut, In Your Skin, from Image Comics. Now that the Bollywood body horror identity and parasociality exploration In Your Skin has reached its conclusion, writer Aditya Bidikar is back to talk about…
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Sierra Barnes on HANS VOGEL IS DEAD v2
Sierra Barnes returns to the show to discuss the next collection of her antifascist fairy tale webcomic Hans Vogel is Dead. She details her webcomic-to-print workflow, frequently intense production pace, delays, and outlining Volume 3 amid uncertainty about the publisher. Things hinted at in the...
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Sierra Barnes on HANS VOGEL IS DEAD v1
(Originally published on January 26, 2023) Sierra Barnes is a cartoonist whose work combines such varied influences as history, folk lore, mythology, fascism, anti-fascism, war, and foxes that might not actually be foxes. Her webcomic exploration of these topics, HANS VOGEL IS DEAD, was just...
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Chris Schweizer on OUTLAW'S APPRENTICE
One of the benefits of doing a show for as long as I've done this is not only meeting and talking to new folks, but checking back in with previous guests to see what they've been up to since we last talked. Today's episode is one of the catching up variety. My guest was last on the show back in...
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Hazel Newlevant on QUEER AND HOW WE GOT HERE: A (PERSONAL) HISTORY
Hazel Newlevant is a Brooklyn-based cartoonist known for creating and editing comics about queer history, bisexuality, polyamory, and reproductive rights. Their cartoonist CV highlights start off with the Xeric Grant-funded mini comic Ci Vediamo in 2012 and the Prism Comics Grant-funded biography...
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Greg Pak and Dr. Dan Cassino on STOP PROJECT 2025
Going into the 2024 US presidential election, a group of close to 50 comic book creators got together and put out the STOP PROJECT 2025 webcomic -- a non-fiction anthology that broke down the 900-page conservative wishlist that was Project 2025's MANDATE FOR LEADERSHIP into understandable chunks...
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Chris Anderson and Corrine Halbert on POWER PULP COMICS
Readers go to the comic shop to get their comics, but the road those comics take from the creator's drawing tables to the shops has changed a lot in the last 100 years or so. Greg talked with documentary filmmaker Wes Eastin back in February about the comic shop/retailer side of things, but today...
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Josh Dysart on THE HAB
Josh Dysart returns to the show for a third time to talk about his newest miniseries from Bad Idea, The Hab. Created with David Lapham, Bill Sienkiewicz, Jacob Phillips, colorists Matt Hollingsworth and Crabtree, and letterer Simon Bowland, and printed on old school newsprint-esque paper, The Hab...
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Josh Dysart on GOODNIGHT PARADISE and UNKNOWN SOLDIER
[This episode is a remastered version of number 664 in a series, originally released on April 30, 2020.] The last time writer Josh Dysart was on the show, back in 2017, the conversation focused on his run as ongoing writer for Swamp Thing. But for this deep-dive talk, the topics range from his...
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Halpern + Faste on INFECTED FOR SCIENCE
Today's episode has Greg chatting with Sydney Halpern, a historical sociologist from the University of Chicago who has written extensively about twentieth-century American medical institutions and biomedical science, including 2021's Dangerous Medicine: The Story Behind Human Experiments with...
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J. Marshall Smith on TESTAMENT
J. Marshall Smith is a cartoonist, illustrator, and educator based in Baltimore (making us de facto neighbors) who came up through the disciplines of painting and printmaking before finding his way to comics. And that background shows, because his work doesn't look like it comes from someone who...
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Aditya Bidikar on IN YOUR SKIN
Aditya Bidikar, back on the show after 4 years, is a man of letters in the most literal sense. In the more than a decade he has been plying the lettering trade, he has worked with every major North American comics publisher and formed strong collaborations with several groups of creators, none…
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John Workman & Aditya Bidikar on The (in)Visible Art of Lettering, Part 2
[This episode is a remastered version of number 776 in a series, originally released on April 21, 2022.] Now you can hear the second half of the two-part chat Greg had with letterers extraordinaire Aditya Bidikar and John Workman! The shop talk continues, as well as thoughts on more recent work...
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John Workman & Aditya Bidikar on The (In)Visible Art of Lettering, Part 1
[This episode is a remastered version of number 775 in a series, originally released on April 14, 2022.] Today's show has two of the best letterers in comics on for a two-part chat about their craft: Multiversity Comics's 2021 Favorite Letterer winner Aditya Bidikar and legendary...
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Steve Bissette on TABOO and Publishing Horror
In part two of their discussion, Steve Bissette lays out the late-1980s self-publishing moment after his run on Swamp Thing, tracing how Dave Sim's Mid-Ohio Con outreach and critique of corporate profit flows led Bissette and John Totleben to launching the horror anthology Taboo and all points...
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Joana Mosi on PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Joana Mosi is an award-winning Portuguese cartoonist whose work is only recently becoming available in English. And that timing matters — because until Pow Pow Press started publishing her books, The Mongoose and now Physical Education, internationally, there was basically no way for...
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Henry Barajas on DEATH TO PACHUCO
Reading today's guest's interviews, listening to his podcasts, and looking at his resume, already packed with highlights at a relatively young age, it becomes clear that he does not shy away from conflict or controversial opinions because he does the research to back up his words. He leans into…
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Steve Bissette on TYRANT and Comics in Vermont
Cartoonist / writer / scholar / educator (and now Comics Laureate) Stephen R. Bissette joins Greg for the first part of their two-part talk about all things Tyrant and more as the Kickstarter campaign to bring his long out-of-print series back to life has roared past its funding goal and…
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Jim Rugg on VEEFRIENDS, TYRANT, WEAPON X, & More!
Greg welcomes cartoonist/designer Jim Rugg back to the show for the first recorded conversation since 2014! Last time, Jim talked with Greg AND Mike about the return of Street Angel through AdHouse Books, among other things. But for 2026, Jim brings a whole slew of new projects to the discussion:...
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Jim Rugg Talks STREET ANGEL
[This episode is a remastered version of number 104 in a series, originally released on July 21, 2014.] We usually follow up a spotlight episode with either a Previews exploration or a free-for-all. But this week is different because Jim Rugg himself stopped by our center-of-the-earth recording...
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Kit Anderson on SECOND SHIFT
Cartoonist Kit Anderson's first graphic novel Second Shift was first mentioned on the back back in episode 817, where Avery Hill co-publisher Ricky Miller talked about working with her and bringing the book to his London-based company. But today's episode dives into the book with the author...
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Wes Eastin on SHOPPING FOR SUPERMAN
Today's guest is on the show to pick up a conversation we started last October when he screened his first feature film, SHOPPING FOR SUPERMAN, at Baltimore Comicon. He is a filmmaker - director / writer / editor / showman / dreamer / and many other things. His nearly 20 years in the film business...
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The Greatest Bronze Age Batman Stories, Part 2
Greg and the DC3Cast's very own Vince Ostrowski continue their dive into gem after Caped Crusader gem of the best Batman stories of the Seventies to mid-Eighties! Come for the Archie Goodwin goodness, stay to find out more about the artistic evolution of Walt Simonson, which of the two hosts is...
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JLU: "For The Man Who Has Everything" (Commentary Only)
Join Greg and Zach Wilkerson, one-third of the DC3Cast, as they delve deep into the Justice League Unlimited episode 'For the Man Who Has Everything,' adapted from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' classic Superman Annual #11. How deep you ask? Well, audio commentary-level deep!
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JLU: "For The Man Who Has Everything"
Join Greg and Zach Wilkerson, one-third of the DC3Cast, as they delve deep into the Justice League Unlimited episode 'For the Man Who Has Everything,' adapted from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' classic Superman Annual #11. How deep you ask? Well, audio commentary-level deep! The two's discussion...
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Stan Sakai Spotlight @ BCC 2025
In this panel discussion Greg moderated from this year's Baltimore Comicon, renowned cartoonist Stan Sakai discusses his celebrated career, particularly focusing on his iconic creation, Usagi Yojimbo. The conversation covers various aspects of Sakai's journey, from his early inspirations and the...
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Lettering: Drawing in a Different Way @ HeroesCon 2024
In this panel moderated by Greg at HeroesCon 2024, veteran comic book letterers Rick Parker, John Workman, and Kevin Nowlan, as well as coloring guru and production master Steve Oliff share their experiences and techniques as cartoonists working in the art of lettering. Here's how the show...
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Tools of the Trade @ BCC 2025
In this panel discussion Greg moderated from this year's Baltimore Comicon, cartoonists Zoe Thorogood, Jeff Smith, David Petersen, and Stan Sakai talk about the tools they use to bring their Eisner-winning comic book stories out of their heads and on to the page. From scouting art shops for...
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The Legacy and Lessons of BROWNSTONE
Writer Samuel Teer is back to finish out the RFT trilogy dedicated to Brownstone, his collaboration with cartoonist Mar Julia. Since his last visit, Brownstone won the prestigious Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, and Samuel goes into detail about the impact that...
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COPRA's Last Round @ HeroesCon 2025
In this panel discussion that Greg moderated back in June from this year's HeroesCon, cartoonist Michel Fiffe reflects on finishing his acclaimed indie comic COPRA with the release of issue 50 earlier on the week. Fiffe discusses the emotional journey of concluding the series after 12+ years, his...
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A CRISIS of Infinite Options
Greg welcomes DC3Cast's Brian Salvatore back to the show to help out with this Shelf Bound look at DC's 1985 blockbuster event CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS. After catching up on Brian's busy post-Multiversity life, balancing different passions including music, baseball, and family, and various...
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Ricky Miller on AVERY HILL PUBLISHING
There's an ecosystem to comics publishing, like everything else. You've got your Marvel & DC/Big Two on one end of things, your single cartoonist stapling their first minizines that they ran 20 copies off of the printer at their day jobs at the other, and many points in-between. And it's one of...
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Rick Parker on DRAFTED
In his latest graphic novel Drafted, readers can see how math did cartoonist Rick Parker absolutely no favors in trying to stay out of the military during the height of the Vietnam War. The 256-page book, which is the first of Parker's career that he has written AND illustrated, covers that three...
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Andrew Aydin and GOOD TROUBLE COMICS
We live in troubling times. Turn on the news or your phone and that seems to be all there is: trouble. But according to John Lewis, the late U.S. Congressman from Georgia's 5th District, trouble… doesn't always HAVE to be bad. In fact, there can be GOOD trouble that helps you deal with all the…
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Spotlight on Colleen Doran @ HeroesCon 2024
Today's episode comes directly from this year's HeroesCon in lovely Charlotte, NC. Greg had the opportunity to host a few panels this year; the first of which was this spotlight on cartoonist/illustrator Colleen Doran. As described in the show programing guide: Her work has garnered more...
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Paul Gravett: At Comica's Crossroads
"The cycle of renewal in art is peddled by the periodic influx of stuff from somewhere else. That's why you need a man at the crossroads… He will be the purest, most fresh faced wee fellow you have ever met. His ingenuous enthusiasm will beam from his cheery countenance." -- Eddie Campbell on…
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Joseph Illidge on THE SHADOW CABINET
Today's guest is making his SIXTH appearance on the show, which means he's the most returned non-Multiversity guest in the history of the show. Previous episodes have had us talk about various aspects of his almost-30-year career in comics, from intern to editor at such publishers as Valiant,...
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Michel Fiffe on the Life and DEATH OF COPRA
Today we're talking about Copra, the indie comics darling that fuses 80s mainstream comic sensibilities with modern execution to give us an adventure story that looks familiar... up until it doesn't. In the 12 years since its inception, Copra has taken readers on a journey both on the page and…
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November 2024 Update
Neither your eyes nor your ears are deceiving you -- we're back! Rested, reconfigured, and ready to return to ongoing Robot-ing! Listen to this byte-sized bonus episode to find out where we were and where we're headed!
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Mar Julia + Samuel Teer on Building BROWNSTONE
The topic of today's episode is Brownstone, the new YA graphic novel from writer Samuel Teer and artist Mar Julia, about a 14-year-old girl spending the summer with a father she's never known as they fix up the titular dilapidated brownstone. If that name sounds familiar, it's because Samuel was...
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Samuel Teer on the Road to BROWNSTONE
Returning to the show today after a nearly eight-year absence is comics writer Samuel Teer. His new book, Brownstone, about a teenage girl connecting with her Latin heritage and her estranged father without speaking a word of each other's language as they renovate the title structure, hits…
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The Greatest Bronze Age Batman Stories, Part 1
Having finished with the Man of Steel, today's episode is the first of three looking at the best Caped Crusader stories of the Seventies to the mid-Eighties with the DC3Cast's very own Vince Ostrowski! Come for the Neal Adams, stay to find out more about double-threat Frank Robbins, the mad…
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A Few Words About Team-Ups
Today's show is not a joke, not a hoax, not an imaginary story! Greg gives his take on the upcoming Marvel & DC crossover omnibi coming later this year, and then dives into the larger waters of comic book team-ups that absolutely totally happened . . . and with the help of Ross Pearsall's…
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Pow Pow Press Roundtable
Today's show has not one, not two, but THREE Canadian cartoonists on the mics ready to chat with Greg. Luc Bossé, cartoonist of Gary, King of the Pick-Up Artists and publisher of Pow Pow Press, Thom, cartoonist of such Pow Pow works as VII, Casa Rodeo, and the upcoming Botanica Drama, and…
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The Greatest Bronze Age Superman Stories, Part 3
Today's episode is the third of three looking at the best Superman stories of the Seventies to the mid-Eighties with the DC3Cast's very own Vince Ostrowski! Vince & Greg dive into what makes the Superman of this era different than his more modern incarnation and give you gem after gem of...
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Alex de Campi on FULL TILT BOOGIE
Having just talked about the early days of 2000AD, we thought it would be fun to chat with someone with a strip running in the Progs right now. Starting with Prog 2367 was Book Two of the strip "Full Tilt Boogie", the continuing adventures of teen bounty hunter Tee, her grandmother, and their cat...
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The Greatest Bronze Age Superman Stories, Part 2
Today's episode is the second of three looking at the best Superman stories of the Seventies to the mid-Eighties with the DC3Cast's very own Vince Ostrowski! Vince & Greg dive into what makes the Superman of this era different than his more modern incarnation and start giving you gem after gem of...
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2000AD - The First Dozen!
As part of his Someday Reading Project, Greg takes a look at the first dozen programmes of The Galaxy's Greatest Comic: 2000AD! Do those early installments still hold up? Was Dredd the leader of the pack… or the runt of the litter? What controversial boys' adventure comic paved the way for Tharg...
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The Greatest Bronze Age Superman Stories, Part 1
Today's episode is the first of three looking at the best Superman stories of the Seventies to the mid-Eighties with the DC3Cast's very own Vince Ostrowski! Vince & Greg dive into what makes the Superman of this era different than his more modern incarnation and start giving you gem after gem of...
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