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Thick Lines
by Katie Skelly & Sally Madden
A comics podcast by cartoonists Katie Skelly and Sally Madden. Support the show and get bonus episodes at patreon.com/thicklinespod.
Episodes
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*TEASER* 179 - Now Let's Go to Hell
Full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod. Katie and Sally return to complete a double header look at Kerascoët. This time we're looking at Satania from 2017, written by Fabien Vehlmann and illustrated by Kerascoët. Does it diverge from the duo's trajectory as pitch perfect fabulists? Let's find...
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178 - Jestermaxxing at Club Tee Hee
Katie and Sally return for a look at The Court Charade written by Flore Vesco and adapted by Kerascoët (Abrams, 2026). Plus: catching up on the latest Heaven news, trying to figure out clown omnipresence, and lots more. Heaven is out from Fantagraphics on 7/7! Catch Katie at: Hot Off the Press…
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177 - Sunday Sunday Sunday
Katie and Sally are back to discuss Sunday by Olivier Schrauwen (Fantagraphics, 2024). Catch Sally at FLOP in Minneapolis, MN on May 23 & 24! She'll be moderating "The Saddest Comic in the World" panel on Saturday at 1:00pm. Details: instagram.com/oddmartmn Support the show and get bonus episodes...
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*TEASER* 176 - The Goodreads Quiz
Full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod. Sally quizzes Katie using only content sourced from Goodreads. Plus: a trip to Stuart Ng Books, why you should see Stars on Ice, and much more. Catch Sally at FLOP in Minneapolis, MN on May 23 & 24: https://glorpgum.com/pages/flop Thank you to our…
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175 - DNF
Katie and Sally return to discuss I Ate the Whole World to Find You by Rachel Ang (Drawn & Quarterly, 2025). Featuring: Goodreads mania, Camus, and Sue/Emily. Enjoy the show! Read "Thalassophobia" by Rachel Ang:...
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*TEASER* 174 - That Kookie Expresso
Full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod. Katie and Sally talk MoCCA, Marc by Sofia, and "Kookie" issues 1 and 2 by John Stanley and Bill Williams (Dell, 1962). Read Kookie: https://lastofthespinnerrackjunkies2.blogspot.com/2017/06/kookie-by-john-stanley-and-bill-wlliams.html Read Sally's Comics...
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173 - Step Right Up with Brian Baynes
Katie and Sally are joined by Brian Baynes (Bubbles Fanzine, Bubbles Con, Brian's Books) to discuss Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Schlitzie the Pinhead by Bill Griffith (Abrams, 2019). Follow Brian on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bubbles_zine/ For Bubbles Fanzine:...
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*TEASER* 172 - Ketchup
Full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod. Katie and Sally catch up on recent comings and goings, including going to AZCAF, interviewing Bill Griffith, preparing for MoCCA panels, and more. Catch "HEAVY S#!T" at Face Guts gallery in Los Angeles, CA through March 21: https://www.faceguts.com/…
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171 - Hot to Trot
Katie and Sally return for a look at the collected Trots and Bonnie by Shary Flenniken (NYRC, 2020). Rough chuckles advisory warning. Catch Katie at The Arizona Comicbook Arts Festival on Saturday, 2/28: azcomicartfest.com Check out "Heavy S#!t" at Face Guts gallery through Saturday, 3/21:...
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*TEASER* 170 - All This and Brains Too
Full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod. Miller Time continues with a look at The Dark Knight Returns (DC, 1986) written by Frank Miller, illustrated by Miller and Klaus Janson, and colored by Lynn Varley. Plus an appreciation for Bernie Krigstein's short story "Master Race" (EC, 1955). Thank…
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169 - My Favorite Time of Day is Night
Katie and Sally are back with a look at Elektra: Assassin (Marvel, 1986-87) written by Frank Miller and illustrated by Bill Sienkiewicz. Plus: Katie took a trip to Japan, and Sally has a very specific voice in mind for Frank Miller. Happy New Year! Support the show and get bonus episodes at...
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*TEASER* 168 - Fairy Tales for the Overgrown Child
Full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod. Katie and Sally reconvene to keep talking Junko Mizuno - this time looking at her fairy tale adaptations Cinderalla (2002, Viz), Hansel & Gretel (Viz, 2003) and Princess Mermaid (Viz, 2003). Thank you to our Patreon subscribers for making this episode...
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167 - Intensive Cute Unit
Katie and Sally are back to talk about the Most Important Book in the universe: Pure Trance by Junko Mizuno (Last Gasp, 2005 - originally published in Japan by East Press, 1998). Can a message belie its adorable appearance? Can you really direct a hospital wearing that? Are you ready to be...
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*TEASER* 166 - Yon & Mu & Everyone We Know
Full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod. Katie and Sally are back with Junji Ito for a look at his late aughts "cat diary," Yon & Mu (Kodansha, 2009). Happy Halloween!
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165 - Girl, Interrupted (by a Spiral)
Katie and Sally finally turn their sights to the one and only Junji Ito and the cult phenomenon manga Uzumaki (Viz, 2002). Come for the cosmic horror, stay for the exceptionally great hair design. And look out for our Patreon exclusive episode on Ito's Yon & Mu coming soon! Support the show and…
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164 - Amelia Bedelia: Citizen Consumer
Katie and Sally set their sights on Miss Ruki by Fumiko Takano (New York Review Comics, 2025): how does our environment change the way we experience friendship? What are we gonna do with all this life? Can I sleep over?? These existential questions and more: handled. (Spoiler - we loved this…
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163 - *TEASER* Beautiful Lil Monsters
Full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod. Katie and Sally take a look at the early '80s adult comics of Suehiro Maruo in Beautiful Monster (Bubbles, 2025) and wonder... just who are these adults? Thanks to our Patreon subscribers for making this episode possible!
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162 - Runnin' with the Devil
Katie and Sally discuss two big 2025 releases: The Devil's Grin by Alex Graham (Fantagraphics) and Face Meat by Bonten Taro (Living the Line). But first: the Cloweses in Eddington, Aya Takano in Los Angeles, and Kirby at the Skirball. Ciao summer! We're so back. Find Sally at SPX in Bethesda, MD…
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161 Arrugas/Wrinkles by Paco Roca with His Name Was Dusk PART ONE
Remember me? Sally is joined by her friend, translator and dungeon master, His Name Was Dusk to read Arrugas (Wrinkles in English) by Paco Roca, in both Spanish and English. Topics include, Bubbles Con, spying on Charles Burns, unseen Spanish comics, Dungeons & Dragons, dementia, and so much…
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159- Make Me a Woman with Siobhán Gallagher
Sally has too much to say to girl's girl Siobhán Gallagher about her pick and our bible, Vanessa Davis' Make Me a Woman (Drawn & Quarterly, 2010). Topics include 90's fashion, Hello Kitty, eating disorders on family sitcoms and more on this slumber party of an episode. Please enjoy Siobhán's...
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158 The Far Side by Gary Larson with Mattie Lubchansky
This episode was recorded prior to Scott Adams' announcement of his cancer diagnosis. As always, Thick Lines wishes good mental, spiritual, and physical health to all creators and createes. Joining Sally today is the business pleasure that is Mattie Lubchansky: former associate editor of The Nib,...
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*TEASER* 159- Dilbert with Mattie Lubchansky
This episode was recorded prior to Scott Adams' announcement of his cancer diagnosis. As always, Thick Lines wishes good mental, spiritual, and physical health to all creators and createes. Enjoy the full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod Joining Sally today is the business pleasure that is...
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*TEASER* 157- Akbar and Jeff with Sam Szabo
Full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod. What says "Happy 420, Two Days Late" like host and guest favorites, Akbar and Jeff? Sally and Sam Szabo find out what it means to be gay in Regan's America with Akbar and Jeff's Guide to Life by Matt Groening (Pantheon, 1989). This strip continued beyond...
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156- Poor Helpless Comics! with Sam Szabo
Happy Earth Day! Listener favorite Sam Szabo (Comics Will Break Your Balls, The Enlightened Transsexual, The Onion) is back to look at the PG-13 porno comics of Poor Helpless Comics! by Ed Subitzky (NYRC, 2023). Topics include, Heather McAdams' Cartoon Girl, going to the movies, National Lampoon,...
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154- Best of 2024 with Jog PART ONE
What's our favorite books from 2024? Sally describes them all in no particular order to beloved listener favorite Joe McCulloch! Part one is here for you to enjoy, for Part Two, we will see you over at our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thicklinespod Follow us on Instagram @thicklinespod and...
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153- *RE-RELEASE* A Very Gorey Episode
Last week marked the centennial of Edward Gorey's birth, so let's wish a happy birthday to our shared goth uncle with a listen back to episiode 23. Enjoy! Katie Skelly and Sally Madden discuss Edward Gorey's "Amphigorey: Fifteen Books" (1980). Topics discussed include Max Ernst, Edward Lear…
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*TEASER* 162- Interview with Em Frank and Frances Cordelia Beaver part 1: Live from PCX!
This is a subscriber-only episode, for the full audio please visit patreon.com/thicklinespod Thank you to Partners and Son for hosting us! Sally interviews Em Frank (Heavenly Days, I Never Found You, Dark Garbage) and Frances Cordelia Beaver (On a Cute One, Spirits Hungover At Work, Give My Best…
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151- The Pervert with Frances Cordelia Beaver
Frances Cordelia Beaver (On A Cute One, 2021) joins Sally Madden to read The Pervert by Michelle Perez and Remy Boydell (Image Comics, 2018) Topics include: a picnic at the graveyard, Milk White Steed by Michael D. Kennedy (Drawn and Quarterly, 2025), Peephhole #1 (despite what Sally says at the...
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150- Surfing The Crimson Wave with Molly Colleen O'Connell
I was always here, where were you? Thick Lines is back! Sally Madden talks with with Molly Colleen O'Connell about The Green Hand and Other Stories by Nicole Claveloux (NYRC, 2017) topics include gardening, nudity, getting our periods for the first time, and lots more. Thank you for listening!...
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149 - Katie & Sally Apology Tour '24
Oops! We're back! Katie and Sally catch up on recent reads including Unwholesome Love (Fictopicto/Partners and Son, 2024) and Final Cut (Pantheon, 2024) by Charles Burns, Blurry by Dash Shaw (New York Review Books, 2024), Sunday by Olivier Schrauwen (Fantagraphics, 2024), My Time Machine by Carol...
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*TEASER* 148 - Scary Stories to Tell on the Pod
Full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod. Katie and Sally are back with a bone-chilling countdown of their top three scariest comics. Artists discussed include Josh Simmons, Al Columbia, Kazuo Umezz, Jacques Loustal and Villard, Stephen Gammell, Julia Gfrorer, Conor Stechschulte, Art Spiegelman,...
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147 - The Charming Bad Man Industrial Complex with Anya Davidson
Katie is joined by cartoonist Anya Davidson (Night and Dana, School Spirits, Band for Life, Lovers in the Garden) to discuss Pascin by Joann Sfar (Uncivilized Books, 2016), translated by Edward Gauvin and Uncivilized Books. Find more Anya at anyadavidson.com and on Instagram @anyapdavidson.…
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*TEASER* 146 - Boots on the Ground: SPX 2024
Full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod. Sally and daughter hit the aisles of The Small Press Expo in Bethesda, MD on September 14 & 15 to ask creators, publishers, and retailers which formative reading experiences pushed them further into comics. Guests include: Avi Ehrlich (Silver Sprocket)…
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*TEASER* 145 - Ware Pilled
Full episode available at patreon.com/thicklinespod. Katie and Sally tackle Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware (Pantheon, 2000). Topics include Little Nemo in Slumberland, Dan Clowes, The New Yorker, intergenerational trauma, and Flip Wilson. Thank you to our Patreon...
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144 - Iris in the Morning with Chloe Brailsford
Katie is joined by cartoonist Chloe Brailsford (DC Pride 2024, Sapphic Pulp, Viscere #1) for a look at Iris: A Novel For Viewers, written by Lo Hartog van Banda, drawn by Thé Tjong-Khing (Fantagraphics, 2024). Topics discussed include Barbarella, Auranella, Kris Kool, Guido Crepax, Guy Peellaert,...
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143 - Thee Medical Arts with Shannon Spence
Sally is joined by Shannon Spence (P*NK LAB GRL! Burn it Down!, Kid Internet Connect) for a chat about their shared backgrounds and interest in medical illustration. Topics discussed include The Andromeda Strain, Frank Bender, Frank Netter, Gray's Anatomy, and lots more. Follow Shannon at...
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*UNLOCKED* 82 - There's a Billboard Over Glendale Blvd. with Hellen Jo
We'll be back with all new episodes starting next week! Katie and Sally are joined by Hellen Jo (Jin & Jam, Frontier #2) to discuss the billboard with her artwork gracing Glendale Blvd., plus a lengthy discussion of her comics journey, studio process, her life drawing classes, boba orders, girl...
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*TEASER* 142 - Lookie Loos
Full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod. Katie and Sally reconvene to catch up on our Fall to-read piles and take a look at the Fantagraphics Winter '25 catalog. Comics touched on: Round World Thinking by Ana Woulfe, Pony Show by Bread Tarleton, Distant Ruptures by C.F., Blurry by Dash Shaw,...
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*UNLOCKED* 92 - Squaring the Circle
Originally published June 15, 2023. Support the show and never miss a bonus episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod. Katie and Sally discuss Zero Girl by Sam Kieth (Homage Comics, 2001), an at times bizarre vision that only Kieth could breathe to life. Topics discussed include Suicide Girls, Tampa…
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*TEASER* 141 - Peepshow #15
Full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod. Katie and Sally discuss Peepshow #15 by Joe Matt (Fantagraphics, 2024). Topics discussed include being cheap, Seth, Weezer, tv people, writing letters, and lots more. Thank you to our Patreon subscribers for making this episode possible! Catch Katie...
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*TEASER* 140 - Bernadette with Katie Lane and Angela Fanche Live at Partners and Son
Full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod. Sally gets the scoop on the new Bernadette magazine with its editors Katie Lane (Single Camera Sitcom) and Angela Fanche (Humility Machine), recorded live at Partners and Son in Philadelphia, PA on Friday, July 12, 2024. Bernadette features work from 27+...
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139 - Little Lit with Bread Tarleton
Sally is joined by Bread Tarleton (Ponyshow, Horse) for a look at Little Lit: Folklore and Fairy Tale Funnies edited by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly (RAW Junior, 2000), a venture into stories for kids with comics by Dan Clowes, Chris Ware, David Mazzucchelli, Kaz, and many more. Find Bread…
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138 - My Pretty Vampire with Corinne Halbert
Sally is joined by Corinne Halbert (Acid Nun, Scorpio Venus Rising) for a look at My Pretty Vampire by Katie Skelly (Fantagraphics, 2017). Topics discussed include Herzog's Nosferatu, vampire lore, establishing mise-en-scène, and lots more. Find Corinne on Instagram @corinnehalbert. Support the...
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*TEASER* 137 - My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness with Chloe Brailsford
Full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod. Katie is joined by Chloe Brailsford (DC Pride 2024, Sapphic Pulp, Viscere #1) to discuss the perils of being a lonely queer cartoonist with a long chat about My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata (Seven Seas, 2016). Plus some yapping about...
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*TEASER* 136 - The Big Skinny with Bread Tarleton
Full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod. Sally is joined by cartoonist and illustrator Bread Tarleton (Horse, Ponyshow) for a look at Goodreads darling The Big Skinny: How I Changed My Fattitude by Carol Lay (Villard, 2008). Find Bread on Instagram at @bread_comix. Thank you to our Patreon...
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135 - Future Perfect with Dash Shaw
Sally is joined by Dash Shaw (Bottomless Belly Button, BodyWorld, Cryptozoo) to discuss Social Fiction by Chantal Montellier (New York Review Comics, 2023). Topics discussed include how to read a comic, combining comics and poetry, Bubbles Con, Jacques Tardi, The Drifting Classroom, Dylan Dog…
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*TEASER* 134 - Boots on the Ground: Nancy Fest
Full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod. Sally goes to the first ever Nancy Fest at The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum in Columbus, OH on May 24-25 and takes attendee and staff temperatures on the Nancy renaissance. Thank you to our Patreon subscribers for making this episode possible!...
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*TEASER* 133 - Tender Mercies with Sam Szabo
Full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod. Sally is joined by Sam Szabo (Enlightened Transsexual Comix) for a mega episode looking at Tender by Beth Hetland (Fantagraphics, 2024). Catch Sam at Zine Not Dead in Chicago, IL on Saturday, June 15: zinenotdead.com Follow Sam on Instagram at...
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132 - Hot off the Presses with Chris Mautner
Sally talks to fellow newly-minted Comics Journal co-editor Chris Mautner (Comic Books are Burning in Hell pod) about writing about comics, Bubbles Con, who isn't from Pennsylvania, Garfield, working in journalism, being a newspaper man, and what's next for TCJ. Check out Sally and Chris in…
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*UNLOCKED* 79 - The Lady with the Crocodile Purse
Katie and Sally discuss Pink by Kyoko Okazaki (Vertical, 2013, orig. pub. 1989). Topics discussed include Graham Rawle, Quentin Blake, Jennifer's Body, Jean-Luc Godard, and Lana Del Rey's Phoebe Gloeckner moment. Thank you to our subscribers for making this episode possible!
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