All Episodes

339. The Biggest Booth I’ve Ever Built

338. Enough Impossible Things

337. Now a Minor Motion Picture

336. How "The Bottom Line" Was Made (Story Break)

335. Post-Traumatic Kickstarter Syndrome

334. The Least Commercial Work We’ve Ever Done

333. In the Mud

332. It’s Just That Their Job is Different

331. The Opposite of Accidents

330. No Time For Feeling (Strange Brew Launch!)

329. Why Haven’t I Been Doing it That Way?

328. The Logger's View of the Forest

327. Remind Them There's More

326. Look At The Stone, Not The Ripple

325. A Qualified Discerning Creative

324. Unintentional Advancements

323. Everything Suddenly, All At Once (2025 Year in Review in Review)

322. Writing Next to the Laundry Room

321. Why Would You Do This For Free?

320. I've Got The Worst Power! (How "Lifties" was made)

319. It's Not Gone, Just Changed

318. Aren't You Above This?

317. It’s a Big Event With a Lot of People (Winnipeg Comiccon 2025 Recap)

316. Don't Leave Yourself Time to Be Afraid

315. Solving New Problems All The Time

314. I Have To Unload My Dad’s New Spellbook!

313. Oh No, I'm in a Bad Spot! (NYCC & Quebec Comiccon recap)

312. The Disaster That No One Sees Coming (A.K.A. The Mushy Middle)

311. In the Mainstream

310. Hitting the Target (a.k.a. The Hobbit Effect)

309. Get Everyone Together and Show That Comics Are Cool

308. Trying Too Hard to Think About the Franchise

307. One Impossible Thing at a Time (How “Power Line” was Made)

306. Weird Show! (Fan Expo 2025 recap)

305. What We Kept and What We Killed

304. Hide a Magician in Your Crowd

303. The Place You Grew Up In (SDCC recap pt. 2)

302. Nobody Leaves at 7:00 (SDCC recap pt. 1)

301. Maybe Aliens Show Up

300. To Iceland!

299. "This Could Be Higher..."

298. So, Are You Excited?

297. That's TCAF, Baby!

296. Cool Outfits, Neat Weapons, and a Code

295. A Rubber Monster Slathered in Goo

294. Barely Middling Weird

293. Guardians of Fandom

292. The Dark Section of the Show

291. Objects can be Protected from the Fall

290. The Calgary Escapade - Transmissions from The Road (Warning: May Contain Snakes)

289. Controlling Your Means of Production

288. Does the Audience Want to See It?

287. As likely to have it go nowhere than somewhere

286. Less Than a Crumb of Attention

285. This is my job!

284. It will never be the way it was

283. Privatizing the Portal to Hell

282. What is "The Fight"?

281. The Wobble Zone

280. I don’t believe in ghosts, I am afraid they’re real.

279. The Magic of Story

278. Why Not Just Give Up?

277. The Saddest Profession

276. Carefully Read Your Contract

275. The Servant of the Project

274. Love The Process More Than The Outcome

273. If a certain kind of person hates it, then it’s for me!

272. Banging Your Head Against the Mainstream Comics Wall

271. Tales from the Distillery

270. Building Your Personal Brand

269. I Don't Mean to Poopoo on Publishers

268. A Forty-Minute Endeavour (Winnipeg Comiccon recap)

267. The Dark Side of Creating Comics

266. A Plethora of Prairie Comics Readers

265. It's just fun to make up stories!

264. Building the airplane as we fly it

263. The Distinguished Competition

262. A Library of Clouds and Rocks

261. Just One More

260. Excuses to casually make things

259. Adventures on the bus (with a surprise story break!)

258. Your style is the mistakes you can’t get rid of

257. The Olympics of Attention Warfare

256. The Old Men and the Con

I used to be a Magical Girl

Poets, or Hot-take Jerks?

The Danger of Jargon

The 4 P's of Creativity: Putter, Plans, Projects, and Parts

We're Going to Art So Hard!

My Brain is an Angry Pile of Squirrels

Story breaking 'Science Water' - an eco-friendly Creature Feature

What makes a Dire Beast?

Has Thermos Technology Gone Too Far?

The 3 F's of Calgary Expo

Schrodinger's Convention

The Intangibles of Traditional Publishing

The grass is always greener where there aren’t cowboys.

The Hydra starts to eat itself

When your ideas are jealous of each other

Damn, that's not art!

You're Clipboad Guy now

An Alien Queen on the side (Justin's origin story)

How dare I not try? (Gregory's origin story)

Handing in your homework twice

Dan and the Fantastics

Cozy Introvert Mode

Would you buy my ashcan?

The Two M’s in Life: Marriage and Mortgage

‘My Disgust at the New York Comic Con Artist Alley’: Chasing Artwork on NYCC 2023

From Here to Tom Hardy

Figure out what your thing is

The Bottom of the Iceberg

How the Muse Arrives

The Skip Over Effect

Disappointment is that gap between what you want and what’s happening

Building resilience in a creative field

You’re locked in here with me (How Blood Vault was made)

Making Comics the Steven Way

Consolation Con (SDCC & Pemmi-Con postmortem)

Why would you do an anime convention? (Ai-kon 2023 recap)

'We've never made a book': a conversation with Friesens printing

There is a danger in getting big

I'm making comic books, calm down!

A secret plan revolving around a platform

This little glimmer that makes you want to know more

I Gamble Every Day, I'm in Publishing!

The Moment Dictates Difference

Not in control of certain aspects of your ascension

Bnb Bros (Calgary & Saskatoon recap)

So, why comics?

Every project is a stepping stone

I made a thing, and I don’t know what to do!

Do you think you’re still hungry?

When does art become design?

First Con of the Year!

Love You to Death

A Danger in the Details

A Crappy Part of the Internet

My idea's good, I promise!

Letting the imagination run wild

Your best ideas happen when you have no time

What to do in the age of uncertainty

The Year of 2022 (Writing the Wrong Way collab)

The detritus of our careers

Sometimes you need visual excitement

Creating something cool

I'll make that mean something

How 'Meathouse' was made (Live at FanQuest!)

There's a checklist...

24 Hours of Comics

One Weird Thing

Degree and not a category

The Werewolf Guy

Ego as Object

Sparrow Among the Peacocks (Fan Expo debrief)

The Mountain

Damn convention, I'm doing it myself!

Comets on the brain

The year that all conventions are coming back

The Monster has its own rules

Blinded by your own vision (Montreal Comiccon postmortem)

The Literati

Love It Enough To Work Hard On It

Ghost T-Rex is the Scariest Ghost

Together Again... Again

The Things That Happen With Internships

Under Promise, Over Deliver: the Cori Jaye Way

Journeys & Destinations with Scott B. Henderson

The Exquisite Corpse (Dead Work Kickstarter Funded!)

Your Project Might Become 10 Times Cooler (Dead Work Anthology Kickstarter ends soon!)

Our Dead Work will live again!

This Author is a Real Person

Professionalism the Wrong Way with Jonathan Ball, PhD

His Name is Jonas

Creating Connections and Viking Werewolves

New Experiences

Not Finishing is Failure

“Not in an evil way…”

First Con in a Long Time...

The New Art Book is Here!

Where's my Booth Setup? (Live from Winnipeg Comiccon!)

Creating the Eye Collector with Jonathan Ball (Part 2)

The Pros and Cons of returning to Cons

156. Return of the Living Hosts

155. Endings and beginnings

154. Flip Your Compositions

153. Pictures of Strangers

152. Vancouver Ruth

151. The "Double The" Edition

150. Fairytale Ending

149. The More You Do It...

148. Takes More Than It's Worth

147. Back-and-forthing

146. Just make something new!

145. The Last Witch

144. Gregory Dollars

143. Something Special About Europa

142. The FanQuest Panel of Horror!

141. A New Appreciation for Restrictions

140. Get a job, but plant a garden

Bonus Episode: A Reading from The Automatic Age

139. Gregory, How Can You help?

138. We Built a Blood Cannon

137. We want to sell the stories we make

136. A Mistake That You Make All The Time

135. Man, this texture is so nice!

134. A Style Experiment

133. Chasing How it Used to Be

132. The Hot Pepper Thing

131. The Idea of an Enduring Story

130. The Failure is Not Finishing

129. The Repulsive Essentials

128. Truth in Advertising

127. The Kings of Kickstarter

126. I Fought for Gertie

125. Pretend That It's Normal

124. Gotta be able to pivot

123. Building a new Kickstarter

122. And Along Came Hannah

121. The Gift of Story

120. Good Robots Glow Blue

119. Remix of a bunch of stuff I used to do

118. Creativity Is My Drug

117. The Danger of Nostalgia

116. A Forgery of Your Own Painting

115. A Book Has a Long Life

114. Can You Hear Me?

113. The Heart of the Story

112. Literally Join the Fight

111. The King's Metal

110. Social Distancing

109. A World of Overlapping Deadlines

108. Intent Matters

107. Oh Yeah, Conventions Are Fun!

106. A Goatee is Not a Beard

105. Angry About the Fish in the Pond

104. I Like Krampus

103. Something From Nothing

102. The Machine Gears Turning

101. My Thought Chamber

100. One Hundred Episodes!

99. If they hate the books, that's fine too.

98. Banking the Gumption

97. Day One Work

96. Thieves of Joy

95. Suddenly, Computers!

94. Just Add Puppies

93. Meaningful Struggle

92. Always Reply (or: How to Follow Up after a Big Con)

91. Hey You! (NYCC Recap)

90. Weird Baby Art

89. Our Heart Grew Three Sizes That Day

88. The Three Page Curse

87. The Things That Don't Work

86. It's the Singer, Not the Song

85. You're Not Big, But You're Small

84. Fail Upwards

83. Plant Fiction (or how 'Dead Head' was made)

82. First Idea, Worst Idea

81. Free Lanyards! (SDCC 2019 recap)

80. Greens vs. Reds (or How 'Green Thumb' was made)

79. Ted the Shield Tester

78. Listen Twice As Much As You Speak

77. Always Use the Whole Word

76. You Always Deserve To Die

75. Deep and Shallow

74. The Heel Pivot

73. The Amount of Life You Spend (PechaKucha 37)

72. The Last Time You Did Something for the First Time

71. As We Know It

70. The History You Decide

69. Airwolf

68. The Balance Between Chaos and Order

67. Business Hats On

66. Fairly Unreachable

65. Future Me Will Worry About That

64. Now You're the Expert

63. Here I Am, I'm Great!

62. Everything's a Circle

61. The Nonsense You Say As Advice

60. Red Earth: The Thought Bubble

59. The Hokey Pokey Dance

58. Breaking Story (or How 'Heirlock' Was Made)

57. Just Trust It

56. Nobody Wants You to Write

55. Little Brain Poots

54. Jumping on the Bandwagon

53. The House Fire Inside

52. This Is What You're Looking For

51. Everything's a Miracle

50. #NaNoWriMo

49. Fool's Gold (or Terrible People Giving Each Other Advice)

48. The Life of Drake

47. Labour Has Its Own Value

46. Not a Straight Path

45. Enter the Crunch

44. Big vs. Small (NYCC 2018)

43. Build Your Own Tower

42. A Haunted Church

41. On the Road

40. Money Always Wins

39. Meet the Buddha, Kill the Buddha

38. Let's Make It Super Sad

37. Too Much Freedom Can Be a Bad Thing

36. How Conventions Get Made

35. Threads of Disparate Conversations (post FanQuest Day 1)

34. The Film is In Charge

33. A Twisted Murder Plot

32. You Can Fix Bad Words, But You Can't Fix No Words

31. Some Problems With Success

30. How to Fail Gracefully

29. Take Opportunities as they Arrive

28. Us vs. Them (Mirror Universe Podcast)

27. The Haunted Dress

26. A First Show Experience Again

25. Keep Rolling Those Dice

24. Pantsing With Structure

23. Make Stuff and Get it Out There

22. The Democratization of Art

21. Viking Helmets Didn't Have Horns

20. Just Arrive and Respond (and make lists)

19. Is This Where I'm Meant to Be?

18. The Unparalleled Feeling of Putting Something Out There

17. Cthulhu Graffiti

16. The Best Kind of Sickness

15. We Should Totally Write A Comic

14. The Power of Images -or- "What did Dave do here?"

13. A Non-Subjective Perspective

12. Embracing the Darkness

11. Know When To Say No

10. The Truth Pyramid

9. Advice To Our Younger Selves

8. All Things Being Equal

7. Giant Ziggurat

6. Jump Now, Or You'll Never Jump

5. Chasing the Fear

4. The Spark

3. Destination Oblivion

1. Spider-Man Pyjamas