Comic Books Are Burning In Hell

This week, Joe, Chris, Tucker & Matt got together to talk about Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana, a recent documentary by Frank Henenlotter. Why a movie? Because Mike Diana is the only cartoonist to ever have been convicted of obscenity in the United States. Come for the movie, stay for the discussion of dealing with obscenity. Handwringing and posturing ensues, but luckily, it isn't by all four of them.

Tucker, Matt, Joe & Chris got together to check in about the top of their Just Read stack, including a new comic from Kevin Huizenga, Mickey Zacchilli's Space Academy 123, and the unjustly (justly?) ignored Batman: Master of the Future. And at the end, Joe provides a deep analysis that may or may not be necessary of a recent Todd McFarlane article posted at Vice.

When Joe was 14 he thought watching anime was the next evolutionary step from reading comics. Now he and Chris are living in the future, as they discuss a bunch of Japanese cartoons they watched, all of them based on comics by the thoroughly franchised enfant terrible Go Nagai! I’m told the word “Devilman” will improve our metrics!

It's January 2018--what better time to look back on 2017? On this extra long episode of the only comic book podcast, you'll find Matt Seneca, Chris Mautner, Joe "Jog" McCulloch and Tucker Stone powering down the comics that kept them going. What's on their list? You'll have to listen to find out!

On this brief episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, Joe McCulloch and Tucker Stone welcome a four year old girl named Piper on to talk about three new comic books--Captain America, Thor & Disney Princesses. Then they touch upon Comics Arts Brooklyn 2017, which Joe attended.

On this episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, Matt, Joe, Chris and Tucker sit down and deliver the public service of easing the world into a land where there is no new weekly column by Joe McCulloch lining up the various comics and graphic novels that will be released this coming Wednesday. If you've spent the last 13 plus years reading Joe on Tuesday mornings and are now wondering where you are to turn, well, so are Chris, Tucker and Matt. So here it is: your weekly dose of Joe, in podcast form. We tried our best to stay out of his way! Subjects Discussed in this Episode: The Work of Yuichi Yokoyama--you can read Matt's interview with Yokoyama here,. His new book is called Iceland, and you can track it down from Retrofit if it isn't at your local store. Poppies of Iraq, by Brigitte Findakly--you can find more information about this graphic memoir at the publisher's site. Pope Hats #5, by Ethan Rilly--you can find more info over at the publisher's site. What is a Glacier, by Sophie Yanow--you can grab a

Mike Mignola's Hellboy and related titles continue to be some of the more popular comics seeing release today. They have movies and everything. But are they any good? One podcast is ready to find out.

On this episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, Tucker Stone, Matt Seneca, Joe McCulloch and Chris Mautner gather round to discuss the Ganges series by Kevin Huizenga, one of the most important comic book releases of the last decade. Check out The Factual Opinion for links to articles that we've written about Kevin's work!

On this very special episode, Matt Seneca, Tucker Stone & Chris Mautner talk about the latest issue of Sammy Harkham's tremendous Crickets series up until Matt turns back the pages for a look at the Mike Zeck classic of old, Spider-Man: Kraven's Last Hunt!

IT'S THE SEASON PREMIERE OF COMIC BOOKS ARE BURNING IN HELL!! A mysterious doppelgänger of Chris Mautner terrorizes America's $10-and-under blu-ray shelves while Alan Moore aims to destroy the world... again! Will the boys solve the mystery of "Gouffre", the book that doesn't exist?! THE CONCLUSION TO "PROVIDENCE"! FRENCH ART COMICS! A FAKE DOCTOR STRANGE! Can you believe this shit is free? I feel glad whenever it comes out. What a precious gift to our world.  

It’s a podcast crossover as Trash Twins co-host Katie Skelly shows up to talk about Moyoco Anno’s Insufficient Direction. Then Joe and Chris talk about Dominique Goblet’s Pretending Is Lying. It’s a short episode but we actually got decent audio recording equipment for once. Don’t expect that to ever happen again. 

Three boys, one toy: JIRO JIRO JIRO. I don't care about some sushi movie, for me, there is only one Jiro: His name is Taniguchi. Come and dive into a lurid pool of love for a gentle soul who knew his way around a famous gunshot. Joe, Chris and Tucker talk about their affection for one of Japan's heartiest souls.

The title says it all: these are the best comics of 2016, courtesy of Matt Seneca, Chris Mautner and Joe McCulloch. Tucker is here too, but he refused to do a best of thing.  Well, not completely.

Hey there pardners. Saddle up and join us at the saloon for a rootin, tootin’ … OK, enough of that. In this episode Joe McCulloch, Matt Seneca and Chris Mautner are talking about Western comics, with a lengthy discussion of Garrett Price’s White Boy. Yee-haw. Or some such exclamation.  

Every year, a festival takes place in Brooklyn, and every year, Joe comes out to visit Tucker and go through his rituals. This time around, Joe and Tucker are joined by Tim Hodler to recap: CAB NINTENDO OPERA MANGA TRANSIT COMICS

Chris and Joe went to second annual CXC festival in Columbus, Ohio, and decided to record a podcast about their trip on the car ride home. That’s a great idea, right? In between they talk about Winsor McCay, Charles Burns, Garry Trudeau and just how cool that Billy Ireland museum is (it’s pretty cool).

There’s a new comics publisher in town (any town, just pick one), New York Review of Comics. In this episode, Joe McCulloch and Chris Mautner examine two of their latest offerings, Peplum by Blutch and a new edition of Pushwagner’s Soft City. Merriment is had Fun fact: I hate writing blurbs.

On this episode, Chris, Tucker and Joe talk about what might be the worst Garth Ennis comic ever made, one that is fine, and the history of Queen Emeraldas. Get in where you fit in, young demon!

Matt Seneca and Joe McCulloch couldn't find any comics, so they went to the movies! What movie, you ask? Why THE NEON DEMON of course!

On this episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, Joe McCulloch and Matt Seneca get together to talk about Tim Hensley's 2016 comic Sir Alfred, the final publication of Alvin Buenaventura's Pigeon Press. NOTE: difficulties with recording make this episode hard to hear at times, and for that we apologize.