Podcast: Miguel Ángel Espinoza on Nahual, His RPG Adaptation of Mexican Outlaw Comic Operación Bolívar This month I’m joined by Miguel Ángel Espinoza, creator of the urban fantasy tabletop role playing game Nahaul. Nahaul is based on the Mexican outlaw comic Operación Bolívar by Edgar Clément, originally published in Mexico in the 90s and recently … Read more
Jon Renzella is the creator of the Sunderland series of graphic novels that he’s illustrating entirely in woodcuts. The second book in the series, Solitude, was published in February, takes the already weird dystopian future story into even weirder territory. Themes range from environmentalism to right-wing news networks to hippie communes to conspiracy theories and … Read more
Welcome to Sewer Mutant, the podcast that takes you way underground to excavate comics you won’t find anywhere else. You’ve probably heard of The Crow, James O’Barr’s tale of revenge that became a film, TV show, and pop culture phenomenon. But O’Barr did a few lesser-known works that I’ve been obsessed with for years. For … Read more
Our tagline here at Sewer Mutant: “excavating comics that you can’t find anywhere else.” But there actually is another place to find a lot of the same comics I cover: a zine called Strangers: A Celebration of the Forgotten and Overlooked, which could also serve as the tagline for Sewer Mutant. Strangers has featured interviews … Read more
For this month’s trash barrel fireside chat, I interviewed Nicholas Bunch and MechanicalPencilGirl, two of the people behind my favorite current comic: Reptile House Comix. Reptile House is a collective of Philadelphia-based comics creators. Every issue of their zine-format anthology is chock-full of lowbrow comics, art, and gags by creators like Tia Roxae, ShittyStyle, Cum … Read more
It had to happen! Sewer Mutant now has a podcast! You can listen to it on YouTube above, or subscribe to the feed. You can also find it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and a bunch of other places. For our inaugural trash barrel fireside chat, I talk with Barbatus and Meanboss, the artists … Read more