Obsessively Collecting James O’Barr’s Work — Sewer Mutant Podcast Episode 4

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

Podcast Episode 3: Meeting Strangers

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

Podcast: Inside The Reptile House

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