Strip Search, Episode 33

Strip Search, Episode 33 — Crowden Satz

Crowden Satz is one of the funniest and most prolific single-panel gag cartoonists in the biz, and now the New Hampshire-by-way-of-California transplant is telling us the tricks of the trade on the latest Strip Search comic strip podcast.

As usual the podcast is available below in both audio and video versions, but this time we highly recommend the video option — to see our pretty faces, of course, but also because Crow (as his friends refer to him) was nice enough to provide multiple samples of his work while discussing his process and his progression during his cartooning career. (If audio is your bag, though, never fear: You'll see a bunch of those selfsame panels posted below.)

Interested in learning more? Check out Crowden Satz on his website, at CartoonStock, at his Patreon page, on Facebook, or, if it's merch you're looking for, on Zazzle or Redbubble.

Also in this month's episode: We offer our take on the newly syndicated comic strip "Crabgrass"; stump for "Thor: Love and Thunder" (like it needs our help); and also hatch a plot to pull a Kate Bush with our 1980s comic strip, "Swidey."

Watch and/or listen;/download below:

And check out some of the panels (and one very creative coffee) referred to by Mr. Satz here:

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