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Duane Abel We're back! After a brief hiatus, we've returned with a new episode of "Strip Search: The Comic Strip Podcast," featuring our very special guest Duane Abel . (That's him up there.) Duane calls in from the great state of Ohio to discuss his comic strip "Zed," and the way he uses his cartooning and performing backgrounds as a motivational speaker. Also, "Three's Company" comes up. Because when doesn't it? Meanwhile, we review the recent book " The Peanuts Papers ," break some news about Comic Strip Cartoonist magazine, and share some new "Pet Peeves" developments as well. Listen below: Duane and Zed.

It's that time of year again! You may recall that last year we sat down with illustrators extraordinaire Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb to talk about the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo . This year, Shelli is back on Strip Search to talk about what's in store for the 2019 event -- and she brought with her Kurt Ankeny , a graphic novelist and fellow Salemite (Salem, Massachusetts, of course), who'll be debuting his latest book, "Pleading With Stars," at MICE. Listen in to hear everything you need to know about MICE -- whose website, despite what you may hear on the podcast, is  www.micexpo.org  -- coming Oct. 19-20 to Leslie University in Cambridge, and also about Shelli and Kurt's latest projects. Also we pay tribute to comics syndicate legend Lee Salem , and fill you in on our upcoming visit to Kids Con New England this November. (Plus a plug for Comic Strip Cartoonist magazine!) Listen here: Come early to beat the crowds at MIC...

By Bob Eckstein, possibly a self portrait. This is a big one: In this episode of "Strip Search" we welcome the great Bob Eckstein , best-selling author of "The History of the Snowman" and " Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores ," editor of the new compilation " The Ultimate Cartoon Book of Book Cartoons " and longtime cartoonist for the New Yorker and many others. We chat with Bob about his accidental cartooning career, an unexpected New Yorker meeting bound to make you jealous, his approaches to both writing and drawing, and, of course, snowmen. (We get in a few plugs for local bookstores too.) Oh, and don't worry if the intro sounds a little wonky: We're experimenting with the Zencastr app to record from separate locations, because frankly we've been spending a little too much time together. We're sure by next time those clicks and whirs you hear will be a thing of the past. Listen below, and visi...

Pat Sandy, Mark Parisi, Keith Knight, Braden Lamb & Shelli Paroline, Jonathan Todd (with Liza Halley), Stage Stossell and WIll Henry are all part of our Strip Search "clip show." Everyone needs a break now and then, even your seemingly indefatigable hosts of  "Strip Search," the comic strip podcast. So as we enjoy our summer vacations, we thought you'd like to revisit highlights of some of our best interviews from past episodes of "Strip Search," including: Mark Parisi , "Off The Mark," "Marty Pants" Sage Stossel , The Atlantic, the Boston Globe and author of the "On The Loose" series Shelli Paroline & Braden Lamb , "Adventure Time" and too many other comics and books to count Keith Knight , "The Knight Life," "The K Chronicles" Pat Sandy , "Next Door Neighbors" Jonathan Todd , "Timid," a forthcoming graphic novel from Scholastic Will Henry , "W...

Will Henry (center) joined Pete and Dave in downtown Boston for the latest "Strip Search" podcast. [Photo by Steve McGinn] We know it always sounds like we're having fun on "Strip Search: The Comic Strip Podcast," but it's rare that we have THIS much fun recording a new episode. But that's what happened when we met Will Henry (a.k.a. Will Henry Wilson) of " Wallace the Brave " fame in downtown Boston for our June 2019 podcast. We met up with Will at the monthly National Cartoonists Society lunch gathering at the Beerworks on Canal Street, and he stuck around afterwards to talk about his journey to national syndication, his technique for drawing and coloring "Wallace the Brave," his upcoming projects, his influences and, of course, the Boston Bruins -- being as we were within a slap-shot's distance of the TD Garden. (The street noises might make you nostalgic for the streets of Boston, or may just give you a headache.) And...

Members of the Band of Heroes were among the special guests at the Boston Kids Comics Fest. Let's face it, a couple of pasty dudes like us need to take whatever opportunity we can to get out of the house. With that in mind, we recorded this month's "Strip Search" from the Boston Kids Comics Fest , held at Pine Manor College April 27. Listen below as we chat with: Fest co-founder Jonathan Todd Fest organizer Liza Halley Andrea Bergstein of Scribblitt , which helps kids to make their own comics Our new friend, Evan, 10, of Reading, Mass. Meg Kearney of the Solstice creative writing MFA program at Pine Manor College Aisha Virgo, admissions counselor at Pine Manor Participants selling their wares at the Young Artists Table And of course we also talk about our  new book collecting three years of Pet Peeves comic strips . Plus, scroll down for a special BONUS CLIP featuring introductions from the fest's headliners panel, featuring Joel Christian G...

Who wouldn't buy a book from these two smiling fellas?  This month on Strip Search: The Comic Strip Podcast, we feature two very special guests -- ourselves! Guest interviewer Chris Stevens of the Book Nation podcast talks to us about "Pet Peeves," the new book collecting 400 Pet Peeves comic strips from 2016-2108, now available on Amazon . Plus, a reminder about the 2019 Boston Kids Comics Fest , and a plug for the 10th issue of  Comic Strip Cartoonist magazine. For more episodes, visit Strip Search on omny.fm or subscribe on iTunes . ORDER HERE!