Comic-making, one practical conversation at a time.
Constructing Comics Podcast talks with comic creators about how their books actually get made. The conversations move from Kickstarter fulfillment and convention tables to paper, ink, thumbnails, lettering, coloring, back-burner projects, and the stubborn practicalities of making comics around real life.
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Constructing Comics Podcast is built around long, friendly interviews with people making comics at ground level. The show favors process over polish. A typical conversation starts with a new issue, Kickstarter campaign, anthology slot, or returning guest, then opens into the practical history of how the creator found comics and how the current work came together. The pace is measured, and that is part of the appeal. Guests are not rushed past the small stuff. They talk about media paper, ink supplies, light boxing, Procreate, Photoshop, thumbnails, lettering, coloring, page rhythm, publisher fit, convention weekends, and the trouble of getting finished books in front of readers. Recent episodes spend time with projects including Frog Night, Savage Seed, Phantasmagoria, Lichen Solomon's Odyssey, The Enchanted Circus of Wonder, Nuke Rooster Refried, Joni, Joni, Save France, and Dead Kingdom. The range is broad, but the center stays clear. This is a show about how comics are made by people who keep making them. The interviews are often admiring without turning into promotion. A guest can talk about a fulfillment, then pivot into the creative problems still bothering them. Another can explain how family and constant movement shape a portable drawing process. Someone else can describe a loose script, an iPad workflow, or the way a story is easier to build one page at a time than all at once. The show also has room for oddball enthusiasm. Medieval pitches, monster hunters, underground psychedelic books, anthology narrators, and homemade indie energy all fit naturally here. It is especially strong when a creator explains the gap between the idea in their head and the page they can actually make today. The conversations can meander, but they usually return to the work. That gives the show a peer-to-peer feeling, closer to a table conversation after a small press show than a formal media interview. Listeners looking for fast comics news may find it too loose. Listeners who care about the labor, materials, compromises, and small creative breakthroughs behind independent comics will find plenty to sit with.
Made for: For readers, cartoonists, writers, color artists, letterers, and small-press fans who enjoy process-heavy conversations about how indie comics get made. It especially suits listeners who like warm interviews with room for tangents.
What sets it apart: Constructing Comics Podcast stands out by staying close to the workbench: pages, tools, schedules, crowdfunding, collaboration, and unfinished ideas all get serious attention. It feels less like a press circuit and more like creators comparing notes honestly.
Constructing Comics is a podcast about comics storying telling and and page design building comics one panel at a time.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Creator interviews turn the practical choices behind independent comics into candid, useful craft talk.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A candid comics catch-up about Kickstarter aftermath, stalled projects, and ideas that keep resurfacing.
Armand Bodner returns to Constructing Comics for a creative catch-up that starts with Frog Night's second-issue Kickstarter and widens into what comes after a project finally reaches readers.
A comics conversation about drawing in motion, shaped by early comics, teaching gaps, and family life.
Caleb Prochnow's Savage Seed interview traces a comics life back to its practical sparks: gas-station Spider-Man, Ninja Turtles, and the 1990s Image Comics artists who hit him hard at the right age.
A warm, process-focused conversation about building Phantasmagoria as both anthology and comics community.
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A candid look at Nick Burchard's route from lifelong drawing habit to independent comics publishing.
Nick Burchard's path into comics comes through as both personal and practical: a lifetime of drawing, a childhood move from Scottsdale to Vermont, and the discovery of a real cartoonist community around the Center for Cartoon Studies.
A candid comics-making conversation about momentum, process, and bringing Dead Kingdom into print.
The episode follows an artist whose work stayed private until a friend put the first issues of Dead Kingdom in front of Red 5 Comics, turning a quiet project into a publishing opportunity faster than expected.
A candid look at how a ten-page tokusatsu story grew into Fennec's collected first volume.
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Fandom recap with receipts and side roads.
Moon Knight talk with lore-soaked judgment.
Fast takes for lore-sick fans.
Hosts interview returning guest Andrew Krahnke about his comic projects and experiences since his last appearance.
Dead Kingdom gets moving because a friend gives it a push.
Episode 347 starts comfortably.
An interview with creators of the anthology Phantasmagoria No.
An interview with comic creator Manny Tavares about his work on Remise and the anthology All You Can Eat, starting with how he got into comics.
An interview with the creators of the comic 'First Place Losers' discussing their book and backgrounds.
An interview with Christian De Matteo and James Lines about their Kickstarter for Containment Breach Volume 3, a comic anthology featuring indie creators.
Armand is back.
Caleb Prochnow finally gets a recording.
Phantasmagoria issue 2 is the door in.
Dennis Robinson discusses his comic book series Lichen Solomon's Odyssey and the launch of issue 4 on Kickstarter.
Jason Keith discusses his entry into comics through digital coloring inspired by Fathom issue zero.
Jevin Loop is back.
Nick Burchard starts with drawing.