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The Weekly Pop Culture Audio Podcast Featuring In-Depth One On One Interviews and Discussions From The Entertainment Worlds Of Genre Fiction-
Comic Books, Novels, Television, Film, Video Games And More. Created In 2005 By Chicago Radio/TV Host John Siuntres

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Monday, September 26, 2005

Later This week Joshua Fialkov

The creator of Elk's Run will talk about his great mini series. If you haven't caught the first three parts, Speakeasy is releasing a bumper issue, ciollecting all three, with a nwe cover by Darwyn cooke. hear about this series, that's received good reviews from guys in the industry like brian K vaughn Warren Ellis and Darwyn Cooke. It's a very original american thriller.

Saturday, September 24, 2005

Ande Parks Interview

With the Sept 30th premiere of the new Phillip Seymour Hoffman film CAPOTE , we present this conversation with Ande Parks, author of the Oni Press graphic novel, CAPOTE IN KANSAS . Plus Ande talks about his art colaborations with Phil Hester , on Nightwing and Green Arrow, and his first GN UNION STATION .

Friday, September 23, 2005

Joe Casey Interview

Joe's new Image series with Tom Scioli GODLAND is a ton of cosmic fun. In this one on one interview we talk about it, plus many of Joe's Marvel DC and Wildstorm efforts.

Thursday, September 22, 2005

MARK WAID INTERVIEW IS UP

I felt bad for those who tried to get the Grant Interview, and only got a piece of it, so I worked tonight to get mark's interview up as well. A great conversation, as Mark gives us the lowdown on HUNTER KILLER his Top Cow collaboration with artist Mark Silvestri, His current run on LEGION OF SUPER HEROES, plus a look ahead to upcoming DC projects THE BRAVE AND BOLD and some more insight on the mysterious DC weekly project 52.

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Jeff Parker Interview

Artist/Writer Jeff Parker is having a great time at Marvel, getting writing gigs on Marvel Adventures FF, Amazing Fantasy Vampire By Night , Where Monsters Dwell , and more. He also has a story in the upcoming Escapist #8 In November. Jeff Talks about these and other projects, including his original creation The Interman .

THE STEVEN GRANT FILE IS FIXED

Thanks to those who wrote the heads up. Sorry to those who will re-download, but you get 40 more minutes of the show.

Tuesday, September 20, 2005

NEW INTERVIEW STEVEN GRANT

A fun conversation with the man who put THE PUNISHER in The big Leagues with his 1986 mini series CIRCLE OF BLOOD,. We talk about his work with Gil Kane, His crime comics, the Permanent Damage column at CBR and his epic bio comic on the late Pope John Paul The 2nd! Listen to "ep 39 Steven Grant Does Some Damage" on Spreaker.  

Friday, September 16, 2005

Can Steven Grant Be Cooler?

Very kind plug in this week's Permanent Damage column, at CBR. "Did a long phone interview with John Siuntres last week for his Word Balloon website. Not sure when it'll be up - it'll be a sound file, baby - but I'll let you know, and in the meantime you can check out interviews with Brian Azzarello and others that are already on the site." Makes my face red, admitting the day job was kicking my ass this week, so the 2 part Grant interview won't be posted till this weekend, likely Sunday. Working in sports, the NFL's first week and the wild card races were keeping us busy.

Thursday, September 08, 2005

geoff darrow interview














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GEOFF THE CONCEPTUAL ARTIST OF THE MATRIX FILMS TALKS ABOUT HIS WORK WITH THE WACHOWSKI BROS, FRANK MILLER ANDREW VACHSS, PLUS HIS NEW CREATIONS , PUBLISHED THROUGH BURLYMAN COMICS, SHAOLIN COWBOY AND DOC FRANKENSTIEN. A FUN CONVERSATION, FILLED WITH RANDOM POP CULTURE TOPICS, IN THE WORD BALLOON TRADITION.
Listen to "Geof Darrow From Hard Boiled Action to Shaolin Serenity" on Spreaker.

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Comming Up Geof Darrow

In the next day or two, I'll post this facinating interview, covering Geof's Collaborations with Frank Miller, The Watchowski Bros.,and Andrew Vachs.

Monday, September 05, 2005

for newcomers: more episodes here

Hi all , If you've missed any past wordballoon shows, the links to them are right here.

Sunday, September 04, 2005

Larry Young interview

here's a direct link to my conversation with the man behind the AIT/Planet LAR publishing company . We talk about his own titles like "The Black Diamond", and "Astronauts In Trouble", plus DEMO, SMOKE & GUNS, and LAST OF THE INDEPENDANTS

welcome to the site

Hey everyone, this will be the location for the new episodes available for podcast downloads . We'll still have the same methods at our normal site too www.wordballoon.com John