Brigid, Deb, Johanna and Heidi are reunited at New York Comic Con 2021! Sitting in the same physical room for the first time in more than two years they talk about the ups and downs of going to a giant comic con in a post pandemic world...also manga, gossip and more!

Four Women in A Hotel Room - NYCC 2021 Episode 1: We're Back!

Brigid, Deb, Johanna and Heidi reunite after New York Comic Con to talk about the first big comics event of the pandemic.

Four Women in a Hotel Room - NYCC 2021 EP. 2: Who was that masked congoer?

Deb Aoki, Heidi MacDonald, Kay-B and Ruth John discuss the sights, sounds, foods and ships of San Diego Comic-Con Special Edition!

Four Women in a Hotel Room: Special Edition

Brigid, Deb, Heidi and Johanna are BACK! In a hotel room, eating breakfast and dishing on Preview Night, Johanna's return to Comic-Con after 15 years, Tezuka, activations, viking ghosts and MOAR!

Four Women in a Hotel Room: SDCC 2022 - Day 1

Deb, Brigid and Johanna are joined by special guest Eva Volin to talk about all the days doings!

San Diego Comic-Con 2022 

FOur Women in a Hotel Room: San Diego Comic-Con Day 2

Brigid, Deb and Heidi talk about their day at Comic-Con including Best and Worst Manga, Wimmen's Comix 50, the Eisners and much more!

Four Women In a Hotel Room: SDCC 2022 Episode Three

Brigid, Deb and Heidi talk about Saturday, Hell H, more manga panels, the Future of Comics Industry Panel, and open up about hot cartoonists.

Four Women In a Hotel Room:  SDCC 2022 Episode 4

Brigid, Deb and Heidi have one last breakfast and then wrap it all up for you - seriously, some very deep conversation about fan culture, manga, comics and where it is all going.

SDCC 2022

Four Women in A Hotel Room: SDCC 2022 - Episode 5

Brigid Alverson, Johanna Draper Carlson and Heidi MacDonald are joined by special guest Carla Speed McNeil to look back at the 2022 Small Press Expo. Back after three years, it was just as wonderful as ever, with lots of books about history, graphic medicine, queer fantasy and more. Plus Carla has anecdotes!

SPX 2022

Four Women in a Hotel Room: SPX 2022

Deb, Brigid and Heidi are joined by librarian Robin Brenner ( GNCRT President elect) and cartoonist Chris Schweizer (Crogan's Alley) to talk about pancakes and EVERYTHING NYCC!

Five People in a Diner - NYCC '22 Episode 1

Heidi MacDonald and DEb Aoki are in Seattle for Emerald City Comic Con and they break it all down for you - where is the manga? How is the new convention center? Who is the future of comics?

Four Women in a Hotel Room - ECCC 2023 Episode 1

Brigid Alverson, Deb Aoki and Heidi MacDonald sit in their hotel room and muse about the events of San Diego Comic-Con 2023...the year where comics were the stars. Lots of talk about manga, anime, comics, formats, sales and who did what and where.

Four Women In a Hotel Room: SDCC 2023 Episode 2: Where Comics are the Star

Brigid Alverson, Deb Aoki and Heidi MacDonald go over the events of New York Comic  Con 2023 with a special guest star Riccardo Serrano Denis. Manga everywhere, pro days, sales charts.....they cover it all.

Four Women a Hotel Room: NYCC 2023 Edition

Brigid Alverson and Heidi MacDonald are joined by Siena Fallon, COO/Managing Partner of Ultimate Comics and Sarahti Gassmalla, Manager at Fantom Comics to talk about comics retailing, what's hot and why Wednesday is Comics Day.

Four Women in a Hotel Room: ComicsPro 2024

Four Women in a Hotel Room Spx 2024: Amy Chu and Heidi MacDonald

The Hey Ho Man

Heidi MacDonald and Amy Chu get real by poolside at WonderCon 2025, recounting their adventures at the show and at Galaxy's Edge...and looking at the aspirational aspects of comic cons. 

Four Women in a Hotel Room: WonderCon 2025

Johanna Draper Carlson and Heidi MacDonald sit in their hotel room and talk about TCAF 2025, including the new venue at the Mattamy Athletic Center, the cartoonists on hand, and the spectacular food they ate in Toronto.

Four Women in a a Hotel Room - TCAF 2025

Brigid Alverson, Johanna Draper Carlson and Heidi MacDonald dish about SPX 2025 - the state of indie comics, big books of the show, Sherlock Holmes, and more! 

Four Women in a A Hotel Room SPX 2025

Alex Lu and Heidi MacDonald present the very first episode of The Morning Beat their new on-the-scene podcast. 

In this first episode, live from the ECCC press room, we discuss  the presentations at the DIamond Retailer Breakfast, how many stores have closed in the last year and, oh yeah, how about the Avengers Endgame trailer that debuted this morning!

Check back for more of their ECCC coverage!

ECCC 2019

The Morning Beat: ECCC 2019 Episode 1

Heidi, Brigid, Erica and Johanna are finally joined by Deb and they talk about the days doings, more Junji Ito, Hiromi Takashima, Emily Carolll, Kazu Kibuishi and more!

4 Women in a Hotel Room: TCAF 2019 Episode 2: I've got to finish my deck

It's our craziest episode yet as Deb and Heidi's room at the Mercure becomes a revolving door for Iron Circus Comics' Spike Trotman, Sophie Yanow, Rebecca Roher and Josune Urrutia about how to attend Angoulême, cartooning, projects and a plastic water bottle full of pineau.

Euro Comics Tour 2020

Three Women in a Hotel Room - Euro Comics Tour 2020 Ep. 4

Heidi, Brigid and Johanna are reunited for C2E2 in Chicago, where it's a heady brew of DC Comics, Marvel, AEW wrestling, artist alley, hand sanitizer and much more.

C2E2 2020

Three Women in a Hotel Room C2E2 2020: Ep. 1 The Plague Logs

Brigid, Johanna and Heidi wrap up their C2E2 2020 with some breakfast, some wrestling, and talk about speeculator sensation Punchline, and whether C2E2 will be the last big con for some time.

Three Women in a Hotel Room: C2E2 2020 Episode 2 - What's the punchline?

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