Name: 15 - Maxxinistas by Thick Lines Podcast
Duration: 1 h 13 min 18 s
Description: Summer reading kicks off! Katie and Sally discuss Sam Kieth’s “The Maxx” (1993–1998). CW: sexual violence. Topics discussed include the comics code, Carol Clover, Green Lantern #54, Camille Paglia, Vaughn Bodē, Mannerism, the time KoRn visited the Mütter Museum, Zero Girl, Elektra: Assassin, and more. Next time: “The Drifting Classroom Vol. 2.” Follow us on Instagram @thicklinespod.

Summer reading kicks off! Katie and Sally discuss Sam Kieth’s “The Maxx” (1993–1998). CW: sexual violence. Topics discussed include the comics code, Carol Clover, Green Lantern #54, Camille Paglia, Vaughn Bodē, Mannerism, the time KoRn visited the Mütter Museum, Zero Girl, Elektra: Assassin, and more. Next time: “The Drifting Classroom Vol. 2.” Follow us on Instagram @thicklinespod.

15 - Maxxinistas

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Katie and Sally discuss romance comics live at Partners and Son on February 16 in Philadelphia, PA, with a look at Young Romance, Heart Throbs, Young Love, My Love, Archie's Joke Book, Hollywood Superstars, and lots more. Plus a chat with artist Cait McCormack, whose work is featured in Partners and Son's Love Will Tear Us Apart exhibition up now. 

Enormous thanks to Partners and Son for having us, and to Cait McCormack for the interview! Thank you to our Patreon subscribers for making this episode possible.

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*TEASER* 122 - Live at Partners and Son

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Katie and Sally reconvene to discuss recent reads, the live Philly show, and visual preferences in cartooning. Topics include: Chester Brown, secrets, Harley and Ivy, Slave Labor Graphics, Mad Digest, Guido Crepax, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Lewis Trondheim, Emma Jon-Michael Frank, Junko Mizuno, Tony Millionaire, and lots more.

Thank you to our Patreon subscribers for making this episode possible!

Support the show and get bonus episodes and video content at patreon.com/thicklinespod. Follow Thick Lines on Instagram @thicklinespod.

*TEASER* 123 - Secret Secrets

Katie and Sally are joined by comics writer Tina Horn (Sfsx, Deprog) to discuss Lost Girls (Top Shelf, 2006) written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Melinda Gebbie. Topics discussed include Arthur Magazine, video stores in LA, Hellblazer, Batman: The Killing Joke, pornography vs. erotica, and lots more.

Find Tina at tinahorn.net and on Instagram @tinahornsass.

Pre-order Deprog #1: previewsworld.com/Catalog/Series/150384-DEPROG 

Pre-order Why Are People Into That?: hachettebookgroup.com/titles/tina-horn/why-are-people-into-that/9780306832567/ 

Catch Sally moderating the "Gender Trips" panel with Corinne Halbert, Beth Hetland, and Maybelline Skvortzoff at MoCCA Festival in NYC on Saturday, March 16: https://www.moccafest.org/24programming 

Support the show and get bonus episodes at patreon.com/thicklinespod. Follow us on Instagram @thicklinespod.

124 - Lost and Found with Tina Horn

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Sally talks to indie comics stalwart Kevin Huizenga about his new book Curses (Drawn and Quarterly, 2024), recorded live at Partners & Son in Philadelphia, PA on March 14, 2024.

Thanks to our Patreon subscribers for making this episode possible!

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*TEASER* 125 - Live At Partners & Son With Kevin Huizenga

Katie and Sally discuss Curses by Kevin Huizenga (Drawn and Quarterly, 2024). Topics discussed include John Mejias, K. Czap, Maybelline Skvortzoff, Desmond Reed, Maurice Vellekoop, Chip Kidd, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, primates, hell, golf, projecting assumptions onto books, and lots more.

Support the show and get bonus episodes and video content at patreon.com/thicklinespod. Follow us on Instagram @thicklinespod.

126 - Curses for Dummies

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Sally talks to cartoonists Corinne Halbert, Tia Roxae, and Chloe Brailsford about the inspirations behind their comics in the VISCERE #1: Body Horror anthology. Recorded live at Partners and Son in Philadelphia, PA on November 20, 2023. Topics discussed include Suspiria, Clamp, Jean Rollin, Robert Altman, Hans Bellmer, Silent Hill, Centralia, David Cronenberg, Resident Evil, Chantal Goya, Guido Crepax, and lots more.

Follow the artists on Instagram: @corinnehalbert, @dreamygutss, @chloe.in.pink

Thank you to our patrons and Partners and Son for making this episode possible!

*TEASER* 127 - VISCERE #1 Roundtable with Corinne Halbert, Tia Roxae, and Chloe Brailsford

Katie and Sally discuss Abandon the Old in Tokyo by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (Drawn & Quarterly, 2006). Topics discussed include smoking, check fraud, Adrian Tomine, and lots more.

Support the show and get bonus episodes and video content at patreon.com/thicklinespod. Follow us on Instagram @thicklinespod.

Catch Katie at The L.A. Times Festival of Books on Saturday, April 20: https://tinyurl.com/5eefd5bj

128 - The Hole Monitor

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It's our annual 4/20 special and this time cartoonist Caroline Cash (Girl in the World, Peepee Poopoo) joins the sesh to talk Gambling Apocalypse: Kaiji by Nobuyuki Fukumoto (Kodansha, 1996).

Catch Caroline at C2E2 with Silver Sprocket in Chicago, IL on Sunday, April 28: https://www.c2e2.com/en-us.html

Follow Caroline on Instagram at @cash_browns.

Catch Katie at The L.A. Times Festival of Books on Saturday, April 20: https://tinyurl.com/5anb9yf7

Follow Thick Lines on Instagram at @thicklinespod.

Thank you to our Patreon subscribers for making this episode possible!

*TEASER* 129 - When To Fold 'Em With Caroline Cash

Katie and Sally discuss The House at Maakies Corner by Tony Millionaire (Fantagraphics, 2002), the second Fantagraphics collection of Maakies strips created from 2000 to 2002. Topics discussed include Johnny Gruelle, Sock Monkey: The Glass Doorknob, alt weeklies, Fred Basset, and lots more.

Get bonus episodes and video content at patreon.com/thicklinespod. Follow us on Instagram @thicklinespod.

130 - Sally's Friend Tony

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Katie and Sally discuss Last Girl Standing, a prose memoir by the late Trina Robbins (Fantagraphics, 2017). Plus, some show news and a fresh round of the Bad Boyfriend Bracket.

Thank you to our patrons for making this episode possible!

Catch Sally at Bubbles Con on Saturday, May 4 in Richmond, VA: https://www.bubblescon.com/

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*TEASER* 131 - Katie's Friend Trina

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