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Ep:93 Batdriven West: Karen Whitfield's Bronze Age Batgirl Story

Send us Fan Mail From 1978 to 1984, Karen Whitfield toured alongside Adam West and Burt Ward as DC Comics' Bronze Age Batgirl — suiting up in the cape and cowl for

EP: 92 The Instrument You Can’t Hold: JP Karliak Goes Beyond the Voice

Send us Fan Mail Morph. The Joker. Countless characters you’d recognize instantly, and a voice you’d never place a face to. This week, JP Karliak steps out from behind t

Ep: 91 Silhouettes, Shadows & Legacy Characters — Mike Goguen on the Craft of Animation

Send us Fan Mail Mike takes us behind the curtain on the creative process: how a character comes together, why silhouette and shape language matter more than people real

EP: 90 “Finding Your Own Identity” with Kelly Slaughter

Send us Fan Mail This week, Kelly Slaughter (aka “Slaughter Daughter”) joins Back to Pop for a raw, one-on-one conversation about discovering who you are when you grow u

EP: 89 Sugah, Politics, and Rogue: The Lenore Zann Story

Send us Fan Mail Before streaming, before binge-watching, there was a voice you didn’t just recognize , you carried it with you. Beginning in 1992, Lenore Zann gave Rogu

EP: 88 Comics, Cartoons, and the Courage to Start Over a conversation w/ Chuck Patton

Send us Fan Mail In 1983, Chuck Patton became the first Black artist to draw Justice League of America, and helped build one of the most divisive, and now most re-examin

Ep: 87 Still Open: Comics Plus and the Man Who Never Left the Counter

Send us Fan Mail Before the algorithm, there was a bell over the door. For us over at Back To Pop, that door belonged to Comics Plus in Macon, Georgia — and the man beh

Ep: 86 Daniel Dockery on the Batman Book Thirty Years in the Making

Send us Fan Mail Kevin Conroy sat in a recording booth for thirty years playing a man who wore two faces,  and somewhere along the way, that dual identity became persona

Ep: 85 William McNamara: What Happened After the Credits And What's Happening

Send us Fan Mail William McNamara joins Back to Pop for an honest conversation about the life that unfolded beyond the movie screen. Known for memorable performances in

EP: 84 Lance Guest: From 🎃 Halloween 2, The Last Starfighter to Jaws: The Revenge

Send us Fan Mail Every generation has a movie that finds them at exactly the right age. For a lot of us, that movie was The Last Starfighter — and at the center of it wa

Ep: 83 Fearless Fred Kennedy on Comics, Broadcasting, and Making Stories That Refuse to Behave

Send us Fan Mail Fred Kennedy — writer, broadcaster, and professional chaos agent known to most of the world as Fearless Fred- sits down with Back to Pop to talk about m

Ep: 82 Adam Cahoon on Horror Fandom, LitRPG Monsters, and Vault Comics

Send us Fan Mail This week on Back to Pop, we sit down with Adam Cahoon — artist, designer, and Senior Designer & former Production Lead at Vault Comics. Adam stepped in

Ep: 81 One Image, One Promise: Nick Marinkovich on Covers, Comics, and Dead Romans

Send us Fan Mail Some covers don’t ask you to pick them up — they grab you by the collar. That’s exactly what happened with Honor and Curse from Mad Cave Studios. One l

EP: 80 From Plastic to Narco: Doug Wagner & Daniel Hillyard on Building Something Strange

Send us Fan Mail Writer Doug Wagner returns to Back to Pop  and this time, he brings his artistic partner in crime with him. Daniel Hillyard joins the conversation for

EP:79 “Art That Feels Like Something” — Suspiria Vilchez

Send us Fan Mail This week on Back to Pop, Marc is joined by cover and variant artist Suspiria Vilchez — a Barcelona-born, Toronto-based painter whose hand-crafted acryl

Ep: 78 Michael Tove: The Dream That Waited

Send us Fan Mail What happens when the dream doesn’t die — it just waits? Michael Tove spent decades in North Carolina as a regional actor, film extra, and financial ad

EP: 77 George Vega: The Kid Who Never Stopped Drawing

Send us Fan Mail George Vega grew up in Newark, New Jersey watching Voltron and filling sketchbooks with Jim Lee panels. Today he’s doing G.I. Joe cover work through Sky

EP: 76. JP Mavinga: Drawing Worlds, Building Heroes, and the Art Behind White Sky

Send us Fan Mail JP Mavinga has spent over twenty-five years building one of the most distinctive careers in illustration and comics — born in the Democratic Republic of

Ep: 75 Rick Burchett — The Artist Who Made Batman Move

Send us Fan Mail If you grew up reading The Batman Adventures, Batman: Gotham Adventures, or Superman Adventures, Rick Burchett’s work shaped how you see those character

Ep: 74 Dancing Between the Raindrops with Nelson Aspen

Send us Fan Mail He’s covered the Oscars, the Golden Globes, and decades of Hollywood from the red carpet out. Now Nelson Aspen is turning the lens on himself. Nelson j