Comics Alternative Interview: Josh Fialkov and Kody Chamberlain of Punks the Comic

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It's been about half a year (yikes!), but I'm back on an episode of The Comics Alternative! This time, Derek Royal and I interview Josh Fialkov and Kody Chamberlain, creators of Punks The Comic (Image). The title's a rollercoaster mishmash of joke-filled collage artwork, pop culture references, The Young Ones, and generally hilarious mayhem, starring Dog, Fist, Skull, and Abe Lincoln (of course). We talk to Josh and Kody about the new Punks collection (Volume 1: Nutpuncher), as well as about their collaborative process, creating humor in comics, and some of their other works.

Kody & Josh guest-star in one story.
My thanks to Kody for supplying this pre-dialog half-page image! 

Our conversation was a lot of fun, and I hope that comes through in the recording. (Note that some of the language here is NSFW - but hey, the comics is titled Punks after all!)

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CFP: MAD Magazine and Its Legacies / Studies in American Humor (October 1)

As currently posted on the Studies in American Humor website.

 

Call for Papers: 

MAD Magazine and Its Legacies

Special issue of Studies in American Humor 

Fall 2014

Since 1952, MAD Magazine has regaled humor lovers and inspired humor producers in many media. Studies in American Humor, the journal of the American Humor Studies Association, invites submission of scholarly papers devoted to MAD Magazine and its legacies for a special issue of the journal appearing in the fall of 2014, co-edited by John Bird (Winthrop University) and Judith Yaross Lee (Ohio University).

Topics might include, but are not limited to:

• humor, verbal and/or visual
• subversive humor
• satire (as technique, analysis of individual examples or themes, etc.)
• parody (as technique, analysis of individual examples or themes, etc.)
• individual artists and writers
• regular and occasional features
• one or mode recurrent themes (politics, technology, parenthood, suburbia)
• cultural impact and legacies
• influence, general and specific (including direct influence on individuals and genres)
• reception

Potential contributors should send queries and abstracts (500-750 words) by October 1, 2013 or complete manuscripts by June 1, 2014. Email queries and abstracts to studiesinamericanhumor@ohio.edu.

General information on Studies in American Humor and submission guidelines are available at http://studiesinamericanhumor.org/.