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Ignorant Bliss 55: Get Out, Favs of Film & TV in 2016, and Logan

In this episode I review the new film Get Out by Jordan Peele starring Daniel Kaluuya, Alison Williams, Bradley Whitford and Catherine Keener. I talk with my friend and fellow film critic Roxana Hadadi about Film and TV in 2016 and awards season. Finally I review the film Logan by James Mangold starring Hugh Jackman, Sir Patrick Stewart and Dafne Keen.

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Ignorant Bliss 53: A chat with TheBlerdGurl

This episode I talk with Karama Horne better known as The Blerd Girl.Recorded toward the end of last year we talk about a whole load of topics, from politics to comics to anime to being a creative professional. So much good talk in here it’s hard to summarize it all so give it a good listen.

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Ignorant Bliss 50: Shawn Pryor and the F.O.R.C.E.

Here we have the 50th episode and the guest is my homie, Shawn Pryor. I’m talking to him about the release of Cash + Carrie, the release of the book Kentucky Kaiju and his new Kickstarter for F.O.R.C.E. – a football comic series.

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Ignorant Bliss 46: SDCC Black Comix Returns: African American Independent Comic Publishing Panel

Eisner nominee John Jennings (The Blacker the Ink) and Damian Duffy (Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred), co-editors of the Black Comix art book, offer real talk about race and representation in independent comics publishing.

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Ignorant Bliss 45: David Brothers x Ron Wimberly SDCC Spotlight on Ronald Wimberly Panel

Spotlight on Ronald Wimberly panel moderated by David Brothers. (from San Diego Comic Con 2016)

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Ignorant Bliss 44: Ronald Wimberly 5 & why comics needs to stop solicited Spec artwork

So few weeks back Ron posted a piece of writing on Tumblr called “Stop doing spec pages: Why DC, Marvel, Boom etc. should pay you for your test pages.” He wrote about how the Majors of the comic book industry shouldn’t solicit free spec pages from artists they might want on their comics.

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