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A comics, pop culture, movies, music, and collecting podcast hosted by Dave from West Coast Davengers, featuring great interviews and a wide-ranging mix of everyday fan life and industry discussion.
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Oct 19, 2026
How Becky Cloonan Turned Failure Into A Full Book - Fever Dream !
<p>BACK THE KICKSTARTER HERE - http://kck.st/4ze6MGC</p><p>Comics creator Becky Cloonan returns to Direct Edition to discuss Fever Dream, her first-ever Kickstarter. <br/>She describes the 120-page pa...
Oct 12, 2026
Does Art Heal You? Music, Comics & the Stories That Stay With Us
<p>Dave takes this episode solo and answers questions from the community! <br/>He gushes about his love of artist editions (when will we finally get the Infinity Gauntlet??), early concerts like Pearl...
Oct 05, 2026
James Graham of Twilight Sad Talks Healing Through Music, The Cure, Robert Smith, and Scott Hutchison
<p>Scottish singer-songwriter James Graham of The Twilight Sad joins Dave to discuss <em>It's The Long Goodbye</em>, the band's sixth album, on Rock Action Records. <br/>Graham shares the so...
Sep 28, 2026
Sanford Greene Battles DC Comics World With DARKSEID & Scott Snyder, Czarface, Bitter Root, & Ink Alliance!
<p>Cartoonist Sanford Greene (Bitter Root) returns to Direct Edition to discuss Darkseid vs. The World, his upcoming DC All-In saga with Scott Snyder. <br/>He explains how a retailer's offhand su...
Sep 21, 2026
Stan Sakai's New Art Book! Usagi Yojimbo & Akira Kurosawa Influence
<p>Legendary cartoonist Stan Sakai returns to Direct Edition to discuss <em>The Art of Stan Sakai</em>, his first-ever Kickstarter: an oversized art book collecting five decades of work. </p><p>Sakai...
Sep 14, 2026
Eric Zawadzki On Assorted Crisis Events, The Eisners and The Films Of Michael Mann
<p>Artist Eric Zawadzki joins Dave to discuss Assorted Crisis Events, the ambitious, award-winning anthology co-created with writer Deniz Camp. <br/><br/>Zawadzki talks visual reinvention, his innovat...
Sep 07, 2026
Chris Condon : The Art Of The Slow Burn Comic (That Texas Blood, Of The Earth, Ezra Cain
<p>Writer Chris Condon joins Dave to discuss the return of <em>That Texas Blood </em>(Image Comics), his Indiana Jones-esque pulp adventure <em>Ezra Cain </em>(Vertigo), and<em> Of the Earth </em>(Ima...
Aug 31, 2026
Matteo Scalera on Why He Returned To Batman, Working With Matt Fraction, And Action Scenes In Comics!
<p>Matteo Scalera returns to Direct Edition to discuss his fill-in on Batman issues 13 and 14, part of Matt Fraction's Bad Seeds event. <br/>Scalera talks about saying yes after years of turning...
Aug 24, 2026
Steve Skroce From Designing The Matrix To Tales Of Wonder, A Journey From Comics To Hollywood And Back!
<p>Cartoonist Steve Skroce joins Dave to discuss <em>Tales of Wonder</em>, his new five-issue series with Image comics. Skroce shares how comedic films like Galaxy Quest and Tropic Thunder shaped the...
Aug 19, 2026
Nick Thorburn (Islands) Talks Pear Shape & Creating Underground Comics For Current Times & Creem Taste Of Cherry
<p>Cartoonist and musician Nick Thorburn (Islands, The Unicorns) joins Dave to talk about his new book Pear Shape from Fantagraphics, and Taste of Cherry, the debut album from his band The Creem. <br/...
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