The Drew and Look Podcast

In covering new release, 'Vikings: Saga of the North', we get into the roots about the development of a picture book from first conversations to consumer experience. Publisher, author and returning guest Phoebe Xavier joins us, and illustrator and student Jose Diaz from Guatemala City. Skol! Links Publisher 123go! https://indyplanet.com/123go Jose on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vikings_saga_of_north/ Superlimina...

Comic book 'Intrusive Thoughts' is the product of Anthony Stokes, an author whose skills wonderfully convey a complex, emotional journey. Anthony joins Andy for a discussion around his creative process, inspirations, and how mental health is playing a role in today's media. 'Intrusive Thoughts' opens the door for conversations around mental illness and disability, which in itself can form the grounds of an open space for developing...

Pirates! Westerns! Ancient Kingdoms! Back Pocket's output assembles prolific international artists, overseen with keen editorial eyes. Steven Young is one half of that Northern Irish based team, also writing Black Spot, Tarik and Soulforge.

In this conversation, Steven discusses quiet styled approaches to writing comics and five years of collaboration with co-runner, Richard Davidson. With a new Kickstarter going live, we go deep i...

Phoebe A. Xavier is the architect of 123 Go! Publications: writing, pencilling and editing comics alongside new and accomplished artists. We chill out and chat ahead of the launch of Phoebe's first prose publication, Superliminal Latency.

With fifteen books behind her, we talk about a range of artists, the business of editing, science-fiction and beat poet influences and vikings. Contains some explicit material.

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EroTech is a raucous IT office comedy about a dev team building an AI sex-bot. Writer-publisher Shawn Richardson and illustrator Geoffrey Krawczyk sit down with Andy Luke to talk about SHP Comics' growing success. On the agenda is Agile creativity, dynamic approaches to design, business partnerships and crowdfunding. We also look at SHP's books: vampires and Jimi Hendrix in 'Woodstake', and 'The Killing Machine', a high concept SF ...

Sean Black is a household name: prime-time actor on stage and screen and linked to an unknown number of gruesome murders. Sean Black is the lead in METHOD, the creation of Philip Henry, a struggling dramatic novelist, film-maker and singer-songwriter. Podcaster Andy Luke lures Philip to a remote country cottage to unravel his secrets. What emerges is a wide reaching conversation on writing, celebrities, romance, violence, ethics, f...

Press Gang was highly regarded as the best British children's television of all time: never disrespectful, never patronising. First-time writer Steven Moffat engineered a way to take the aging cast out of the school-yard and into the working world, producing some of the show's best episodes yet.

Occupied author Andy Luke's special edition features deep dives into episodes and trivia from series 3-5 along with insights into proposed...

Comedy-drama Press Gang was widely hailed as one of the best YA telly series ever, attracting critical acclaim and industry awards. As well as featuring some of the best names in the business it launched a dozen careers including those of Steven Moffat, Julia Sawalha, Dexter Fletcher, Lee Ross, Paul Reynolds, Gabrielle Anwar and Lucy Benjamin.

Occupied author Andy Luke's feature presentation includes character studies and reviews o...

Hardwicke House was a highly promoted prime-time ITV comedy screened in 1987 fronted by Roy Kinnear and a stellar cast. It was to be a no-holds barred series tackling the UK's under-funded and brutal school culture. However upon transmission, it was met with anything but an expected response.

Occupied author Andy Luke reviews Hardwicke's unscreened episodes and wonders if perhaps this edgy comedy should have been left in the past. ...

In which we celebrate two anniversaries of James Roberts game-changing Lost Light stories: a hard SF epic of post-conflict rehabilitation and redemption, romance and loss, identity, gender, labour, philosophy, crime and punishment; but mostly relationships, all told with wit and poignancy and Transformers.

Occupied author and host Andy Luke talks about his favourite storylines and characters. A reader's cherry is broken as Simon Ho...

Step off, Snyder, the real Justice League are here! Earth's Mightiest bromance; The Dick Knight; Green Lantern Cretin: the sitcom of comics may not have changed the cultural landscape of 'super' comics content, but it will. This pod is mostly spoiler-free with critical commentary for old hand fans. Occupied author Andy Luke returns to the ground-breaking popular favourite JLI Bwah-ha-ha series by Giffen, DeMatteis, Maguire and othe...

Andy Luke's 'Chaos Magic' uses poetry to explore memoir, nature, dreaming and politics, with sigil motifs of surreal pop culture tangents. In 'Occupied' a literary novel charts the lives, loves and laughs of protest campers in Belfast, 2011.

Ekaterina Kiselyova guest hosts over two short interviews with your award-winning regular host. They chat about influences and the evolution of ideas to re-drafts, technical and passionate writ...

Marvel's super-powered realist imprint, the New Universe, was considered a failure by the end of its first year. However a clear vision was forming because of experienced and talented new creators teamed with attentive editors.

In the second of a two part series, Chaos Magic author Andy Luke revisits the New U imprint and the talents behind it - Mark Gruenwald and Paul Ryan; Fabian Nicieza, Ron Lim and Rodney Ramos; John Byrne; Pet...

July 22, 1986 saw the birth of Marvel's New Universe: eight comics created for the company's 25th anniversary, separate from the MCU and free of the baggage of continuity. Despite personality clashes, corporate machinations and critical panning, comics' brightest stars persevered to create some quite good stories.

In the first of a two part series, Chaos Magic author Andy Luke revisits the New U imprint and the talents behind it - ...

The net is closing in on dirty cop Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis). His ex-partner Shane Vendrell (Walton Goggins) wants him dead. Farmington's new captain Claudette Wyms (CCH Pounder) wants both men brought to justice although federal agent Olivia Murray (Laurie Holden) may present a way out.

Storyteller Andy Luke and very special guest Ian Lawther (USS Caroline) talk through the critically acclaimed last two seasons of The Shield. T...

In Farmington PD, amoral Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis) and his crooked Strike Team cops are cleaned up by reforming Captain Monica Rawling (Glenn Close), and torn apart by unpredictable investigator Lieutenant Jon Kavanaugh (Forest Whitaker)

Storyteller Andy Luke and very special guest Ian Lawther (USS Caroline) talk through critically acclaimed seasons 4-5 of The Shield. This episode includes discussion of sexual abuse and graphic ...

In 1986 British children's comic Oink! debuted with jokes about pigs, poo, plop and puke. It's mission of deep fun and challenge to accepted morality quickly drew questions from the British Press Council, England's largest retailer WH Smiths and eventually, the House of Commons. However, Oink! was an instant hit, a cult juggernaut, with no intention of slowing down.

On Oink's 35th anniversary, Andy is joined by expert blogger Phil ...