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Nerdist Comics Panel

The Writers Panel creator and host Ben Blacker (Star Wars: Join the Resistance; Deadpool v Gambit; Death Be Damned; Thrilling Adventure Hour) interviews comic book professionals about the business and process of writing comic books. Plus, round-table conversations around characters, themes, and topics of interests to comics creators in which Ben is joined by a rotating collection of friends and co-hosts including Heath Corson (Bizarro; Scream), Julie Benson and Shawna Benson (The 100; Batgirl and the Birds of Prey), Adam Beechen (Transformers), Len Wein (creator of Wolverine), and others.
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Dec 21, 2016

Host Heath Corson (Detective Chimp, Justice League Action) looks back at 2016's biggest comic book inspired hits and misses in the field of television and the best comics of the year with Ashley Miller (Thor, X-Men: First Class), Julie Benson and Shawna Benson (Batgirl and the Birds of Prey, The 100). Continuing our salute to the late great Prince, today's theme is "Trust" also recorded for the 1989 Batman movie.

 

Dec 14, 2016

Host Heath Corson (Detective Chimp, Justice League Action) looks back at 2016's biggest comic book inspired hits and misses in the field of films and video games with Ashley Miller (Thor, X-Men: First Class), Julie Benson and Shawna Benson (Batgirl and the Birds of Prey, The 100). Today's theme is "Partyman" by the late great Prince, recorded for the 1989 Batman movie. And man, it's still funky.

Dec 7, 2016

The writer of several Marvel comics, including Doctor Strange and the Sorcerers Supreme, Spidey!, and Venom: Space Knight, discusses his longtime love of comics, balancing writing comics with his day job on Supernatural, finding the funny, and more.

Nov 30, 2016

The co-writer of Doctor Strange talks about his take on that character, the Marvel process, working on another big franchise with Prometheus, and lots more. 

Nov 16, 2016

Ben Blacker (Thrilling Adventure Hour) and Heath Corson (Detective Chimp) are joined by Marguerite Bennett (DC Bombshells; Animosity; Insexts) to talk about their favorite comic book couples, depictions of romance in comics, putting personal stories into romantic storylines, and more. 

Nov 9, 2016

The writer of DC Bombshells, Animosity, Insexts, Josie and the Pussycats, and more talks about getting to write her favorite hero, Batwoman, for a new ongoing series next year, re-imagining DC's female heroes in DC Bombshells, mis-interpreting Batman, the ridiculous number of pages she's written this year, and lots more. 

Nov 2, 2016

Ben Blacker (Deadpool v Gambit) and Heath Corson (Detective Chimp) talk with the co-writer of Top Cow's Postal, screenwriter, and writer on Ash vs the Evil Dead about his multi-media career, his early influences, his process, and more.

Oct 26, 2016

Ben Blacker (Deadpool v Gambit) and Heath Corson (Detective Chimp) talk with the co-writer of Top Cow's Postal, screenwriter, and writer on Ash vs the Evil Dead about his multi-media career, his early influences, his process, and more.

Oct 19, 2016

Heath Corson (Detective Chimp) debates with Sterling Gates (Adventures of Supergirl) and Adam Beechen (Transformers: Robots in Disguise) about what makes an essential run of comics, how to leave a lasting mark on a character, the greatest Batman artistic team and the characters and story arcs that shaped them as writers. This week's theme is "Break My Stride" by Matthew Wilder

Oct 12, 2016

Heath Corson (Detective Chimp) moderates a roundtable of retailers: Jesse James (Jesse James Comics), Lauren and Eric as they discuss why reboots are important to sales, reader's expectations of continuity, legacies and fan entitlement versus risks in storytelling.


Recorded live at the PHXCC in Phoenix. Today's theme is "Merry Go Round" by Kacey Musgraves. NOTE: Apologies to Lauren and Eric for not catching your full names or the name of your stores. Contact us and we will rectify.

Oct 5, 2016

The writer of DC's new Shade, the Changing Girl, as well as The P.L.A.I.N. Janes, The Year of the Beasts, young adult novels Boy Proof, The Queen of Cool, and more talks about her process, choosing to be an artist, her indie rock years, and more. This episode features two songs from Cecil's band, Nerdy Girl! Shade, the Changing Girl is out today.

Ben Blacker and The Writers Panel have lots of upcoming live shows and appearances, including the 300th Episode Celebration on 11/6 in LA with Damon Lindelof, Carlton Cuse, Marta Kauffman, Mike Schur, and lots more!

Sep 28, 2016

Host Heath Corson (King's Quest, DC Xmas Special) is joined by Hope Larson (Batgirl, Salamander Dream), Kate Leth (Patsy Walker aka Hellcat, Kate or Die!), and Ashley Miller (X-Men: First Class) to talk about web-comics: Where to find them, how to mine personal experiences to write one, building a dialogue with a community, ways to monetize them and the differences between them and working on books for Marvel and DC.  Today's theme is "Internet Killed The Video Star" by the Limousines.  

Sep 21, 2016

Heath Corson pulls back the curtain on... HIMSELF! That's right true believers, join Heath and interviewer David Gutierrez as they strip away the onion-like layers to find the truth of the impossible enigma that is Heath Corson's career as he talks about the creative process for the DC animated movies, pitching, working, how he am Bizarro, how to break in and how to stay in the entertainment industry. This episode was recorded live at a Writer Q & A at the Comic Bug Comic Shop in Manhattan Beach.  Today's theme is "The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine" by Spoon. 

Sep 14, 2016

Kate Leth (Patsy Walker, Hellcat; Bravest Warrior) joins hosts Ben Blacker (Deadpool v Gambit) and Heath Corson (King's Quest) to discuss her career from working in a comic book shop to writing web-comics to breaking through on Boom! properties such as Fraggle Rock and Edward Scissorhands. Kate chats about telling personal stories, her short attention span, her collaborators, her upcoming book Spell on Wheels, and more. 

Sep 7, 2016

Join animation "professionals" director Jon Schnepp (Metalocalypse, Venture Brothers), vo actor Jason Spisak (Young Justice, Star Wars: The Clone Wars) and writer Heath Corson (Justice League Action, Batman: Assault on Arkham) as they describe getting jobs, losing jobs and doing jobs in animation. And there's a lot of talk about fish tanks. Recorded live at the PHCC in Phoenix. Today's theme is "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" by Cliff Friend and Dave Franklin.

 

Aug 31, 2016

Ben Blacker (Deadpool v Gambit; The Thrilling Adventure Hour) and Heath Corson (Kings Quest; Scream) talk about the God of Thunder with Ashley Miller (X-Men: First Class), who co-wrote the first Thor film, and Julie Benson (Batgirl and the Birds of Prey; The 100).

Aug 26, 2016

Comic book writer/creator of Fatale, Criminal, Captain America, and more, Ed Brubaker. Topics discussed include the “rules of comic book writing,” the state of Marvel and DC and its creators, film adaptations of comics, and Ed's TV pitches. Recorded June 22, 2012.

Aug 26, 2016

An in-depth chat with the creators of Ben 10 and Generator Rex and the developers of Ultimate Spider-Man and the upcoming Avengers Assemble cartoons. Also accomplished comic book writers and artists, Man of Action is Steven T. Seagle, Duncan Rouleau, and Joe Casey (and Joe Kelly, who unfortunately could not join). Recorded November 4, 2012.

Aug 24, 2016

Jason Inman (DC All Access, Geek History Lesson) and Ashley V. Robinson (The Red Shirt Diaries, Geek History Lesson) join forces with Heath Corson (Scream, King's Quest) for a spirited full-contact bloody gameshow/debate about all the zeitgeisty madness that is Harley Quinn, that (like Harley herself) swiftly descends into violence. Featuring a guest appearance by Deadpool... Man, I WISH I was kidding about that. Recorded live at the PHCC in Phoenix. Today's theme is "Crazy" by Patsy Cline.

Aug 17, 2016

The Eisner-winning author and illustrator discusses his latest book, The Sculptor, as well his seminal illustrated academic work, Understanding Comics, writing honestly, digging deep emotionally, overcoming fears, superheroes, and more.

Recorded at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on April 10, 2016.

Aug 10, 2016

Ben Blacker (Deadpool v Gambit) and Heath Corson (Bizarro) are joined by Ashley Miller (X-Men: First Class; Thor) and Julie Benson (Batgirl and the Birds of Prey) to answer your questions about naming characters, heroes who kill, some of their biggest professional disappointments, and getting mf'd by Aqua-fans.

Have a question you want answered on a future episode! Follow @BenBlacker and @HeathCorson on Twitter or send us an email at NerdistWriters@gmail.com.

Aug 3, 2016

The Eisner-award winning writer Mark Waid (Kingdom Come, Daredevil, Irredeemable) and artist Veronica Fish (Silk, Challenger) talk about how the Archie relaunch came about, breaking the fourth wall, drawing Jughead's crownt and just when we might see an appearance from Pureheart the Powerful. Recorded live in Chicago at C2E2. Today’s theme is (what else?) "Sugar, Sugar" by The Archies.

Jul 27, 2016

The Eisner-winning writer of A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel, Compass South, Goldie Vance, and more discusses her process, her collaborators, the material she's drawn to, and taking over writing the hit Batgirl this month. Today's theme is by the Violent Femmes!

Jul 20, 2016

The writers of Batgirl and the Birds of Prey (released today!) and CW's The 100 talk about their histories as comics readers, Tattoo Man, their first foray into comic book writing, and more. Today's theme is by Skavoovie and the Epitones!

Jul 13, 2016

We're back! All new and all different, Ben Blacker (Thrilling Adventure Hour; Deadpool v Gambit) and Heath Corson (Scream; Bizarro) host a rotating panel of pals returning and new to talk comics. This week, Blacker and Corson are joined by Adam Beechen (Transformers: Robots in Disguise; Bruce Lee) and Julie Benson & Shawna Benson (The 100; Batgirl and the Birds of Prey) to discuss rebirths, reboots, why and how they happen, and what they're good for. Today's theme is by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony!

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