This week's episode focuses on Julie Maroh's Blue is the Warmest Color. Listen now to find out how perspectives change over time and find some more recommendations for queer comics!  Next Episode: Sunday, July 14th Find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter: @gutterspodcast

Blood in the Gutters: A Comics Studies Podcast

013 - Blue is NOT the Warmest Color

This episode we talk our way through Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. As dense as this comic is, it is a beautiful albeit tragic story of coming out, loss, and growth.  Next Episode: Sunday, June 30th Find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter: @gutterspodcast

012 - Fun Home & Other Queer Ramblings

This week we work through The Fantastic Four: Unstable Molecules; The Story of Comics' Greatest Foursome. We unpack how Sturm translates these four iconic characters into what can only be deemed their "real life" 1950's selves throughout this four part series. This comic put 1950's social dynamics under a microscope for the readers to better understand the bedrock of Mr. Fantastic, The Invisible Woman, The Human Torch, and The Thing!  Next Episode: Sunday, June 16th Find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter: @gutterspodcast  

011 - Rock Hard in the Company of Men and Other Things Mentioned in The Fantastic Four: Unstable Molecules

This week we dig deep into one of Jeff Lemire's best graphic novels, The Underwater Welder. This comic centralizes themes of loss, memory, time, and growth through the depths of the ocean waves off the coast of Tigg's Bay, in Nova Scotia. As self proclaimed fangirls of Lemire we adore picking apart the smallest nuances within the panels of this comic and hope that you enjoy it too. Illustrator Spotlight: Matt Tarpley & Cat's Cafe Comic! (IG @catscafecomics) Find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter: @gutterspodcast

010 - That's My Boooooooy! Jeff Lemire's Underwater Welder and the hilarious interjection of one Amoss Diggory

This week we talk about Jeremy Haun's and Jason Hurley's The Beauty issues 1-11 (collected volumes 1 and 2). We unpack some of the first two story arcs and talk about what makes this comic so important and wonderful.  Creator Spotlight: The Nimbus Project (IG @art_of_nimbus)

009 OMG I'M BEAUTIFUL: The Beauty V. 1-2

Aaaaaaaaaaand WE ARE BACK! This episode is a 2-for-1 crossover for Deflowered: A Subversive Sex Ed Podcast, and Blood in the Gutters: A Comics Studies Podcast. In this episode we tackle some of the wild tropes of female representation in video games and comics, fake geek culture, cosplay, and the commodification of sexualized fandom characters. Episodes released bi-weekly! Look out for our next episode feature The Beauty from Image Comics on April 21st!  Find us on Facebook & Instagram: @gutterspodcast Interested in following along with Deflowered? Find us on Facebook and Instagram at @defloweredpodcast!  Intro music: "[No Copyright Music] And So It Begins" by Artificial Music

008 - De-GUTTERED (Crossover episode)

This episode deals with zombies, gender, race, colonialism, and the ethics of survival in Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead (compendiums 1&2).  To donate to Lucy Sullivan's BARKING graphic novel, please use the link below: https://unbound.com/books/barking/  

007 - Necropolitics, Ethics of Survival & The Colonized Walking Dead

This week's episode features Alan Moore and Brian Bolland's The Killing Joke! Lets talk Alan Moore, Joker, and violence against women, shall we? 

006 - Is Your Refrigerator Running? The Killing Joke, Fridging, and Alan Moore

This week’s episode is on *drum roll, please* ... STEVE DITKO AND THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN! Warning: I get slightly emotional when talking about loss. Feedback & requests: gutterspodcast@gmail.com IG/FB/Twitter: @gutterspodcast

005 - Love, Loss, and The Amazing Spider-Man

Episode 4 dives head first into Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoet's Beautiful Darkness and applies freudian theory a la Bruno Bettelheim as well as Edmond Burke's ideas of the Sublime! (Hooray 18th century theory and early 20th century psychoanalysis!!!) 

004 - What Happens in the Forest is Simply Sublime

Episode 003 is a shortish jaunt through the world of Kelly Sue Deconnick and Valentine de Landro's Bitch Planet! Want to send feedback and request a book/topic? Send it on over to gutterspodcast@gmail.com New things (kind of): PATREON! I have created a patreon page to help cover some of the cost that producing a podcast costs. There are tiers starting $2 that go to $15/month. Here is a handy dandy link just for you: https://www.patreon.com/bloodinthegutterspodcast  

003 - Hey Kids! Fuck the Patriarchy!

This week's episode looks at grotesque feminine bodies in Bill Willingham's Fables series! 

002 - Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Who's the Most Grotesque of All?

This episode looks at the relationship between the science fiction genre, Jeff Lemire's Trillium comics series, and colonial discourse, all while also talking about L-O-V-E! Please feel free to submit feedback and topic requests to GUTTERSPODCAST@gmail.com. 

001 - John Smith Never Loved Pocahontas Anyway!

Welcome to the Preview episode of Blood in the Gutters! This episode is a bit shorter than what a full length episode will be, but packs a punch! In this episode we discuss what comics studies is -- I mean really, how can someone actually study comics in college? -- and we will also have a bit of application through a short analysis/close reading of Grant Morrison & Dave McKean's Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth.

Preview — What the hell is Comics Studies & Why is Joker a Queen?

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