Mike Dawson Comics

Anybody who follows this site might have been wondering recently if I’m doing any comics at the moment, or if I’m just spending all my time recording new episodes of The Ink Panthers Show! Well, the answer is that I’m doing both, but I’ve just been pulling it back a bit when it comes to talking about the comics. I’ve been feeling like I’ve been spending too much time in the past year hyping my comics, and not enough time just working on them, and now that I’m back in the thick of a long-form story, it’s nice to keep the comics at the drawing table, and use the podcast as my means of generating noise.

Not that Alex and I have really talked about our comics work all that much on the ‘cast. We’ve mostly avoided it, except for a few instances. I’m still not sure where to fall down on this issue, because I like talking comics, but am very much aware of the fact that the show’s weekly, so if we spent every episode talking process, that would get old pretty quickly.

We do want to have more guests on though, and have started putting out some feelers to some potential New Panthers. I really like mixing things up, having some episodes where it’s just me and Alex rambling on (see episode 16 for what I think was one of our best chats), and then some where we’re joined by someone else from the comics/podcasting community.

In not-related-to-any-of-this news, I just finished reading a book called The Death of Conservatism, by Sam Tannenhaus. Normally I am bad at finishing non-fiction books, but this one was only 140 pages long, which is exactly the amount of pages I can normally read of a book before it gets put down and forgotten about forever (looking at you The Omnivore’s Dilemma). So that worked out well. Also, though, it was a really fascinating account of the history of Movement Conservatism full of a lot of information I didn’t know, and providing some great historical context for the past eight years of George W. Bush and everything that came along with that.

Anyway, that’s all for now. Alex is away in Mexico this week, so there’ll be no new podcast until next Tuesday or Wednesday I imagine.

Vacuum cleaner maintenance, broken teeth, and Big Questions. Tony Consiglio joins us once again inside the Panther’s Lair. Comments welcome!

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The Brooklyn Book Festival, Convention Sketches, Furreez, Pets, Cruelty to Animals. Comments welcome!

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Wow. It’s amazing we’ve been doing this for 16 weeks now (we skipped that one week over the Summer). One day, when I write a memoir about my life when I was in my early/mid 30′s, I’ll be able to refer back to all my podcasts, and find a complete record of every little thing that happened to me at this time. This week, Alex and I talk about some of the fistfights we’ve been in. Spoiler warning: none of the fights ended with an awesome knockout punch where we stood triumphant, well, except for one story Alex tells where that is in fact the outcome. Comments welcome!

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Alex is on assignment this week, so filling in for him is returning champion, Tony Consiglio. Also joining us in the Panther’s Lair, is newcomer, Gary Gretsky. This week we discuss Mike’s upcoming Best Man duties, Tony’s arguments with the self-service checkout machine at Wal-Mart, and then more Best Man duties for Mike to keep in mind. Comments welcome!

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