On this episode of the Word Balloon podcast,
Artist Tony Akins discusses his work on Jack Of Fables,
plus his upcoming story in House Of Mystery #6.

We also talk about his involvement in a gallery show
in Chicago at the Diane Tanios gallery running through this Saturday.
http://dianetaniosgallery.com/

The art showing also features
sequential art from Gene Ha(Top 10) Elisabeth Belliveau,
Alex Wald, and Jeff Zwirek

Sorry, author Brad Meltzer has nothing to say about his upcoming novel, The Book Of Lies,  in stores Tuesday Sept 2nd from Grand Central Publishing.

But he'll tell us all we want to know about his one-shot from DC comics, DC UNIVERSE-Last Will and Testament, His Eisner winning issue of JLA#11, and his upcoming arc on Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Eight from Dark Horse Comics

In addition there's a new Meltzer TV rock 'n roll drama in the works set in the late 1960's ,and a little theory Brad has, that Jerry Siegel 's dad's 1932 murder was the inspiration for Superman.

However after a fierce off-air argument, Brad did promise to return to Word Balloon next week, to discuss The Book Of Lies.

(Photo courtesy Of Marvel.com)

In his viral video and on a recent Word Balloon podcast, Robert Kirkman started an
open dialog call to fellow creators.His "Mission Statement" was a call to writers and artists to weigh the advantages of making creator owned comics versus making corporate comics working for DC or Marvel.

Creators have written blogs message board threads and have been interviewed on podcasts and websites giving their perspective on the issues Kirkman addressed.

Marvel writer Brian Bendis made his views known in a still to be released new edition of The Bendis Tapes.

Well we're not stupid, this is the subject of the moment, so we present this interesting conversation where Bendis discussesthe points of Kirkman's view. The full Bendis Tapes will be presentedin the days ahead, but for now, here's another great discussion from Word
Balloon.