The Uncomics podcast
Finding the “art” in the comics art form
The Uncomics podcast is a series of talks with artists working in the uncharted, experimental periphery of comics that draw on contemporary art frameworks.
In this “online symposium”, progressive artists from around the world talk to host Allan Haverholm about their work and creative process, creating a patchwork of the practices and passions of uncomics creators.
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The Uncomics podcast is published on a pseudo-decadiurnal* schedule. It is produced and edited by Allan Haverholm, with music by Allan Grønvall Pedersen.
- that’s a made-up word for “sort of every ten days”.
All Episodes
The odradek of it all: a Kafka coda to the first season of the Uncomics podcast
In which Uncomics podcast host Allan Haverholm meditates on Kafka's tangled and ambiguous character, the odradek. Please see shownotes on uncomics.org for transcript.
Mark Badger, from Donald Judd to Batman and everything in between
When Mark Badger started out as a comics artist working for Marvel and DC Comics, his fine arts influences alienated his editors so much they singled him out as the...
Aidan Koch on the ecologies of comics and fine art
You will be hard pressed to find a better exemplar of an artist bridging contemporary art and comics than Aidan Koch. She is a long time alternative comics favourite, exhibited...
Performing an Ollie: Oliver East on his artistic negotiations with space and place
As often as other artists have cited Oliver East on the Uncomics podcast, it was a matter of time before host Allan Haverholm sat down to talk with himself about...
The many transformations, cycles, and layers of Dunja Janković
Through the 2010s, Dunja Janković churned out dizzying, confounding and increasingly abstract comics, before she turned her creative focus to other art media like art installation and screen printing. Talking...
A mass for you to untangle: Peony Gent on her comics and installation art
Between her ambiguous comics, gorgeous illustrations, installation art, and quilt making(!), Peony Gent is a renaissance multi-hyphenate. In this episode, she sits down with host Allan Haverholm to explain how...
Special roundtable with Simon Russell and Gareth A Hopkins
In this very wholesome threesome, Simon Russell and Gareth A Hopkins rejoin Uncomics host Allan Haverholm to discuss what really sets uncomics apart from, say, a Google image search; the...
Comics are a chemical process: Simon Russell
Simon Russell is a man of many hats in the British comics scene — (un)comics creator, editor, graphic designer, and more. He talks to host Allan Haverholm about miscolouring Garfield,...
Work produces work - Gareth A Hopkins' unending process
Gareth A Hopkins started his comics career by making an abstract reworking of his favorite 2000 A.D. comic book. Since then, he has returned to his own work time and...
The tangled weft of Erin Curry
A silk spinner, textile artist and sculptor, Erin Curry weaves comics into most of her work. Her early exposure in "Best American Comics 2014", of an abstract work made on...
ABCD (Always Be Crazy Drawing)— Warren Craghead III, part two
The Uncomics Craghead-aganza continues in this second talk with Warren Craghead III, where he and host Allan Haverholm expand upon his practice, the amount of talent at comics festivals compared...
With his pencil as his witness — Warren Craghead III, part one
Since his 1996 Xeric Grant-winning zine "Speedy", Warren Craghead III has been at the forefront of North American avantgarde comics. Whether he is chronicling his daughters growing up, witnessing atrocities...
Rosaire Appel: a restless one-woman anthology
A life long artist, Rosaire Appel spent years in the dark room and as a writer. Even if asemic comics and art books were a later shift in her oeuvre...
