VODKA O’CLOCK 1320: Joe Martino @jgmcomics (comics, cancer, & superheroes)

If you ever thought about giving up on making your independent comic books, give a listen to a real warrior who has prevailed through cancer, divorce, and Superstorm Sandy. JOE MARTINO, the creator of THE MIGHTY TITAN, SHADOWFLAME and RIPPERMAN joins me on VODKA O’CLOCK this week.

VODKA O’CLOCK 1319: Karl Slominski @KidReverie talks about making comic art

This week’s hour of VODKA O’CLOCK features KARL SLOMINSKI, comic book artist of GOLGOTHA and ASHES with some other projects in the works.

VODKA O’CLOCK 1318: Mario Candelaria @TheOtherMarioC talks comics & stand up comedy

You’ll be intrigued by the range of topics I discuss with comic book writer / stand up comedian MARIO CANDELARIA. **Trigger warning: we briefly discuss the subject of rape culture and rape jokes as it impacts audiences of stand up comedy.**

VODKA O’CLOCK 1317: Thomas Pluck @TommySalami talks books, charities & nerdy things

Today’s VODKA O’CLOCK episode features writer Thomas Pluck, aka @TommySalami who has recently been part of some impressive charity anthologies of short stories that benefit Superstorm Sandy families and the organization Protect.org.

VODKA O’CLOCK 1316 with big bad blues man @LeeDelray!

This week’s episode of VODKA O’CLOCK features blues musician LEE DELRAY whose Southern roots were assets to his Staten Island, N.Y. upbringing where he was introduced to music like that of Pete Seeger. He reveled in Doo-wop until discovering the blues in the late 1980s.

VODKA O’CLOCK 1315 with Shannon Wheeler @MuchCoffee

VODKA O’CLOCK is back with special guest SHANNON WHEELER, a wild philosopher who also happens to be that successful cartoonist you know from The New Yorker and his own comic series TOO MUCH COFFEE MAN. From cartoons to coffee enemas, we talk about everything in this episode. He’s also immortal.

VODKA O’CLOCK 1314: Blues musicians Lee Delray and Gary Wright

The two-day annual NJ BLUES BASH was last weekend at the Lackland Center in Hackettstown. Joe Hirsh Productions never ceases to find incredible talent to tour through even our smallest towns.This week’s VODKA O’CLOCK podcast is very short and contains the backstage interviews with Lee Delray and Gary Wright.

VODKA O’CLOCK 1313 with Lela Gwenn. PLEASE read the show notes!

Today’s fabulous episode is filled with all sorts beautiful geekery as LELA GWENN joins the podcast to cover comics, modeling, nerd bondage, and being a writer.

VODKA O’CLOCK 1312 Eric Ruben, Attorney & Literary Agent

Despite the bizarre Skype feedback that appears throughout this episode, you will hear an hour of delightful conversation with ERIC RUBEN. Listener questions were answered as best as possible without any notions that listeners would be entering into a client privilege.

VODKA O’CLOCK VODKAVERSARY!

It’s the one year anniversary of VODKA O’CLOCK so Ashley came back on the show to spend an hour bullshitting with me about the Blues Bash concert ticket contest we are having, our favorite guests, our plans for conventions, and other drunken stupidity.