Outsiders in the city

I hope someone teaches a class on your work, one day. I would take that class.

I’ve loved your work for at least a decade and a half, and treasure my copy of Rice Boy that you autographed and added a little doodle of Olga and Golgo. Since then I’ve snagged every book (and cassette! could there be another for 3rd Voice?) and am really happy to have the opportunity to support through the patreon! No need for extra bells and whistles for subscribers, in my opinion at least. I really look forward to 3rd Voice updates and wish only the best for you in the coming year. Thank you so much for sharing these vivid, gripping worlds. <3

Here's me just wanting to thank you for creating these beautifully estranged world while also harnessing the most endearing bits of character development and relationships between them. Thank you for putting it all out there and an extra thank you for keeping an independent website alive as well. I bought the one side project that you did do these years in support, as I don't like the Patreon thing too much personally and was amazed by "The Last Delivery" Cheers and here's to hoping you're not making one of those trips yourself, but that your books will be making these delivery trips into the world, be it next year of more years hence; no commitment to deadlines is necessary for that, you've long since shown your commitment past starting this. I'm glad to see you describing excitement and a kind of wonder at it still not being boring to work on.

It's a rough and tumble career path.

i love your storytelling, is enrapturing and lived-in

Based on your current progress and amount of future "passages" that you have planned, it seems like 3rd Voice might end up being as long as Vattu? I don't remember well enough to your original video essays, but I thought you were hoping to keep this story shorter? I ain't complaining, mind you, I love long form stories and you always deliver. I just saw a kickstarter by Jeff Smith for a reprint for Bone, and it made me think how much of what I loved about that story and art is the same reason I love your work. Thank you for helping to keep independant comic art alive.

the readers yearn for the bleach

You're stuff is truly mind warping! in the best ways possible. Your characters always manage to be so uniquely alien, while also maintaining a deep, relatable, human core and story! Here's to many more years of Evan Dham!

I love the lived-in, mysterious world you've created, scarred by war and time.

evey

Back here after two years to watch the opening and how it fits into the story so far... beautifully done.

great episode! I think there are definitely lots of dense, inexplicable complicated idiosyncratic games being made right now, you just have to avoid the x EXPLAINED youtube video cultures that crop up around them. I recommend "Almanac Of Girlswampwar" for something really fantastic and out there and pretty not well known

This current arc we're in is so fascinating...it's so cool that all these 3rd Voice locations get mood-setting music to go along with them! This track is beautiful, ethereal...❤

perfecting my hyphen rn

Great podcast! I always enjoy when I hear Meredith Gran talk about her art. I keep flipping back and forth between comic and game projects so that was an interesting part of the discussion I really thoguht was interesting. I hope one day, if you're every in the mood for another discussion with someone who made the transition from webcomics to narrative video games, you can get Abby Howard on the podcast!

I’ve been reading your books lately 🙌

Thank you for helping me discover so many new cartoonists

Just wanna say I followed along all these years as chapters released, and recently came back to relive nostalgia, thank you for your work!

I love these interviews. I'm kinda blown away at how they make the comic jointly. Super cool!

New ep hell yeah

Great job building this Podcast. It’s great seeing this developing.

liking the funky noise at the beginning rn

Keep it up Evan, this show is great

Wow, what a fantastic interview! I haven't read TJ and Amal or Shot and Chaser, but I will def check them out now. The shout out to Comic Fury made me happy, too; it's much closer to having one's own website than Webtoons or Tapas and definitely does a better job of supporting artists. Also, fwiw, I'm a pretty new reader (I found Vattu right after it finished and have been along for the ride on 3rd Voice). I'm hooked and am trying to get my friends hooked, too!

This was FANTASTIC! Both Blue and Evan are some of the most thoughtful and articulate artists I know and their ability to explore their thoughts on the medium of comics is so powerful. I loved getting a chance to hear them talk, particularly about the history of webcomics. Great episode and I can’t wait to hear more!

I'm a big floppies buyer, at the comic store every week, and one of the things I've noticed is that fewer and fewer creators have personal or professional websites (or, if they have one, it hasn't been updated in 3+ years). I'll find an artist or writer that I deeply enjoy and try to find where they exist on the internet (mostly what I'm looking for is a bibliography that isn't from Wikipedia, a way to support their work, and/or whatever fun cool goodies you used to find in websites) and all they've got is a twitter, maybe an Instagram, and even more maybe a bluesky. I'm not on any of those platforms anymore and it has become so much more difficult to keep up with artists I am interested in, and the death of the personal/prof. website makes me sad

watching that flat art show rn

I think you really have such an intreartin perspective on the comic industry and how its changed. Hopefully you can keep it up

I’m 49 and I feel I am at the other end of the spectrum from your aesthetic tastes. Perhaps the book is intended for very young audiences. Good luck! Carry on!

Hi Evan, in regard to posting your comics. Do you plan on ever posting the final episodes of Rice Boy on WEBTOON? Do you think you’ll ever post Order of Tales on there? Great podcast by the way!

woah people still use comicfury? thats what i hosted my terrible terrible comics on when i was a kid! scary to think people can still find those lmao

BOSTON AND SHAUN HOLY SHIT

Would you mind checking the settings on Spotify? I think there's some setting that will let other podcast apps access the episodes. But right now the RSS feed comes back empty. No worries if it doesn't work out, I imagine Spotify probably doesn't make it easy. They're really trying to proprietize podcasts.

flattening my art show rn

!! two of the best webcomic makers ever. historic event

i love to look at web sights

Came here from 3rd Voice! Really great to hear more from the comic industry!

Только что прочитала 3rd Voice, то есть то, что вышло на данный момент. Я читала Rice Boy несколько лет назад и это было завораживающе, поэтому я с огромным удовольствием снова погрузилась в волшебство этих миров. И не смотря на то, что я не всë понимаю, т.к. встречаю много незнакомых слов, мне всë-равно очень интересно и это мотивирует учить английский прямо в процессе чтения. Так что это не только отличный способ эскапизма для меня, но еще и обучение. Мне очень нравится рисовка, цвета и мир, в котором происходит история. Так что я буду и дальше следить за выходом новых страниц и желаю автору оставаться вдохновлённым и продуктивным

great talk! always interesting to see how people view making art. Ive been thinking about that kurt vonnigut quote a lot lately. And, also having read a biography of the Weavers (an old socialist folk band) called Wasnt That A Time recently, I feel it gave me a different perspective on it. It's not so much that art *cant* be effective at changing culture and politics, as much as it's ability to do so has been deliberately sabotaged by things like blacklists and just the basic need of people to make money to survive. still trying to figure out what to do with my own art though, which has still mostly up to this point been inane.

Look forward to more episodes, I love a good long form conversation between creative people. Found your channel recently by way of your Making of Vatuu video. 3rd voice has been really enjoyable to read can't wait to see where it goes.

Oh hey, if it isn't two of my favoritest cartoonists! Incidentally Salem's definitely a cool place to visit, lots of genuinely cool historical sites mixed in with over-the-top kitsch-as-hell tourist traps... Was just there a couple years back while visiting family in the area and had a blast. Always found the strong new age/pagan presence there a little weird as the whole thing about the Salem trials is that there weren't any practicing witches there or anything particularly close - it was sheer hysteria, literally teen angst bullshit with a body count.

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Amazing person who embodies what i wish i was. ❤

Amazingly hard worker bru

I just read this and hated it. Maybe I just don't get it, but man did it feel pointless and stupid.

Dang I wish I was in NYC to have gone to this event, congrats on your new Book and 3rd voice is also awesome

Love this, makes me feel very emotional

Woo! I followed its development on and off. Super excited to read it.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book! I've loved everything of yours I've read and really resonate with how you talk about art and your processes here on KZbin