Podcasts – Trip City

TRIP CITY Podcast #3 highlights Dean Haspiel’s interview with artist Jen Ferguson, Ron Scalzo’s new “Ronnie’s Story,” Dean Haspiel and Jen Ferguson’s interview with cartoonist Ben Katchor, and the Americans UK single, “Inappropriate Words To Your Mother” off of the album Luxuria by Americans UK. Brooklyn artist, Jen Ferguson, and cartoonist, Dean Haspiel, interviewed renaissance cartoonist, Ben Katchor, at Hang Dai Studios on September 21st. Jen and Dean discussed Ben’s early NY Press comix, his transition between ink and digital, and his latest project, “Up From The Stacks,” which debuted at The New York Public Library with musician, Mark Mulcahy, this past Fall. But, first Dean has a brief conversation with Jen Ferguson about her art. Special thanks to Jen Ferguson, Dean Haspiel, Seth Kushner, Jeff Burandt, Ben Katchor, and BookCourt, the premiere independent book store in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, NY. View a gallery of Ben Katchor’s work. View a gallery of Jen Ferguson’s work. The TRIP CITY podcast produced by Chris Miskiewicz, Dean Haspiel, and Seth Kushner. Photo by Seth Kushner

TRIP CITY Podcast #2 highlights Seth Kushner’s interview with filmmaker Amy Finkel, Ron Scalzo’s new “Ronnie’s Story,” Amy Finkel and Dean Haspiel’s exclusive interview with musician/actor/author Henry Rollins, and the Americans UK single, “Jobs: We Don’t Have Them,” off their album, Rocktronic. Documentary filmmaker Amy Finkel (FUREVER) and cartoonist, Dean Haspiel, conducted an exclusive interview with Henry Rollins on October 13th for TRIP CITY. Rollins discusses his music career and his new book, Occupants, a full-color book of photographs taken in Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Northern Ireland, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and elsewhere over the last few years. This interview was conducted at BookCourt, the premiere independent book store in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Special thanks to Amy Finkel, Dean Haspiel, Seth Kushner, Tresa Redburn, Mike Magnuson, Zack Zook, BookCourt, and Henry Rollins. A note about the Henry Rollins interview: The interview begins abruptly, mid-conversation. Henry was saying something interesting about his new show on National Geographic (“Animal Underworld,” coming out next Spring), so we began recording as we thought everyone would enjoy listening in. The TRIP CITY podcast produced by Chris Miskiewicz, Dean Haspiel, and Seth Kushner. Photo by Seth Kushner

TRIP CITY Podcast #1 highlights a round table interview with the TRIP CITY founders, Chris Miskiewicz’ New York Comicon 2011 report, Ron Scalzo’s “Ronnie’s Story,” graphic novelist, Dan Goldman’s exclusive interview with filmmaker, Michael Moore, and the Americans UK’s single “You Can’t Kill The Americans UK.” Comics author Dan Goldman (whose works include SHOOTING WAR, the nonfiction graphic novel 08: A GRAPHIC DIARY OF THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL and his current haunted real-estate series RED LIGHT PROPERTIES) conducted this exclusive interview with Michael Moore on October 7th for Trip City. Touching on Moore’s new book HERE COMES TROUBLE, unchecked capitalism and the #Occupy movement, this interview was conducted at BookCourt, the premiere independent book store in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Special thanks to Seth Kushner, Dean Haspiel, Josh Frankel, Zack Zook, BookCourt, and Michael Moore. Photo by Seth Kushner The TRIP CITY podcast produced by Chris Miskiewicz, Dean Haspiel, and Seth Kushner. Behind-the-scenes of the podcast.