Comic book 'Intrusive Thoughts' is the product of Anthony Stokes, an author whose skills wonderfully convey a complex, emotional journey. Anthony joins Andy for a discussion around his creative process, inspirations, and how mental health is playing a role in today's media. 'Intrusive Thoughts' opens the door for conversations around mental illness and disability, which in itself can form the grounds of an open space for developing creativity. We talk about pop culture and the personal impact it's had on its audience, and why it speaks to us.   Anthony Stokes Socials: IG - @decaycomic Twitter - @StokesTheWriter Website: www.decayComic.com Andy Luke at  Twitter - @andrewluke www. patreon.com/andyluke --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/andyluke/message

Pirates! Westerns! Ancient Kingdoms! Back Pocket's output assembles prolific international artists, overseen with keen editorial eyes. Steven Young is one half of that Northern Irish based team, also writing Black Spot, Tarik and Soulforge. In this conversation, Steven discusses quiet styled approaches to writing comics and five years of collaboration with co-runner, Richard Davidson. With a new Kickstarter going live, we go deep into crowdfunding, Irish comics shops, festivals and indy publishing. LINKS Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1775271189/terminus-3 Shop: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/BackPocketComics https://twitter.com/backpocketcomx https://www.facebook.com/backpocketcomics https://www.instagram.com/backpocketcomics/ https://comicbookguys.co.uk/ https://angrycherryshop.com/ https://linktr.ee/buzzardcomics https://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/welcome-back-dublin/ https://www.facebook.com/EnniskillenComicFest/ https://comicprintinguk.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/andyluke/message

Phoebe A. Xavier is the architect of 123 Go! Publications: writing, pencilling and editing comics alongside new and accomplished artists. We chill out and chat ahead of the launch of Phoebe's first prose publication, Superliminal Latency. With fifteen books behind her, we talk about a range of artists, the business of editing, science-fiction and beat poet influences and vikings. Contains some explicit material. https://www.indyplanet.com/123go https://twitter.com/go_publishing https://twitter.com/jhaasinterviews https://www.instagram.com/123GOpublications/ https://www.instagram.com/vikings_saga_of_the_north https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/1313480523/about --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/andyluke/message

EroTech is a raucous IT office comedy about a dev team building an AI sex-bot. Writer-publisher Shawn Richardson and illustrator Geoffrey Krawczyk sit down with Andy Luke to talk about SHP Comics' growing success. On the agenda is Agile creativity, dynamic approaches to design, business partnerships and crowdfunding. We also look at SHP's books: vampires and Jimi Hendrix in 'Woodstake', and 'The Killing Machine', a high concept SF epic. Plus, Shawn delivers some exciting news about the company's new releases through their Kickstarter, live now. Check out the SHP Kickstarter at https://go.shpcomics.com/3dRie6X https://shpcomics.com Instagram: @shpcomics Facebook: @shpcomics Twitter @shp_comics Support the show at https://patreon.com/andyluke Twitter: @andrewluke Referenced in this episode: Inked Marketing: https://www.inked.marketing/ Think Alike: https://thinkalikemedia.com/ Printful: https://www.printful.com/uk I've never read Discworld: https://anchor.fm/iveneverreaddiscworld --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/andyluke/message

Sean Black is a household name: prime-time actor on stage and screen and linked to an unknown number of gruesome murders. Sean Black is the lead in METHOD, the creation of Philip Henry, a struggling dramatic novelist, film-maker and singer-songwriter. Podcaster Andy Luke lures Philip to a remote country cottage to unravel his secrets. What emerges is a wide reaching conversation on writing, celebrities, romance, violence, ethics, feminism and Northern Ireland on screen. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/andyluke/message

Film-maker and author Philip Henry: who is he? Where does he come from? What animal will feature in the upcoming podcast? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/andyluke/message

Press Gang was highly regarded as the best British children's television of all time: never disrespectful, never patronising. First-time writer Steven Moffat engineered a way to take the aging cast out of the school-yard and into the working world, producing some of the show's best episodes yet. Occupied author Andy Luke's special edition features deep dives into episodes and trivia from series 3-5 along with insights into proposed spin-offs. There's also meaty correspondence on the renowned comedy-drama from authors Tristan Sargent and Philip Henry and illustrator Simon Hodgkiss-Rogers. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/andyluke/message

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Comedy-drama Press Gang was widely hailed as one of the best YA telly series ever, attracting critical acclaim and industry awards. As well as featuring some of the best names in the business it launched a dozen careers including those of Steven Moffat, Julia Sawalha, Dexter Fletcher, Lee Ross, Paul Reynolds, Gabrielle Anwar and Lucy Benjamin. Occupied author Andy Luke's feature presentation includes character studies and reviews of ten episodes from Series 1-2. You'll also hear from roving reporters Ian Lawther, author Tristan Sargent and comics artists Simon Hodgkiss-Rogers and Peter Bangs. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/andyluke/message

Hardwicke House was a highly promoted prime-time ITV comedy screened in 1987 fronted by Roy Kinnear and a stellar cast. It was to be a no-holds barred series tackling the UK's under-funded and brutal school culture. However upon transmission, it was met with anything but an expected response. Occupied author Andy Luke reviews Hardwicke's unscreened episodes and wonders if perhaps this edgy comedy should have been left in the past. There's also contributions from Jay Eales and Selina Lock (Factor Fiction), Simon Hodgkiss-Rogers (Spacewarp) and Peter Bangs (Immigrant Child) Occupied on Amazon at https://is.gd/occupybook Continue the discussion at https://nerdgeist.com Support the artist at https://ko-fi.com/andyluke --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/andyluke/message