Full episode at patreon.com/thicklinespod. What says "Happy 420, Two Days Late" like host and guest favorites, Akbar and Jeff? Sally and Sam Szabo find out what it means to be gay in Regan's America with Akbar and Jeff's Guide to Life by Matt Groening (Pantheon, 1989). This strip continued beyond the book's publication date for another TWENTY THREE YEARS so there's lots more of our favorite couple beyond this episode.

Topics include: where the elite meet, American Psycho, Working Girl, learning about color cartoons, fezzes and more.

Sally was minutes away from finding out she had covid while recording AND editing this episode, thank you for bearing with us regarding the sound quality.

Thank you kindly to our Elite Cathies, Starscruch and Drawn & Quarterly for supporting this show at the $20/month level- you can access 50+ additional episodes for $5/month over at our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thicklinespod

You can read many many MANY comics by Sam over at her patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brainbooger

Akbar and Jeff's Guide to Life: https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780679726807

Happy Earth Day!

Listener favorite Sam Szabo (Comics Will Break Your Balls, The Enlightened Transsexual, The Onion) is back to look at the PG-13 porno comics of Poor Helpless Comics! by Ed Subitzky (NYRC, 2023). Topics include, Heather McAdams' Cartoon Girl, going to the movies, National Lampoon, David Letterman, and so very much more.

Sally was minutes away from finding out she had covid while recording AND editing this episode, thank you for bearing with us regarding the sound quality.

Thank you kindly to our Elite Cathies, Starscruch and Drawn & Quarterly for supporting this show at the $20/month level- you can access 50+ additional episodes for $5/month over at our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thicklinespod

You can read many many MANY comics by Sam over at her patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brainbooger

Poor Helpless Comics!: https://www.nyrb.com/products/poor-helpless-comics

Heather McAdams info: https://summerpierre.wordpress.com/2015/03/19/where-art-thou-heather-mcadams/

What's our favorite books from 2024? Sally describes them all in no particular order to beloved listener favorite Joe McCulloch! Part one is here for you to enjoy, for Part Two, we will see you over at our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thicklinespod

Follow us on Instagram @thicklinespod and email us to join our Discord at thicklinespod@gmail.com

1. The Puerto Rican War- John Mejias
2. Round World Thinking (zine) Round World Thinking (audiobook)- Ana Woulfe
3. Ant Dodger/What About Humility? - Dash Shaw
4. Heavenly Days- Em Frank
5. Unwholesome Love- Charles Burns
6. Pebbles #3- Molly Colleen O’Connell
7. Halo- Leomi Sadler
8. Whistle by Louka Butzbach
9. Zoo no. 4- Anand
10. The Scrapbook of Life and Death- J. Webster Sharp

1. Crazy-Beautiful by Eileen Wolf Echikson
2. Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies by Stan Mack
3. Forces of Nature by Edward Steed
4. Ninja Sarutobi Sasuke by Sugiura Shigeru
5. Tender by Beth Hetland
6. Anna by Mia Oberländer
7. Merriment by Joe Steinhardt and Marissa Paternoster
8. You & A Bike & A Road by Eleanor Davis
9. World Within The World by Julia Gfrorer
10. Bernadette #1 edited by Angela Fanche and Katie Lane

Last week marked the centennial of Edward Gorey's birth, so let's wish a happy birthday to our shared goth uncle with a listen back to episiode 23. Enjoy!

Katie Skelly and Sally Madden discuss Edward Gorey's "Amphigorey: Fifteen Books" (1980). Topics discussed include Max Ernst, Edward Lear, Agatha Christie, Charles Addams, Tomie dePaola, Roald Dahl, holding newborns, ballet, New England, and more. Next time: "Magician A" by Natsuko Ishitsuyo.

Find 50+ additional episodes at our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thicklinespod

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This is a subscriber-only episode, for the full audio please visit patreon.com/thicklinespod

Thank you to Partners and Son for hosting us!

Sally interviews Em Frank (Heavenly Days, I Never Found You, Dark Garbage) and Frances Cordelia Beaver (On a Cute One, Spirits Hungover At Work, Give My Best To Your Kind!) live from Partners and Son at PCX.

Topics include: why comic books are the easiest art form to get done, taking elementary schoolers to Wong Kar-wai movies, not taking responsibility for torturing your own characters, and much more. This is part 1!

Partners and Son: https://partnersandson.com/

Em Frank: https://www.instagram.com/emjonmichaelfrank/

Frances Cordelia Beaver: https://www.francescordeliabeaver.com/

Frances Cordelia Beaver (On A Cute One, 2021) joins Sally Madden to read The Pervert by Michelle Perez and Remy Boydell (Image Comics, 2018)

Topics include: a picnic at the graveyard, Milk White Steed by Michael D. Kennedy (Drawn and Quarterly, 2025), Peephhole #1 (despite what Sally says at the top of the episode, the table of contents is CLEARLY labeled with each artist's attributed page numbers, despite the pages not being numbered), Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh (Gallery Books, 2020) X-rated amazon packaging, Paris is Burning, Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton (Soho Press, 2021), disgust, and much more.

Support the show and get bonus content at patreon.com/thicklinespod. Follow us on Instagram @thicklinespod

You can find Frances's artwork here, her music is here

Partners and Son has new and first-reprint-in-a-decade+ vintage zines from Sally Madden here: https://partnersandson.com/products/i-thought-i-told-you-to-wait-in-the-car

AND you can find Sally (and Katie Skelly) next weekend at MoCCA! Smell ya later!

I was always here, where were you? Thick Lines is back! Sally Madden talks with with Molly Colleen O’Connell about The Green Hand and Other Stories by Nicole Claveloux (NYRC, 2017) topics include gardening, nudity, getting our periods for the first time, and lots more. Thank you for listening!

Katie Skelly and Sally Madden are part of the programming at MoCCA https://www.moccafest.org/ next month, please come say hello!

Support the show and get bonus content at patreon.com/thicklinespod. Follow us on Instagram @thicklinespod

You can find Molly Colleen O’Connell’s comics and wares here: https://poetyunlimited.bigcartel.com/products

You can find Katie Skelly’s comics and wares here: https://katieskelly.bigcartel.com/

Partners and Son has newborn and vintage zines from Sally Madden here: https://partnersandson.com/products/i-thought-i-told-you-to-wait-in-the-car

Oops! We're back! Katie and Sally catch up on recent reads including Unwholesome Love (Fictopicto/Partners and Son, 2024) and Final Cut (Pantheon, 2024) by Charles Burns, Blurry by Dash Shaw (New York Review Books, 2024), Sunday by Olivier Schrauwen (Fantagraphics, 2024), My Time Machine by Carol Lay (Fantagraphics, 2024), John Willie: A Bizarre Life by Jane Garrett (Schiffer, 2024), plus a look at the film The Substance (2024).

Catch Katie at Comic Arts LA on December 14 & 15: comicartsla.com

Back VISCERE #2: Folk Horror on Kickstarter through December 20: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/katieskelly/viscere-2-a-folk-horror-comics-anthology

Support the show and get bonus content at patreon.com/thicklinespod. Follow us on Instagram @thicklinespod.