With guest WILLIAM WRAY, this episode is a FULL HOUSE, as co-co host Bret Blevins joins us in the studio! Wray is a legend in the industry, and enjoying a new chapter as a fine arts painter, the guys cover any and all topics, including his time creating Ren & Stimpy.

Mike and Jamar sit down with Sean CHEEKS! Galloway with a career retrospective. A great artist who used the internet to find an early foothold in the industry, this is a MUST-LISTEN!

Join Mike and Jamar in the studio as they answer questions and deep-dive into the age-old query of using photo reference in a job and uncover some magicians' tricks of comic making!

Weekend Warriors Mike Manley and Jamar Nicholas are back again, with a rousing conversation about the history of cartooning and design, color separation and lively listener questions. A+! 

From the vault: A quick interview with iconic comic and storyboard artist, William Rosado. We caught up with Will at his booth at Baltimore Comicon 2019 and dishes with Mike and Jamar. 

Join cartoonists and hosts, Mike Manley and Jamar Nicholas + special guest, Animator and Cartoonist (also director of Disney's Kim Possible) CHRIS BAILEY!

Jamar and Mike check back in from their respective studios, where the work continues on. In this audio version of the LIVE Facebook stream, the guys talk about the state of the comics industry, take viewer questions, and we watch Mike walk us through creating a PHANTOM strip. If interested in seeing the video version, go to our Pencil to Pencil facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/PenciltoPencil

Mike and Jamar get beamed up to a new LIVE podcast format on our Facebook Page. This is the audio version. If you'd like to see the video component, go to our Pencil to Pencil facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/PenciltoPencil

In this episode, we interview one of the leading women of mainstream comics, June Brigman. June might be best known for drawing Power Pack for Marvel (which she co-created with Louise Simonson), Star Wars, and Supergirl, to name just a few series she’s worked on, June has had a varied and prolific career winning an Inkpot Award In 2014 and teaching both at the Joe Kubert School and the Savannah College of Art and Design. June also has drawn two classic continuity strips, Brenda Starr,...

From Indy Cred All-Star to the Major Leagues and Marvel working on Spider-man and Deadpool with just about every stop in between, Pencil-to-Pencil catches up with the hardest working and nicest man in comics, Mr. Hard Times himself, Mike Hawthorne

From animation to the biggest billion dollar block-buster movies the story cannot go from script to screen without the storyboard artist. This episode we interview two of the top storyboard artists working today, Tim Burgard and Benton Jew. From Star Wars to the Terminator, Jurassic World and even the Simpsons these two master storytellers have lent their storytelling skills to some of the top movies and TV shows today. What does it takes to be a storyboard artist in Hollywood? Listen and...

In this episode of Pencil To Pencil we catch up with Howard Chaykin fresh off of finishing his recent mini series for Image Comics, Hey Kids Comics. It’s clear Chaykin loves comics and has nearly a 50-year career to prove it, from his early days as an assistant to Gil Kane, his highly influential work on American Flagg and Black Kiss, to his turn at illustration and writing for TV. Examples of Chaykin’s work and more can be found on our discussion forum....

In our first episode Mike, Jamar, and Bret discuss what each artist has going on in their studios, the work flow and current projects.