Two Geeks Talking

Patrick Lugo (aka PLUGO to many) is a former Art Diector of KUNG FU TAI CHI magazine (which shut down in 2020 due to Covid) and Senior Designer of KungFuMagazine.com. He is also an Illustrator (of Children's Books and Album Covers), Author of article & movie reviews and Comic Creator. My premiere children’s picture book Little Monk & the Mantis, earned some acclaim. There’s even a copy in the library of Shaolin Temple in China; birthplace of Zen Buddhism & Kung Fu martial arts. Patrick stopped by Two Geeks Talking to discuss his newest YA graphic novel "A Tiger's Tale" Think: The Jungle Book meets the Tao Tae Ching OR The Jungle Book meets Avatar the Last Airbender.

Kristian Herrera is a comic book writer and creator of the superhero genre series Sidekick for Hire. Currently (as of this interview) volume 4 is successfully funded on Kickstarter. We talked about the team of comic artists, illustrators, letterers from around the world that worked with Kristian to make his comic a reality. Artist Rick Alves, Colorist Veronica Saraceno, Letterer Toben Racicot all helped bring this comic to life. Other topics included: inspirational people, first-time fan interactions at comic conventions, fan reactions to the themes and characters and much more!

Sam Quinton and Nick Caponi are the co-creators of Sinopa Publishing newest comic series, that has a Kickstarter. The comic is called Rayne of Ages. This is a fantasy comic following the adventures of Rayne and her friends. It's a beautiful mix of high fantasy, enough action and to make Conan blush by two very talented people.

Chuck Satterlee, Nick Goodwin and Jeremy Megert are all co-creators of the new comic series MONSTERS & MIDWAYS from the mind of Nick Goodwin, Written by Chuck Satterlee and Drawn by Jeremy Megert. "Monsters & Midways: A down on his luck heavy metal guitarist hasn't gotten very far with his songs about elves and wizards and dark magic. Let's see how he does with the real thing."

Arman Nasim is the comic creator of the series Lost Magic. As a writer, the one creative outlet he started working on recently is comic books. Taking his love of Neil Gaiman's Sandman, horror comics and fantasy comics he created his own comic! Good news is he has six more Seasons (comic books) as the varied and diverse characters that were sorely lacking in comics today!

Chris Benamati and Tim Stolinski are the co-owners of Band of Bards a comic book / graphic novel publisher that focuses on publishing comics that tell stories for everyone; No matter who they are. Originally telling the stories of Veteran's of the Military with showing both the joy and sadness that goes along with serving in the military. Band of Bards started to branch off into being an inclusive comic book publisher from anthologies to one-shot comics of all genre's.

Ryan Claytor is a Professor at Michigan State University teaching Comics to the next generations. MSU also houses the world's Largest collection of comics. Ryan Claytor is known for his award-winning, self-published, autobiographical, comic book series "And Then One Day", and Coin-Op Carnival: Electrifying Tales of Mechanical Contraptions, which is illustrated by Claytor and co-written by Nick Baldridge & Ryan Claytor.