Had it been an hour since Millicent lay down or two? She concentrated on the voices in the other room. Attempts to understand the distant conversation left her tired and nauseated. She focused on the lazy game of catch playing in her gullet, bile pitching up from her stomach to her mouth and lurching down [...]
Witness the ongoing adventures of one man with all the time in the world. He. Is. Time Bum! Return monthly to Trip City throughout 2012 to follow the non-adventures of a transient travelling through the ages to avoid responsibility. Experience single-panel, panoramic, hobo-sci-fi comix as never before! Written by Jef UK. Art by Paul Ahern. Created [...]
In the late 1980s, I co-created and drew a story with a writer who lived in the deep south. It was moderately successful for an independently produced publication and I wanted to draw a sequel. I decided it would be best to knock brain-pans in-person with the writer, whom I had never met. So, I [...]
My love of pop-culture, especially of the nostalgic variety, brought me to the Chiller Theater, a gathering of Oscar winners, ex-child-stars, sitcom survivors, and cult icons, multiple times over the past few years. I am no autograph collector though. I collect a different type of souvenir…faces. As a portrait photographer, Chiller Theater has provided me [...]
“I originally wrote “Thank You So Much For Stopping” for my Saturday Night Live audition years ago and then reworked it and now it is a brilliant short play and was published in an anthology of short comic plays called Shorter, Faster, Funnier” –Halley Feiffer THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR STOPPING (Lights up on [...]
My favorite thing about landing in a new city is the way it smells when you get outside the airport. Each city has its own: Fort Lauderdale’s is a humid brew of salty ocean breeze and old people’s band-aids; JFK smells like black rubber tires and burning popcorn. São Paulo’s Guarulhos International sits well outside [...]
She wasn’t afraid. It wasn’t their first date and while she was as nervous as she always was when they met, she wasn’t scared. She just didn’t want to get caught. She arrived at their favorite meeting place early, a small bar called Hemingway’s on Forbes Avenue, and she slid into their favorite booth. [...]
Return biweekly for new episodes of our most-ages freak-fest, Thomas the Headless Boy! Roald Dahl meets Tim Burton in this new graphic series about a magical young boy who must navigate the world with a bizarre disability–a missing head! Start at the beginning HERE. Story by Aaron Bir and Jeffrey Burandt Written by Jeffrey Burandt Art [...]
As I’ve told James, the dog-walker has a crush on the girl in 5C. The girl in 5C doesn’t know this. She’s never heard what I’ve heard: how for weeks he arrived with “Baxter? BAXTER?! Hey there BAXTER!” He’d jiggle the key in 5C’s lock as Baxter cannonballed to the door. I could hear the beagle’s [...]
I’m always shocked to find out what kind of pervert I’ve somehow subconsciously summoned. Based on my Perv Whisperer status, I pretty much always expect to be asked by a date to give him a golden shower or wrap him in raw meat, but what actually happens always manages to exceed even my expectations. [...]
Dean Haspiel has a candid conversation with actress/playwright/filmmaker, Halley Feiffer, the daughter of famous satirist/playwright/cartoonist, Jules Feiffer, and writer/actress/comedian, Jenny Allen, and they discuss Halley’s career, the differences between theater and film, and what it means to let your kitchen faucet drip. And, check out Halley’s brilliant short play, Thank You So Much For Stopping.
Seth Kushner & Amy Finkel traveled to New Jersey to the Chiller Theater, a nostalgia fan convention, and they talked with such stars as Burt Young from Rocky, Carol Spinny, the puppeteer and voice behind Sesame Street’s Big Bird, the kids from the original Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, Frank Vincent from The Sopranos, and many more. Also, be sure to view, Icons of Pop, Seth’s gallery of photographic portraits of all the cool stars they met including Martin Landau, Bruce Dern, and many others.
Our featured closing track is “ND Passerby” by the band, Late Cambrian.
The TRIP CITY podcast is produced by Chris Miskiewicz.

[Halley Feiffer and Dean Haspiel]
[Richard Kiel aka "Jaws" from the James Bond films with Amy Finkel]
Photographs by Seth Kushner
My upcoming book, LEAPING TALL BUILDINGS: The Origins of American Comics was named by Flaunt Magazine as the #1 pick of their current Baker’s Dozen. The book tells the history of comics through 50 creator profiles, and represents a four-year labor-of-love for me and writer Christopher Irving. Look for it in May from powerHouse Books, [...]
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