Episodes

  • Ep. 130: Garment Workers Illustrated – with artist Frances Jetter

    Ep. 130: Garment Workers Illustrated – with artist Frances Jetter
    Jan 5 2026
    Frances Jetter is a prolific illustrator, sculptor, and printmaker whose latest book, Amalgam: An Immigrant, His Labor Union, and his American Family in Brooklyn, is published by Fantagraphics.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    Amalgam
    https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/amalgam

    Frances’ website
    https://fjetter.net/

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    Cool Shul Cultural Community
    https://www.coolshul.org/

    Atheists United Studios
    https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios
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    24 mins
  • Ep. 129: Meshugganahs, Misanthropes, and EC Comics – with author Bob Levin

    Ep. 129: Meshugganahs, Misanthropes, and EC Comics – with author Bob Levin
    Dec 29 2025
    Bob Levin is a longtime contributor to the Comics Journal whose latest book, Messiahs, Meshugganahs, Misanthropes, and Mysteries: True Tales of Comics, Conflict, and Creativity, is published by Fantagraphics.

    Messiahs, Meshugganahs, Misanthropes, and Mysteries
    https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/messiahs-meshugganahs-misanthropes-and-mysteries

    Bob’s website
    http://www.theboblevin.com/

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    Jewish Museum of the American West
    https://www.jmaw.org/

    Atheists United Studios
    https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios
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    32 mins
  • Rob Reiner: A Retrospective - with pop culture historian Mathew Klickstein

    Rob Reiner: A Retrospective - with pop culture historian Mathew Klickstein
    Dec 22 2025
    Mathew Klickstein is an author and pop culture historian whose books have covered such topics as Nickelodeon, The Simpsons, The San Diego Comic-Con, and Lloyd Kaufman, president and co-founder of Troma Entertainment.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    Mathew's website
    https://www.mathewklickstein.com/

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    Jewish Museum of the American West
    https://www.jmaw.org/

    Atheists United Studios
    https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios
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    41 mins
  • Ep. 128: Writing for Middle Grades – with novelist Diana Harmon Asher

    Ep. 128: Writing for Middle Grades – with novelist Diana Harmon Asher
    Dec 15 2025
    Diana Harmon Asher is an award-winning author of the middle grade novels Sidetracked and Upstaged. Her latest novel, Trouble Finds Evie Lefkowitz, is distributed to 9- to 12-year-olds across North America through PJ Library's program for older readers, PJ Our Way.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-Engineer: Mike Tomren

    Diana’s website
    https://dianaharmonasher.com/

    Trouble Finds Evie Lefkowitz
    https://dianaharmonasher.com/books/trouble-finds-evie-lefkowitz/

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    Jewish Museum of the American West
    https://www.jmaw.org/

    Atheists United Studios
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    23 mins
  • Ep. 127: Sam Singer: The Ed Wood of Cartoons - with Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Ep. 127: Sam Singer: The Ed Wood of Cartoons - with Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
    Dec 8 2025
    Sam Singer is known as the "Ed Wood of Animation" for making cheap, shoddy, and borderline-intolerable cartoons during the early days of television cartoons.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

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    10 mins
  • Ep. 126: Alzheimer’s Comics Memoir – with Eric Glickman and Stephen Hersh

    Ep. 126: Alzheimer’s Comics Memoir – with Eric Glickman and Stephen Hersh
    Dec 1 2025
    Eric Glickman and Stephen Hersh have an ongoing series, How to Lose Your Mind: A Comics Project about Friendship, Memories and Alzheimer’s Disease, documenting Stephen’s experiences with Alzheimer’s.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    How to Lose Your Mind
    https://howtoloseyourmindcomics.substack.com/

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    Jewish Museum of the American West
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    Atheists United Studios
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    31 mins
  • Thanksgivukkah Retrospective Special – with co-creator Deborah Gitell

    Thanksgivukkah Retrospective Special – with co-creator Deborah Gitell
    Nov 24 2025
    Deborah Gitell is director of client partnership at Wilkins Media, a global outdoor media company. In 2013, she helped spread the term Thanksgivukkah with her sister-in-law, Dana Reichman Gittel, capturing the unlikely convergence of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    How to Celebrate Thanksgivukkah - BuzzFeed
    https://www.buzzfeed.com/christinebyrne/thanksgivukkah

    Meet the woman who coined the term ‘Thanksgivukkah’ – The Times of Israel
    https://www.timesofisrael.com/meet-the-woman-who-coined-the-term-thanksgivukkah/

    Thanksgivukkah – Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgivukkah

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    Jewish Museum of the American West
    https://www.jmaw.org/

    Atheists United Studios
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    23 mins
  • Ep: 125: Judy Holliday, Born Yesterday, & the 1951 Oscar Race – w/ screenwriter Seth Michael Donsky

    Ep: 125: Judy Holliday, Born Yesterday, & the 1951 Oscar Race – w/ screenwriter Seth Michael Donsky
    Nov 17 2025
    Seth Michael Donsky was named to the International Screenwriters Association's list of the top 25 screenwriters to watch. He’s currently working on a project exploring the 1951 best actress Oscar race.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    Seth’s website
    https://sethdonsky.com/

    Seth’s IMDb
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0233094/

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    41 mins