The Miami Review of Comics

Conversations about big topics in indie comics with some of the best artists in the game, hosted by Drew Lerman.

The Miami Review of Comics is a arts podcast hosted by Drew Lerman, with 16 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Drew Lerman hosts The Miami Review of Comics, a arts show with 16 episodes published.

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  Episode #15

  Episode 15 - Bethea's Finest Poems, Pictures and Polished Catheters, with E.A. Bethea

  Apr 3, 20261h 19m

  Today my guest is New York cartoonist Elizabeth Bethea, whose comics include Book of Daze and Francis Bacon (Domino Books), All Killer No Filler, and Forlorn Toreador. She's also appeared in anthologies like Peep and Crease. Elizabeth is one of the great comics poets, and I loved learning about how she composes her work over time through daily writing. We also get into Elizabeth's hometown of New Orleans, her recent forays into digital cartooning, the love life of Susan Sontag, the dreaminess of still lifes, pictureless poems, and more! Thank you to Jason Butler for producing the episode! Links E.A. Bethea's website EA Bethea on instagram Miami Review of Comics on instagram Drew's patreon Jason Butler's website Jason Butler's instagram

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  Episode #14

  Episode 14 - Thurbermania, with Matthew Thurber

  Mar 4, 20262h 12m

  Buckle up, gentle listener, for a whirlwind tour of the comic art (and life & times) of Lummi Island's Golden Boy, Brooklyn's Hottest Dad, and Art Comics' Secret Weapon, Matthew Thurber! Matthew is the author of 1-800-MICE, Infomaniacs (Picturebox), Art Comic, Mr. Colostomy (Drawn and Quarterly), Vector Hugo, Pirates of the Condominium -- and most recently Looking for the Cat, an ongoing series published by Neoglyphic Media. We begin with Looking for the Cat, set in Matthew's childhood home of Lummi Island, and then travel back in time to the twilight of the George W. Bush era, when 1-800-MICE was being conceived. From there we move through two decades of Matthew's oeuvre, and recirculate, Finnegans-Wake-like, to his latest work. Along the way we get into life as a young NYC art handler, the heady days of Picturebox, the writing of Thomas Pynchon and Raymond Roussel, Children of Men, stories with and without endings, making comics in quarantine, and making comics when your baby was just born and you've lost your cat. Grateful to Matthew for spending so much time with me revisiting all this work! It was a lot of fun. Thanks to Jason Butler for producing the episode! Links Matthew's website Matthew's instagram Miami Review of Comics on instagram Drew's patreon Jason Butler's website Jason Butler's instagram

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  Episode #13

  Episode 13 - Memoir, Gags and the Joy of Homework, with Sam Szabo

  Feb 2, 20261h 22m

  I am joined today by the brilliant and hilarious Sam Szabo, author of Momix Presents: DADIX (Cram Books), Enlightened Transsexual Comics (Silver Sprocket), Girl Hell and lots more. Sam and I talk about the intersection of memoir and gags in her work, being a briefcase kid exposed to boomer esoterica in Mad Magazine, the crutch and the ecstacy of fourth-wall breaking, the sublime banality of cousins, and so on. I had a ton of fun chatting with Sam, and look forward to all the new stuff she's cooking up. Thank you to our beloved producer Jason Butler! Links Sam's shop Sam's instagram Sam's patreon Miami Review of Comics on instagram Drew's patreon Jason Butler's website Jason Butler's instagram

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  Episode #12

  Episode 12 - The Cult of the Experts, with Sophie Franz and Daria Tessler

  Dec 19, 20251h 39m

  Today we are joined by brilliant cartoonists and confirmed Luddites Sophie Franz and Daria Tessler to talk about the joys and sorrows of analog artmaking! Through the magic of technology we fear and abhor, Soph and Daria were able to zap in from Portland, Oregon and join me on a grand tour of the world of analog tools, from pencil and ballpoint pen to gouache, collage, silkscreen, and more. Thank you for listening and hope you enjoy this last episode of 2025! Thanks as always to producer & sound engineer Jason Butler for helping us get TWO episodes out this month, holy cow, look at us go, love you all. Links Soph's website Soph's instagram Daria's website Daria's instagram Miami Review of Comics on instagram Drew's patreon Jason Butler's website Jason Butler's instagram

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  Episode #11

  Episode 11 - Intergalactic Communist Movie Theater Comics, with Nathan Gelgud

  Dec 11, 20251h 15m

  In his ongoing comic, Reel Politik, Nathan Gelgud harnesses the daily gag strip to explore cinema through the lens of radical politics (or radical politics through the lens of cinema??). The strip is peopled with a goofy but determined cast of characters hell-bent on fomenting Marxist-Leninist revolution by whatever means are available to them, having turned a small-town theater into a radical cell. The first collection of the strip has recently been released by Drawn & Quarterly. In this episode, Nathan and I talk about his relationship to film and politics, and how these became the main focus of his comics-making. We also dive into essay-comics, Godard, sci-fi, the joys of a daily comic practice, and Nathan's revulsion at the word "practice." Thanks as ever to Jason Butler, our heroic producer & sound engineer! Links Nathan's website Nathan's instagram Reel Politik at D&Q Miami Review of Comics on instagram Drew's free patreon Jason Butler's website Jason Butler's instagram

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