Off Panel #118: Analyze That with Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou

On this week’s episode of Off Panel, Strip Panel Naked and PanelxPanel’s Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou joins the show to discuss his work. Hass shares how he got into comics originally, his film background, how that all informed Strip Panel Naked, what made him want to start the show, how he works puts the show together, how he deals with the grind of creating, what made Patreon the right move for him, the origins of PanelxPanel, its monetization model, the niche he’s filling in comics journalism, his Under the Hood podcast, and more.

You can find Hass on Twitter, on YouTube on the Strip Panel Naked channel, in his digital comics magazine PanelxPanel, on its Twitter, and on his Watchmen minutiae podcast, Under the Hood.

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Header image is from the cover of PanelxPanel #3. Intro and outro music is Vulfpeck’s Outro from their album Vollmilch. Thanks to the band for letting me use the track.