Cartoonist Andrew MacLean joins the show to talk about one of my favorite books, his Image Comics title Head Lopper. Maclean shares how the book came together, the quarterly format and doing things his way, his hyper DIY mentality, the Mike Mignola connection and influence, his creative process, making a good villain and action sequence, holding things back from readers, and more.

You can find Andrew on Twitter, on Tumblr, and his work in Head Lopper, including the first trade, The Island or a Plague of Beasts, which drops October 5th.

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Header image is from Head Lopper #1, with art by Andrew MacLean and Mike Spicer. Intro and outro music is Vulfpeck’s Outro from their album Vollmilch. Thanks to the band for letting me use the track.