EPISODE 30: ARCHIE

Send us Fan MailWelcome back to MORGAN TALKS COMICS, where this week we're continuing our look at favourite puppets from film and television.This week, Morgan is choosing a puppet, PARSLEY THE LION, from children's programme, PARSLEY AND THE HERBS. This is a favourite from Morgan's childhood, which was a lovely little stop animation show, made in the UK and written by MICHAEL BOND, creator of PADDINGTON.PARSLEY also appeared in comics, namely PIPPIN in the 1960s and 70s - so we have a nice connection to our core! We also talk about stop animation and the sorry state of children's comics in the UK.

Send us Fan MailWelcome back to MORGAN TALKS COMICS, where this week, we are starting to look at puppets - it's all popular culture!Eliza-Mariah is in the driving seat this time, and has chosen SOOTY, the golden bear puppet, seen on British TV since the 1950s. Sooty is a real icon of children's television, having recently celebrated his 75th birthday, and has been seen all over the world, as well as here in the UK.We dive into the history of Sooty, and his friends SWEEP and SOO, and talk about where the appeared in comics and annuals.Stay tuned for more puppet fun!

Send us Fan MailWelcome back to MORGAN TALKS COMICS!This week, we're wrapping up our lists of our top six comic and cartoon characters. It's a short and sweet one this time, but still packed with fun and facts about the last four of favourite characters.Let us know what you think of our list, and why not suggest some more characters for us to look into... We love researching comics and cartoons.

Send us Fan MailWelcome back to MORGAN TALKS COMICS!This week, we're continuing our list of our six favourite comic and cartoon characters, with me and Eliza-Mariah talking about our next two characters - some of whom go back to our childhood. You may well have heard of some of these characters, as they've been seen around the world.Enjoy the show, and let us know who YOUR favourite characters are... we'd love to investigate more comics and cartoons!

Send us Fan MailWELCOME BACK!After a short break, we are BACK with Series 2! we're switching things up from here on in, as we are looking at our favourite cartoon characters and talking about who they are and why we like them. Hopefully, it's a bit more of a conversation rather than a 'lecture', and you all enjoy it.This week, we're looking at the first two (each) of our characters, can you guess who they are?

Send us Fan MailWelcome back to MORGAN TALKS COMICS!This week, we're looking at a brand new (old) comic - ARCHIE, from ONI PRESS.ARCHIE is an all American boy, who has been around in comics since the 1940s, and has spun off into TV shows and feature films... I'm sure you've heard of SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH?This is a fun, light hearted comic, looking at stereotypical teenage life, and all that that entails. The art is bright and colourful, and it's a great read.We also go off on a tangent to discuss the reality of what's going on in America, and the world around us... what do you think of the current state of affairs?

Send us Fan MailWelcome back to MORGAN TALKS COMICS...After a short break, we're back, and looking at the 2 issue miniseries GIANT ROBOT HELLBOY RETURNS, from MIKE MIGNOLA, DUNCAN FEGREDO and DAVE STEWART, published by DARK HORSE COMICS.This is clearly a love letter to the big kaiju films of the 1960s, especially GODZILLA and MEACH GODZILLA, of which I'm a huge fan. It's a big inter dimensional adventure with GIANT ROBOT HELLBOY facing off against some creepy insects. Enjoy! 

Send us Fan MailWELCOME BACK!This week, we've kinda gone full circle, as we look at issue 1 of TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, the parody of which, ADOLESCENT RADIOACTIVE BLACK BELT HAMSTERS, we looked at in our very first episode.TURTLES are probably a title a lot of people know about, as the characters were licensed for cartoons, video games, toys and films, and were pretty much everywhere in the 1990s. TURTLES are still popular now, but probably not to the level they were back then.So we dive into the history of the TURTLES, talk about their creators KEVIN EASTMAN and PETER LAIRD, and about the history of comics at that time.Enjoy the warts and all approach, and let us know what you thought!

Send us Fan MailWelcome back to MORGAN TALKS COMICS... This week, we're looking at USAGI YOJIMBO - KAITO '84 by ZACK ROSENBERG and JARED CULLUM, published by DARK HORSE COMICS. This is a five part series looking at one of the descendants of STAN SAKAI'S USGAI YOJIMBO (SAMURAI RABBIT), who is a street criminal in 1984 Osaka in Japan.This is great fun spin-off from USAGI, with references to familiar characters and Japanese history, as seen in the original USAGI series. It's beautifully painted by JARED CULLUM, which makes a nice change on the artwork front.

Send us Fan MailWelcome back to MORGAN TALKS COMICS...This week, we're looking at a new title, CONCRETE - STARS OVER SAND, by PAUL CHADWICK, published by DARK HORSE COMICS.CONCRETE was one of DARK HORSE'S first titles, and featured in their anthology title, DARK HORSE PRESENTS, which was originally published in ball and white, showing off CHADWICK'S beautiful line work.We also talk about the early history of independent comics, and how DARK HORSE was a home for creator owned titles like CONCRETE. Enjoy!