Robin McConnell of Inkstuds has just posted the audio from a panel that he was on at TCAF with Frank Santoro, Dash Shaw, Robert Dayton, and Dustin Harbin. The panel’s an awesome discuss of how mainstream comics have influenced alternative comics (definitely true for me), especially work like late-seventies Jack Kirby and James Steranko.

One thing that Frank Santoro reminded me of (that I haven’t thought about since Austin Books started their renovation and hid their back issues, a problem that will soon be resolved!) is Jack Kirby’s late seventies 2001 series. The first couple issues are loosely based on concepts from the movie but then it just goes in this other wild direction of vaguely connected vignettes.

Here’s a sample page, pulled from Inkstuds: