Star Wars Guests
Your Guest Commentators for Star Wars:
Tony Consiglio (minutes 6-10, 46-50)
is an internationally published cartoonist in addition to his status as podcast guest par excellence. He once sold Samuel L. Jackson a tennis racquet.
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Chris Radtke (minutes 11-15)
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Tricia Allen (minutes 16-20)
is an actor and lifelong Star Wars fan. Best known for various roles in the “I.M.P.S. The Relentless” web-series, and for taking on Kenner toys at age 11, for not letting her see sneak peek ESB toys.
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Anthony (minutes 21-25)
is a secret spy, lifelong Star Wars fan, and blogger for seabythecity.com
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Josh Flanagan (minutes 26-30, 96-100)
is best known from the iFanboy.com podcast, and has been a Star Wars fanatic for as long as he’s known what a movie is. He will never ever forget the fact that Moff Jerjerrod is played by Michael Pennington, or any number of other useless facts about Star Wars.
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Another decision I made during the first 5 minutes of The Phantom Menace is that cloaks are really cool and I would start wearing them from then on!
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Mars Wong (minutes 41-45)
Mars’s name was chosen at the last minute over “Vader”. In hindsight, probably for the best.
Songe Riddle (minutes 91-96)
is an illustrator and animator of things. Once in 1998 he met Dennis Muren at a lecture on the special effects created for the then imminent release of The Phantom Menace (sorry, Pete) and told him with a wistfully romantic cadence that he taught Songe how to dream. Mr. Muren replied awkwardly that he “hopes they were good dreams”. Indeed they were!
No single event influenced Songe’s desire to create than his introduction to Star Wars in 1979. It is his first memory and will probably occupy his final thoughts.
At some point in the mid-nineties, Songe resolved to weed Star Wars out of his thoughts, by first trying to go a day without a quote or reference to it. As of writing this, it has not happened. We have to take things one day at a time.
He’s sorry he couldn’t do better, but he’s got problems of his own.
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Tony Thaxton (minutes 101-105)
toured the world for 11 years as the drummer of Motion City Soundtrack. He now spends his time teaching drum lessons, occasionally playing drums in The Pride of Erie PA, and frequenting or thinking about Disneyland.
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Joe Dator (minutes 106-110)
is an award-wanting cartoonist whose work appears in The New Yorker magazine with the thumping regularity of a savage drum. Star Wars has never left his bloodstream since he was first exposed to it as a 10 year-old in 1977, so perhaps it is not surprising that Meco’s “Disco Star Wars” is a permanent selection on his mp3 player. What may be surprising is that Steely Dan’s “Peg” is too, primarily because its ubiquity on the AM radio of the era has left it permanently affixed to images of moisture vaporators and holo-chess in his brain. He enjoys coffee, avoiding the beach, public transportation and coffee, and can be found online at joedator.com and at twitter.com/joedator.
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Tim Kreider (minutes 111-115)
is the author of the essay collection We Learn Nothing and the cartoon “The Pain–When Will It End?” He saw Star Wars in its original theatrical release at age 10. That’s him on the right.
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Mike Norton (minute 116)
is a Chicago-based cartoonist and creator of the award-winning webcomic, BATTLEPUG. Whenever Star Wars is on TV, he HAS to watch it. It’s a sickness.
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John Kovalic (minute 117) has drawn over 4,000 cards for the popular game Munchkin and political cartoons for the New York Times but his work on the comic Dork Tower which earned him many, many awards.
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J.K. Woodward (minute 118) started his professional comics career in 2003 when he collaborated with A. David Lewis on the indie comic Mortal Coils and Michael Colbert on the Digital Webbing Presents series Crazy Mary where he still does covers. IDW noticed his work on Crazy Mary and offered him a gig doing a CSI:NY limited series and he followed in short order with a standout story in BOOM! Studios’ Zombie Tales series. When Peter David was re-launching his creator owned series Fallen Angel at IDW, James was a natural choice for Peter’s dark world of magic, violence and redemption. His painted work eventually caught the attention of Marvel editor, Mike Marts(now an editor at DC Comics) who chose him to illustrate X-men Origins:The Beast which was released September 2008. He recently relocated from Long Island City in Queens, NY to Long Beach, CA and still illustrates Peter David’s Fallen Angel as a reoccurring miniseries for IDW as well as various other work for IDW and BOOM! Studios.His latest project is the Star Trek/Doctor Who crossover, Assimilation2.
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Christian Dumais (minute 119) is uncomfortably writing this in the third person. He is a writer. You probably never heard of him, but you might know him as @DRUNKHULK. He lives in Poland, where they say Gwiezdne Wojny instead of Star Wars. Before moving there, he spent most of his life drinking only out of collectible Star Wars glasses from Burger King. He has twins (a boy and a girl), but whether they will bring balance to the Force or not is still up in the air. His website is www.cadumais.com.
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Jeff Ayers (minute 120) is a Bronx, NY native and the Administrator of a facility called Forbidden Planet NYC where he has worked since 1995.
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