Over the past 2 seasons, The Superfan Podcast has interviewed the people who make the comics you love about the things that they love . . . that aren’t comics. From But now, co-hosts Kristen Simon (Executive Editor at Mad Cave Studios’ Nakama Press) and David Hyde (Superfan Promotions founder) have returned for Season 3 in a spectacularly spooky fashion, where the creators who make the stories that scare you talk about the spooky stories that they love. As an added bonus, this season’s guests will be friends and creative collaborators talking about a favorite, shared horror obsession.

The first episode of Season 3 debuted with a conversation about David Lynch with the creative team of Oni Press’ eagerly awaited Archie in Hell series: Patrick Horvath, the Eisner Award-nominated creator of Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees, and Tyler Crook, the Russ Manning Award-winning co-creator of Harrow County. The episode provides a compelling and in-depth exploration of a filmmaker so influential that his last name became an adjective for surreal storytelling: Lynchian. The duo discuss Lynch’s dream-like, extreme, and often horrific and violent filmography, the appeal of his controversial and diversive adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune, and the many, many references to The Wizard of Oz in his stories.

Future episodes will include:

• award-winning novelist, comic book writer, and screenwriter Mat Johnson (Pym, The Fall of the House of Usher) and his good friend, the award-winning novelist and comic book writer Victor LaValle (The Changeling, The Devil In Silver) discussing John Carpenter’s The Thing;
• Matt Wagner (Grendel) and his friend and collaborator on the blockbuster Dracula graphic novels from Orlock Press, artist Kelley Jones (Batman: Red Rain, The Sandman), discussing two very different films: Brian De Palma’s gonzo 1974 epic, Phantom Of The Paradise and famed director Krzysztof Kieślowski’s ambitious TV mini-series The Dekalog;
• 30 Days of Night co-creator Steve Niles and The Goon creator Eric Powell discussing their shared love of the novelist and screenwriter Richard Matheson, the author of I Am Legend and a towering figure in the world of horror, whose writing inspired Stephen King, Anne Rice, George Romero, and Edgar Wright; and
• Nicole Goux and Mariko Tamaki, the Eisner Award-winning creators of the critically acclaimed YA graphic novel mystery This Place Kills Me, talking about 1980s murder mystery detective shows — specifically Murder She Wrote and Columbo.

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*Artwork by Christian Gossett, co-host of seasons one and two of The Superfan Podcast