Episodes

  • The V01d Transmission - Episode 9

    The V01d Transmission - Episode 9
    May 7 2026

    Welcome to The V01d Transmission, a signal from the edge of art and the unknown. A companion to the comic anthology Tales from the V01d.

    In this special transmission, we depart from our usual format and offer a narrated work of fiction: “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather, first published in 1905. This reading is performed by Chris Sagers, author of Tales of Self-Referential Irony. If you enjoy Chris’s narration here, be sure to check out his appearance on the podcast, Episode 1.

    This haunting and deeply psychological story follows Paul, a restless and alienated young man trapped between the suffocating respectability of his everyday life and his desperate longing for beauty, luxury, art, and escape. As fantasy collides with reality, Paul’s pursuit of another life becomes both intoxicating and catastrophic.


    “Paul’s Case” by Willa Sibert Cather. Originally published in 1905.
    Narrated by Chris Sagers, author of Tales of Self-Referential Irony

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    53 mins
  • The V01d Transmission — Episode 8

    The V01d Transmission — Episode 8
    Apr 3 2026
    Welcome to The V01d Transmission, a signal from the edge of art and the unknown. A companion to the comic anthology Tales from the V01d, each month we slip into the minds of its contributors to explore what lives in the static.This month’s guest is Paul, again! And especially curated for you…here is every artist, comic, film, and book, Paul mentioned during our conversation. FULL DESCRIPTION HERE.Follow Paul - Instagram: ⁠@pkortjohncomixIbaisu Yoshikazu — Garo-style misery comics. Workers, bosses, everything worse. Start: crowbar boss → SWAT → piss. Also: quarterly-numbers human centipede.Hanakuma Yusaku / Tokyo Zombie — Trash pile spawns zombies. Page four decides it.Takeshi Nomoto — Monster Men Barraiko Lullaby — Crumb looks tame.Moritz Junker — Wisconsin cartoonist. Pole Position. Paul calls it investment-grade.Milo Manara — Caravaggio / Gullivera — Gorgeous painter bio / gender-swapped Gulliver chaos.Brandon Graham — Visual gag sniper. Gnome “tank!” piece.Peter Bagge — Other Lives / Hate — Buddy Bradley / online vs. real life (more relevant now).Rob Liefeld — New Mutants / X-Men — Broken anatomy as style.Simon Bisley — Lobo — Tiny waists, huge everything else.Nick Dragotta — Absolute Batman — Dump-truck Batmobile, axe logo. Fun.Daniel Warren Johnson — Anything.Dead World — Religious zombies, biker leader, Locke watercolor covers.Red Room — Ed Piskor — Brutal, deeper than expected.EC Comics — Originals. Black comedy core.Heavy Metal Magazine — Red Sonja → Moebius/Corben/Borgias.Chainsaw Man — Chainsaw demon hunter. That’s it.Kamandi — Smart animals, RC-car humans.Washed Up Midlife Crisis Turtles — Aging turtles, pills, QAnon. Ask Paul.Urban Legends — 90s Dark Horse. Microwave poodles, hook hands.Mad Magazine — Permanent sarcasm install.X-Men (Jim Lee) — Wolverine in Daisy Dukes. Used to stink. Better then.Battle Royale — Why manga wins.Alex Graham — Raw Garo-style energy.Dan Clowes — Alt-comics character benchmark.Poison Elves — Angry goth elf.“Square Face Diaries / Castration” — UK zine. Troma × Fellini intimacy panic.Dylan’s work — Freud vs. Jung, ripped, shirtless, insane.“Food Chain” — Zegoatoapocalyptic — Dead mom → worsening, grosser spiral.Damage Control — Superhero cleanup sitcom. Should exist.Conan the Barbarian (1982) — Villain forgot Conan. Great.Conan (2011) — Don’t.Aquaman — Repeated exposure = damage.Evil Dead 2 — Python horror.Monty Python (Cheese Shop) — Perfect joke escalation.Jurassic Park — Goldblum leather pants.Aqua Teen (frat aliens) — Realistic aliens.Meatball Machine — Earth = season 800 reality show.Let the Corpses Tan — French crime puzzle, leather overload, maybe myth now.Into the Night (1985) — One-night Goldblum hang.The Fly (1986) — Abs Goldblum. Twin Peaks (Red Lodge) — Good vibes.Portlandia — Joke as blunt force.X-Files / Unsolved Mysteries — 90s alien brain fog.Passion / Last Temptation — Bible via movies.Mickey Spillane — Mike Hammer — Bourbon + bullets prose, ages in real time, hated Hemingway.Slugs — Shaun Hutson — Gross.Richard Laymon — The Island — Dumb, nasty, giallo energy.Stephen King — Skeleton Crew — Better younger.Edward Lee — White Trash Gothic — Gross, cartoony.A Confederacy of Dunces — Ignatius = Holden who never learns.Jean-Patrick Manchette — Fatale / Nada — Tight, bleak crime.Moby-Dick — Beautiful, funny, obsessive.Henry Miller — In the past.Catcher in the Rye — Holden reference point.Follow Tales from the V01d: @tales.from.the.v01dSupport us on Patreon: patreon.com/VoidTalesaetherzip — fart short.mp3 (CC BY 4.0)aetherzip — fart long.mp3 (CC BY 4.0)inqvision — Realistic fart - Angry Russian (CC BY 3.0)IFartInUrGeneralDirection — multiple files (CC BY 4.0)Crimsonblaze — Funny fart (CC BY 4.0)Punk Rock Opera — Rat-Boy (CC BY 4.0)PNMCarrieRailfan — Fart 3x Mixed.mp3 (CC BY-NC 4.0)PNMCarrieRailfan — Human - Long Fart (CC BY-NC 4.0)benonez2 — coffee pizza crackers fart (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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    28 mins
  • The V01d Transmission — Episode 7

    The V01d Transmission — Episode 7
    Mar 3 2026

    Welcome to The V01d Transmission, a signal from the edge of art and the unknown. A companion to the comic anthology Tales from the V01d, each month we slip into the minds of its contributors to explore what lives in the static.

    This month’s guest is Paul Kortjohn, a cartoonist of thick ink, grotesque humor, and daily compulsion.

    In Part One of this two-part conversation, we talk about drawing every morning before work, embracing “failed” pages, stream-of-consciousness comics, and why stupidity might be a kind of honesty.

    Slugboys (and men), post-apocalyptic goldfish, workplace promotions gone wrong, and farts.

    So with that…let’s slip into the V01d.


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    33 mins
  • The V01d Transmission — Episode 6

    The V01d Transmission — Episode 6
    Feb 3 2026

    Welcome to The V01d Transmission, a signal from the edge of art and the unknown. A companion to the comic anthology Tales from the V01d, each month we slip into the minds of its contributors to explore what lives in the static.

    Our guest this month is Tyler Bratt, a writer, tabletop role-playing veteran, and longtime Dungeon Master whose work grows out of fantasy games, collaborative storytelling, and the joy of making something just to see where it leads.

    In this episode, Tyler talks about writing as a malleable process, why first drafts are meant to be rough, and how stories can emerge anywhere. We explore his contributions to Tales from the V01d, the influence of Dungeons & Dragons and Starfinder, and why there’s no wrong way to create or to role-play.

    So with that… let’s slip into the V01d.

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    Intro Music: Glizzy Elf Forest Interrupted By Grizzly Dwarf Thief Battle by Zane Little — CC0 / Public Domain

    Outro Music: The Road to the Black Rose Tavern by human gazpacho — CC BY (Free Music Archive)
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    34 mins
  • The V01d Transmission — Episode 5

    The V01d Transmission — Episode 5
    Jan 7 2026

    Welcome to The V01d Transmission, a signal from the edge of art and the unknown. A companion to the comic anthology Tales from the V01d.

    In this special New Year transmission, we depart from our usual format and offer a narrated work of fiction: “The Hungry Stones” by Rabindranath Tagore, first published over a century ago.

    This haunting tale follows a man drawn into a deserted marble palace where memory lingers, desire echoes, and time folds in on itself. As beauty becomes obsession and refuge becomes a snare, we reflect on longing, illusion, and the dangerous pull of the past.

    Presented here as a moment of reflection for the new year, this reading invites listeners to consider what we carry forward, and what might be wiser to leave behind.


    Intro: Underwater Glitch by Simon Mathewson — CC BY 4.0


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    35 mins
  • The V01d Transmission — Episode 4

    The V01d Transmission — Episode 4
    Dec 2 2025

    Welcome to The V01d Transmission, a signal from the edge of art and the unknown. A companion to the comic anthology Tales from the V01d, each month we slip into the minds of its contributors to explore what lives in the static.

    In this episode, Dr. K speaks with Hartley Rose of Panel One Comics Society, a Canadian nonprofit collective dedicated to celebrating comic creators at every stage of their journey.

    Here, Hartley shares how the organization emerged from Calgary’s indie comics scene, the magic of small festivals where conversations matter more than crowds, and the collaborative spirit that keeps creators supporting one another across mediums, provinces, and experience levels.

    Together, we explore why Panel One continues to be a beacon for anyone curious about stepping into graphic storytelling.

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    Instagram: @panel_one

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    Intro Music: Sampler Study #1 by Tom Aldrich (sampled/edited) — CC BY-SA 4.0

    Outro Music: Quirky Jerk by Jason Shaw (sampled/edited) — CC BY 3.0 US
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    48 mins
  • The V01d Transmission — Episode 3

    The V01d Transmission — Episode 3
    Nov 3 2025

    Welcome to The V01d Transmission, a signal from the edge of art and the unknown. A companion to the comic anthology Tales from the V01d, each month we slip into the minds of its contributors to explore what lives in the static.

    In this episode of The Void Transmission, Dr. K speaks with Rita (Deux.Meus), an international artist whose practice spans painting, embroidery, and mixed media.

    Rita’s work emerges from stains, texture, and intuition, inviting viewers to find their own reflections in the abstract. She shares how her art evolves from emptiness and flow, how the Rorschach test and ideas of perception and the subconscious shape her process, and why she values what others see in her work more than what she tries to show.


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    Intro Music: SOLACE (moody organic glitchy electronica) by Soularflair (sampled/edited) — CC BY 4.0

    Outro Music: Liquid Surreal Dreaming by John Bartmann — CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain)
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    34 mins
  • The V01d Transmission — Episode 2

    The V01d Transmission — Episode 2
    Oct 1 2025

    What if the scraps and textures of everyday life held entire worlds inside them?

    Welcome to The V01d Transmission, a signal from the edge of art and the unknown. A companion to the comic anthology Tales from the V01d, each month we slip into the minds of its contributors to explore what lives in the static.

    In this episode, we sit with artist and writer Ally Patrick, creator of The Banana Woman, a historical fiction comic that mixes dark humor, horror, and political intrigue. From collage and watercolor to digital experiments, Ally shares how her work bridges playful texture with storytelling. We talk about childhood art sessions, the spark of an A-to-Z challenge, and the mercenaries of history that inspired her first full-length comic.

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    Intro & Outro Music: El Cha Cha Man by Juanitos (sampled/edited) — CC BY 2.0 FR
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    41 mins