Episode 182 - Jim Beard from Flinch Publishing Relentless Geekery

Overview







Today we have a great special guest – Jim Beard from Flinch publishing and Becky books.







Since we had his partner – John Bruening on – Jim kept asking when we’d have him on. So here you go – get ready for a wonderful conversation.







Jim tells us about his plans and the upcoming books – both from Flinch publishing and his own Becky Books. We discuss pulp fiction in general and our favorite comic books.







If you’re a reader and you liked our previous podcast with John – get the whole set and listen to Jim!







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Transcript







Stephen: [00:00:00] Hey Alan. Hello. There we go. Oh, there you are. Hey, sorry, a couple minutes late. Been a busy day.







Alan: Turn that off. Am I getting enough light from my screen here? I need to yeah, wow. I’m usually doing this during the day instead of at dusk, during a slow storm here. I will let me get something better than the clutter of my office.







Let’s see, what’s Alpi?







Stephen: So you haven’t gotten sick from the boat?







Alan: Boy, I’m, and now my zoom is okay. Just a minute. Took a while downloading the visual effects package. Oh yeah. We want cows. Let’s see, like I said, what’s pulpy? Maybe lots of books?







Stephen: There you go, yeah. Good







Alan: thought.







Stephen: Let’s







Alan: see, maybe this kind of library. That looks, maybe that, okay. Or it could be a nice, like a castle.







How about this library?







I could go with the classic. As you can see, I have all [00:01:00] these things that I’ve accumulated. Let’s see.







No, switchboard. I know I’m burning tape here. Yeah. Yeah. The tape’s expensive, man. Exactly. All these bits that we’re wasting there. Let’s go with that. Okay. So I did I only talked to Jim Beer. Once, at the very first Comic Con, Pulp Fiction Con that I had met also Vernon at, and so you’ve met him a couple times now at various different author fairs and stuff like that.







Yeah,







Stephen: I ran into Jim before I ran into John, and it was down mid Ohio at the Pioneer Village. He was set up, and there was a cryptid festival. He was like one long guy with a folding table in a field. That’s







Jim: right.







Stephen: That’s how I met Jim, but I was excited because I saw his name was he was going to be there and then he did Star Wars comics and I looked and I had a Star Wars comic so he signed one of my Star Wars comics.







Alan: That’s cool. I’m [00:02:00] from having gone out to the Flint site and seeing the little bios and backgrounds for them and stuff like that. I didn’t like he did for decades weekly content for Marvel was that like, Hey, what’s coming up that kind of stuff. I really want to ask him. Yeah, I don’t remember his name being associated with that.







So that’ll be something that we’ll have to ask him about. And then of course, I re reacquainted myself with their anthologies and stuff like that. And we’ll see how he picks his favorites, if you will.