The Mr. Dan Kelly Podcast Dan Kelly

It's the 30th anniversary of Chicago's Lumpen Magazine. This episode I speak with the original Editorial Nodes, Ed Marszewski, Leslie Stella™, Chris Molnar, Pat "Chairman Thar" Jones, and Jackie Wolk about 1990s Wicker Park, independent magazine publishing in the pre-Internet and social media days, protests, pranks, pet suicide, and the joys of communal living at the Lumpen House on Armitage.

I interview Steven Svymbersky, founder of Chicago's Quimby's Queer Store, owner of Quimby's Bookstore NYC, and a good friend. Steven talks about 90s Wicker Park and Chicago; running Quimby's and the vast range of characters who stopped by; memories of Chris Ware, Dan Clowes, Jay Lynch, and other Chicago cartoonists; and much more!

Corinne Halbert is a Chicago artist who combines art, comics, horror, and erotica in a series of delightfully demented and disturbing zines. She's an awful nice and cheerful person too. Listen to two lapsed Irish Catholics discuss comics, demonology, horror flicks and lit, gialli, nunsploitation, and dealing with grief through art.

This time around I speak with author Michael Tisserand about his comprehensive biography "Krazy—George Herriman, a Life in Black and White". Michael speaks of many things Herriman, krazy and otherwise: Hal Roach, cartooning, race, language, and a dream he had about Herriman. Purchase the book here: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780061732997/krazy/

Note: Apologies for the poor audio for part of the interview. I did my best.

Happy Halloween! This episode I speak with author Mike "McBeardo" McPadden about horror movies, teen sex comedies, and teen sex horror comedies, among other cinematic subjects. Mike's books can be purchased at the Bazillion Points website: www.bazillionpoints.com. My original interview with Mike can be read at the Third Coast review site: https://thirdcoastreview.com/2019/06/21/smells-like-heavy-metal-poisoning-an-interview-with-cineaste-mike-mcpadden/

Chicago writer Robert Loerzel talks about the research and writing that went into his Chicago Magazine article, "Blood in the Streets", a compilation of first-person accounts of the Chicago Race Riots, which happened during the Red Summer of 1919. I recommend reading his (terrific) article first! https://bit.ly/2Ywg5ng