We live in troubling times. Turn on the news or your phone and that seems to be all there is: trouble.  But according to John Lewis, the late U.S. Congressman from Georgia’s 5th District, trouble… doesn’t always HAVE to be bad. In fact, there can be GOOD trouble that helps you deal with all the bad.

Carrying the Congressman’s message of GOOD trouble into these times we find ourselves in, is the Congressman’s former staffer, writing partner, and steadfast ally Andrew Aydin. Andrew’s publishing venture Good Trouble Productions is built on the foundation of that message of GOOD trouble, and is the focus of today’s episode.

Good Trouble Productions, through its Appalachia Comics imprint, is running a Kickstarter campaign for ISLANDS IN THE SKY, a 112-page comics anthology to benefit the survivors of last year’s Hurricane Helene that pairs actual survivors with comics writers like Brian Michael Bendis, Matt Fraction, Gene Leun Yang, Greg Pak, Alex Segura, and more to capture their own accounts on the storm and its aftermath.

The Good Trouble Comics imprint is home to titles like the LGBTQ anthology RECOGNIZED, the historical reprint series COMICS OF THE MOVEMENT, and REGISTER! a new series about history and an extraordinary group of teens.

And finally, talks swings back to Appalachia Comics for MONSTER APPRECIATION SOCIETY, where Andrew and artist Johnathan Marks Barravecchia delve into the horror genre with all manner of monsters lurking in the namesake mountains: Bigfoot, The Moon-Eyed People, and the worst monsters of them all: real estate developers! 

[This episode is number 815 in a series.]

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CHAPTERS

00:00 – Preamble

00:46 – Intro

03:12 – ISLANDS IN THE SKY Kickstarter Campaign

04:04 – Pairing Survivors With Comics Writers To Tell Their Stories

10:57 – Hurricane Helene From Andrew's POV

17:06 – Getting The Word Out About Appalachia and Helene

22:25 – Alternate Distribution Models with Etsy & Kickstarter

28:33 – The Beginnings of Good Trouble Productions

33:16 – What Makes a Comic a Good Trouble Comic

38:07 – Register! (With An Exclamation Point)

40:20 – MONSTER APPRECIATION SOCIETY 

47:07 – Outro

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