Awesome Comics Podcast Episode 38: Jennie Gyllblad

By John Freeman on March 23, 2016

Darn it! I’m late giving this week’s Awesome Comics Podcast a plug. This week, it’s the turn of super busy, super talented Swedish comic book artist and designer Jennie Gyllblad to take centre stage as guest – the mind behind some good natured filth, the ‘smutty’ anthology comic, Jenitales!

Jennie joins the ACP crew and throws the show into the best kind of chaos. She talks about how her new NSFW comic project came to be, her path to becoming a full time comics artist, running a Patreon and so much more.

Jenitales (Yes, that is a terrible pun that Jennie decided to stick with; I’m glad you noticed!) is an anthology of short digital smut comics. The Green Fairy – the first of these “quickies” – has already been finished and can be found here. Jennie recently ran a no-holds barred, thoroughly shameless Kickstarter to fund the second Jenitales short story, which easily achieved its modest funding goal of £250 and was backed to the tune of over £3600 by fans of her great NFSW work.

This may be one of the funniest shows yet, and it certainly earns the ‘explicit’ label as Jen becomes the first guest to use the term ‘Lady Garden’, Dan Butcher tells a story about a sexy interactive robot, Vince Hunt gets picked on so much he forgets how many pro artists the gang have had as guests and Tony Esmond finally gets the conversation about furries he’s always wanted – which ends up with everyone picking out what animal they would be.

Yep, this episode is definitely for mature audiences. Especially the immature ones who are prepared to laugh a lot.

Mentioned in this episode are: Jennie Gyllblad, Jens Website, Jenitales, ‘The Green Fairy’ from Jenitales, Skal, Jens ‘Skal’ Patreon Page, Vigor Mortis, Vigor Mortis Patreon Page, Tortured Life, T Pub, Octal Comics, Out of Time, Little Ego, Cognition KS, Shit Flingers: Bestiary KS, Reckless Hero Artbook, Mystery Circus, Hel Hunter, Dan Charnley, Paul Rainey, Book of Lists, Blue is the Warmest Colour, Minimum Wage, Airboy, Pipedream Comics, A Place to Hang Your Cape, Down the Tubes and the Stacey’s Parlour charity 24 hour podcast.

• Listen to the podcast right here – but be aware there are even more adult-oriented shenanigans than normal

• Let the guys know what you think! Email: awesomecomicspod@gmail.com

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• Twitter: @theawesomepod | Vince: @jesterdiablo | Dan: @Vanguardcomic | Tony: @Ezohyez

• Got some small press and self published stuff you want the ACP team to check out? Drop them a line at tony.awesomecomicspod@gmail.com

John Freeman

The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.

He’s the writer of “Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies” for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs” with Dave Hailwood.