Cheap Chills - On Art and Monsters

Dec 24 2024 54 ep. 48 mins 4

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Illustrator, Ben Walker-Storey loves monsters, ghosts, creepers and kaiju. Cheap Chills: On Art and Monsters gets Ben talking with other artists and creators about how macabre movies, creepy toys and forbidden comics influenced their life and their artwork.

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Patrick Carson Sparrow : Batman is Not a Good Person

Dec 24 2024 62 mins

Welcome back everybody! This very special episode is a conversation with comic-book artist, Patrick Carson Sparrow. Its also a candid chat between two people who yes, are artists who love monsters but are also middle-aged dads, trying to figure out how to get all the needs met, and sometimes struggle with mental health issues. So we talk about fatherhood, marriage, ADHD, day jobs,

Director, David Hartman and The Minnesota Iceman

Dec 10 2024 69 mins

*STAY TUNED AFTER THIS EP! a track from the David Hartman (as Zorgon) Electronica album, D1m3n51on XThis week I’m joined by Director and Storyboard Artist, David Hartman. He’s the Director of the 2016 film, Phantasm: Ravager. Plus 25 years worth of other film and Television work like Godzilla: the Series, Astroboy, Jackie Chan Adventures, Laser Fart and the animated video for R

Dark Rides and Haunted Houses with Animation Artist, Reed Randolph

Nov 19 2024 54 mins

Reed Randolph is an animation artist, most recently working as a character designer on Exposing Kittens. This week Ben's chatting with Reed about how he went from working as a teenage Scare Artist in the famous steel factory-turned haunted house, Sloss Fright Furnace to designing for an indie Dark Ride.In between he worked with Jim Henson Company, desiged concept art for Blippi’s

Time-Sucks! Dealing with Procrastination and Distractions : Doomed Megalopolis the Last Megalopolis

Nov 05 2024 37 mins

This week, Illustrator, Creator (and your host) Ben Walker-Storey talks about his two big time-sucks: Procrastination and Distractions, what could be at the root of these problems and some thoughts, tricks and tips on working around them. Then its time to talk about monsters! We need to talk about the 1988 film, Doomed Megalopolis the Last Megalopolis (or Tokyo: The Last Megalopoli

Found Footage Festival's Nick Prueher on Carpenter's The Thing

Oct 22 2024 66 mins

Welcome to Cheap Chills on Art and Monsters. I probably need a new intro but I do love the announcer I snagged for the original cheap chills podcast. This week's guest is Nick Prueher, best known as being half of the Found Footage Festival team along with his childhood friend, Joe Pickett.Nick is also a film producer writer having writen for The Onion and Late Night with David Lett

Bride of Frankenstein with Isabel Samaras

Oct 09 2024 77 mins

I am so thrilled to bring you the conversation for this episode! I got a chance to catch up with my friend, world renown painter, Isabel Samaras. Years before we ever met I discovered her work through art magazines like Juxtapoz and Hi Fructose. I was blown away by Isabel’s work because she’s not just an incredible painter but she’s someone who has a take on popular culture,

Horror Movies by The Bollock Brothers

Sep 24 2024 28 mins

Welcome to the Cheap Chills podcast, where artists can talk, mostly about monsters.This week, Ben breaks down one major bit of inspiration from his past: The Bollock Brothers song, Horror Movies. How many of the movies mentioned in this song have we seen? Then, in a very special “Let’s Check in with Ben” Ben talks about stress and burnout in what amounts to an explanation for

What We’ve Learned from Ed Wood and Large Marge, with David DeGrand

Sep 10 2024 60 mins

I think you’re really like this episode. I Got to chat with cartoonist, David DeGrand. His art is mixes elements of silly, cute and gross in a way that really gets me excited to draw. We also came in with an agenda; to talk about our shared all-time favorite movies, Pee Wee's Big Adventure and Ed Wood.But we also get into David’s background and influences and his wildly cool li

Black Metal / Black Toner with Dr. Wolfenbergen

Sep 03 2024 60 mins

This week I’m joined by Art Director, Justin Moll, who is known as Dr. Wolfenbergen by night (and likely weekends). His personal art (and upcoming zine) is stripped down, simple yet gritty...and kinda dark. So I love it. We talk about the hot rod scene, making zines, the lost art of making band flyers at the 24 hour photocopy shop and then we really get into the nitty, grits of m

Talking 'Toons Creator of The Cuphead Show, Dave Wasson

Aug 27 2024 68 mins

Welcome to the Cheap Chills podcast, where artists and creators who love spooky, weird stuff can get together and talk spooky weird art ….talk. A few months ago, I was alone in bed watching The Cup Head show. It’s something I had tried to put on for our son when it came out but it was too creepy for him and he went back to watching something about trains with eyes. Anyway, I wa