Jay Stephens goes back to ‘The Land of Nod’

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On this episode, I chat with Jay Stephens about his graphic novel The Land of Nod published by Black Eye Books available through Crowdfundr.

Jay Stephens is a cartoonist and illustrator currently living in Guelph, Ontario. He is best known as the creator of Discovery Kids’s animated television series ‘Tutenstein’, Cartoon Network’s ‘The Secret Saturdays’, and the ‘Jetcat’ animated shorts for Nickelodeon’s anthology series, KaBlam!. Aside from his work in animation, Jay is recognized for several comic book projects, including SIN , The Land of Nod , Atomic City Tales, and Jetcat Clubhouse, and has written and drawn for licensed properties such as Alien, Star Wars, Felix the Cat, and Teen Titans. Jay is the creator of the comic strips, Oddville!, Chick & Dee (in Chickadee magazine), Xtra-curricular  and Arrowhead (in OWL magazine), and (with writer Bob Weber Jr.) the daily newspaper strip Oh, Brother!. From 2020–2023, Jay created six issues of the anthology horror series Dwellings. His most recent project is Figgy Furthermore for Gold Key Comics, and he is creating several variant covers in his cute-as-hell style for the revived EC Comics.

The Land Nod is a weirdo, stream-of-consciousness comic book about hard times, created by a recovering drug-addled punk, with all the disaffected Gen X sarcasm you would expect from an irreverent 1990s underground Zine. If there’s a meaning, it’s that there is no meaning. Or maybe the message is… don’t take anything too seriously, or you’ll grow up to be an @#$*? In any case, after 34 years, somehow this stuff still seems funny according to Jay.

You can discover more about Jay Stephens online at Black Eye Books and on Instagram at @jstephenscomics

You can discover more about The Land of Nod on Crowdfundr.

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