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Comic Geek Speak Podcast - The Best Comic Book Podcast

2051 - A Conversation with Charlie Adlard

Comic Geek Speak Podcast - The Best Comic Book Podcast

Speakers of Geek

Comicbook, Comicbooks, Comics, Comic Book, Comic, Arts & Entertainment, Comic Books, Superhero, Graphic Novel, Arts

4.3668 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

CGS welcomes comic book artist and illustrator Charlie Adlard to the podcast for the very first time! It’s a wonderful conversation ranging from Charlie’s personal geekdom and early comic book discoveries, to LEGO, horror in comics and the UK comic convention scene, and to the craft and working methods on a number of projects including the recently released Altamont hardcover by Charlie and Herik Hanna from Image Comics. Enjoy! (1:56:38)

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0:00.0

This is Comic Geekspeak, episode 20151, a conversation with Charlie Adlard.

0:10.9

You got it on Wednesday, and it was like about it going to the ball and buff.

0:15.8

These guys will talk about it everything the geeks love from case of laser beams.

0:19.6

The planes like the seasons on everything you read. And comic, movie, game, toy, artists, come. Comic, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, comic, come, come, come, come, comic, come, geek speak, coming, comic, comic, geek. Uniting the world's mightiest heroes.

0:38.3

This is...

0:41.5

Welcome to the show.

0:42.2

I'm Brian Deamer.

0:44.0

I'm Peter Rios.

0:53.5

Welcome. Welcome to Comic Geek speak. This episode episode we had the pleasure, the absolute pleasure, of talking with artist and creator Charlie Adlerd.

1:03.3

Charlie is coming to us because his new book, Altamont, a hardcover from Image Comics, with writer Herakana, has been released.

1:15.0

We had the pleasure of reading it.

1:16.5

We're going to talk about it.

1:18.0

Let me give you the little rundown here first of what Altamont is.

1:22.5

Altamont follows the story of Jenny and each of her friends as they navigate love, friendship, and their own

1:29.1

personal demons, all while trying to make it out of the Altamont Concert Alive. It was supposed

1:36.5

to be a beautiful free festival, a celebration of love and sharing. Instead, the Altamont

1:42.5

Speedway Free Festival became the symbol of the end of an era.

1:47.0

Illustrated by the artist of the Walking Dead in a vintage style borrowed from pop art of the 1960s,

1:53.0

Charlie Adlerd and Heracana mixed fact with fiction as they explore this infamous moment in cultural history by giving us a disenchanted

2:03.1

portrait of a free and dreamy youth marked by the Vietnam War. That's one of the many topics,

2:11.4

right, then we talked to Charlie about. Yeah, we spent a lot of time talking about lots of other nerdy things, you know.

2:20.2

He could be a regular on the show.

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