264. Chip Kidd

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2019

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Award-winning designer, author and pop culture historian Chip Kidd joins Gilbert and Frank for a lively (and educational!) conversation about memorable movie posters, Jewish comic book creators, the convoluted history of Captain Marvel and the 80th anniversary of the Caped Crusader. Also, King Kong goes to Japan, Andrew Wyeth inspires Charles M. Schulz, Gilbert plays a Superman villain and Chip designs the iconic "Jurassic Park" logo. PLUS: Tobor the 8th Man! Batman vs. Godzilla! In praise of Alex Ross! The strange death of Jack Cole! And Saul Bass directs the "Psycho" shower scene! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Jeff, you know what I can go for?
0:01.6	What do you want, Dave?
0:02.5	A little Gilbert Goffrey, amazing, enormous, throbbing...
0:08.2	Colossal.
0:10.2	Colossal podcast.
0:12.2	Podcast.
0:13.2	I thought we were going to get a sandwich.
0:14.2	I thought we were going to get a grinder.
0:17.4	Give it up for Gilbert and Frank!
0:30.0	Hi, this is Gilbert, Godfrey, this is Gilbert, Godfrey's amazing Colossal podcast.
0:44.5	I'm here with my co-host Frank Santopadre and our engineer Frank Ferdarosa.
0:51.3	Our guest this week is here to join us in discussing and celebrating the 80th anniversary
1:00.3	of the iconic American character known as Batman.
1:05.4	He's one of the most knowledgeable sources on the subject since he's been obsessed
1:12.4	with the Cape Crusader since he was all of two years old and has authored and co-authored
1:21.2	several books on the topic including Batman animated, Batman collected, and Batman
1:32.4	God.
1:34.6	That's easy for you to say, Batman God.
1:38.9	Batman God, the secret history of Batman in Japan.
1:46.1	It's well as graphic novel, Batman death by design.
1:52.1	He's also an expert on other comic strips and comic book culture and the writer, co-writer
2:01.6	or designer of the books Shazam, the golden age of the world's mightiest mortal mythology,
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