WALTS: WE ALWAYS LIE ABOUT BIGFOOT. A Podcast Miniseries
As you may know, I’m a cohost on a podcast about the Ozarks called WE ALWAYS LIE TO STRANGERS (after the Vance Randolph book) It’s about Ozarks history, folklore, culture and the like. And for October I am taking the reigns and writing and hosting a miniseries on the history of Bigfoot and Bigfoot Hunting in the Ozarks. If you enjoy Backwood Folk you might get something out of this one! It’s hard to say where the research for this project ends and the research for Backwood Folk #3 begins. There’s a lot of cross pollination to say the least.
It’s a topic that’s fascinated me as far back as I can remember. I was doing show and tell presntations on Roswell and carrying The Mothman Prophecies to school every day for a solid year. This miniseries even has its start in Backwood Folk thanks to a reader e-mail all the way back in 2012 when the original run was still posting as a webcomic!
This miniseries goes a lot of places.
WE ALWAYS LIE ABOUT BIGFOOT EPISODE ONE: BIGFOOT CAMP
Our fist episode asks the question, is there even a tradition of Bigfoot in the Ozarks? We’ll meet some regional figures such as the Giant of the Hills and Smokey Joe! I even give up my own “encounter” with something in the woods. A lot of the weird intersections of cryptozoology and folklore are explored, and apologies to the true believers in the audience.
You can find our show on Spotify, Itunes, and pretty much any place where podcasts grow. We also have a pretty well updated instagram, and a less well updated bluesky (that one’s on me. I’m less frequently good about being online) Also a heads up the podcast is a little more blue than most of my work here on Backwood. So maybe don’t listen to it without headphones at the job. But you probably shouldn’t be doing that with any podcast anyways. Your coworkers beg you.
Other Bits and Bobs
- I didn’t get to take many pictures in the whirlwind, but Spa-Con 9 was a blast this year. I’ve enjoyed all of my experiences with this particular convention, but this year was especially one for the books. It was so nice meeting many of you at the panel. And I can’t express how meaningful a lot of the kind words have been! It remains about the only comic convention I work in Arkansas. I’m a little stubborn about trying to do locally run events where people who know the landscape are trying to tailor a con to their area. And that describes Spa-Con perfectly to me. I never feel anonymous here. It’s great.
- More announcements coming this October! I might even be on the tv again! And maybe a stage too.
- There’s also more illustration work I’m very excited by that I hope you all get to see very soon!