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Moebius, Druillet, and... Alex Nino - this Visionary Filipino Genius Is One of the Greatest Comic Book Artist of All Time!

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In this solo episode, Steven takes a wild trip into the breathtaking visual world of legendary and visionary Filipino artist, Alex Niño, as seen in the unfortunately named graphic novel, SPACE CLUSTERS (DC Comics, 1986).
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Moebius, Druillet, & ALEX NIÑO - This Visionary Genius Is One of the Greatest Comics Artists Ever!

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The Blerd It Out show on Alex Niño mentioned in this episode from Adrian Johnson @ Inazuma Studios:

• Blerd It Out! - Episode 4: Alex Nino

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Chapters

1. Title & Theme song (00:00:00)

2. Why is Alex Niño not more famous? (00:01:20)

3. The history of Filipino comic book artists in the U.S. (00:05:43)

4. Redondo, Alcala, and Niño bow their heads to no one (00:14:24)

5. The terrible title that is “SPACE CLUSTERS” (00:16:47)

6. David Roach’s mini-bio of Niño (00:17:30)

7. How I first encountered Alex Niño’s art (00:24:30)

8. Jack Kirby and Walt Simonson’s art in comparison to Alex Niño (00:30:33)

9. Discussing the wild story of SPACE CLUSTERS (00:34:15)

10. Our new focus at CRYB! — all space bounty hunter stories! (00:49:59)

11. The super wacky, psychedlic second half of SPACE CLUSTERS (00:51:21)

12. A few words from Alex Niño (01:19:18)

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The Blerd It Out show on Alex Niño mentioned in this episode from Adrian Johnson @ Inazuma Studios: