Comic Sans
Comic Sans is a podcast about comics for the curious, hosted by seasoned reader Myle Yan Tay and page-flipping newbie Nathaniel Mah. Every episode, we dive into a new comic, talk about what we love, and break down how stories are told using the tools of the comic book trade. We read all kinds of comics from all over the world — from classic crime capers, to romcom sports manga, to postcolonial vampire tales — and give you just enough context to read along with us. So whether you're looking for your first comic or your five hundredth, come join us on Comic Sans!
Episodes
Trophies? Polished. Audience? Seated. Shrimp? Cocktailed. The inaugural Comic Sans Awards are about to begin… but where are the hosts?! Don't tell me they're running around the alleyways of 1950s Singapore, busting crooks and solving crimes with "The Five-Foot-Way Detective" by Joshua Chiang! Please, somebody call them… our venue deposit — and season finale — are on the line!
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In this episode, Nat reads pages 1–17.
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Tickets, please! We're your tour guides, Yan and Nat, and this is the bus bound for the wishful world of "Shubeik Lubeik" by Deena Mohamed. For your own safety, do refrain from eating, drinking, or expressing your desires aloud while the bus is in motion. Audio commentary is available through the provided headset. From all of us at Comic Sans, we wish you a pleasant journey.
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In this episode, Nat reads pages 12–63.
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Yan and Nat dip their tails into the murky waters of "Blacksad: A Silent Hell" by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido.
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In this episode, Nat reads pages 1–44 of the Dark Horse Books English edition of Blacksad: A Silent Hell.
Show notes and bibliography coming soon!
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start_// While scavenging for spare parts, cartoonist Sloane Leong rescues the head of a cyborg named Yan from the scrap heap. After some repairs, she connects it to a Non-Autonomous Torso ("N.A.T."), creating something greater than the sum of its parts — a comics podcast! Together, they read "Battle Angel Alita" by Yukito Kishiro. What follows is the recording of their conversation. //_end
Batter up! Comics critic Tiffany Babb barnstorms onto the Comic Sans diamond, wielding "The Golem's Mighty Swing" by James Sturm. As ruthless pitcher Nat takes the mound, one question is on Yan's mind: can Tiffany finally break the streak? Can she bring Nat a sports comic he can truly love? Don't turn off your radios, folks — the future of Comic Sans hangs in the balance!
Ring in the new year with Comic Sans by… opening Instagram?! At the stroke of midnight, Yan slides into Nat's DMs to share the poetry comics of Jordan Bolton (IG: @jordanboltondesign). Still a little bubbly from all the champagne, our hosts discuss photo dumps and page turns, carousels and caesuras, and the many ways that comics connect us across time and space.
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Swipe through all the comics Nat read for this episode!
In this audio preview of our Patreon-exclusive aftershow, Nat leads a quickfire discussion on "McNab" by Adele Pound, one of the six other comics we bought from LDComics Online Fair, but which didn't make the main episode.
Aside from quickfire reviews, Yan and Nat also recorded themselves doing their online comic shopping and talking through their trains of thought. Unlike the physical artist alley, digital comic fairs are ...
Yan and Nat take a stroll down the virtual artists' alley at the LDComics Online Fair! Armed with a whopping £17 each, they fill up their shopping carts with comics that catch their fancy, and discuss two of them on air: "So That's THAT Story: Conversations with Mom" by Tenli Yavneh, and "The Last Letter" by Kai Dylan.
The inaugural LDComics Online Fair ran from July 1 to 31, 2025.
Today, in an episode that defies all metaphor, Yan and Nat let loose the shirt-tearing, crowd-roaring, heart-stopping power of "Do a Powerbomb" by Daniel Warren Johnson, with colors by Mike Spicer and lettering by Rus Wooton. There will be blood! There will be tears! There will be wrestling orangutans! Consider yourself warned, listener—there's no turning back now!
SPOILERS AHEAD: The conversation continues in the Comic San...
If you like Comic Sans, we think you'll love Party of One, a podcast about getting to know people through the shared experience of play.
In this episode, host Jeff Stormer is joined by comics writer (and TTRPG creator!) Kieron Gillen for a monstrous game of Apocalypse Keys! Listen to Party of One wherever you get your podcasts.
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Kieron is the writer behind some of my favorite comics, including Young Avengers, Journey Into ...
In our Patreon-exclusive aftershow, Yan and Nat continue the conversation with comics critic Ritesh Babu.
In this preview, Ritesh shares his process of intentionally seeking out new comic creators and scenes worldwide, to discover works beyond the mainstream that an algorithm would never surface.
In the rest of the episode, he also makes a ton of excellent comic recommendations for readers of every taste. So whether you're l...
On their weekly grocery run to the marketplace of ideas, Yan and Nat stumble upon a strange stall they've never seen before. Far from the nostalgic scents of the retconfectionery and the electric buzz of the canned-dialogue dispensers, comics critic Ritesh Babu invites our hosts for a very special tasting of "Rare Flavours" by Ram V and Filipe Andrade.
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The conversation with Ritesh continues in the Comic Sans Aftershow, o...
Forty episodes into Comic Sans feels like the right time for our hosts to reexamine their friendship under a new light — specifically, under the technicolor lights of "A Map to the Sun" by Sloane Leong. As the yellow waves crash against the purple shore, Yan and Nat solemnly renew their friends-forever pinky promise: to keep on making the show, to always show up for each other, and to take every opportunity to show each ot...
When the sleepy animal town of Woodbrook is rocked by a spate of grisly murders, Yan and Nat pack their bags and set out in pursuit of truth, justice, and some of that true crime ad revenue.
With the whole town on edge, and no shortage of potential suspects, it's a podcaster's paradise among the pages of "Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees" by Patrick Horvath and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou! Now all our hosts have to do i...
Earlier today, the R.S.S. Comic Sans returned safely to Earth after its slingshot voyage around the sun, making Yan and Nat the first — and last — podcast hosts to go to space. As the details of their mission are top secret, they'll instead spend today's press conference discussing the graphic novel "Through a Life" by Tom Haugomat, dissing AI art, and doing Charlton Heston impressions. Refreshments will be served.
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Comic Sans is a podcast about comics for the curious, hosted by seasoned reader Myle Yan Tay and page-flipping newbie Nathaniel Mah.
Every episode, we dive into a new comic, talk about what we love, and break down how stories are told using the tools of the comic book trade.
We read all kinds of comics from all over the world — from classic crime capers, to romcom sports manga, to postcolonial vampire tales — and give you ju...
In our Patreon-exclusive aftershow, Yan and Nat continue the conversation with Gambian comics critic ML Kejera.
Right before this audio preview, ML and our hosts were talking about how difficult it was to find 'official' copies of today's readings ("Arzach" and "Blueberry" by Mœbius) — which turns into a conversation about piracy, preservation, and the ails of the comics industry.
As the sweltering purple sun rises over the old ruins, the comics in Yan and Nat's hands shrivel away and crumble to dust. With no food, no water, and nothing to read for today's episode, the end seems nigh for our brave adventurers, until… look! With a mighty cry, comic critic ML Kejera soars in on a biometallic pterodactyl holding aloft a glowing tome — "Arzach" by Mœbius!
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In our Patreon-exclusive aftershow, Yan and Nat continue the conversation with Filipino visual artist Renren Galeno, illustrator of the Pulitzer-nominated webcomic "Searching for Maura", a work of comics journalism about Maura, who was trafficked from the Philippines to the United States in 1904 to be put on display at the St. Louis World's Fair.
In this audio preview, Renren talks about her choice to draw the comic ...
Poo-tee-weet! In the year 2031, Renren Galeno feels herself slipping back in time to that one cool evening when she introduced Yan and Nat to the graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five", by Ryan North and Albert Monteys.
Things go exactly how they always do. Yan considers buying a chicken. Nat sings the Pipeline Song in a funny voice. This episode airs. You listen to it on the train home. Yo...
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