Cheap Chills - On Art and Monsters

Cheap Chills - On Art and Monsters

Ben Walker-Storey

Episodes 54
Avg. Duration 47m
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Since Dec 2017
Latest Episode Dec 2024

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Every 2 Weeks
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Illustrator, Ben Walker-Storey loves monsters, ghosts, creepers and kaiju. Cheap Chills: On Art and Monsters gets Ben talking with other artists and creators about how macabre movies, creepy toys and forbidden comics influenced their life and their artwork.

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Patrick Carson Sparrow : Batman is Not a Good Person

Dec 24, 2024 1h 2m

Welcome back everybody! This very special episode is a conversation with comic-book artist, Patrick Carson Sparrow. Its also a candid chat between two people who yes, are artists who love monsters…

Director, David Hartman and The Minnesota Iceman

Dec 11, 2024 1h 9m

*STAY TUNED AFTER THIS EP! a track from the David Hartman (as Zorgon) Electronica album, D1m3n51on XThis week I’m joined by Director and Storyboard Artist, David Hartman. He’s the Director of the…

Dark Rides and Haunted Houses with Animation Artist, Reed Randolph

Nov 19, 2024 54m

Reed Randolph is an animation artist, most recently working as a character designer on Exposing Kittens. This week Ben's chatting with  Reed about how he went from working as a teenage Scare Artist…

S2E51 Time-Sucks! Dealing with Procrastination and Distractions : Doomed Megalopolis the Last Megalopolis

Nov 05, 2024 37m

This week, Illustrator, Creator (and your host) Ben Walker-Storey talks about his two big time-sucks: Procrastination and Distractions, what could be at the root of these problems and some thoughts,…

Found Footage Festival's Nick Prueher on Carpenter's The Thing

Oct 22, 2024 1h 6m

Welcome to Cheap Chills on Art and Monsters. I probably need a new intro but I do love the announcer I snagged for the original cheap chills podcast. This week's guest is Nick Prueher, best known as…

Bride of Frankenstein with Isabel Samaras

Oct 09, 2024 1h 17m

I am so thrilled to bring you the conversation for this episode! I got a chance to catch up with my friend, world renown painter, Isabel Samaras. Years before we ever met I discovered her work…

Horror Movies by The Bollock Brothers

Sep 24, 2024 28m

Welcome to the Cheap Chills podcast, where artists can talk, mostly about monsters.This week, Ben breaks down one major bit of inspiration from his past: The Bollock Brothers song, Horror Movies. How…

What We’ve Learned from Ed Wood and Large Marge, with David DeGrand

Sep 10, 2024 1h Transcript

I think you’re really like this episode. I Got to chat with cartoonist, David DeGrand. His art is mixes elements of silly, cute and gross in a way that really gets me excited to draw. We also came in…

Black Metal / Black Toner with Dr. Wolfenbergen

Sep 03, 2024 1h Transcript

This week I’m joined by Art Director, Justin Moll, who is known as Dr. Wolfenbergen by night (and likely weekends). His personal art (and upcoming zine) is stripped down, simple yet gritty...and…

Talking 'Toons Creator of The Cuphead Show, Dave Wasson

Aug 27, 2024 1h 8m Transcript

Welcome to the Cheap Chills podcast, where artists and creators who love spooky, weird stuff can get together and talk spooky weird art ….talk. A few months ago, I was alone in bed watching The Cup…

The Monster Club, 1981- with Amanda Walker-Story - Rerelease of Ep. 8 Monsters in Turtlenecks

Aug 21, 2024 28m Transcript

This week Ben is busy with something very frightening if common among us these days, bills! So we've dug up (get it? GET IT??) a spooky gem from the early days of this podcast, Monsters in…

My Tubi Continue Watching List, Plus a Lost Movie, and Feeling Rusty with Drawing

Aug 12, 2024 18m Transcript

Introducing a new segment, "Continue Watching?" where Ben goes through his Tubi, Continue Watching list and talks about the movies he didn't get through; gems like Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century,…

How Horror Makes Us Feel Better and Art-Making Reveals All Our Secrets : with Jules Fischer

Aug 05, 2024 1h 10m Transcript

Hey Gang! This week I'm joined by Jules Fischer, an Indi Comic book Artist from Berlin, Germany. We get into all kinds of stuff! Her influeces, Charles Burns, Dan Clowes and Jamie Hernandez sent her…

What is Your Lost Movie? Call The Hotline! : Let's Check in With Ben

Jul 29, 2024 22m Transcript

Hey gang, this week Ben is taking calls on the new Lost Movie Hotline. Listeners who caught a movie when they were little, one that seared itself into their memories, can now call in with a voicemail…

Mad Monster Lady, Audrey Rose - Crestwood Monster Books, Being a Weirdo

Jul 22, 2024 1h 20m Transcript

Ben is joined this week by artist, mom and teacher, Audrey Rose, also known as Mad Monster Lady.This week's (official) topic is the Crestwood Monsters series of books. They talk about how monsters…

Building Community Through Weird Films - with Kenneth Filmer of Khloaris

Jul 15, 2024 1h 50m Transcript

This week I am joined by Kenneth Filmer, who is half of a Film and Television/Promotion company in New York City called Khloaris. Khloaris produces films and hosts screening parties in unusual places…

S2E3 Friday the 13th...The Series! with guest, Jimmy Walker

Jul 08, 2024 1h 6m Transcript

This week Ben is joined by someone who was there for all of it, Ben’s brother Jimmy Walker. They get into memories and thoughts on the series, Friday the 13th...The Series (1987-90). That’s the one…

S2E2 Hammer Films vs Disney, The Penguin Book of Comics, Thoughts on Mortality and Collecting

Jul 01, 2024 30m

This week Ben’s flying solo! First its the odd tale of the time Hammer Films and Walt Disney both set out to make a film about Dr. Syn, the Pirate turned Preacher/ Smuggler. Then, in a very special…

S2E1 Ghost Hunting with Joshua Sterling of Haunting Season

Jun 24, 2024 1h 6m Transcript

The Cheap Chills Podcast is back with a new format! Host Ben Walker-Storey talks with other creatives about the spooky, weird stuff from our younger days and how it influenced the art, film, music et…

S2 Trailer - The (New) Cheap Chills Podcast

Jun 17, 2024 1m Transcript

Ben Walker-Storey is back for a new kind of Cheap Chills Podcast!This is a quick check-in to let you know what we'll be doing here each week. For me, there’s nothing better than wrapping myself into…

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