Lore Watch Podcast: Sam Kieth’s impact and legacy in comics

Comic book artist Sam Kieth passed away earlier this month as a result of Lewy Body dementia, so our Lore Watch Podcast team wanted to take an episode to talk about his impact on the genre and pop culture as a whole. Both Sam Kieth’s art style and plotlines shaped comics as we moved into a more grimdark take on the old heroes. Sam’s comic The Maxx put him on the map, and his collaboration with now-notorious Neil Gaiman on The Sandman clinched his place in the pantheon of early 90s comics creators. And that was just the start of his career, which included a turn writing Batman, and later included a crossover with The Maxx as one of his final projects.

Because Sam Kieth’s comics deal with some heavy topics, this episode comes with a content warning for topics ranging from murder and gore to dissociative identity disorder and sexual assault. While we don’t linger on these topics in-depth, they are present as a part of the discussion.

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