In an extra-long special episode of GCC, Mike speaks with Michael McCormick; a masterful puppeteer who has taught puppetry for film & TV at New Mexico State University, worked with Jim Henson on Dark Crystal & Labyrinth and even created the Star Wars character Salacious Crumb!
In this conversation, they talk about how Michael first got into puppetry, the influence & reach of Punch & Judy shows, why puppets intrigue Michael, the charactures of puppetry, his time on Dark Crystal, Labyrinth & the set of Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi, his near-death experiences, Brian & Wendy Froud are also mentioned, along with his time teaching puppetry in the New Mexico State University, his work on David Bowie’s costumes on Labyrinth, some stories from being on-set on various productions and it all wraps up with Michael’s idea for a new TV show – so many great topics are covered, this is definitely worth a listen!
Mike has also uploaded the video version of this episode to the GCC YouTube channel so you can see the puppets Michael kindly show us: https://youtu.be/D4kz0jSVoj0
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Check out the Fight Before Christmas movie to see Michael McCormick doing Punch & Judy on-screen!
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Mike was on a recent episode of the I Like To Like Things podcast, talking about his favourite TV show (and no, it’s not Star Wars): https://spoti.fi/3xtlBoJ
Mike was on ep 37 of What’s The Topic, to talk about the first episode of Loki, check it out on this very feed: https://spoti.fi/2SkIwDT
Mike is on episode 21 of the podcast Geek Talks on the Fantastic Universes feed: https://spoti.fi/3fOJT5h
Mike also appeared on episode 16 Frank Burton’s I Like The Sound podcast: https://spoti.fi/3ue8ma3
Mike was on the 20th Century Geek podcast to talk about his 3 “Desert Island Comics” here: http://spoti.fi/3r1UOvZ
Find Mike’s other show; Star Wars: Comics In Canon on Spotify & the other podcast apps on the feed of Comics In Motion. Episodes are out every Saturday; episodes 0-60 are out now, in ep 60 Mike discussed the 5 prelude issues of the War Of The Bounty Hunters crossover event while ep 59 is about the unspeakable rebel super weapon after A New Hope and ep 58 shows how Kanan Jarrus met his master! Previous episodes topics include Lando comics, the Journals of Old Ben Kenobi, Kanan Jarrus, Count Dooku, Kylo Ren, Darth Maul, how C-3PO got his red arm, book reviews & more – https://spoti.fi/3sOtqCw
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