robin's illustrious guests are local cartoonists, Miriam Libicki, who was recognized in 2022 with a prestigious Inkpot Award for inventing a new genre, the long-form comic essay, and Ivana Filipovich, winner of Canada's highest cartooning award for self-published/small-print comic books and whose recent graphic novel, What's Fear Got to Do With It?, is listed as one of 2023s 20 best Canadian comic books. 

The other notable BC-based female comic book/graphic novelists mentioned in today's program are Emily Carrington and Pia Guerra.