{"podcast":{"title":"Off Panel: A Comics Interview Podcast","slug":"off-panel-a-comics-interview-podcast-1312","podcast_index_feed_id":1312,"rss_url":"https://sktchd.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://sites.libsyn.com/68551","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/d/d/c/7/ddc7ed0f824e5bec/0FC30D51-58CC-44A3-8853-96B63750D9B9-18831-0000191BA01ED0BF.jpeg","author":"David Harper","episode_count":575,"summary":"A weekly comics interview podcast hosted by David Harper of SKTCHD that gets the story behind the stories and creators we love, as well as the broader comic book industry. Website: SKTCHD.com Patreon: Patreon.com/OffPanel Instagram: @slicedfriedgold/@SKTCHDcomic Bluesky: @davidharper.bsky.social/@SKTCHD.bsky.social Email: david@sktchd.com","last_synced_at":"2026-07-13T22:19:27.934687+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/off-panel-a-comics-interview-podcast-1312"},"episode":{"title":"Off Panel #528: It's a Lot! with Christina Merkler","slug":"off-panel-528-it-s-a-lot-with-christina-merkler","published_at":"2025-12-01T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/off-panel-a-comics-interview-podcast-1312/off-panel-528-it-s-a-lot-with-christina-merkler","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/off-panel-a-comics-interview-podcast-1312","url":"https://sktchd.libsyn.com/off-panel-528-its-a-lot-with-christina-merkler","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sktchd/Christina_Merkler_2025.mp3?dest-id=282628","summary":"Christina Merkler, the co-owner of Lunar Distribution, Discount Comic Book Service (or DCBS), and InStockTrades, joins the show to talk about a strange year for comic book distribution and a good year for the retail side. Merkler discusses Thanksgiving and related takes, the year for her, Diamond Comic Distributors' bankruptcy, compressing timelines, figuring things out, big changes this year, balancing sides of her businesses, the year for DCBS and InStockTrades, what's driving success, how collections are doing, the non-licensed comics space, connecting readers with books, blind bags, how she's feeling going into 2026, and more.","meta_description":"Christina Merkler, the co-owner of Lunar Distribution, Discount Comic Book Service (or DCBS), and InStockTrades, joins the show to talk about a strange ye…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4827,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/off-panel-a-comics-interview-podcast-1312/episodes/off-panel-528-it-s-a-lot-with-christina-merkler/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/off-panel-a-comics-interview-podcast-1312/off-panel-528-it-s-a-lot-with-christina-merkler.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}