Did you know comic books used to be produced almost entirely for children? Yeah! It’s true. Ok, maybe you did know that, but there was a time in America where given the popular idea of what a comic book was, that was hard to believe. Of course, there was also a time in America where it was hard for many people to believe that comics could ever possibly be for adults. On this week’s episode Mav, Hannah and Wayne are joined by Terry Lee to discuss both how and why that changed as well as why is it good for kids to read comics in the first place. Oh, and of course we talk about how to figure out what comics your kids should be reading. Complete with suggestions from experts… meaning, actual kids!
Citations and Links:
- This episode’s Call for Comments
- Raina Telegmeier books
- Ordinary People Change the World collection by Brad Meltzer
- Owly collection by Andy Runton
- The Complete Calvin and Hobbes collection by Bill Watterson
- DC Superhero Girls collection by Shea Fontana
- Into the Spider-verse: Meet the New Spider-man by Rory Keane
- The Graveyard Book graphic novel by Neil Gaiman
- Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson
- Bone: The Complete Cartoon Epic by Jeff Smith
- The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel #1) by Tui T. Sutherland
- Thank you to Maximilian’s thoughtForm Music for our theme
- Thank you to Joe Darowski on The Protagonist Podcast for the interview assist and follow him on Twitter: @jdarowski
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Looking forward to this conversation. This is one I would’ve loved to have participated in.
oh, I wish you had responded to the call for comments! We were looking for people!
crap! I need to pay better attention to the internets…
Like it! We would like to invite you to read our comics. https://t.co/idfuN1GNBb
@chrismaverick @wayne_wise I was a little disappointed that there was so much talk about comics for adv… https://t.co/qiY6DMX5Dp
Ummmm Where’s the special thank you shout out to the experts… errr kids!?!
Lynn Thomas Holly they’re mentioned and thanked during the episode. They just don’t have links in the show notes because none of them had anything to link to.
Wait, you can’t buy kids at a store? I could’ve sworn that was the purpose of The Children’s Place?
Also that store was amazing when I was an 80s kid. You entered by crawling through a carpeted hole next to the door then ran around a playground that had a little cubby hole with a TV. My local one played Woody Woodpecker on an endless loop.
Also isn’t the comic book version of the TV show Once Upon A Time just Fables? Having a comics version of the show feels strangely meta.
Steve Shaffer There is indeed a Once Upon a Time comic series (it’s like two issues?). Still waiting for Fables to get its own TV series, even though there is, of course, a development history with NBC and ABC before they decided to do “original” shows instead.