Jessica Abel reads from her latest book Growing Gills: How to find creative focus when you’re drowning in your daily life (2017). We talk about radio, podcasts, graphic novels, comics, self-publishing, creative focus and doing what you believe in. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2019-04-17-1700-EDT.mp3 Download Audio photo credit: Jessica Abel
Nate Powell talks about his graphic novel Come Again (Top Shelf Press 2018). We talk about starting out in comics, DIY and punk, imagining another world, and working with Congressman John Lewis and Andrew Aydin. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2019-03-06-1700-EST.mp3 Download Audio
Alison Bechdel talks about her books The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, and Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama all published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. We talk about drawing and immediacy – and the self as character – and family. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2015-01-21-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author,
Phoebe Gloekner reads from The Diary of a Teenage Girl: an account in words and pictures published by North Atlantic Books. We talk about drawing as a kid to a medical illustrator, Crumb and comics, a child’s life, and installations. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-11-19-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
Jim Ottaviani reads from his graphic novel Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas published by First Second. We talk about making comic books about the history of science, Feynman, and research as inspiration. We also talk about nuclear reactors and quetzals. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-01-08-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
