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Graphic Policy Radio

A podcast at the intersection of comics nerd media and movements for social change. Elana Levin interviews comics artists, writers, critics, historians and also activists, organizers who love comics and pop culture.

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01:18:00

Stopping abuse in the comics industry: not just a few...

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2020/08/11

Comics' harassment crisis isn't just caused by the names you've seen in the comics news. It is enabled by an entire system of employment and fandom built on exploitation. Good thing there are some brilliant and brave people joining me to talk about what we can to do create meaningful change in the industry. Guests: Jay Edidin writes comics, short fiction, and narrative nonfiction; covers culture, arts, science, and gender as a journalist and essayist; edits comics, transmedia, and genre fiction;

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01:29:00

Comics Writer Tina Horn on SfSx: Freedom & Safety in...

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2020/07/29

Tina Horn is the creator and writer of the sci-fi sex-rebel comic book series SfSx (Safe Sex). She hosts and produces the long-running kink podcast Why Are People Into That?!. SfSx is the near-future story of the underground queer sex workers known as the Dirty Mind, who use their powers of bondage and intrigue to free their incarcerated friends and fight the power! SfSx: Volume 1: Protection is out now in trade paperback. Tina's reporting on sexual subcultures and politics has been in Playboy,

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01:10:00

Cartoonist Christina 'Steenz' Stewart: From the...

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2020/07/17

"I want to show that the people behind the desk can look like me, "-- Cristina ‘Steenz’ Stewart is a St. Louis based cartoonist, editor, and professor. She's the cartoonist on the syndicated comic strip ‘Heart Of The City’, the co-creator of Dwayne McDuffie Award winning Graphic Novel Archival Quality, and is featured in short story anthologies such as Eisner and Ignatz Award-Winning Elements: Fire, Mine!, and Dead Beats. Steenz launched and edited the popular RPG periodical Rolled & Told. She

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01:05:00

Comics Writer Nadia Shammas: Bodies, Goth & No Olive...

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2020/07/02

From getting a Marvel internship out of spite to getting her own dream project graphic novel underway. Nadia Shammas is an Arab-American comic writer and native Brooklynite. She's best known for being the creator of CORPUS: A Comic Anthology of Bodily Ailments and the author/co-creator of SQUIRE, a YA Middle Eastern fantasy set from HarperCollins next year. You can find her and her movie takes on https://twitter.com/Nadia_Shammas Join us as we we get real about feelings about health, art and

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01:10:00

She-ra & the Princesses of Power S5 w Lux Alptraum &...

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2020/06/17

Lux Alptraum is a Peabody-nominated producer and writer whose work had appeared in The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, and Hustler. Her first book, Faking It: The Lies Women Tell About Sex — And the Truths They Reveal, explores our cultural obsession with feminine deceit. https://twitter.com/luxalptraum Mey Rude is a Los Angeles-based trans latina lesbian. she’s a journalist who’s worked for autostraddle, them.us and out magazine, as well as a sensitivity reader and trans consultant on novels,

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01:10:00

X-Men Dawn of X: Marauders, Be Queer Do Crimes

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2020/05/26

Kitty Pryde, sorry, I mean Kate Pryde, is coming out! She's stealing a boat, getting drunk on Wolverine’s stash and becoming a pirate/liberator of mutants everywhere. Join us for a deep dive into Marauders issues 1-9 from Gerry Duggan, Matteo Lolli, Stephano Casseli, Michelle Bandini and others. X-Perts: Chingy L Gay is a writer, comedian, and critically acclaimed ex-girlfriend. She writes about queer identity, nerd shit, and her weird sex life and has been featured at MTV News, Out Magazine,

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01:05:00

Artist/Writer Elsa Charretier: November in Mer-May

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2020/05/18

Elsa Charretier joins us from the south of France to talk about her latest comic, the noir tale November with Matt Fraction. Elsa is a self taught artist known for co-creating the award winning scifi romance The Infinite Loop with writer Pierrick Colinet. Since then, she has been dividing her time between creating new creator-owned books (Superfreaks) and drawing established characters like The Unstopable Wasp, Starfire, DC's Bombshells and Star Wars' most fashionable depiction of Admiral

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01:16:00

Crisis on Infinite Jerry Ordway Part 2

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2020/05/07

Interview with comics artist/writer Jerry Ordway continues! Jerry's been making superhero comics for DC and Marvel for 40 years. He's the guy who made people care about Shazam and the All Star Squadron again. He inked Crisis on Infinate Earths. He's partnered with writers like Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Michael Moorecock & Neil Gaiman. His essay on age discriminiation in the industry put a name to a significant problem in

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01:10:00

Crisis on Infinite Jerry Ordway: Part 1!

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2020/04/28

Comics artist/writer Jerry Ordway has been making superhero comics for DC and Marvel for 40 years. He's the guy who made people care about Shazam and the Justice Society of America again. He inked Crisis on Infinate Earths. He's partnered with writers like Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Michael Moorecock & Neil Gaiman. Welcome to a special two part interview. Whether you're new to Jerry's work or a long time fan you'll learn a ton about the process of inking and drawing comics, industry history, the

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01:00:00

The Venture Bros podcast: S4 Ep 16 Operation P.R.O.M.

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2020/04/20

Travel back as we delve into a classic Venture Bros episode: Operation PROM. Thanks for being patient with the podcast right now: I've been slammed with work. I thought I'd make it up to you by covering a Venture Bros episode from Season 4, before we started podcast. We're here to help you catch all the references to feminist philosophers and 70s rock bands and Marvel comics. And to help you think about all the themes about all the failure, all the nostalgia and all the other stuff that Venture

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01:11:00

Castlevania: A Very Warren Ellis Anime. with Leslie...

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2020/03/25

Warren Ellis' Castlevania show for Netflix is about powerful old men who want to bring the world down around them and the OT3 who say "nope" to all that. I'm joined by two critics who know their anime way better than I to talk about the show: Kat Overland is a freelance culture critic and the small press editor at Women Write About comics. Leslie Lee the 3rd is a writer and host of Struggle Session. We open with a Spoiler-free discussion of if you should watch the show. Answer: yes, there are

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01:05:00

Tea and Spinach! Politics of Popeye, King Features...

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2020/03/12

The comic strips you grew up with, and your great-grandma grew up with, are probably from King Features Syndicate: a comics syndicate over 100 years old! Tea Fougner is the Editorial Director for Comics at King Features Syndicate and joins us to talk about comics strips past and present. As Tea says, “Comics is a format, not a genre." Find out: Which vintage adventure strips will modern readers enjoy?Popeye: OriginsThe kweerness of Krazy KatThe 1970s splenders of Apartment 3GThe Lockhorns are

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01:09:00

V for Vendetta: A mask becomes un-Moore'd in time

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2020/02/26

V for Vendetta is marching in streets from Catalonia to Hong Kong; a centuries old symbol reinvented in the 1982 graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, and further popularized by the Wachowski Sisters movie of 2005. Even Occupy was almost 10 years ago?! Why has this mask and story lived on in protests? How is V for Vendetta a unique dystopian text? I'm joined by Ajay Singh Chaudhary PHD, executive director of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and Ange Tran, artist and designer

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01:24:00

Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous...

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2020/02/17

Perfectly choreographed fights against sexists who had it coming! Does DC Entertainment's Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey movie keep the spirit of the beloved comics alive? From the comics to the big screen we've got an expert panel: Nadia Shammas is an Arab-American comic writer and native Brooklynite. She's best known for being the creator of CORPUS: A Comic Anthology of Bodily Ailments and the author/co-creator of SQUIRE, a YA Middle Eastern fantasy set from HarperCollins next year. You can find

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01:04:00

Watchmen on HBO: Black Wall Street, "Trust In the...

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2020/02/08

Victor Luckerson is writing a book about Tulsa's Black Wall Street, which was highlighted by HBO's Watchmen series. Felicia Perez is the Innovation Director at the Center for Story-based Strategy. We team up to look at the real history and current politics behind the most 2019 of HBO shows. Also, check out Victor's essay in the New Yorker: The Great Achievement of Watchmen is Showing How Black Americans Shape

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01:04:00

Jamelle Bouie, Spencer Ackerman: The X-Men at Davos,...

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2020/01/26

New York Times Opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie and Spencer Ackerman, Daily Beast National Security Reporter, join me to talk about the new X-Men series, the ideology of Krakoa and more: “Magneto as Lenin” Jamelle Bouie “This is The X-Men that I have always dreamed of existing, in my soul”- Spencer AckermanWhat does the Mutant Liberation Front really mean?Pan Africanism, not Zionism "Based on my friends fighting between Bernie and Warren there should be a lot more fighting between being a Magneto guy

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01:33:00

Martin Luther King, X-Men and Magneto: A Vintage Episode

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2020/01/20

Our roundtable of historians, cultural critics and comics bloggers came together for a Martin Luther King Day episode 5 years ago. The world of X-Men and criticism has changed since but our panelists rocked and listeners loved it. So we brought this Classic episode out of the archives. Our guests: Steve Attewell: He is the founder and writer of Race for the Iron Throne and writes People’s History of the Marvel Universe for Graphic Policy. https://twitter.com/StevenAttewellDavid Brothers – David

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00:59:00

Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams Graphic...

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2020/01/14

"BOWIE: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams is a graphic novel from legendary artist Mike Allred and writer Steve Horton. It chronicles the rise of David Bowie’s career from obscurity to fame; paralleled by the rise and fall of his alter ego Ziggy Stardust. As the Spiders from Mars slowly implode, Bowie wrestles with his Ziggy persona. The outcome of this internal conflict will change not only DavidBowie, but also, the world." I'm joined by the book's writer Steve Horton

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01:17:00

The Mandalorian: Westerns, Samurai Manga and Muppets

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2020/01/06

What better collapse of the Disney vs auteurism fight then Werner Herzog talking to a Muppet? I'm joined by experts in the show's influences from High Noon to Lone Wolf and Cub. Learn about darksabers and other stuff you missed by not watching the Clone Wars cartoon. Guests: Brandon Wilson is a filmmaker and lecturer. Born and raised in Los Angeles, he attended UCLA where he took a B.A. in African-American Studies and an M.F.A. from the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. Wilson has

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01:11:00

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Graphic Policy Radio ·

2019/12/27

Experts at pop culture storytelling, social movements and fan organizing joining me to discuss the final Star Wars movie, Rise of Skywalker. Porshéa Patterson-Hurst is the public opinion research associate for The Opportunity Agenda, a social justice communication lab in New York. She consults with allies in the field to identify and obtain pertinent research needs in the areas of immigration, criminal legal reform, and poverty. She is also the Director of Strategic Partnerships for Black Girls

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