CAG! 107 – Animals Doing People Things, with John Green
Comics Are Great!
English - December 06, 2014 22:27 - 1 hour - 33.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsBooks Arts Visual Arts culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Talking about the special communicative power of the cartoon on Comics Are Great! //www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8PsQi99nok Anthropomorphic comics characters have enjoyed a wide appeal almost since the invention of the comic. Who doesn’t love Snoopy? Characters like Garfield have inspired an entire generation of professional cartoonists. Even the critically-acclaimed Maus featured talking animal characters. So what is […]
Talking about the special communicative power of the cartoon on Comics Are Great!
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8PsQi99nok
Anthropomorphic comics characters have enjoyed a wide appeal almost since the invention of the comic. Who doesn’t love Snoopy? Characters like Garfield have inspired an entire generation of professional cartoonists. Even the critically-acclaimed Maus featured talking animal characters.
So what is it about “animals doing people things” that’s so compelling? Why are we so willing to invest in a character whose design is so defiantly absurd and unrealistic?
I’m joined by John Green , co-creator of the Teen Boat! graphic novels and creator of the upcoming Hippopotamister, published by First Second Books. Together we unlock the secret powers held within “funny animal characters.”
We’re also joined by Anne Drozd of the Ann Arbor District Library for another round of book recommendations!
Links mentioned in this episode (thanks to Eric Klooster for collecting the links!):
The OTHER John Green
Teen Boat!
Superhero Tropes
Dave Roman
Turbo Teen
Jax Epoch and the Quicken Forbidden
An exclusive preview of Hippopotamister
John’s post on why animals make great protagonists
The new Lightsabers
Justice League: Comfort and Joy
Watership Down (film)
Maus
Real-Life Simpsons
Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham
The AADL “Unusual Stuff” section
Book Recommendations:
Ariol
The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil
nemu*nemu
Missile Mouse
The Incredible Change-Bots
PIX: One Weirdest Weekend
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