Graphic Novels

February 22, 2023

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #212: Lasting Impact

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #212 by Drew Barth Lasting Impact How many times have we heard the phrase “the battle of the century” in any context from sports to cooking to music only to be disappointed? Because, if we’re talking about history, it’s hard not to think of Jack Johnson’s most famous… Continue reading

Biography, Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart, Graphic Novels, History

March 20, 2021

Episode 464: A Discussion of Allie Brosh’s Solutions and Other Problems (with Leslie Salas)!

Episode 464 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). In this week’s show, Leslie Salas and I discuss Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half and Solutions and Other Problems. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES TDO Listeners can… Continue reading

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February 6, 2021

Episode 458: A Discussion of Lynda Barry’s Syllabus (with Leslie Salas)!

Episode 458 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). In this week’s show, Leslie Salas and I discuss Lynda Barry’s composition book-inspired musings on art, Syllabus, and how not just craft, but creativity itself is… Continue reading

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December 23, 2020

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #102: Maid in Le Mans

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #102 by Drew Barth Maid in Le Mans Comics are well suited to depicting historical events. In her most recent work, Maids, Katie Skelly brings us the story of the Papin Sisters—two women who murdered the mother and daughter of the Lancelin family in 1930s France. Maids is the… Continue reading

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Katie Skelly, Maids

February 22, 2020

Episode 407: Nathan Holic!

Episode 407 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing.) This week, I talk to my friend and colleague Nathan Holic about his new novel that is a true epic of our hometown (Orlando), Bright… Continue reading

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Bright Lights Medium-Sized City, Burrow Press, Nathan Holic, Orlando

February 5, 2020

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #56: The Comic Nebula

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #56 by Drew Barth The Comic Nebula I mentioned last week how Nextwavewas unique due to its theme song, so what can we do with a graphic novel that includes a tiny vinyl record that can accompany a reading? Quite a lot, actually, as John Pham’s J+K has… Continue reading

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September 4, 2019

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #34: A Shorter Piece

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #34 by Drew Barth A Shorter Piece Many of the works discussed in this blog over the past months have been long-running series or graphic novels. And all of those have been great. There’s an expansiveness to many of those works. In a way, many of these series… Continue reading

Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart, Graphic Novels, manga

May 15, 2019

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #19: Trauma

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #19 by Drew Barth Trauma Comics can, and should, be a space in which a multitude of subject matters and issues should be tackled. Comics are a medium in which the blending of text and visuals can make for a story that is easily accessible to a wide… Continue reading

Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart, Graphic Novels, War

April 17, 2019

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #15: Graphic Cannon

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #15 by Drew Barth Graphic Cannon For this blog, I’ve mainly focused on the serialized comics since I’m in A Comic Shop every Wednesday. But graphic novels are a bit different. Their releases are scheduled like books, typically on Tuesdays or Fridays, and are new, original works that have… Continue reading

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September 22, 2018

Episode 333: Peter Kuper!

Episode 333 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I talk to Peter Kuper about Kafka, the remarkable art form of comic books, the indie comic book scene in the late 1980s, Spy Vs. Spy, finding your Muse when it… Continue reading

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