Quarantined Comics
a comic-book book-club discussing (some of) the medium's great works.
We found 8 episodes of Quarantined Comics with the tag “graphic novel”.
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PATIENCE... a blast into the past
September 24th, 2023 | Season 4 | 41 mins 21 secs
comics, dan clowes, graphic novel, patience
In this episode, we'll take a look at legendary cartoonist's longest and trippiest graphic novel, 2016's "Patience" -- a murder mystery that takes place in the present, future, past, distant past, and present, though not necessarily in that order.
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MAUS ...keeping the stories alive
August 6th, 2023 | Season 4 | 38 mins 43 secs
art spiegelman, cartoonist, comic, graphic novel, holocaust, maus, nazi
In this episode, we look at Art Spiegelman's groundbreaking graphic novel Maus.
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J: TIME ZONE J ...Whatever you do, don't answer the fan mail
June 25th, 2023 | Season 4 | 30 mins 21 secs
comic, graphic novel, julie doucet, time zone j
This week on Quarantined Comics, J is for Time Zone J. Published in 2022, Time Zone J is indie cartoonist Julie Doucet's first comic since she retired from sequential artwork during the 90s. We'll take a look at Doucet's oddball return.
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FAMILIAR FACE... it's like being in a Radiohead album
April 5th, 2023 | Season 4 | 34 mins 33 secs
comics, familiar face, graphic novel, michael deforge
This week (or month lol) we dive into Michael DeForge's Familiar Face, which is both distopic and completely reflective of the world we live in today.
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DUCKS: TWO YEARS IN THE OIL SANDS...the cost of an MFA
December 4th, 2022 | Season 4 | 30 mins 46 secs
canada, cartoonist, ducks, graphic novel, kate beaton
This week, we take a look at Kate Beaton's graphic memoir "Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands." Beaton is a cartoonist known for her shorter, more light-hearted fare. But while this graphic novel is much darker, dealing with what it's like to work in isolation with a bunch of men fixated on any woman who crosses their path, it's also a masterful showcase of graphic storytelling.
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BERLIN... this is how your country ends
November 6th, 2022 | Season 4 | 38 mins 52 secs
berlin, comics, graphic novel
This week, we take a look at Jason Lutes' masterpiece "Berlin," which follows the lives of the city's artists, socialites, and workers as they struggle to put their lives together post WWI. Vibrant and harrowing, it's an examination of how quickly and easily a country can slide into fascism. Which is to say: REMEMBER TO VOTE NOVEMBER 8.
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MEGG, MOGG, & OWL ...coping with the bad times
June 30th, 2022 | Season 4 | 35 mins 23 secs
comics, graphic novel, lgbtq, simon hanselmann
Times are bleak so let's get intoxicated and stare at a wall. In this week's episode, we review Simon Hanselmann's druggy epic about a witch, her black cat boyfriend, her owl roommate, their misanthropic werewolf friend, and whole lot of chemicals.
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GRASS & THE WAITING ...'the past is never dead. it's not even past.'
August 15th, 2021 | Season 3 | 37 mins 8 secs
graphic novel, grass, keum suk gendry-kim, korea, the waiting
The Korean graphic novelist Keum Suk Gendry-Kim confronts the traumas created by World War II and its immediate aftermath in these two books.