Quarantined Comics
a comic-book book-club discussing (some of) the medium's great works.
We found 10 episodes of Quarantined Comics with the tag “graphic novels”.
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MOMS... Sex and the City with Seoul
February 26th, 2022 | Season 4 | 37 mins 23 secs
comics, graphic novels, ma yeong-shin, moms, seoul, south korea
This week, Eisner-winning creator Jen Wang ("Stargazing" and "The Prince and the Dressmaker") visits Quarantined Comics, and we all take a trip to visit "Moms." Ma Yeong-shin's graphic novel, based partially on his own mother's life, follows four middle-aged women in Seoul who've finished raising their kids (mostly) and find themselves still figuring things out in the second half of their lives.
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NIGHT BUS... a walk through someone else's dream
February 13th, 2022 | Season 4 | 28 mins 54 secs
chinese, comics, graphic novels, night bus, zuo ma
This week, we take a long, strange ride on "Night Bus," a collection of semi-autobiographical comics from the Chinese cartoonist Zuo Ma. We'll start off in a country landscape undergoing a rapid industrialization, and take a sharp turn into the weird.
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BLACK HOLE... The uncanny sex men
December 5th, 2021 | Season 3 | 40 mins 20 secs
black hole, charles burns, comics, graphic novels
What if the X-Men all got their powers through STDs and their powers are totally useless?
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PERRAMUS ...crying - and laughing - for Argentina
May 17th, 2021 | Season 2 | 37 mins 4 secs
comic books, comics, graphic novels
When the writer Juan Sasturain and legendary cartoonist Alberto Breccia teamed up for the seven-year project Perramus: The City And Oblivion, they produced an odd and exhilarating mix of political satire, social commentary, and genre fiction.
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AYAKO... family troubles in post WWII Japan
April 26th, 2021 | Season 2 | 34 mins 13 secs
comics, graphic novels, manga
Osamu Tezuka is known as the godfather of manga, particularly for his children's' comics like Astro Boy and Princess Knight. But his work for adults is among his most complicated and intriguing and in this week's episode, we'll look at Ayako, a complicated and politically-charged family epic set in post WWII Japan.
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THE ARAB OF THE FUTURE VOLS. 1-4 ...culture clashes everywhere
January 17th, 2021 | Season 2 | 35 mins 17 secs
comics, graphic novels, memoir
Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Riad Sattouf's graphic memoir about his childhood growing up in France and Syria. At turns funny and at turns disturbing, The Arab of the Future is about a boy's growing disillusionment with his father and not feeling completely at home, no matter where you are.
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UPGRADE SOUL... congratulations, you've been optimized
January 1st, 2021 | Season 2 | 37 mins 16 secs
graphic novels, science fiction
This quirky and eerie sci-fi trip by Ezra Claytan Daniels - the fewer plot details given, the better - follows two extraordinary individuals in the twilight of their lives as they undergo a scientific experiment to become their optimal selves.
It goes poorly.
At turns touching and horrifying, Upgrade Soul is among the best graphic novels we've reviewed so far.
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TOMINE'S LONELINESS OF THE LONG-DISTANCE CARTOONIST ...mostly, we just talk about our lives
December 4th, 2020 | Season 2 | 30 mins 49 secs
adrian tomine, comics, graphic novels
You might know Adrian Tomine from what seems like his monthly New Yorker covers, but the guy is one of the most accomplished cartoonists out there. This week, we'll check out his newest book/memoir "The Loneliness Of The Long-Distance Cartoonist" which effectively charts Tomine's most salient moments of humiliation over the years.
Feel the cringe.
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HOW TO BE HAPPY and THE HARD TOMORROW ...solace out of reach
November 20th, 2020 | Season 2 | 35 mins 34 secs
comic books, comics, graphic novels
A collection of fables... and a devastating graphic novel about people trying to make a life in an increasingly hostile world. Yet these two very different books by cartoonist extraordinaire Eleanor Davis also feel very much like companion pieces.
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PAYING FOR IT... Chester Brown on prostitution
October 30th, 2020 | Season 1 | 31 mins 40 secs
comic books, comics, graphic novels
After a breakup, Chester Brown decides to see prostitutes rather than get emotionally involved with another woman. Paying For It is his memoir on how that all went.