Scott McCloud is both an accomplished comics creator and critic. His books of comics criticism, "Understanding Comics," "Reinventing Comics" and "Making Comics" are classics of the form, and are standard-issue in hip literature classes around the country. His newest book is a compilation of his 1980s superhero series Zot!. He talks with us about how to read comics and how he incorporated the influences of the comics of other cultures into his own work in the ’80s.
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Scott McCloud, author of “Understanding Comics” and “Zot!”: Interview on The Sound of Young America
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Cartoon Utopia
Esoteric comics, energetic alchemy, and subversive optimism: a talk with comic artist Ron Regé, Jr., about his new book The Cartoon Utopia
http://prn.fm/2013/01/06/expanding-mind-cartoon-utopia-010613/#ixzz2HQWQ4w36
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Several DC Comics Go Back To Issue No. 1 : NPR
DC Comics is resetting all 52 of its continuing series Wednesday in an effort to revive declining sales and renew interest. It’s back to issue No. 1. Melissa Block talks to Jim Lee â co-publisher of DC Entertainment/DC Comics and artist on the new Justice League comic â about the comic books reboot.
http://www.npr.org/2011/08/31/140093549/several-dc-comics-go-back-to-issue-no-1