I Read Comics: Show #20

Sunday, February 05, 2006

Show 20 on MP3

Comic Geek Speak Show #100
Capote in Kansas and In Cold Blood
Conan: The God in the Bowl and Other Stories
Skepchicks!
The Smith Street Society Jazz Band

Thanks for the coffee and convo! ;-)

Music, as always, by Mayerson.
Other music I listened to this week that I love: Sunshine on Leith, The Proclaimers

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This podcast is sponsored by the Lincoln Heights Literary Society - Ontology On the Go!

Bloo. My new AIM icon and alter ego.

"He thinks he's loaning it to me..."

If I don't get that back, I'll replace all your Conans with Image Swimsuit issues.

:)~

By Peter, at 9:18 PM
Just a quick note to say that the Librivox project of A Journey to the Interior of the Earth is now complete, and files for the whole book can be found here:

http://librivox.org/a-journey-to-the-interior-of-the-earth-by-jules-verne/

Thank you for contributing your chapters!

By Niles, at 12:03 PM
Way to call it on the portrayal of rape in comics issue. I don't read Conan, but if I did and I came across this, I'd probably consider it a deal-breaker. You have to ask yourself why graphic rape is portrayed so often in (male-created) comics. Do they really like drawing it so much? It rears its head all over the place when female characters are present. I wonder whether seeing it in such a visual medium as comics so often affects people's view of the issue - when something is shown again and again, it does normalize it to some degree. (Keep in mind, I really don't believe what people read or watch has any bearing on their behavior, but when something is a daily part of your cultural intake, it does become more commonplace in your worldview.)

Keep up the excellent opinions, don't water them down!

By Sarah O, at 7:37 PM

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