Comics
The Art of Comics: Hart and Corman
At the annual comics conference at the University of Florida held earlier this spring, Stephanie Boluk spoke with two of the guest artists.
The Comics Code
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Comics-Code.mp3 Author Stephanie Boluk Air Date 6/21/2007 Comics Code Authority Seal The Comics Code Transcript You may be surprised to learn that comics, not film, not TV, or even video games, have been subject to the strictest self-imposed censorship of any media industry. Between the 1930s and 1950s, comics — […]
Dylan Horrocks Comics
At our annual conference on comics at the University of Florida, Recess cartoonist Stephanie Boluk spoke with the artist Dylan Horrocks.
Brian Selznick and Hugo Cabret
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Brian-Selznick-and-Hugo-Cabret.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 4/24/2007 Brian Selznick and Hugo Cabret Transcript Earlier this spring, Susan Raab caught up with the artist Brian Selznick and talked with him about his latest picture book/graphic novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret. This innovative work has been the talk of the children’s book […]
Two Yellow Kids
It’s a wonderful coincidence that one of the early practitioners of the comic strip, Richard Felton Outcault, should have been born on the same day, today, in 1863, on which The Simpsons animated television show would premiere, over a century later, in 1990.
EduComics
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/EduComics.mp3 Author Stephanie Boluk Air Date 11/30/2006 EduComics Transcript “It takes practice to learn to ignore the news.” This is what the apathetic father of a young girl trying to figure out the cause of global famine says when she asks him why people go hungry. Unsatisfied by this reply, […]
Superman Returns
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Superman-Returns.mp3 Author Stephanie Sullivan Lytle Air Date 6/27/2006 Superman Returns Transcript Born in the weary depths of the Great Depression, turned down by all but one comics publisher in the country, Superman hit newspaper strips and comics in 1938, becoming the first superhero with his own comic book by 1939. […]
Bone
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jeff-Smiths-Magnum-Opus-Comic-Bone.mp3 Author Stephanie Boluk Air Date 6/15/2006 Bone Transcript Like many children, one of the things I enjoyed doing when I was young was inventing characters — and even more fun was creating the stories they inhabited. So what happens if you grow up and never stop dreaming up adventures […]
Cartoonist’s Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Cartoonists-Day-and-Front-Street-Books.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/9/2006 Cartoonist’s Day Transcript The funny line drawings that we today refer to as cartoons have been with us for probably as long as people have drawn on the walls and floors of caves or in the wet sand of beaches. The name actually […]
The Songs of the Pogo
Walt Kelly was one of the masters of American nonsense. His much loved, hilariously cryptic Pogo comic strip first appeared in 1949 and was in American papers even after Kelly’s death in 1973.