Comics
Wonder Woman
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Wonder-Woman.mp3 Author Eve Cech Air Date 7/7/2005 Wonder Woman Transcript “Beautiful as Aphrodite, wise as Athena, strong as Hercules, and swifter than Mercury” it’s everything I wanted to be as a girl growing up in the 1950s, reading Wonder Woman comics. Along with these awe-inspiring attributes, Wonder Woman had her own, invisible […]
Wilhelm Busch, Max and Moritz, and Comics
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Wilhelm-Busch.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/15/2005 Wilhelm Busch, Max and Moritz, and Comics Transcript In 1865, one of the great comic works about two of the baddest boys in the history of childhood, Max and Moritz, first appeared in Munich, Germany. It was written and illustrated by Wilhelm Busch, […]
Mad Magazine
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mad-Magazine.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/21/2005 Mad Magazine Transcript It’s the birthday this month of Bill Gaines, the publisher of one of the edgiest institutions in American childhood, Mad Magazine. Since its first appearance in comic book form in the fall of 1952, Mad’s brand of outlandish, satiric humor was […]
Dennis the Menace
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Dennis-the-Menace.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/14/2005 Dennis the Menace Transcript It’s the birthday this week of Henry King Ketcham, better known to his many regular readers as Hank Ketcham, the creator of one of America’s favorite cartoon characters, Dennis the Menace, whose 55th birthday we can also celebrate this […]
Alia’s Mission, Elsie’s War
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Alias-Mission-Elsies-War-.mp3 Author John Cech (Read by Jaimy Mann) Air Date 3/8/2005 Alia’s Mission, Elsie’s War Transcript Elsie Kunh-Leitz (“Elsee Qu-en Lights”) was the daughter of a prominent German family in the years just before World War II. Her father, Dr. Ernst Leitz (“Lights”), was the inventor of the first commercially […]
Johnny Gruelle
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Johnny-Gruelle-Raggedy-Ann-and-Andy.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 12/16/2004 Johnny Gruelle Transcript You have probably met Raggedy Ann and Andy, but what do you know of Johnny Gruelle, their creator? As a boy, Gruelle had an aversion to formal education and dropped out of high school before he graduated, but that didn’t […]
Persepolis 2
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Persepolis-2.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Jaimy Mann) Air Date 11/17/2004 Persepolis 2 Transcript One of the most important books to appear this fall for older teens and young adults is the second volume of Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis 2. This installment continues Ms. Satrapi’s story about growing […]
Graphic Novels
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Teen-Read-Week-Graphic-Novels.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/18/2004 Graphic Novels Transcript It’s the beginning of Teen Read Week, which isn’t such a contradiction in terms as it may seem. Teens actually do a lot of reading outside of school, but it’s usually not what we adults would recognize as being especially […]
Winsor McCay and His Fantastic Little Nemo
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Winsor-McCay.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/5/2004 Winsor McCay Transcript It’s Cartoon Art Appreciation Week, and the place to begin any reflections on the history of this most popular and unappreciated art form is with Winsor McCay. For several decades at the beginning of the twentieth century, McCay was one […]
European Union Comics
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/European-Union-Comics.mp3 Author Malini Roy Air Date 4/29/2004 European Union Comics Transcript To counter the problems of increasing xenophobia and environmental pollution in Europe, the European Union has designed a very innovative set of books for children. Written as simple, entertaining narratives with brightly colored illustrated, these texts are meant to […]