Comics
Four Pictures by Emily Carr
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Four-Pictures-by-Emily-Carr-Review-.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/8/2004 Four Pictures by Emily Carr Transcript March is Women’s History Month, and today is International Women’s Day, a holiday in many countries around the world. It should also be in ours, where the events took place, in 1857, that over a century later […]
Persepolis
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Persepolis-The-Story-of-a-Childhood.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/17/2003 Persepolis Transcript “I was born with religion,” Marjane Satrapi writes at the beginning of her amazing, heart-rending book, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood. Appearing with this statement of fact is a rough cartoon drawing of Satrapi as an infant in diapers, her eyes […]
Little Lit. III: “It was a Dark and Silly Night”
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/It-was-a-Dark-and-Silly-Night-Little-Lit-III.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/8/2003 Little Lit. III: “It was a Dark and Silly Night” Transcript I can’t think of a better way to spend and evening, with Halloween approaching, than with the latest installment of Little Lit, that project launched by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly that connects […]
Superman Arrives in Metropolis
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Superman-Arrives.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/26/2003 Superman Arrives in Metropolis Transcript It’s one of those dreams that comic book aficionados have: opening up a long-forgotten trunk in a relative’s attic and finding a pristine, if slightly musty-smelling copy of “Action Comics” No. 1, for June 1938. The cover shows […]
CrossGen Comics for the Classroom
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/CrossGen-Comics-for-the-Classroom.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 5/27/2003 CrossGen Comics for the Classroom Transcript Ever wish you could’ve written a book report on the latest Batman comic rather than whatever happened to be on the school approved reading list? Well, what if Batman was on the list, and was even endorsed […]
The Underground of Comics
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Comics-Underground.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/7/2003 The Underground of Comics Transcript If you’re into comics — comic books, comic strips, sequential art and pictorial narratives — the University of Florida has a weekend for you, this February 7th and 8th. It’s our second annual conference on this popular art […]
Webcomics
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Webcomics-A-Primer.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 1/23/2003 Webcomics Transcript After reading the Sunday funnies, why not move your chair to the computer and try making your own. Kids and adults of all ages dream of writing comic strips and comic books, and webcomics offer the chance to actually take that […]
Fantastic Books for the Holidays
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Fantastic-Books-for-the-Holidays.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 12/16/2002 Fantastic Books for the Holidays Transcript Ug. That’s the title of a wonderful new children’s book. I’m not kidding. It really is. Ug is the name of a cave boy who just happens to be a Stone Age genius — […]
George Herriman and Krazy Kat
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/George-Herriman-and-Krazy-Kat.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 8/22/2002 George Herriman Transcript The whimsical music you’re hearing is from John Alden Carpenter’s ballet “Krazy Kat,” that was inspired by George Herriman’s comic strip, Krazy Kat, which first appeared in 1913. Herriman’s graphic and verbal dance, for decades across the pages of the […]
Donald Duck
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Donald-Ducks-First-Quacks.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 6/12/2002 Donald Duck Transcript Today we sing the praises of a Hollywood personality who has been acting on screen now for sixty-eight years. He has been nominated for eight academy awards. He was drafted in World War II and won an Oscar for his […]