Tag: Art Spiegelman
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Cartoonist’s Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Cartoonists-Day-More-Little-Lit.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/3/2002 Cartoonist’s Day Transcript While you’re spreading the newspaper this Sunday to finally catch up a little on your painting around the house, and you catch a glimpse of the comics underneath that gallon of pistachio green paint, remember that it’s Cartoonist’s Day, in […]
Comics and Fairy Tales: Art Spiegelman’s Little Lit.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Little-lit.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/9/2001 Comics and Fairy Tales Transcript I can’t think of a better combination of favorite things than folk tales and comics. Enlist some of our more intriguing cartoonists and illustrators like Walt Kelly, Bruce McCall, William Joyce, and Harry Bliss to adapt one of […]