Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/11.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/11/2002 Comics and 9/11 Transcript It’s six months since September 11th, and as though to mark that tragic anniversary, there is a commemorative energy that has been generated in what may at first seem like a surprising place: comic books. There are a number […]
It’s the birthday today of Marjorie Buell, the creator of one of the first comics about an empowered little girl, the incomparable Little Lulu, who has Shelley Fraser Mickle remembering.
Author John Cech Air Date 5/4/2001 Some Books for Cartoonist’s Day Transcript It’s Cartoonist’s Day tomorrow, and if there’s a young Charles Schultz or Lynda Barry in your household, you might want to surprise them, for a birthday or as a sign of your solidarity, with two new books about cartoons — books that you’ll […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/I-love-ya-tomorrow-Annies-Anniversary.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Heather Tomasello) Air Date 4/20/2001 Tomorrow and Tomorrow Transcript Today marks the anniversary of the Broadway debut of the musical Annie. As a kid, I was introduced to this scrappy orphan not through the play but the 1982 movie version, with the unforgettable Carol […]
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 […]
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Here’s John Cech with some thoughts about the various media incarnations of Buster Brown.
