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 — […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]