All The Backlist! October 20, 2023

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🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Kelly highlights three great backlist comics to read, including stories of family, coming out, and magic. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Autumn is here, which means it's time to curl up with a great read and get cozy — whatever your version of cozy looks like. Whether it's romance, creepy reads, modern classics, or escapist reads you crave, TBR can help you find the perfect books for your fall reading, with options curated to your specific reading tastes. Visit mytbr.co to find out more and sign up — it only takes a few minutes! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed It Won’t Always Be This Way by Malaka Gharib Basil and Oregano by Melissa Capriglione Over My Dead Body by Sweeney Boo Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu Flamer by Mike Curato Kelly's previous All The Backlist comics episode, with a shout-out to Gharib's first comic! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to All the Backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.
0:15.8	I'm your host Kelly Jensen, and this is the October 20th, 2023 edition.
0:21.3	If you subscribe to the What's Up in Why newsletter, then you'll know that I've been in the
0:25.0	throes of reading a ton of graphic novels and comics.
0:29.1	It's about what my brain can handle right now, as one reason, and also because it's such a
0:33.9	powerful and moving and compelling and engaging format.
0:38.1	You can't separate the art from the story or vice versa.
0:41.6	And even if reading a comic goes much quicker than a novel or a work of nonfiction for me,
0:46.6	I feel like I take away even more because it's so immersive.
0:50.7	Today, I want to highlight a few backlist graphic novels and comics that I haven't yet
0:55.6	talked about on any episode of All the Backlist, though I will link to an episode
1:01.5	in the show notes from last summer, summer 2022, where I talked about a handful before.
1:07.9	If you, like me, are ready to go deep into comics right now, these are all great options.
1:13.5	They are all standalone, and none of them are superhero focused.
1:17.4	Instead, they showcase a range of genres and stories, and I don't think they would be
1:22.3	the same at all if they were told in more of a narrative format without the art to really
1:27.1	enhance and to do some of the storytelling itself.
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