Ep. 274 Comics Is a Medium Not a Genre with Joel Christian Gill
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Cartoonist and educator Joel Christian Gill joins us to talk about his new book Stamped from the Beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America, an illustrated adaptation of Ibram X. Kendi's 2017 release. He gives us a brief history of comics in American culture and discusses the medium as a sneaky way to teach people things. We also get into color theory, the difference between comics and graphic novels, and more!
The Stacks Book Club selection for July is Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. We will discuss the book on July 26th with Joel Christian Gill.
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| 0:00.0 | You guys, the live and the stacks tour is underway. |
| 0:03.8 | We had an incredible night in Oakland filled with bookish conversations, hot takes, games, |
| 0:08.8 | cocktails. If you missed it, I'm sorry, but don't worry, it's not too late to see the stacks live |
| 0:15.3 | in one of our next four stops. Join me in Chicago with Samantha Erby on August 27th |
| 0:21.6 | in Washington, D.C. with Jason Reynolds on September 24th in New York City with KSA |
| 0:26.9 | Laman on September 25th and in LA on October 18th with some extra special guests that we will be |
| 0:33.6 | announcing real soon. Tickets are selling fast so head to the stackspodcast.com slash tour |
| 0:40.4 | and get your tickets before we sell out. |
| 0:52.6 | Welcome to the stats, a podcast about books and the people who read them. |
| 0:55.7 | I'm your host Tracy Thomas and today I'm speaking with Joel Christian Gill who's an |
| 1:00.0 | historian and cartoonist and has just released the graphic novel version of Eram X Kendi's |
| 1:06.1 | stamped from the beginning. The new graphic adaptation contains stunning illustrations from |
| 1:12.0 | Gill whose memoir fights one boy's triumph over violence was named as one of the best graphic |
| 1:16.8 | novels of 2020 by The New York Times. Today Joel and I talk about adapting books into graphic |
| 1:22.4 | form comics as a medium and not a genre and so many books that have changed the way that Joel |
| 1:29.1 | looks at the world. Reminder our July book club pick is Watchman by Alan Moore with illustrations |
| 1:35.5 | from Dave Gibbons which we will discuss on July 26th with Joel Christian Gill. Quick reminder |
| 1:40.9 | everything we talk about on each episode of the podcast can be found in the link in the show notes. |
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| 2:01.3 | reads share recommendations. We even talk about reality TV because it is Bachelorette season people. |
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