Ep 72 - Scary Halloween Comics with Ben Blacker

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🗓️ 25 October 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Brea and Mallory talk about horror comics for Halloween with writer Ben Blacker! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Ben Blacker The Writer's Panel Hex Wives Buy Hex Wives Books Mentioned - The Burning of Bridget Cleary by Angela Bourke The Good People by Hannah Kent The Changeling by Victor LaValle A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney Alfred Hitchcock by Peter Ackroyd Creepy Comics Vol 1 Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse Vol 1 by Ben Templesmith We Will Bury You by Brea Grant, Zane Grant, Kyle Strahm (Artist) Hellblazer by Garth Ennis Preacher Vol 1 by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon Locke & Key, Vol. 1 by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez Babyteeth Volume 1 by Donny Cates and Garry Brown Animosity Vol. 1 by Marguerite Bennett and Eric Gapstur Insexts Vo. 1 by Marguerite Bennett and Ariela Kristantina Chilling Adventures of Sabrina by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Robert Hack Survivor's Club by Lauren Beukes and Dale Halvorsen Afterlife with Archie by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Francesco Francavilla Wytches by Scott Snyder and Jock American Vampire, Vol1 by Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquereque Gideon Falls Vol 1 by Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino and Dave Stewart Rachel Rising Vol 1 by Terry Moore

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0:00.0	You're listening to reading glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed
0:07.9	to help you read better.
0:09.2	I'm writer, filmmaker, and book devour, Mallory O'Mera, And I'm Bria Grant, actors filmmaker and e-reader.
0:14.2	This episode we're talking about horror comics for Halloween with writer Ben Blacker, author of the new
0:20.0	comic Hexwives.
0:21.0	Who's actually right here.
0:22.2	Hey Ben.
0:23.2	Hi, how's it going?
0:24.8	We have very, very rare, exciting, in studio, author episode.
0:30.3	Yeah, we don't always have one.
0:31.8	It's nice to have people in the studio.
0:33.1	Well, you just showed up and I was here. So I apologize. I love the show.
0:37.1	He climbed in the window. It was really strange. He was holding a candle. We were like,
0:40.8	it's Halloween appropriate. So we're cool cool. Yeah he just drifted through the wall.
0:44.0	He actually might be a ghost. What are you reading Brio? I'm reading an author we are
0:50.0	interviewing for a show upcoming show a book called a Blade So Black by
0:55.1	L. L. McKinney. I am so excited to read this. It's a great book. It's kind of a
0:59.3	retelling of Alice in Wonderland with Buffy the Vampire Slayer bent. Like instead of falling into that
1:05.4	rabbit hole she punched her fucking way into it. She punched and shoved her way
1:09.3	into that rabbit hole so it's like more literally she like chooses to go through the
1:13.9	looking glass and fight nightmare monsters which is the looking like they call it the
1:18.6	veil she's choose to go through the veil but yeah it's it. Look for an interview with her.
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