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Ep 744 – The Glass Looker: Collected Tales of Joseph Smith, A Graphic Novel by Mark Elwood

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Infants on Thrones

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 β€’ 1.1K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Wouldn’t it be cool if there was gorgeous graphic novel telling the magical stories of Joseph Smith as a treasure digger? Well, now there is. Thank you Mark Elwood.
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0:00.0

I am drawing what the account says happen. Again, not what I think happens, much more of a skeptic.

0:06.8

So if there is a giant that appears on a barn, it will be a giant on the barn, and not Joseph

0:14.8

Senior addressed up on the barn, for instance. Or if there's a ghost, there's a ghost on that kind of thing.

0:21.3

So I love it because I just found as I stitched all these stories together, it really made a compelling

0:28.0

narrative. Eventually we come out to each other, we trade notes, and realized that there's a lot

0:34.5

of history we didn't realize that was super fascinating. But also, we kind of went through backward,

0:40.0

like we walked away, and then we went to our angry phase, and then we're coming back out of that,

0:44.9

you know, like years later, we're like, oh, okay, you know, let's learn to enjoy, you know,

0:50.4

constructively deal with modernism, I guess. And that's how I decided to do it was I started to fall

0:56.4

in love with the folklore, tales, and the treasure digging creatures. I loved all the books,

1:03.1

but I know that's not for everybody, and so I was like, how can I contribute to the conversation?

1:09.4

And Sally, she, I like to say, you know, she inadvertently started morbidism, because the story is

1:16.7

that, you know, he went to go get a serious stone by using her stone. I had a sketchbook as I was

1:22.9

reading it, how it kind of be sketching the stuff out. You know, we started talking about,

1:26.3

we're like, these kind of cool to see, like, you know, people, it's one thing to read it,

1:30.2

but to see something, it's just, it's very striking, striking, striking. I ended up like, you know,

1:36.4

taking a book of Mormon and like cutting out some of those, uh, hieroglyphic pages, you know,

1:41.2

that facsimiles, and I like folded them up and put them in a little box, and that I had made in

1:46.6

school, I think, and then I cut a hole in my wall and put it in there, because I thought,

1:51.4

someday someone will open this wall and they'll find this thing, and we'll convert them to Mormonism,

1:56.0

you know, that's awesome. Yeah, so I hope my parents never listened to this episode, because I

2:01.1

like plastered back over the wall, and it's not a very good job, so.

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