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🗓️ 29 November 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Writer and artist Gabe Eltaeb gave up his dream job of working at DC Comics when they turned their back on their characters and on America. Gabe joins the Babylon Bee to discuss how wokeness is infesting America’s cultural institutions from top to bottom and what he’s doing to be the change he wants to see in the world.
Gabe has recently worked on the Rippaverse with Eric D. July and he has a new project you can support: Truth. Justice. American Way: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/truth-justice-american-way#/
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0:00.0 | So that's 30 years of dreaming of that and I just walked away like that because |
0:05.0 | Easy comics isn't my source. God is my source and I'm like I will not be a part of this |
0:18.2 | All right everyone well, thanks for joining us. Thank you for joining us gave this gonna be a great discussion about you know |
0:22.7 | World comics and yeah, love what you're doing out |
0:26.0 | Why don't you tell us a little bit about your story? |
0:27.7 | You get me you did illustrated legit comics. Yeah, I |
0:32.2 | When I was 13 I saw |
0:34.9 | X-man issue one at my friend Sean bandie's house and I was like what is this and I never bought comics before because I didn't have a lot of money |
0:41.7 | I grew up you know single mother sometimes we had a few steps to that's in the picture |
0:46.0 | But I got I'd always loved to draw since I was a little little boy and the first thing I remember drawing was Star Wars space battles |
0:52.1 | In the back of my grandparents restaurant |
0:53.5 | I pull up butcher paper and draw like X-wings and tie fighters three years old them doing this |
0:58.0 | So I always loved to draw and then I knew about comics |
1:01.0 | But I never bought them I saw that comic at Sean bandie sounds Jim leaves illustrator |
1:05.0 | High-selling comic book of all time in America 8 million or something copy sold of this book in 1992 and comics had a boom in |
1:12.5 | 1992 like the housing boom with the tech boom comics had a boom from like 89 to 93 or something like that then a crash |
1:18.1 | But that's what got me into I decided right there. I think I was 13 or 12 I decided in that moment. I was an upbeat |
1:24.7 | I was gonna be his friend. I was gonna work for him |
1:26.8 | I was gonna be a comic I decided right there when I was gonna be the rest of my life and |
1:30.8 | You know I went to college I did comic strips |
1:33.1 | I told you before the show like a Dilbert Garfield style that was highly award winning one |
1:37.6 | Called higher education or I wrote the jokes. That's why I admire you guys get the Babylon be so much because you write all these great jokes |
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