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I made a list of ten great graphic novels for the @TrueNorthComics podcast, including kids' comics and stuff for teens and grownups (including nonfiction and memoir):

truenorthcountrycomics.com/2020/04/15/cor…

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For kids: Dragons Beware/Giants Beware (Rafael Rosado/Jorge Aguirre); The Glorkian Warrior Eats Adventure Pie/The Glorkian Warrior Delivers a Pizza (James Kochaka: You will laugh until you weep. Such amazing parent/kid bedtime reading); Phoebe and Her Unicorn (Dana Simpson)

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For teens: Drawn To Sex (Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan)

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Adults (comics): Bloom Country Episode XI: A New Hope (Berkeley Breathed: Trump has done some really terrible things, but at least he brought Breathed out of retirement); YUGE! (Garry Trudeau)

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Adults (memoir): Girl on Film (Cecil Castellucci: A memoir of growing up in the arts, but also a true story about the biological nature of memory.)

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Adults (nonfic): Making Comics (Lynda Barry: She’s a certified MacArthur ‘Genius’ and this shows why: her method for making comics is really a way of making meaning.)

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Adults (fic): Paper Girls (Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang); Woman World (Aminder Dhaliwal) Concrete Park (Tony Puryear: The first two are so good, afrofuturist masterpieces, really — but the creator appears to have orphaned them. Maybe this will nudge him to finish?)
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Last September, @tomcritchlow proposed a federated, decentralized "web of books" as an alternative to Goodreads, the monopoly platform of booklists owned by the monopoly platform of bookselling.



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Anthropology prof Clare Sammells (@csammells) teaches a class on the social subtext of zombie movies; in a beautifully wrought and extremely timely thread, she explains how zombie movies teach the wrong lessons for the pandemic crisis.



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Finding The Money is a new documentary about #ModernMonetaryTheory, a heterodox, exciting, and fascinating way to think about where money comes from and what it means for governments to run "deficits."

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stephaniekelton.com/book/

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