In this episode, Cathy + e create a biography for Jackie Ormes. Born in 1911, Ormes was a cartoonist, reporter, fashion designer and community organizer during an important century of American history. Cathy + e discuss the seminal role Ormes had in the black press during a pre-civil rights movement America, notably challenging derogatory caricatures of black women of the time.

For episode citation: https://comicarted.com/blog/2018/10/5/drawing-a-dialogue-episode-15

In this episode, Cathy + e explore how the multimodal experience of comics is ripe with possibilities for engaging with neurodiversity. e discusses disability theories applied to reading and creating comics. Cathy talks about the educational applications through Social-Emotional Learning.

For episode citation: https://comicarted.com/blog/2018/9/7/drawing-a-dialogue-episode-14

Cathy + e discuss the history of fatphobia and how fat-negative bias was developed in North America. They talk about repercussions in the media + how it still affects us today, including how children develop their sense of self + others.

For episode citation: https://comicarted.com/blog/2018/7/6/drawing-a-dialogue-episode-13

Malana Krongelb is the librarian at the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center and the founder and curator of Brown University’s first zine collection. Started in 2016, the collection focuses on sharing and preserving zines by marginalized creators and consists of titles from 1974-2018.

For episode citation: https://comicarted.com/blog/2018/06/1/drawing-a-dialogue-presents-episode-2

In the longest episode yet, Cathy + e present research on how racism affected the development of the visual language of cartooning. Spanning the 1700s to today, this episode explores the history of art education, caricature and how-to-draw books, and maps the history of minstrelsy in America, creating connections that informed early cartooning. In-depth research offers multiple samples of primary sources, including the art of “physiognomy,” the pseudoscience of judging character from facial features.

For episode citation: https://comicarted.com/blog/2018/5/11/drawing-a-dialogue-episode-12

In this episode, Cathy + e look at the history of queer comics in the American underground and build a biography for the cartoonist + illustrator Jeffrey Catherine Jones. Queer erasure is examined while a history is looked at, researched, and built.

For episode citation: https://comicarted.com/blog/2018/4/6/drawing-a-dialogue-episode-11

In this episode, Cathy + e examine the art historical idea of “the canon.” They discuss definitions of the word, the history of the practice, canonization’s criticisms, and how comics are understood within the framework.

For episode citation: https://comicarted.com/blog/2018/3/9/drawing-a-dialogue-episode-10

Cathy + e take a look at censorship, banned books, and why some things are deemed appropriate for kids and some things aren’t. e looks at the history of obscenity and how societal censorship suppresses marginalized voices. Cathy examines children’s learning development in reading and art, how graphic novels get categorized, and why.

For episode citation: https://comicarted.com/blog/2018/2/9/drawing-a-dialogue-episode-9

Historically, mass-produced media is monickered as “low culture,” while fine art is “high.” Where does this dichotomy come from, how are comics treated in this binary, and how can educators take advantage of it? In this episode we dissect the history of accessible media and how comics in the classroom can benefit. Live from Comic Arts Los Angeles!

For episode citation: https://comicarted.com/blog/2018/1/5/drawing-a-dialogue-episode-8

Walker Mettling is the co-founder of the Providence Comics Consortium, which is a series of comics classes taught in Providence Community Libraries. Mettling and his collaborators have produced over 25 books of kids' and adults' comics over the past 7 years.

For episode citation: https://comicarted.com/blog/2017/12/1/drawing-a-dialogue-presents-episode-1