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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Prolific artist and illustrator Steve Teare
– Steve’s work in The Nib, The Believer, Awry, Bright the Mag, Vice, and The New Yorker
– The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
– Subsequent representations of the TMNT: gritty, hyper-violent Manga, “Dawson’s Creek,” goofy, adult, film, more film, most film(?)
– “Middle-Aged Mutant Ninja Turtles”
– Three screen incarnations of the Batmobile: West, Keaton, and Bale
– Susan Sontag’s essay “Notes on Camp”
– Armond White’s review of The Dark Knight
– Struggle Session
– Sam Kieth’s “dreamy grungy masterpiece” The Maxx
– David Graeber’s book The Utopia of Rules
– Dave Sim, “misogynist comics wizard of type and word bubbles”
– Greil Marcus, “music and critic and mythologizer of all things American”
– Fredric Wertham’s book Seduction of the Innocent
– Hell House
– Robert Bly’s book Iron John
Please rate, review, and subscribe! Or just recommend the show to a friend!
Send questions, comments, and suggestions to [email protected].
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
By Matthew Buckley Smith4.8
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Prolific artist and illustrator Steve Teare
– Steve’s work in The Nib, The Believer, Awry, Bright the Mag, Vice, and The New Yorker
– The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
– Subsequent representations of the TMNT: gritty, hyper-violent Manga, “Dawson’s Creek,” goofy, adult, film, more film, most film(?)
– “Middle-Aged Mutant Ninja Turtles”
– Three screen incarnations of the Batmobile: West, Keaton, and Bale
– Susan Sontag’s essay “Notes on Camp”
– Armond White’s review of The Dark Knight
– Struggle Session
– Sam Kieth’s “dreamy grungy masterpiece” The Maxx
– David Graeber’s book The Utopia of Rules
– Dave Sim, “misogynist comics wizard of type and word bubbles”
– Greil Marcus, “music and critic and mythologizer of all things American”
– Fredric Wertham’s book Seduction of the Innocent
– Hell House
– Robert Bly’s book Iron John
Please rate, review, and subscribe! Or just recommend the show to a friend!
Send questions, comments, and suggestions to [email protected].
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

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