Description
This week, Marina ventures into the world of graphic novels with her daughter, Ineza Roussille. Ineza, a documentary filmmaker and visual storytelling enthusiast, has loved reading graphic novels ever since discovering Joe Sacco's works. In this episode, she doesn't just give us a breakdown of the popular categories within the genre, but also shares who her favourite authors and illustrators are.
Mentioned this episode:
Joe Sacco - Palestine
Alan Moore - Watchmen
Marjane Satrapi - Persepolis, Embroideries
Lorina Mapa - Duran Duran, Imelda Marcos, and Me
Alison Bechdel - Fun Home; Are you My Mother
George Takei - They Call Us Enemy
José-Louis Bocquet - Kiki de Montparnasse; Joséphine Baker
Tiziana Lo Porto - Superzelda
Guy Delisle - Jerusalem; Pyongyang; Burma Chronicles
Apostolos Doxiadis - Logicomix
Sean Michael Wilson - Parecomic
Jeffrey Wilson - The Instinct for Cooperation
Noelle Stevenson - Nimona
Aminder Dhaliwal - Woman World
Art Spiegelman - Maus
Malik Sajad - Munnu
Susie Hopkins - What to Do When I'm Gone
Reimena Yee - The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya
Erica Eng - Freid Rice
Sonny Liew - The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye
Whit Taylor (Kazimir Lee as contributor) - Harriet Tubman: Toward Freedom
Bong Joon-ho - Parasite: A Graphic Novel in Storyboards
Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained
Julie Maroh - Body Music
Mira Jacob - Good Talk
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