188 - POIR 30

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Marked as explicit because of strong language.

Still living in a Tier 2 city, Charles Adrian talks about three slim books, all of which feature characters who are children.

More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.

You can read about The Good Immigrant on Nikesh Shukla’s website here: http://www.nikesh-shukla.com/the-good-immigrant. You can read Darren Chetty on the prevalence of white protagonists in Media Diversified here: https://mediadiversified.org/2013/12/07/you-cant-do-that-stories-have-to-be-about-white-people/ and you can download Beyond The Secret Garden by Darren Chetty and Karen Sands-O’Connor here: https://www.academia.edu/37977267/Beyond_the_Secret_Garden_Black_Asian_and_Minority_Ethnic_Representations_in_Childrens_Literature

If you, like Charles Adrian, are confused about comic book terminology, there is an article about Trade paperbacks on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_paperback_(comics) If you are near Angoulême in France, meanwhile, and interested in comics and graphic novels, the Cité Internationale de la Bande Dessinée et de l’Image is well worth a visit: http://www.citebd.org/

Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 115 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/115-antosh-wojcik/), Page One 116 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/116-joseph-paterson/) and Page One 117 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/117-iskandar-sharazuddin/).

Episode image is a detail from a photo by Charles Adrian.

Episode recorded: 29th October, 2020.

Book listing:

Beside The Sea by Véronique Olmi (trans. Adriana Hunter) (Page One 115)

Cloud Busting by Malorie Blackman (Page One 116)

Saga (Volume One) by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Page One 117)