About this episode
This episode serves as a welcoming introduction to The Comics Canon for newcomers, offering recommendations and insights into the world of comics.
Got a burning question for The Comics Canon? Submit a question for our upcoming Ask Us Anything episode, airing Wednesday, March 4! Send us an email at letters@comicscanon.com or hit us up on Facebook or Bluesky no later than Friday, February 27! After 10 years and 250 episodes of rendering judgment on the greatest comic book stories of yesterday and today, we decided it's finally time to record an episode for newcomers to the podcast – or to comics themselves! In this super-accessible jumping-on point, we walk listeners through a typical episode of The Comics Canon and offer our recommendations for anyone interested in exploring comics, broken into 10 helpful categories: Comics for Kids Comics for All Ages YA/Young Adult Comics Memoirs Humor Comics Crime Comics Horror Comics Superhero Comics Cosmic Comics and the 800-pound gorilla of superhero graphic novels: Watchmen! Also in This Episode! · What ARE comics, anyway? · Who we are and how we came to be · The creative comics boom of the 1980s · "Your son is hooked on Micronauts." · The one book we'd hand to anyone interested in the comics medium Join us in two weeks for the second in our two-part anniversary series, as we answer…
People in this episode
Host: The Comics Canon
Topics covered
- comics for beginners
- comic book recommendations
- history of comics
- comics genres
- listener engagement
Keywords
- comics
- recommendations
- Watchmen
- Ask Us Anything
- comic book history
- comics genres
- listener questions
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Watchmen
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