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Katie Green, Denise Mina, Joe Sacco & Me on Open Book!
Posted: October 27, 2013
Today at 4pm on BBC Radio 4’s Open Book, Katie Green, Denise Mina and Joe Sacco join me to discuss graphic novels with Mariella Frostrup, with a contribution from Neil Gaiman. You can listen to it again at 3.30pm on Halloween and online over the coming year. Here’s the BBC’s blurb for the programme.
“The cartoonist Joe Sacco brings political awareness to the art of illustration. His book Palestine, which depicted everyday life inside the Territory, won the American Book Award in 1996, while Safe Area Gorazde is an account of his visit to Bosnia during the Civil War there. Joe has now turned his attention to the First World War. With no words and a book of pictures that pulls out to 24 feet long, this latest book, The Great War, focuses on one day of the conflict - the first of July 1916 - the opening day of The Somme, when almost sixty thousand British soldiers were killed or wounded.
“Sales of graphic novels and comics have increased in the UK by over a thousand per cent in the past 10 years and it’s also no longer the preserve of Spider-Man et al ker-powing their nemeses into cowering submission; today’s graphic novels can be a serious business, featuring topics from reportage and anorexia to politics and crime fiction. To explore the rise of the graphic novel Mariella is joined by Katie Green, who has just published the autobiographical Lighter than My Shadow about her battle with anorexia, the award winning novelist Denise Mina who has also written the comic series Hellblazer and has recently been adapting The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo into graphic novel form and Paul Gravett, the Editor of 1001 Comics you must read before you die and author of Comics Art.
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