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Around the World in Thirty Comics
Comics Laboratory: Around-the-World Season
Completed · 72 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
Leung Man-tao: In France, Comics Are Called the “Ninth Art” Wang Ning: Reading a European Comic Is Like Watching a Film French Embassy: Comics Grow Up with the French Tao Langge: Read Comics, Explore History, Travel the World 1. A Brief History of Argentine Comics | How Boldly Do Cartoonists Discuss Politics? 2. Mafalda | Why Was Sanmao Fascinated by This Sharp-Tongued Girl? 3. The Eternaut | How Can a Work Outlive Its Creator? 4. A Brief History of Brazilian Comics | Cannibal Culture and Otaku 5. Angola Janga | A Mountain Kingdom of Enslaved People Bonus | More South American Cartoonists: Magic, Melancholy, and Wordless Comics 6. A Brief History of American Comics | The Enduring Superhero Complex 7. Kingdom Come | Does the World Really Need Superman? Bonus | Hawkeye's Clint Barton: Heroes Are Human Too 8. Fables | The Prince and Princess Lived Happily Ever After—Then What? 9. Beverly | Suffocating Readers with a Pillow of Repression Bonus | The Intruder: A Lonely Song of Ordinary People Worthy of Richard Yates 10. Nimona | Breaking Stereotypes of Female Characters in Comics 11. Fantagraphics | Bad at Business, Beloved by Independent Cartoonists 12. A Brief History of Canadian Comics | Why Is Canada an Enclave of European Comics? 13. Essex County | Home and Elsewhere, an Unsolvable Dilemma 14. Clyde Fans | Obsolete People and a Failed Fan Store 15. Drawn & Quarterly | Founded with $2,000, Comics' Finest Advocate Bonus | Revealing the 2020 Eisner Award Winners! 16. A Brief History of French Comics | From Newspaper Satire to the “Ninth Art” 17. The Reprieve and The Redemption | Exquisite French Comics Faithful to Love and Romance 18. The Wrath of Earth Trilogy | How Can Humanity Restart the Planet after Apocalypse? 19. Alan's War | An Ordinary Soldier's Oral History of World War II 20. Valerian | An Anti-Authoritarian Space Opera with a Powerful Heroine Bonus | Chess Story: A Lost Master and Zweig's Vanished European Golden Age Bonus | The Solitude of a Patient: “Prejudice Is the Product of Ignorance” 21. A Brief History of Belgian Comics | Home of the Smurfs, Tintin, and Spirou 22. The Adventures of Tintin | Tintin Forever, Forever on the Road 23. XIII | Police, Gangsters, Spies, Agents—the Most Compelling Identity Adventure 24. Olivier Schrauwen | The Comics Disruptor from Dutch-Speaking Belgium 25. A Brief History of Italian Comics | The Tender Home of Erotic Comics 26. Corto Maltese | The Comics Hero Who Advertised Dior Fragrance 27. A Brief History of British Comics | The Rebellious Home of V for Vendetta 28. Judge Dredd | “I Am the Law”: Justice or Fascism? Bonus | Ethel & Ernest: My Parents' Romance and the Tree Planted When My Wife Died 29. A Brief History of Spanish Comics | Did Picasso Draw Comics Too? 30. Blacksad | The Coldest Cat Detective Solves the Hardest Cases and Drinks the Strongest Liquor Bonus | Wrinkles: Alzheimer's and the World's Longest Goodbye 31. A Brief History of Japanese Comics | Did Japan Have a Book-Burning Movement? 32. Phoenix | Osamu Tezuka, the Eternal “God of Manga” 33. Akira | Katsuhiro Otomo and the Psychic Boy amid the Ruins 34. My Girl | Lost Time and the Secret Fragments of Childhood 35. Nejishiki | Art, Manga, and Yoshiharu Tsuge's Self-Portrait 36. Garo Magazine | A Thunderclap in Shōwa and an Alternative Stage Bonus | Kenji Miyazawa and the Fairy Tale Night on the Galactic Railroad Bonus | Jirō Taniguchi Walking and The Solitary Gourmet 37. A Brief History of Chinese Comics | Where Can Chinese Comics Be Reborn beyond the Mainstream? 38. Tarsylia | How Long Does It Take to Create a World? Bonus | Blades of the Guardians: First a Good Story, Then a Good Historical Comic 39. Biographies of Assassins | Knights-Errant in Ink Wash Bonus | Why Are Independent Comics So Popular in China? Bonus | Inconvenient but Happy: A Fantasy Guide to Rural Life after Leaving the City 40. A Brief History of Southeast Asian Comics | Between World Traditions, with Potential of Its Own 41. The Best We Could Do | A Bridge between Past and Present, a Vietnamese History in America 42. A Brief History of South Asian Comics | Tradition Meets Reality, Myth Meets Panels 43. Sita's Ramayana | Another Perspective on Women in Traditional Myth 44. A Brief History of West Asian Comics | Flowers of Comics on a Land of War 45. The Arab of the Future | Growing Up in the Middle East 46. A Brief History of Oceanian Comics | There Are No Islands in the World of Comics 47. Lies and How We Tell Them | Beneath the LGBT Rainbow Flag 48. Hicksville | A Fictional Comics College and a Love Letter to the Medium 49. A Brief History of African Comics | How Did Black Panther Influence African Comics? 50. Aya of Yop City | Women's Power and Memories from Côte d'Ivoire Bonus | Adventure, Legend, and Politics: What Else Can African Comics Do? Bonus | A Tour of Global Comics Awards: A Star-Studded Journey Closing Note and Reader Q&A: Let Us Keep Meeting in the World of Comics! Bonus | Idealist Youth Dialogue: Every Secret That Cannot Be Spoken Is Written in Comics Bonus | The Night Bus: Parked in Memory, Driving toward the Future