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Comics Laboratory: Open New Dimensions of Thought
Thirty classic European and American graphic novels explained
Completed · 56 episodes
Buy for ¥68.00
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 Dargaud: Comics Are an Art for Readers from 0 to 99 French Embassy: Comics Grow Up with the French Kubrick Bookshop: Discover the Appeal of Comics with Tao Langge Why Should We Read Comics? 1. Who Turned Batman Dark? | Frank Miller, The Dark Knight Returns Bonus | Iron Man, Loved 3,000 Times: How Did a Second-Tier Character Become Marvel's Star? 2. The Shared Idol of Hayao Miyazaki and George Lucas? | Moebius, Arzach 3. A Royal Descendant Seen as a Threat by the State | Persepolis (Part 1) 4. What Could Destroy Europe—Disaster or Lies? | Chernobyl Spring 5. Life in Chernobyl | Chernobyl Spring 6. Exile and the Awakening of Female Consciousness | Persepolis (Part 2) 7. An Endless Train—or Hell on Earth | Snowpiercer 8. How Do You Draw Living Ballet on a Flat Page? | Polina 9. The Eccentric Writer Who Hated Film Adaptations | V for Vendetta and Watchmen 10. The World Is Brown through Obsessive Eyes | The Brown World Bonus | Translator Laizi: Fidelity, Fluency, and Elegance in Comics Translation 11. Childhood on the Middle East Powder Keg | A Game for Swallows 12. A Cross-Border Family Drama Triggered by an Inherited Home | The Property Bonus | Translator Laizi: Translation Is an Art of Regret Bonus | A Life That Never Surrenders Will Become Beautiful (Part 1) Bonus | A Life That Never Surrenders Will Become Beautiful (Part 2) 13. Loving, Marrying, and Having a Child with Someone Living with HIV | Blue Pills Bonus | Science Fiction's Greatest Regret: Jodorowsky and Moebius's Dune 14. A Paper Architect's Urban Universe | The Obscure Cities Bonus | Today We Read the Comics Poem Yassin 15. The First Nonfiction Comic to Win a Pulitzer | Maus (Part 1) 16. From Mice Underground to Jews on the Stage | Maus (Part 2) Bonus | War Comics and Childhood under Fire 17. A Paper Film to Rival Once Upon a Time in America | Once Upon a Time in France 18. Nazi Germany Was Not Built in a Day | Berlin 19. Everyone Who Said Comics Cannot Pay Owes Him an Apology | A Contract with God Bonus | Revealing the 2019 Eisner Award Winners! 20. Perhaps I Am Destined to Be the Greatest Cartoonist | The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye Bonus | Interview with Singaporean Cartoonist Sonny Liew 21. Everyday Comics Worthy of Yasujirō Ozu | The Walking Man Bonus | Satoshi Kon, the Cartoonist Who Broke the Eighth Wall 22. Three Thousand Years of Animal Fables since Aesop | March of the Crabs Bonus | A Qixi Self-Help Guide to Romance Comics 23. The Life, Death, and Dreams of an Obituary Writer | Daytripper Bonus | What Is It Like to Attend School with a Serial Killer? | My Friend Dahmer 24. Seeing the World through a Cat's Eyes | The Rabbi's Cat (Part 1) 25. If Cats Learned to Think | The Rabbi's Cat (Part 2) Bonus | Chinese Cartoonists Who Published in Europe Return Home 26. An Odyssean Journey through Comics | Asterios Polyp (Part 1) 27. Polyphonic Narrative through Color | Asterios Polyp (Part 2) Bonus | Joker: Why So Serious? 28. You Think Only New Pants Musicians Draw Comics? | Here Bonus | Teachers' Day: Teachers in Comics and Teachers of Comics 29. Why Read Paper Books in an Age of Convenient Screens? | The Old House Bonus | Three Jameses and Half a Family History | Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth 30. When a Cartoonist Meets a Photographer | The Photographer Bonus | Online Life in a Post-Truth Age | Sabrina 31. Exploring the Outermost Boundaries of Comics | 3 Seconds Happy New Year! A New Journey for 2021