EPISODE · Feb 22, 2019 · 1H 32M
The Tale of One Bad Rat, by Bryan Talbot
from Supercontext: an autopsy of media
This collected comic is about a victim of child abuse, while also serving as an homage to the work of storyteller Beatrix Potter. We discuss Talbot's approach to representing such difficult subject matter, while also crafting a book that was more user friendly to non-comics readers. Interested in the media we discussed this episode? Please support the show by purchasing it through our affiliate store: The Tale of One Bad Rat Additional Resources: The Tale of One Bad Rat homepage The Rat's Whiskers The Tale of One Bad Rat (Graphic Medicine) The Tale of One Bad Rat, or, thoughts on teaching adults to read comics Still Relevant Today: The Tale of One Bad Rat #metoo stories. Library Journal; 4/1/2018, Vol. 143 Issue 6, p53-53, 1/3p Donna R. White (2018) Finding Beatrix Potter: Bryan Talbot's The Tale of One Bad Rat, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2018.1533484
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