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Quarantined Comics
by Quarantined Comics
Comics aren't just about superheroes in capes. Each week we'll discuss, debate, and nerd out on some of the medium's greatest, latest, and strangest works. From Alan Moore to Uzumaki, to everything in-between, we aim to smash, and talk for far too long on the books we love. Hosted by reporter/podcaster Ryan Joe and recovering marketer Raman Sehgal. We're setting phasers to...fun?
Episodes
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RIP Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026): Perspolis’ (perplexing) Persian protagonist
In memory of the recently passed Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026), re-airring our chat about Persepolis from July 2024) Rest In Peace/Power. https://www.npr.org/2026/06/04/nx-s1-5846531/marjane-satrapi-obituary “The normalization of things being taken away. You see all the things going on in Tehran in...
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DESCENDER / ASCENDER ...the robots could've just left a note.
“We need some sort of framework to say what is okay and what is not okay — and we need to revisit this when the technology changes..” The more we read, the clearer it gets — it’s just another AI-pocalypse in the making. First its replacing the means of production, then its hallucinations no one…
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BABEL ...magical translation & colonization
“Translation — it's listening and understanding. It's trying to understand each other, trying to find some common ground, but understanding that there is a gap and that's okay, because we're all different.” There’s this really good book about a kid in England who gets into an elite school to…
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Superman & Fantastic Four: Clobberin' Time for Apathy w/ Stefan & Karl
“What's funny is, people are talking about these movies being woke, but it's literally just what superheroes are supposed to be about — kindness, empathy, and protecting people that can't be protected. ” “These are times where we are told that you can't afford to look out for more than yourself…
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ComiXmas 10: KINGDOM COME ...and why Superman is a BAD manager
Merry ComiXmas! Week 10: KINGDOM COME "In a darkened future, ideals collide, Superman’s hope meets Batman’s dark pride. With legacy at stake, they clash in the night, Old heroes struggle, wrongs turned to right— In Kingdom Come, by Waid and Ross, they confide." " This holiday season, we're airing...
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ComiXmas 9: THE FLINTSTONES ...existential dread in the modern stone-age
Merry ComiXmas! Week 9: THE FLINTSTONES "In Bedrock’s world, where stones are the trend, Fred and Barney, with laughter, defend. Mark Russell’s wit on capitalism bites, As they juggle brontosaurus burgers and fights— Who knew cavemen could critique our spend?" This holiday season, we're airing…
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ComiXmas 8: MARVELS ...reality TV and the end of the world
Merry ComiXmas! Week 8: MARVELS "Through Phil Sheldon’s eyes, the heroes rise, In Alex Ross’s art, their strength amplifies. From awe to doubt, his views shift and sway, Finding the heart in the masks they display— In Marvels, he learns there’s more to the prize." This holiday season, we're…
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ComicXmas 7: THE SECRET TO SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH... I hope you're jogging while listening to this podcast
Merry ComiXmas Week 7: THE SECRET TO SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH "In search of strength, I train and flex, While dodging yoga mats and life's complex. With weights and wisdom, I struggle and play, Finding power in running from snacks every day— In The Secret to Superhuman Strength, Bechdel’s life…
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ComicXmas 6: USAGI YOJIMBO... a bunny with bushido
Merry ComiXmas Week 6: USAGI YOJIMBO "In a land of honor, a brave samurai, A bunny named Usagi, quick on the sly. With sword in paw, he’s ready for fun, Battling through mischief, no murder on the run— Just a friendly hero, making foes sigh!" This holiday season, we're airing our 10 COMICS OF…
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ComiXmas 5: SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW ...space horses, space racism, and true grit
Merry ComiXmas Week 5: SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW "Amidst a cosmic quest for justice and grace, Supergirl and Ruthie ride on a space horse through space. With a planet destroyed and vengeance in tow, They confront dark foes, letting courage glow— Through battles and trials, new lessons…
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ComiXmas 4: PAPER GIRLS ...uneasy conversations with our younger selves
Merry ComiXmas Week 4: PAPER GIRLS "Paper girls racing through a neon-lit haze, Bikes clash with time in a wild, twisting maze. With aliens blasting and shadows that creep, They battle through chaos, their secrets to keep— In a trippy adventure where dreams set ablaze!" This holiday season, we're...
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ComiXmas 3: ESTHER'S NOTEBOOKS ...your guide to kids, parenting, and french hip hop
Merry ComiXmas Week 3: ESTHER'S NOTEBOOKS "In Esther’s life, each day’s a show, Riad’s keen eye captures all her woe. From playground drama to lunchroom fights, He writes down her quirks, her dreams, her delights— A glimpse of growing up, with all its wobbly flow! This holiday season, we're…
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Reflecting (a slide): Berlin
It's the morning after, I’ll leave some fresh comments at the top of the episode. It was crushingly hard to tell my daughter before she went off to school. We're probably all asking ourselves, how did we get here? So easier to just re-air this Quarantined Comics episode from August 2022 about the...
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ComiXmas 2: NOT ALL ROBOTS ...what AI can teach us about toxic masculinity
Merry ComiXmas Week 2: NOT ALL ROBOTS "In a world where bots do all the grind, Humans lounge, completely blind. 'Hey, we’re not useless!' they all proclaim, While robots roll their eyes in shame— 'Good luck, meatbags; we’re done being kind!' " This holiday season, we're airing our 10 COMICS OF…
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ComiXmas 1: ON A SUNBEAM ...get in your goddamn goldfish spaceship
Merry ComiXmas Week 1: ON A SUNBEAM "In space where love’s a cosmic mess, Mia’s heart’s in total distress. She’s fixing ships and dodging tears, While reminiscing ’bout her crush for years, Just hoping her love life’s not a game of chess! This holiday season, we're airing our 10 COMICS OF XMAS…
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SWAMP THING ...Ryan's lazily lost loquacious episode
way back when, on October 10, 2022, Ryan made Raman re-read Alan Moore's seminal run on Swamp Thing, which Ryan then forgot to edit and release. hey, life got busy! Lasting from issues 20–64 between 1984–1987, Moore's series completely reshaped the character of the Swamp Thing. In an effort to…
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RIP John Cassaday ...ASTONISHING X-MEN (2020 Replay)
So this is the second episode paying tribute to the late great John Cassaday, the award winning comics artist, best known for his co-creation of Planetary, which we revisited last week John Cassaday passed away far too soon at the age of 52 on September 9, 2024 in New York City. Be sure to check...
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RIP John Cassaday ...PLANETARY (2021 Replay)
A few weeks ago, we lost a great comics artist far too soon. John Cassaday was an award-winning American comic book artist, writer, and television director - who passed away on September 9, 2024 in New York City at the age of 52 i think it goes without saying that comics is a medium where great...
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BURMA CHRONICLES ...ain't nothin' like Panama?
BURMA CHRONICLES is the 2007 graphic travelogue by French-Canadian cartoonist Guy Delisle — which presents a personal and distinctively humorous glimpse into a political hotspot on the other side of the world, where the Delisle balances his ex-pat home-husbandry, the spinning politics a...
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MARIKO TAMAKI's ...many (Surely) Books
"The idea that a person can't relate to something because it's not directly about them is a misunderstanding of who's been reading books this whole time." Mariko Tamaki is an award-winning Canadian comics creator and writer — known for works like Skim and This One Summer (with her cousin Jillian...
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ROAMING... still feeling both very old and very young
In honor of ROAMING sweeping this year's EISNER's, we're revisiting this previous episode about a GREAT work ROAMING is the graphic novel winner of three 2024 EISNER awards for best graphic novel, best writer, and best penciller/inker - by cousins Mariko + Jillian Tamaki. It's a book about three...
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PERSEPOLIS ...perpetually perplexed by a Persian protagonist
During a worldwide Quarantined Comics and Rabbit Fighters podcast REVOLUTION, Raman + Josh (two non-Persian dudes doing a Persian protagonist podcat) got the ORIGINAL band back together to talk about a comic that somehow NEITHER of us had read before, PERSEPOLIS, by Marjane Satrapi, an award...
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VEERA HIRANANDANI ...the Night Diary (+more) on Modern Minorities
“What happens after we've survived? What's our responsibility to somebody suffering more than I am? For kids it’s like, ‘Let's just go over and help them — like, why wouldn't we?’ “ = With summer here, and QC still on hiatus while Raman + Ryan tend to their day-jobs, we wanted to feature a chat...
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MANREET SODHI SOMESHWAR ...the Partition Trilogy on Modern Minorities
”Being a writer is just bloody hard work and passion. It is a kind of madness, which compels you every day to go to say, ‘OK, let's do it again today’ “ = With summer here, and QC still on hiatus while Raman + Ryan tend to their day-jobs, we wanted to feature a chat from Raman's OTHER podcast...
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RABBIT FIGHTERS ...unfrozen caveman Weezer?!?
Raman joins longtime friend of the pod Josh (whose past episodes include Dune, Black Science, and Red Son) on HIS podcast RABBIT FIGHTERS. The topic? their long, complicated relationship with the band WEEZER - alongside fellow Rabbit fighters Greg and Brian. Rabbit Fighters is a show where three...
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WORM ...Edel Rodriguez' Cuban American's Odyssey.
Edel Rodriguez is a Cuban American artist, activist and author who’s created more than 200 magazine covers for the likes of Time, The New Yorker, Newsweek and Der Spiegel - which are singular and striking given our current political climate. Edel’s latest work is the graphic memoir "Worm: A Cuban...
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XYZ Comics ...cheating the alphabet with R.Crumb
to close out 2023's alphabetic soup of comics, we're closing the year with a cheat and reading “XYZ Comics,” by cartoonist legend R. Crumb. “XYZ Comics,” published in 1972, is more of a 28 page pamphlet that reflects Crumb’s rather interesting state of mind at the time. Crumb was a few years out...
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WILL EISNER... reviewing the godfather of the graphic novel
No one was more influential in pushing what sequential storytelling can be than Will Eisner, the so-called godfather of the graphic novel. His legendary body of work started when he was just a young buck in the 1940s trying to capture the superhero craze with "The Spirit," through the early 2000s...
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VISION ...a synthezoid tragedy, or just poor decision-making?
V is for... VISION, 2016's Eisner award winning series by writer Tom King and artist Gabriel Hernandez Walta. King should be a familiar name to you by now, as we've read more than a few of his works on this podcast, including Mister Miracle and the Human Target, two stories about troubled...
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UZUMAKI (revisited) ...Junji Ito's still scary manga treat
do you want to hear a scary story? well have we got a Halloween treat for you! U is for...Uzumaki. Uzumaki is manga legend's Junji Ito's seminal horror series from 1998. The entire populace of a small seaside town becomes obsessed with spirals. If you're into bodily, psychological, and cosmic...
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TOMINE ...the Modern Minorities conversation
T...is for Tomine! that is Adrian Tomine, one of our all time favorite graphic novelists, who we've covered on this podcast before (The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist, etc). We recently had the privilege of sitting down with Adrian Tomine on Raman's OTHER podcast, Modern Minorities,...
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SABRINA... murder in a post-truth world
In today's world, solving a crime often isn't the end. Everyone has their own version of events and the means to amplify that version, whether true or not. Nick Drnaso's eerie graphic novel "Sabrina" takes place in mundane environments: offices, homes, restaurants, but beneath it all is this...
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ROAMING... helping us feel both very old and very young
This week, Raman and I look at "Roaming," the latest graphic novel from our favorite comic creator cousins: Jillian and Mariko Tamaki. We previously reviewed their coming-of-age collaborations "Skim" and "This One Summer." "Roaming" is in fact three coming-of-age stories in one. Three young women...
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PATIENCE... a blast into the past
In our last episode, we looked at "On a Sunbeam," about an intense love through space. This week, we look at "Patience," about an intense love through time. Part romance, part mystery, and all sci-fi trippiness, "Patience" came out in 2016 and marks one of Dan Clowes's most ambitious graphic…
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ON A SUNBEAM ...get in your goddamn goldfish spaceship
Have you ever thought about enrolling in an space-Hogwarts, falling in love, only for your high school sweetheart to get wisked away by her space-homesteader aristocrat sisters, and deciding to join a space-cathedral reconstruction crew living and working on a space salamander eating chili and...
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NOT ALL ROBOTS ...what AI can teach us about toxic masculinity
N is for NOT ALL ROBOTS - a future fiction work by Mark Russell, who you might remember for schadenfreude takes on modern society thru his critically acclaimed work on "The Flintstones" (seriously, look it up) In Not All Robots, writer Mark Russell + artist Mike Deodato, Jr. drop us into the 2056...
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MAUS ...keeping the stories alive
Cartoonist Art Spiegelman began serializing the tale of his father's Holocaust surival in 1980, famously depicting the Jews as mice and the Nazis as cats. The strip ran from 1980 to 1991, and was eventually collected in two volumes. In 1992, it became the first graphic novel to win the Pulitzer....
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IN LIMBO ...reliving our teen trauma, one eyelid at a time
Have you ever wondered what its like to be a asian teenage artist coming of age in the suburbs of the big city, with an unpredictable and often unbearable mother, while also saddled with a sense of regret and enui? this week we're reading IN LIMBO, the debut graphic memoir by Deb JJ Lee. Our…
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KARI ...melancholy and the infinite, indian sadness
K is for KARI, the 2008 debut by Indian graphic novelist Amruta Patil, who's since gone on to become a leading voice in the Indians comic scene, illustrating a number of projects - including a reimagining of the Hindu epic the Mahabharata. In Kari, we meet the eponymous protagonist upon her...
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J: TIME ZONE J ...Whatever you do, don't answer the fan mail
Canadian cartoonist Julie Doucet is most famous for her indie strip from the 90s "Dirty Plotte," about her struggle being a young woman in the indie comics scene. More than 20 years later, Doucet has returned with "Time Zone J," where Doucet, now middle-aged, recalls a torrid romance she had with…
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INSIDE ZOE THOROGOOD'S HEAD... a portrait of the artist as a young woman
Zoe Thorogood is just about to turn 25 and she's already an artistic force. She burst onto the comics scene with "The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott," published in 2020, about a young artist doomed to go blind. She followed that up with her brilliant memoir "It's Lonely at the Centre of the...
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POLITE SOCIETY ...Good Pop Culture Club
This month to celebrate Asian Pacific Heritage Month in Asian hosted podcast, we're bringing you an episode from Good Pop Culture Club, one of our sister podcasts from the Potluck Podcast Collective. Good Pop Culture Club is a regular discussion about the good pop that gets us through our days....
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HUNGRY GHOST ...featuring Books & Boba
This month to celebrate AAPI heritage we're featuring an episode from Books & Boba, one of our sister podcasts from the Potluck Podcast Collective - a podcast group we're part of that features unique Asian American voices and stories. Books & Boba is a book club dedicated to books written by…
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HUMAN TARGET ...what's wrong with noir fan service?
This week, we're reading the 2022 Human Target limited series by Tom King and Greg Smallwood. You'll remember how much we love Tom King from multiple previous episodes like Mr. Miracle and Superman Woman of Tomorrow. In this latest series, Christopher Chance, aka the Human Target, is on his…
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GENE LUEN YANG's ...American Born Chinese
So with Asian American Heritage Month, we decided that G should be for Gene Luen Yang ...mostly as an excuse to read AMERICAN BORN CHINESE, Yang's Eisner Award-winning, seminal graphic novel soon to be released as a Disney+ streaming show with a bevvy of Oscar winners. American Born Chinese is…
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FAMILIAR FACE... it's like being in a Radiohead album
In Michael DeForge's Familiar Face, the world is always changing, commutes are being altered, and peoples' bodies are constantly being transformed, or "optimized." The citizens of this world exist in an environment that they cannot control or even begin to understand. Sound familiar?
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ESTHER'S NOTEBOOKS ...your guide to kids, parenting, and french hip hop
As we continue reading our way thru the alphabet — E is for Esther's Notebooks, the critically acclaimed cartoon series that chronicles the hilarious and heartbreaking true life of a young girl growing up in Paris, by Riad Satouff, the award-winning French Syrian cartoonist best known for his...
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DOOM PATROL... Grant Morrison's laundry list of weird ideas
The Doom Patrol debuted in 1963, just a few months before the X-Men. The two titles had a lot in common: a group of superpowered misfits led by a man in a wheelchair. But while the X-Men soon found their way into the pop cultural canon, the Doom Patrol could only muster a cult following — and…
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CATWOMAN ...rad goggles and criminal noir.
C is for...CATWOMAN! Catwoman is much more than a feline-themed criminal in a cat-suit. Despite sexy portrayals by Julie Newmar, Lee Meriwether, Eartha Kitt, Michelle Pfeiffer, Halle Berry, Anne Hathaway, Camren Bicondova, or Zoë Kravitz would have you believe, Selina Kyle, AKA Catwoman has the...
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BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL ...violent and improbable
On the surface, the samurai epic Blade of the Immortal is all about the violence, with its gorgeous splash pages of kaleidoscopic dismemberment. Created by Hiroaki Samura, a manga artist about whom very little is known, Blade of the Immortal follows a familiar outline: a young girl named Rin…
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Comics aren't just about superheroes in capes. Each week we'll discuss, debate, and nerd out on some of the medium's greatest, latest, and strangest works. From Alan Moore to Uzumaki, to everything in-between, we aim to smash, and talk for far too long on the books we love. Hosted by reporter/podcaster Ryan Joe and recovering marketer Raman Sehgal. We're setting phasers to...fun?
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