#249 – Comic Books & Monsters

This episode is a wide-ranging discussion of comic books and monsters with professor Richard Harrison of Mt. Royal University in Alberta, Canada.

Superhero Life Lessons  – MRU article about comics curriculum

A Contract with God by Will Eisner (Amz Link)

Comics and Sequential Art: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist by Will Eisner

The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America (Amz Affiliate Link)

Seduction of the Innocent by Frank Wertham (The book that triggered the comics code crackdown)

Maus by Art Spiegelman

Concrete by Paul Chadwick

Tales from the Crypt by EC Comics

The Creature from the Black Lagoon (Amz Prime Streaming)

Bernie Wrightson’s Frankenstein (It’s out of print and too expensive, but here it is)

There is a reprint version through Barnes & Noble that may be (if you can find it) more affordable: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/frankenstein-mary-shelley/1137088139