Comics Are Great! 32 – Alchemical Science

It’s a discussion devoted to using the art of comics to celebrate history and science on this week’s Comics Are Great! But what might be the best part of the episode is how the discussion turns to a general talk about why comics are such an effective medium regardless of topic.

I’m joined this week by Jim Ottaviani, who just released his latest comic biography of the great physicist Richard Feynman, and Nick Abadzis, celebrated author of the historical graphic novel Laika.

If you’re up for a discussion on why comics are so well suited for stories about science, how to get in the mind of your characters, as well as some terrific visual storytelling techniques available to a cartoonist, you won’t be disappointed.

Links mentioned in this episode (thanks to Eric Klooster for collecting them!):

• A Brief History of Time
• Horrible Histories
• Nick Abadzis’ sketchblog
• Synesthesia
• Color Theory
• José Muñoz
• Jamie Hernandez
• Drawing Words and Writing Pictures
• First Second Books

Here’s the video from this episode’s live stream (audio player at the bottom of this post):

Tune in next Wednesday live at 12:30 pm Eastern Time on Comicsaregreat.tv!

Audio hosting provided by Ka-Blam Digital Printing. This episode was recorded live at the Ann Arbor District Library.

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