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IT'S A TRIPLE THREAT! Cartoonist and educator Beth Hetland storms into the ring, folks, taking Yan and Nat by surprise. And what's she got with her? She's—OH MY GOD! It's "Black Hole" by Charles Burns! She's taken over the comics half! Can Nat survive another horror comic? Will Yan finally get taken to school? This is going in the history books, folks! Give it up one more time for the people's champion, BETH... HETLAND!
00:00 - Welcome to the show, Beth!
06:33 - Beth 'Rant-land': Horror in the Underground
20:32 - Yan and Nat Recap Black Hole
33:22 - Discussion
1:04:17 - Beth's Final Questions
In this episode, Yan and Nat read Black Hole by Charles Burns — Issues #1 to #3, or until the chapter divider "BAG ACTION."
Transcript and bibliography available here.
Beth Hetland is a critically-acclaimed cartoonist and award-winning educator. She teaches comics and comics-adjacent courses at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She self-publishes comics that are both solo works and with her longtime collaborator Kyle O'Connell.
Buy Beth's new book "Tender" from your local bookstore, Fantagraphics if you live in the United States, or Amazon anywhere else. Follow her @bethhetland on Bluesky and Instagram.
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Comic Sans is an Andas Productions podcast hosted by Myle Yan Tay and Nathaniel Mah, produced by Scott Lee Chua and Roshan Singh Sambhi. Edited by Maddy Searle. Cover art by Isabel Fang. Transcribed by Danielle Anne Espinosa.
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