In This Issue… Episode 01: Black Hole #1 with François Vigneault
What?! A new pod??! Yep! Join host Zack Soto—cartoonist, editor and bin crawler—for In This Issue… a podcast about formative comics reading experiences, with a focus on the single issue format. Every episode finds Zack and a special guest doing a close reading of a comic book (not a graphic novel!) and havin’ a lively chat about it.
THE ISSUE:
Black Hole #1
Written, illustrated, & lettered by Charles Burns
Published 1995, Kitchen Sink Press
THE GUEST:
François Vigneault (website/insta)
We kick things off on In This Issue… talking about our first experiences with Charles Burns’ work, including a discussion of the short story where Burns first explored some of the ideas he’d later come back to in Black Hole—”Teen Plague,” first published in Raw Vol.2 #1 (1989).
From there, we dive into the plot/art/themes/symbolism/production design of Black Hole #1. A good time!
Zack & François getting to the bottom of all this danged symbolism!!!
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- Keith’s Nausea
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- spinnin out!
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- patterns resolve
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- grotesques in the real world
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- the poetry of flesh
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- drug culture
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- “wow” indeed!
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- Chris’s tent
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- Snake time!
And that’s it! Tune in next time for another close read with In This Issue…!
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