{"id":19793,"date":"2022-05-25T14:52:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T21:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studygroupcomics.com\/main\/?p=19793"},"modified":"2022-06-04T17:53:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T00:53:14","slug":"in-this-issue-episode-01-black-hole-1-with-francois-vigneault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zack-soto.com\/studygroup\/in-this-issue-episode-01-black-hole-1-with-francois-vigneault\/","title":{"rendered":"In This Issue… Episode 01: Black Hole #1 with Fran\u00e7ois Vigneault"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What?! A new pod??! Yep!<\/a>\u00a0 Join host Zack Soto<\/a>\u2014cartoonist, editor and bin crawler\u2014for In This Issue…<\/strong> 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.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

THE ISSUE:<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Black Hole #1<\/a><\/h4>\n

Written, illustrated, & lettered by Charles Burns<\/a><\/h4>\n

Published 1995, Kitchen Sink Press<\/a><\/h4>\n

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THE GUEST:<\/h3>\n

Fran\u00e7ois Vigneault (website<\/a>\/insta<\/a>)<\/h4>\n

We kick things off on In This Issue…<\/strong> 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<\/em>\u2014”Teen Plague,” first published in Raw Vol.2<\/em> #1 (1989).<\/p>\n

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From there, we dive into the plot\/art\/themes\/symbolism\/production design of Black Hole #1. A good time!<\/p>\n

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Zack & Fran\u00e7ois getting to the bottom of all this danged symbolism!!!<\/p><\/div>\n

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