Cartoonist and educator Joel Christian Gill joins us to talk about his new book Stamped from the Beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America, an illustrated adaptation of Ibram X. Kendi’s 2017 release. He gives us a brief history of comics in American culture and discusses the medium as a sneaky way to teach people things. We also get into color theory, the difference between comics and graphic novels, and more!
The Stacks Book Club selection for July is Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. We will discuss the book on July 26th with Joel Christian Gill.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.
- Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi and Joel Christian Gill
- Fights by Joel Christian Gill
- LA Times Book Prize 2023
- Boston University (Boston, MA)
- Martinsville, VA
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Don Lemon
- Jesse Lonergan
- Ladies’ Home Journal
- Seduction of the Innocent by Fredric Wertham
- MAD Magazine
- Comics Code Authority
- “The History of the Underground Comix Movement” (River H. Kero, Book Riot)
- Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
- Stephen King
- Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Marvel Comics
- DC Comics
- Angela Davis
- Good Talk by Mira Jacob
- Graphic Women by Hillary Chute
- Northeastern University (Boston, MA)
- Monster by Naoki Urasawa
- Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
- Stamped by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds
- Stamped (for Kids) by Ibram X. Kendi and Nic Stone
- “The Short Stacks 22: Ibram X. Kendi//How to be an Antiracist” (The Stacks)
- Richard Pryor
- Dick Gregory
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Dave Chappelle
- Hamilton (Lin-Manuel Miranda, 2015)
- Cotton Mather
- Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
- “Ep. 194 How We Understand Loneliness with Kristen Radtke” (The Stacks)
- Seek You by Kristen Radtke
- Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristen Radtke
- Ghost Stories by Whit Taylor
- Montana Diary by Whit Taylor
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
- Julie Otsuka
- Emily St. John Mandel
- There There by Tommy Orange
- The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
- Nation of Islam
- Malcolm X by Manning Marable
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X
- Malcolm X (Spike Lee, 1992)
- Blood Brothers by Johnny Smith and Randy Roberts
- James Baldwin
- Bayard Rustin
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
- Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
- Asterios Polyp by Dave Mazzucchelli
- Frank Miller
- Batman
- Batman Year One by David Mazzucchelli and Frank Miller
- City of Glass by Paul Auster
- City of Glass: The Graphic Novel by Paul Auster and David Mazzucchelli
- Paul Karasick
- Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
- Watchmen (HBO)
- LeBron James
- Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland
- Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
- Elon Musk
- Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith
- Eisner Awards 2023
- The Divine Secrets of the Ya-YA Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
- A Promised Land by Barack Obama
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
- Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
- He Who Fights with Monsters by Marc Weitz
- The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Sean Covey and Stephen R. Covey
- Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Million Year Picnic (Cambridge, MA)
- Cheers (NBC)
- brookline booksmith (Brookline, MA)
- Maple Terrace by Noah Van Sciver
- Ethan Van Sciver
- Comicsgate
- Spawn by Todd McFarlane and Brian Holguin
- Ronald Reagan
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Tulsa race massacre
- The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee
- When Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson
- Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan M. Metzl
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