I’ve been dropping hints about this regularly for the last year or so, but here’s the official word: I am at work on a major project on narrative techniques and ideas of the new generation of great American journalists/storytellers on the radio. Jumping off from Radio: an Illustrated Guide, a 32-page comic I did in collaboration with Ira Glass back in 1999 (and which you can still buy via TAL), I’ve been talking to radio people and thinking about radio and story pretty much nonstop since April of 2012.
The book will be close to 200 pages, and will be out…probably in late 2015, I’m guessing, from Crown Books. I have a lot of comics to draw between now and then, so watch this space for updates on that estimate, or follow/subscribe in one form or another.
My occasional newsletter will have links to recent material, and I’ll probably start a radio-comics-specific sub-list at some point, which you can indicate interest in when you sign up.
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