To the Best of Our Knowledge

PROMO       7/15/2007    "Heroes, Anti-Heroes, and Regular Folks"
*Everyone knows what comic books are about, right?  But it's not all
about people in long underwear hitting each other.  Next time on To the
Best of Our Knowledge, heroes, anti-heroes, and regular folks strutting
their stuff in black and white.

PROGRAM RUNDOWN: "Heroes, Anti-Heroes, and Regular Folks"

0:00 - 17:30        SEGMENT 1: (17:31)
            Austin Grossman design games and writes about comics. 
            He's also the author of a novel called "Soon I Will Be
            Invincible."  We hear produced excerpts from the book,
            and Grossman tells Jim Fleming that he tried to respect
the comics conventions in his prose.              
                    
            Segment One Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

17:31 - 18:00  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

18:01 - 33:35       SEGMENT 2: (15:36)
            Douglas Wolk writes about comics and pop music for Salon,
            The Believer, The Washington Post and others, and is the
            author of a combination history and appreciation called
            "Reading Comics - How Graphic Novels Work and What They
            Mean."  Wolk tells Steve Paulson why comics became such a
            vital medium for individual artistic expression. Also,
            Ulli Lust is one of the new generation of comics artists
            publishing her own work, and the work of a collective of
            other young European artists, online. Steve Paulson spoke
            with her from her Berlin studio about why they made the
            move to cyberspace.
                    
            Segment Two Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

33:36 - 34:05       LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

34:06 - 53:00       SEGMENT 3: (18:54)*****Language Advisory*****
            Roberta Gregory writes and draws the comic strip
            featuring the mis-adventures of Midge McCracken, AKA
            "Bitchy Bitch."  Gregory tells Anne Strainchamps where
            the character came from and what the response to her has
            been.  And we hear a dramatization of part of the series,
            which includes some profanity, all of which has been
            "bleeped" out. Nothing except the name of the character
            is heard in the piece. Also, Terry Moore has just
            concluded the fourteen year run of his series "Strangers
            in Paradise" which chronicled the lives or ordinary
            people.  TTBOOK Technical Director Caryl Owen is a fan
            and talks with Terry Moore about doing comics about
            people who aren't super-heroes and what's coming next for
            him.
                    
            Segment Three Outcue: PRI Audio Logo


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