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Rob

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Flightless Bird
Nest Sessions: Nick Thorburn on Underground Comics

It's not a failed screenplay that I tried to, that I was like, I guess I'll turn this into a comic.

Flightless Bird
Nest Sessions: Nick Thorburn on Underground Comics

Yeah.

Flightless Bird
Nest Sessions: Nick Thorburn on Underground Comics

Personally, like a graphic novel, you know, good example.

Flightless Bird
Nest Sessions: Nick Thorburn on Underground Comics

There's a really good one from Canada called ducks by Kate Beaton.

Flightless Bird
Nest Sessions: Nick Thorburn on Underground Comics

And it tells, um, the author's story about being on the oil, uh,

Flightless Bird
Nest Sessions: Nick Thorburn on Underground Comics

fields in alberta and just the destitution just it's just a you know late capitalism just like just extracting resources from the world at like without any

Flightless Bird
Nest Sessions: Nick Thorburn on Underground Comics

care consideration.

Flightless Bird
Nest Sessions: Nick Thorburn on Underground Comics

And then you've got these, so these shitty conditions, and then you've got these people that are just kind of at the edge of society and how they behave and they behave kind of poorly.

Flightless Bird
Nest Sessions: Nick Thorburn on Underground Comics

And in her case, she was assaulted.

Flightless Bird
Nest Sessions: Nick Thorburn on Underground Comics

And so it sort of tells her story.

Flightless Bird
Nest Sessions: Nick Thorburn on Underground Comics

It's a very harrowing, very serious story, very beautifully told.

Flightless Bird
Nest Sessions: Nick Thorburn on Underground Comics

And

Flightless Bird
Nest Sessions: Nick Thorburn on Underground Comics

you know, an essential book.

Flightless Bird
Nest Sessions: Nick Thorburn on Underground Comics

And like, there's so many like that, that are so good and it's big and you know, it's like, it's 300 pages or whatever.

Flightless Bird
Nest Sessions: Nick Thorburn on Underground Comics

And you feel like you're, you're reading a novel in graphic form.

Flightless Bird
Nest Sessions: Nick Thorburn on Underground Comics

And then, so then a comic, you know, to me, like one of my favorite books,

Flightless Bird
Nest Sessions: Nick Thorburn on Underground Comics

comics is nancy ernie bushmiller it was a comic strip in the newspaper started out as another character and she was nancy was just the the niece of this main character in like the 30s or the 40s and then it just went until his death and then it even carried on after that but it's just a gag you know it's a gag comic

Flightless Bird
Nest Sessions: Nick Thorburn on Underground Comics

There's no like greater goal.

Flightless Bird
Nest Sessions: Nick Thorburn on Underground Comics

I mean, sometimes there is with Calvin and Hobbes.

Flightless Bird
Nest Sessions: Nick Thorburn on Underground Comics

I think there was like he was touching on some like deeper ideas and stuff.