Episode 193
Paper Girls
Supercontext: an autopsy of media · Charlie Bennett
February 28, 20202h 5mExplicit
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Show Notes
This comic book series by Brian K. Vaughan and artist Cliff Chiang started in 2015 as a story about four preteen girls coming of age in the 80s. We look into how the creators produced the comic while examining their skepticism of nostalgia in a post-Stranger-Things world.
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