In this episode of the biweekly podcast, The Art of Comics, creators Paul Duffield and Jaws Stone discuss Beautiful Darkness, a dark fairytale comic drawn by Marie Pommepuy and Sébastien Cosset (under their pen name Kerascoët), and written by Pommepuy and Fabien Vehlmann.

As usual, this is an in-depth discussion, and there'll be spoilers for the story and content of the comic, so you might want to pause now, read the book and listen once you've had your own reaction. The episode is designed to work regardless of whether you've read it or not, so if you don't mind spoilers, dive right in!

Next episode, we'll be talking about volume 1 of Dorohedoro by Q Hayashida, so if you want to read along with us, pick up a copy and read it over the next month!

To support the podcast and access the AoC Podcast Discord, you can join Jaws' Patreon

In the this episode of the biweekly podcast, The Art of Comics, creators Paul Duffield and Jaws discuss the Parisian period fairytale, The Prince and the Dressmaker, by Jen Wang.

Even for us, this one's an extra-deep and personal discussion that covers themes of identity and queerness, and as usual there'll be spoilers for the story of the comic too, so you might want to pause now, read the book and listen once you've had your own reaction. The episode is designed to work regardless of whether you've read it or not, so if you don't mind spoilers, dive right in!

Next episode we'll be discussing PTSD Radio Volume 1 by Masaaki Nakayama, so if you want to read along with us, pick up a copy and read it over the next two weeks.

To support the podcast and access the AoC Podcast Discord, you can join Jaws' Patreon

In the third episode of the biweekly podcast, The Art of Comics, creators Paul Duffield and Jaws discuss Trung Le Nguyen's comic about a second generation American Vietnamese teenager, who helps his mother learn English through fairy tales while struggling to tell her about his sexuality.

It's a deep discussion, and there'll be spoilers for the story and themes of the comic, so you might want to pause now, read the book and listen once you've had your own reaction. The episode is designed to work regardless of whether you've read it or not, so if you don't mind spoilers, dive right in!

Next episode we'll be discussing Junji Ito's Uzumaki, so if you want to read along with us, pick up a copy and read it over the next two weeks.

To support the podcast and access the AoC Podcast Discord, you can join Jaws' Patreon