In The Fanbase Weekly, the Fanbase Press staff and a host of special guests from across the pop culture spectrum discuss the top geek stories of the week.
In the latest episode, The Fanbase Weekly co-hosts welcome special guest Moni Barrette (comics librarian, author – Enhance Your Library, Enhance Your Well-Being: How to Fight Burnout and Reclaim Library Joy) to discuss the latest geek news stories of the week, including the controversy surrounding the Charity & Sylvia graphic novel, the dangerous precedent set by the conviction of anti-ICE protestors making zines, and looking back at the film, Independence Day.
Hosts: Barbra Dillon (Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief), Claire Thorne (creator, A Geek’s Guide to Cross-Stitch: Journeys in Space), and Drew Siragusa (Fanbase Press Senior Contributor)
Special Guest: Moni Barrette (comics librarian, author – Enhance Your Library, Enhance Your Well-Being: How to Fight Burnout and Reclaim Library Joy)
This month’s sponsor: Saved & Spoiled
Saved & Spoiled is a webcomic about Wilson, an enthusiastic rescue dog, and Dewey, the pedigreed cat whose orderly life is turned upside down by Wilson’s arrival! The creators of the series will be at San Diego Comic-Con in Small Press (Booth O-13) this year! Stop by and check it out or visit savedspoiled.com.
https://www.instagram.com/savedandspoiled/
Segments:
17:51 – (ComicsBeat) Professor Rachel Hope Cleves wants Walden’s CHARITY & SYLVIA licensed as an adaptation
34:54 – (The Guardian) ‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
47:50 – (Den of Geek) 30 years ago, the biggest sci-fi blockbuster of the ’90s quietly changed Hollywood forever
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The Fanbase Weekly Theme Song Produced by: Mikal kHill
Episode Photo by: Sean Foster
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