Podcast appearances and mentions of georgia webber

A program called Kids Love Comics! begins Monday at Downtown Comics. It includes a Summer Reading Club, with a book pick for every week through the summer. Georgia Webber is a co-founder of the Kids Love Comics program, and she joined us in the studio today to discuss the program.

Durham County Library’s Patrick Holt talks about how he helps book groups find and discuss great graphic novels; Audio Editor Heather Booth shares her top 5 tips for bringing audio to your book group; and Books for Youth’s Ronny Khuri talks about the underrated art of the picture book and gives a few suggestions. Wow! Here’s what we talked about: (links on booklistonline.com/shelf-care) Booklist’s Reading for Change Anti-Racism Reading List Black Lives Matter Comics Reading List Encyclopedia of Early Earth. Written and illustrated by Isabel Greenberg Boxers. Written and Illustrated by Gene Luen Yang Saints. Written and Illustrated by Gene Luen Yang Aya of Yop City. Written and illustrated by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Obrerie. Understanding Comics. Written and illustrated by Scott McCloud. Scott McCloud’s TED Talk Patrick also recommends reading "Inventing Comics" by cartoonist Dylan Horrocks, originally published in The Comics Journal, and Lynda Barry’s Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor, which, in addition to being relevant, is also “just real freakin' inspirational.” March: Book One. Written by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin. Illustrated by Nathan Powell. Comic Book Legal Defense Fund: Using Graphic Novels in Education Dumb: Living Without a Voice. Written and illustrated by Georgia Webber. Audiobooks for your book group: Dominicana. By Angie Cruz. Read by Coral Peña. Stonewall Reader. Edited by the New York Public Library. Read by a full cast. The Bishop’s Pawn. By Steve Berry. Read by Scott Brick. The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home. By Joseph Fink and Jeff Cranor. Read by Mara Wilson. American Manifesto: Saving Democracy from Villains, Vandals, and Ourselves. By Bob Garfield. Read by the author. The Killer Across the Table. By John E. Douglas. Read by Jonathan Groff. Ronny Khuri is reading: Lion Needs a Haircut. Written and illustrated by Hyewon Yum The Magic Fish. Written and illustrated by Trung Lê Nguyễn

Episode 81 features a chat with graphic novelist and musician, Georgia Webber, who builds community through graphic medicine, her MAW vocal arts series and more. Georgia is a generous artist, and we get into her exciting career, through the lens of one of her early mentors, Doug Friesen, and her time studying at Rosedale Heights School of the Arts from 2003 to 2007.

Georgia Webber, writer and illustrator, comes to the Cavern of Secrets to talk about what it means when you can't express yourself, learning to draw again, and allowing the possibility that someone will say ‘yes' and help you. Georgia's graphic memoir, Dumb, is about what it means to become voiceless and how it changes you. Our favourite moments: “If there's something that calls for my voice to be raised at all in a really loud way, I can push it if I want to and I most of the time really want to. But it's a bad idea.” [4:43] “I had always wanted to make comics but I didn't feel like I was good enough to start. Which is a terrible trap to be caught in.” [5:34] I hit send. I woke up the next morning and I felt - god, I'm gonna sound like such an asshole right now - I felt the closest thing I can to enlightened.” [10:05] It's much harder for us to accept something that changes constantly and it's much harder for the wide broad us to accept complication” [14:55] “It's also fascinating to collaborate with someone and have her voice at the centre of it but she can't see what I'm doing. She's exercising a massive amount of trust…” [17:00] “This idea of disability as a shift in health paradigm as the rest of the world to accept is something that I'm grappling with” [24:00] “I could see all the accommodations that were being made for people who had those different needs and being in that space and sharing it with them was not a detriment to my experience in any way” [28:05] CREDITS: Cavern of Secrets is hosted by Lauren Mitchell. Produced by Ellen Payne Smith & Katie Jensen, with assistance from Vicky Mochama and Sarah Daniel. 

In 2012, Georgia Webber stopped talking, save for 15 or so minutes a day. The act of vocalizing had simply become too painful. A year later, she began to serialize Dumb, the story of her struggles as a vocal abuser (the official diagnosis). The work follows the young cartoonist as she struggles to adjust to living without speech, concocting methods for communicating with friends and family and otherwise coming to grips with a newfound fact of life. Initially self-published, the book would later be collected by Retrofit Comics and, ultimately, as a single volume by Fantagraphics, which debuted over the summer.  These days, when she does speak, Webber takes a measured approach,  choosing words carefully. In this conversation, the cartoonist discusses the insights her struggles have given her into the ways in which we chose to communicate.

Jimmy went to the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) over the weeekend and got a ton of great interviews! In this episode, he talked to Sophie Goldstein and Georgia Webber. Sophie talks about her new book House of Women and her influences for it and her art. Georgia talks about her graphic memoir Dumb: Living Without A Voice and the difficulties of not talking for months. Leave your iTunes comments! 5 stars and nothing but love! Also, get a hold of us! Thanks for listening!

This week's episode of the podcast is special, and in a number of ways. First, Derek and Andy W. record the show "live" from a common location and not from a distance via Skype. Also, they discuss their experiences at this year's Small Press Expo, which took place September 19-20. Most importantly, though, this episode is notable for its focus on the 2015 Ignatz Awards, the first time that the Two Guys have discussed this industry recognition in any in-depth manner.  In fact, almost the entire episode is devoted to the Ignatz nominees, a substantial number of texts, and as a result, this show goes longer than usual. And they break up recording the show over a two-day period: the first third after day one of SPX (and before the Ignatz winners have been announced), and the final segment after the event has ended. Andy and Derek begin by sharing some of their experiences at SPX, including the people they met, the creators they talked with, the small press publishers who attended, and the general demographics of the crowd (this was a con that definitely skewed young). Then they go into a rundown of all the 2015 Ignatz Award nominees, discussing the nine different categories and briefly highlighting the five nominees under each. There are some categories, such as "Outstanding Anthology or Collection," that the guys find a little problematic. Both Andy and Derek feel that a collection by a single artist and an anthology comprising a variety are completely different beasts and, as such, shouldn't be clumped together in this manner. There are others, including "Promising New Talent" and "Outstanding Comic," that would benefit by clearer context. (For example, what exactly defines a "new talent," and how   might an "outstanding comic" be distinguished from an "outstanding graphic novel"?) In the final segments of the episode -- the last 2/3 that was recorded after that final day of SPX -- Derek and Andy go into detail about many of the titles nominated for an Ignatz. They list the winners of each category, which were made public on Saturday night of the con, and provide a few observations. The Ignatz Awards winners are chosen by popular vote, anyone who attends the event can cast a ballot, so the Two Guys with PhDs take some of the results with a sizable grain of salt. For example, they're surprised by the fact that neither Noah Van Sciver and Ethan Riley (both highly accomplished and nominated multiple times) received anything. Or that Drawn and Quarterly: 25 Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels was shut out. Or how Sophia Foster-Dimino came out as she did. Still, one of the most notable takeaways from this year's ceremony is the fact that women completely swept the awards, so this is definitely a year of significance. After a brief discussion of the winners, Andy and Derek get into a detailed analysis of may of the nominated titles, especially focusing on those works they've not yet discussed on previous episodes. These include Ed Luce's Wuvable Oaf (Fantagraphics), Jillian Tamaki's SuperMutant Magic Academy (Drawn and Quarterly) and "Sex Coven" (from Frontier #7, published by Youth in Decline), M. Dean's K.M. & R.P. & MCMLXXI (1971), Walter Scott's Wendy (Koyama Press), Gina Wyndbrandt's Big Pussy (2D Cloud), Jason Little's Borb (Uncivilized Books), John Porcellino's King Cat #75, and Georgia Webber's Dumb series. There are so many great titles to cover, and as a result, the show goes longer than the guys anticipated. But that's OK. SPX and the Ignatz Awards only come once a year, so why not take advantage of this celebrated occasion?

Comics artist Georgia Webber joins Sam and Marnie in a discussion about inner voice and how we manage those interior cheerleaders and critics that we face while making work. Also in this episode: encores at the symphony, the burden & usefulness of awards, FGOs and lessons towards bravery gleaned from a Bob Newhart sketch on MadTV. Marnie recommends: Vulnicura by Bjork Sam recommends: Southeastern by Jason Isbell, and a page from somewhere in the middle of "Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking" by David Bayles and Ted Orland More information on Georgia: http://georgiasdumbproject.com/ Follow Image+Text! - Twitter: @ImagePlusText - Tumblr: imageplustext.tumblr.com - Subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher

Georgia tells us all about DUMB, her comics project that relates her experience with voice loss.

Toronto cartoonist, Georgia Webber stopped by my office during her west coast tour, to sit down for an interview. Georgia’s series, Dumb, is a fascinating work documenting her life, navigating through a severe vocal injury. Georgia will be in Portland … Continue reading →