VTubers Reinvent Themselves with Avatars
There is a booming culture of VTubers – people who create content online, but their fans rarely see their real faces or know their names. VTubers use motion-capture technology to appear as animated ch...
13 Okt 202230min
When Death Joins the Cast of Characters
One of the most common tropes in fantasy genres is personifying Death – turning this abstract and often terrifying concept into a character that people can interact with. Sometimes Death is portrayed ...
28 Sep 202241min
Speculative Fiction Rewrites the Narrative on Colonialism
The stories we tell about the past can determine the way we understand the present. But what happens when we combine tales of magic and fantasy with some of the most traumatic chapters in history? I t...
14 Sep 202232min
Were The Jedi Bad Mentors?
In part 2 of our mini-series on mentorships, we travel to a galaxy far, far away. Amy Richau (co-author of Star Wars; I am Your Father and other Star Wars-related books) talks about her favorite partn...
1 Sep 202233min
Dynamic Duos and the Need for Mentorship
In the first of a two-part episode on mentors in fantasy genres, we look at the roles of superheroes and their protégées. Matt Fraction talks about the inspiration for his acclaimed comic book series ...
18 Aug 202229min
Why Kids on Bikes is a Perfect Storytelling Genre
When the artist Cliff Chiang co-created the comic book series Paper Girls, about four suburban kids in the ‘80s who get caught up in forces that can break space and time, he thought they’d come up wit...
4 Aug 202228min
Charting Strange New Worlds
It’s not often that I’m watching a TV show and I think, “I should ask the writers about that.” Luckily, I was in the same undergraduate film program as Henry Alonso Myers and Bill Wolkoff, who are wri...
21 Juli 202234min
It Ain’t Over Till the Robot Sings
I’ve long been fascinated by automatons – wind up mechanical beings that create the illusion of life. People have been making automatons for centuries, but how many automatons get to sing opera? This ...
7 Juli 202237min
