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Stateside Podcast: Big win for Michigan-born comics scholar

All of the Marvels
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Comic critic and author of the new book, All of the Marvels, Douglas Wolk talks plowing through 56 years worth of Marvel comics.

San Diego Comic-Con International is kind of like the Nerd Oscars: very glitzy with stars of top-grossing comics-based movies and awards galore.

The Eisner Awards are the highest honor in comics. This year's winner of the Eisner for Best Comic-related Book is Michigan-born writer and critic Douglas Wolk.

Last year Wolk consumed some 27,000 comic books — the entirety of Marvel Comics’ output spanning more than half a century. He wrote a book about it: All of the Marvels. On today's rerun episode, Wolk shares Marvel triumphs and misses. He also reveals what it took get through all those books.

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GUEST:

Douglas Wolk, writer, critic, and journalist

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Erin Allen comes to Michigan Radio as a new producer for the station’s Stateside show. She is an experienced communicator driven by her curiosity about stories of people.
Rachel Ishikawa joined Michigan Public in 2020 as a podcast producer. She produced Kids These Days, a limited-run series that launched in the summer of 2020.