POP CULTURE AND GEEK BOOK LIST DECEMBER 2019

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Welcome to the first issue of the Full Contact Nerd newsletter.  In November and December I interviewed voice actress Faya Mata about her anime and gaming work and you can listen to that here. I also interviewed Rebecca Thompson about the science in Game of Thrones and you can listen to that here.

Today’s book listings range from gothic animals, video game landscapes, Disney history, an H.G. Wells biography, Star Wars art, to Stan Lee. Enjoy. Click here for a list of relevant books being published between January and June 2020.

ANIME AND MOVIE ART STUDIES

The Art of Concrete Genie

COMIC BOOK AND ANIMATION HISTORY

A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee

DISNEY HISTORY

Walt Disney’s Ultimate Inventor

One Day at Disney

Discussing Disney

FANTASY STUDIES – LITERATURE AND ART

Roy G. Krenkel

Literary Fantasy in Contemporary Chinese Diasporic Women’s Literature

Re-Enchanted

FILM AND TV STUDIES

Why We Remake

Girlhood on Disney Channel

HORROR STUDIES – LITERATURE, MOVIES, AND ART

Monster Anthropology

An Ethical Guidebook to the Zombie Apocalypse

Get Out

NOIR, THRILLER, AND MYSTERY FICTION AND FILM STUDIES

Hong Kong Dark Cinema

Mexico Noir

MYTHS AND FOLKLORE STUDIES

Mediating the Otherworld in Polish Folklore

SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES – LITERATURE, MOVIES, AND ART

H.G. Wells

STAR WARS AND STAR TREK POP CULTURE

The Moviemaking Magic of Star Wars: Ships & Battles

Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker Visual Dictionary

Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker The Galactic Guide

I Am C-3PO – An Inside Story

VIDEO GAME AND BOARD GAME STUDIES

War Games

Architectonics of Game Spaces

Ludotopia

WEIRD FICTION STUDIES

An Eclectic Bestiary

Gothic Animals

WESTERNS AND OLD WEST HISTORY

Heroes of the Borderlands

The American West on Film

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Comic book history – Comic book writer – Christopher Priest interview

Christopher Priest has been a comic book writer for over 40 years and has worked for both Marvel and DC. He’s written for Deathstroke, Justice League, Vampirella and many other titles. He also helped to redevelop Black Panther.

{Note: The sound gets better after a minute or so but I wanted to include some interesting pre-interview talk that unfortunately doesn’t have the same sound quality as the full interview.}

0:20 – Christopher talks about the creation of Black Panther.

1:35 – Christopher talks about how Black Panther developed.

2:36 – Christopher talked about how he got into the comic book business.

4:00 – Christopher talks about what got him his job at Marvel.

6:30 – Christopher talked about working on Cracked magazine and being mentored by Stan Lee.

8:05 – Christopher talked about what story lines inspired him most.

10:15 – Christopher talks about his various career milestones.

12:50 – Christopher talks about the comic book business.

14:45 – Christopher talks about how he got Power Man and Iron Fist.

16:30 – Christopher talks about where he gets his writing ideas from.

20:15 – Christopher talks about developing Man Ape.

22:15 – Christopher talks about his role with the Black Panther film.

23:00 – Christopher talks about how he redeveloped Black Panther.

26:50 – Christopher talks about his professional life following Black Panther.

stop at 29:00

35:00 – Christopher talks about Deathstroke on tv.

36:03 – Christopher talks about the storylines he created that he’s most proud of. He goes into his Justice League storyline.

43:54 – Christopher can be found on Christopherpriest.com

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Links of interest

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Guests: Christopher Priest

Host: Cris Alvarez

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