Episode 159 – One! Hundred! Demons!

<p>True Stories, our series on autobiographical and nonfiction comics, continues with Lynda Barry’s emphatically punctuated One! Hundred! Demons!</p> <p>This collection of vignettes finds the acclaimed cartoonist grappling with such demons as a horrible boyfriend, teenage regrets, a difficult mother, a bad acid trip and the 2000 presidential election.</p> <p>The results are alternately charming, hilarious, melancholy, insightful and heartbreaking. But are they good enough to score a landslide victory at that ballot box known as ... The Comics Canon?</p> <p><strong>In This Episode!</strong></p> <ul> <li>The eagerly anticipated return of Kevin’s Secret Shame!</li> <li>Snuffy Smith cosplay</li> <li>Lynda Barry invents doomscrolling!</li> <li>The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist by Adrian Tomine</li> <li>Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood</li> <li>Giant Days Vol. 1</li> </ul> <p>Join us in two weeks as True Stories continues with Rebecca Hall’s Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts!</p> <p>Until then:<br /> <a href="https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-comics-canon" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Impress your friends with our Comics Canon merchandise</a>!<br /> <a href= "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-comics-canon/id1074541605" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rate us on Apple Podcasts</a>!<br /> <a href="mailto:letters@comicscanon.com" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Send us an email!</a><br /> Hit us up on <a href="https://twitter.com/thecomicscanon" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> or <a href= "https://www.facebook.com/thecomicscanon/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Facebook</a>!</p> <p>And as always, thanks for listening!</p>