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Cathy Guisewite and Aack Forged by Jamie Loftus
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The AV Membership has a brief assessment of the Aack Forged by Jamie Loftus radio present.
The sequence concluded a number of weeks in the past, however listening to all 12 installments of Aack Forged By Jamie Loftus in a single marathon run is definitely the superior expertise—and when you suppose you don’t want a number of hours of content material unpacking the enduring legacy of the Cathy sketch and defending the character towards her mocking detractors, put together to really feel as silly as Cathy searching for swimwear.
Loftus, who has already gained a devoted listenership with My Yr In Mensa and Lolita Podcast, nimbly zooms out and in on Cathy’s 34 years on the funnies web page to look at the strip’s place in comics historical past, the realities it showcases (or overlooks), and what we get mistaken in regards to the protagonist’s perpetual state of befrazzlement.
However most memorable of all are Loftus’ prolonged interviews with creator Cathy Guisewite herself, who speaks candidly in regards to the technique of bringing her semi-autobiographical characters to the web page; listeners can hear the mutual fascination that interviewer and interviewee maintain for each other, every of a era that in so some ways can’t probably perceive how issues had been (and are) for girls of their time.
Read Marnie Shure’s mini-review at AV Club.
Then verify all the Aack Cast episodes.
I’ve solely listened to Aackt 1, to this point, which was an exquisite introduction to Cathy by Cathy Guisewite from the comic strip’s inception to its present incarnation as a one panel commentary.
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