236: Action. The Story of a Violent Comic - a podcast by Eamonn Clarke

John Caro is aprincipal lecturer in the department of creative and cultural industriesat the university of Portsmouth. He was on the film club recently talking about 1970s films that influenced 2000AD, and now he makes his book club debut with Martin Barker's history of Action comic and its legacy. Hard copies of the book are hard to find but you can read some sections of it on John Freeman'sDown the Tubes website.

Check out John's writing about Action on thePop Junctions blog, listen to him talk about the 2000AD Action special onSpace Spinner 2000 episode 266, and head to thePortsmouth Comic Con website.

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Music used in this episode is Circuit Breaker by the artist Robodub.


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