The organization I work for held its national conference this past week in Washington, DC. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow dropped by NBC Universal’s booth and I felt that was an ideal opportunity to try to land an interview with her. I kept it low-key; all I really wanted to do was ask her a question: You are frequently cited as a comic book reader, but what titles do you actually read?
I decided I would only ask one question and that’s the one I really wanted to hear the answer to. There have references like this defense of comic book readers or this NY Times profile that mentioned that she reads comics & graphic novels. But that could mean anything, from “Oh, I read Maus” to “I’m very big on Betty and Veronica.”
Since it was quite noisy, here are the titles that she mentions. It’s a good list and I’m going to have to pick up the ones I haven’t read yet.
- Ex Machina, created by Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris
- Y: The Last Man, by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra
- Alan’s War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope, by Emmanuel Guibert
- Identity Crisis, written by Brad Meltzer
- Fables, written by Bill Willingham
- Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel
- Shooting War, by Anthony Lappe and Dan Goldman
My two favorite moments are when she makes the “bunny ears” behind my head (which I didn’t know she was doing at the time) and when she shakes her fist vehemently at me to express her urgent desire for me to read Shooting War.
Tags: Rachel Maddow, comic books, graphic novels, MSNBC
2 Responses
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Bob Westal Says:
Extremely cool. I’ve read only very, very few comics over the last several years, but that interview makes me want to do as Rachel does and eliminate the TV and go straight for the funny books.
If it were me, we’d be talking about cocktails.
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Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey Says:
I always thought those “bunny ears” were supposed to be “devil horns.” You are so innocent.