Deconstructing Comics
#880 Interviews: Emil Wilson (“The Nightingales”) and William Bernhardt (“The Superman Wars”)
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Emil Wilson is the author of the new graphic novel The Nightingales, about a family in 1985 who take in an AIDS patient. The book shows us the panic and misinformation that prevailed about the disease then, and government apathy about a disease that was mainly killing gay men. Wilson is a former advertising man who went to comics school in his 50s. Tim talks with him about the book.
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