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Cathy G. Johnson + e jackson
Drawing a Dialogue
Visual Arts
K-12
History
English
A podcast discussing comics in historical + educational contexts. Updates first Friday of every month, visit comicarted.com for more.
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Episodes
64
07 November 2025
Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 62: Class Consciousness
Episode 62: Using a Marxist lens, remus and Cathy discuss class consciousness in the comic book industry. remus talks about class under Capitalism, sharing definitions of the proletariat, bourgeoisie, and the petite bourgeoisie.Citation: https://comicarted.com/blog/2025/11/7/drawing-a-dialogue-episode-62Contact: Email, Instagram, Bluesky
1 h 2 min
05 September 2025
Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 61: Professional Practices in Comics
Episode 61: Cathy and remus catch up after a summer break! Cathy shares the details of her career transition into more higher ed teaching, including her new courses in the Visual Narrative MFA program at Boston University. She then goes into depth about her new Professional Practices class at the Center for Cartoon Studies. What are the professional skills that cartoonists need in 2025? How can...
1 h 10 min
11 July 2025
Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 60: What's up With AI?
Episode 60: On this episode of Drawing a Dialogue, remus and Cathy discuss AI technologies. What is the history of artificial intelligence? What are the current conversations surrounding AI, and what is it actually capable of?Citation: https://comicarted.com/blog/2025/7/11/drawing-a-dialogue-episode-60Contact: Email, Instagram, Bluesky
1 h 29 min
06 June 2025
Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 59: The Studentcast!
Episode 59: The students speak out! Cathy interviews the Boston University Visual Narrative MFA graduating class of 2025. George, Joy, Francis, Sam and Jade share what it’s like to be a student in a comic masters program, important lessons they learned, and what future comics students should know. And most importantly…what’s Cathy actually like as a teacher??Citation:...
50 min
04 April 2025
Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 58: Freedom to Read RI
Episode 58: Cathy recently spoke at the Rhode Island state house in a press conference supporting the Freedom to Read Act in Rhode Island. The legislation is meant to address book bans and censorship for libraries, schools, readers and creators. On this episode of Drawing a Dialogue, remus and Cathy discuss the bill, its history, and its future.Contact: Email, Instagram, BlueskyCitation:...
1 h 3 min
07 March 2025
Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 57: Swann Fellowship and the Library of Congress
Episode 57: remus has just gotten back from their awesome fellowship with the Swann Foundation, which supports scholarly research and writing projects in the field of caricature and cartoon. remus shares their exploration the Library of Congress, where they gathered research in the SPX collection and Gale’s Archives of Sexuality and Gender. Join us!Contact: Email, Instagram, BlueskyCitation:...
1 h 17 min
07 February 2025
Drawing a Dialogue Presents, Episode 9: Karen Czap (Trans Cartoonists in the DIY Scene #6)
Karen Czap is an Ignatz Award-nominated cartoonist, author of Fütchi Perf and Four Years. Their coloring work can be found in The Breakaways, Freestyle, BUNT!, and more. Czap lives and works in Providence, RI as a member of the Binch Press / Queer Archive Works studio co-op. In this interview, we talk about the comics community, publishing with friends, conventions, and of course, the X-Men.For...
1 h 26 min
03 January 2025
Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 56: Exploring Romance Through Horror
Episode 56: Cathy and remus discuss their recent panel at Comic Arts Los Angeles. Cathy spoke with Silver Sprocket artists Yasmeen Abedifard, Connor B., Lonnie Garcia, and Nick Winn about why horror is a great genre to explore complicated relationships, first dates, and high school crushes in their new books.Contact:Email, Instagram, BlueskyCitation:...
1 h 5 min
06 December 2024
Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 55: Catching Up!
Episode 55: Cathy and remus catch up about life, teaching, and art practices. remus shares where they’re at with their PhD dissertation and talks about their exciting upcoming fellowship. Cathy talks about squaring the peg of their art and education practice. Topics include being mindful of audiences, the physiognomy of Pixar characters, Kenny makes an appearance, and more! Thanks for...
1 h 2 min
04 October 2024
Drawing a Dialogue Presents, Episode 8: Carta Monir (Trans Cartoonists in the DIY Scene #5)
Carta Monir is a performance artist, performer, and writer. She was a 2022 Tom of Finland Foundation artist in residence. Her work deals with her own transness, disability, and desire. She lives in Michigan. This interview is the fifth of our series supporting remus’ PhD dissertation work. Thank you for joining us! (Note: This episode is for mature audiences.)For episode citation:...
1 h 24 min