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Episode 1: Eureka, transcript
We adapted this transcript from our working scripts, so it may not always be word-for-word accurate (particularly in the interview section), but it follows the structure of the recording, and may serve to help you locate what you need in the tape. If you plan to quote from the episode, please double check and clean up the transcription of the section you quote. Out on the Wire Episode 1: Eureka I’m Jessica Abel, and we’re going Out on the Wire. The show about making stories, step by step. [music] I’ve been making comics for 25 years. I’m probably best known for my graphic novel La Perdida, and for my two textbooks about making comics, Drawing Words & Writing Pictures, and Mastering Comics. I’m…
Episode 1: Eureka
Out on the Wire is the show about making stories, step by step. Join cartoonist Jessica Abel as she breaks down the principles of storytelling and puts you on the path to crafting your own story—in prose, comics, audio, video—in any narrative art form, fiction or nonfiction. Featuring radio and podcasting star producers from This American Life, Radiolab, Planet Money, Snap Judgment, and many more. Listen, learn, and collaborate with us at jessicaabel.com/podcast to make something great.
Episode one is about ideas. We investigate how to find them and how to follow your taste with the help of Ira Glass, Alex Blumberg, Stephanie Foo, and more.