start_// While scavenging for spare parts, cartoonist Sloane Leong rescues the head of a cyborg named Yan from the scrap heap. After some repairs, she connects it to a Non-Autonomous Torso ("N.A.T."), creating something greater than the sum of its parts — a comics podcast! Together, they read "Battle Angel Alita" by Yukito Kishiro. What follows is the recording of their conversation. //_endThe conversation with Sloane Leong continues in the Comic Sans Aftershow, our Patreon-exclusive podcast where Yan and Nat c...
start_// While scavenging for spare parts, cartoonist Sloane Leong rescues the head of a cyborg named Yan from the scrap heap. After some repairs, she connects it to a Non-Autonomous Torso ("N.A.T."), creating something greater than the sum of its parts — a comics podcast! Together, they read "Battle Angel Alita" by Yukito Kishiro. What follows is the recording of their conversation. //_end
The conversation with Sloane Leong continues in the Comic Sans Aftershow, our Patreon-exclusive podcast where Yan and Nat chat in depth with guests on their work and creative practice. Become a Friend of Comic Sans today!
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In this episode, Yan and Nat read Chapters 4–7.
Show notes and bibliography coming soon!
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00:00 - Welcome to the show, Sloane!
04:35 - Introducing "Battle Angel Alita"
10:13 - Yan and Nat's Five Words
11:22 - Yan's Recap of Chapters 4–7
12:59 - Discussion
48:23 - Nat's Final Questions
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Sloane Leong is a cartoonist, writer, and illustrator of mixed indigenous ancestry. Through her work, she engages with visceral futurities and fantasies through a radical, kaleidoscopic lens. Sloane is co-founder of Cartoonists United (f.k.a. the Cartoonist Cooperative), an organization dedicated to improving the working conditions and defending labor rights of cartoonists around the world so they can develop a sustainable creative practice.
Buy Sloane's Eisner- and Ignatz-nominated graphic novel "A Map to the Sun" from First Second Books. Subscribe to their blog or follow them on Instagram and Bluesky.
Comic Sans is an Andas Productions podcast hosted by Myle Yan Tay and Nathaniel Mah, produced by Scott Lee Chua and Roshan Singh Sambhi. Edited by Maddy Searle (audio) and Kit Ling Leong (video). Cover art by Isabel Fang. Motion graphics animation by Knikni Studio (Maryana Rudakova).
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