Episode 31
Join Dennis, Johnny, and Frances in this episode of Graphic Novel Explorers Club as they discuss Park Bench by writer and artist Christophe Chabouté. Park Bench is the story of a community going about its life around a simple, common park bench.
In this episode the gang discusses Chabouté’s ability to tell a beautiful and emotional story without using any character dialogue. Next, if there is or is not a French custom or law that requires one man to give another man his fishing rod based on penis size. Finally, why druggies ending up with “the bench” is more heartbreaking than one half of an elderly couple dying. Other topics include why “the party is unending” can’t last longer than “I love you”; the movement by local governments toward “defensive design“; and the storying telling and the art of Park Bench.
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Songe d’Automne by Latche Swing
