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EP: 88 Comics, Cartoons, and the Courage to Start Over a conversation w/ Chuck Patton

August 6, 2026·1h 21m
Episode Description from the Publisher

Send us Fan Mail In 1983, Chuck Patton became the first Black artist to draw Justice League of America, and helped build one of the most divisive, and now most re-examined, eras in the team’s history: Justice League Detroit. This week on Back to Pop, Chuck takes us from a kid in Detroit who wanted nothing but to draw comics, through Dick Giordano’s New Talent workshop, the fan backlash over Vibe and Gypsy, and the napkin story behind his Titans work with Marv Wolfman, all the way to t...

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