4 stars
As a committed listener to several podcasts, I really appreciate this form of communication and feel like the possibilities are endless. This book details, in graphic format, how a radio show is developed from the point it becomes a possibility to the moment it airs. It started as a shorter comic following Ira Glass and NPR's This American Life and then Jessica Abel expanded it to include other popular narrative radio programs. I enjoyed the behind-the-scenes aspect and the interviewees were surprisingly candid about the process. It is an extremely text heavy graphic book, which I found overwhelming at times. There was also several bespectacled men that I had a hard time distinguishing from one another. For the most part, though, the author does a commendable job of keeping the programs and people distinguished from each other. This isn't an area that I have dedicated involvement so I am surprised at how interesting the intricate details ended up being in this graphic narrative and I really enjoyed reading about the steps involved in broadcasting one of these programs. I received this book from the Blogging for Books program in exchange for an honest review.
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