NC Comicon Ushers In New Genres

WUNC | By Laura Lee,

Published November 13, 2015 at 12:07 PM EST

There was a time when comics meant thin paper booklets with drawings of superheroes. But today's comics fly beyond the page—they are multimedia experiences. A conversation with NC Comicon organizer and animator Tommy Lee Edwards and My Chemical Romance musician and comics artist Gerard Way

And comic conventions offer opportunities to see the latest on the intersection of traditional comics with movies, music, ebooks and video games.

Host Frank Stasio talks with NC Comicon organizer and animator Tommy Lee Edwards and My Chemical Romance musician and comics artist Gerard Way.

Laura Lee

Laura Lee began her journalism career as a producer and booker at NPR. She returned to her native North Carolina to manage The State of Things, a live daily statewide show on WUNC. After working as a managing editor of an education journalism start-up, she became a writer and editor at a national education publication, Edutopia. She then served as the news editor at Carolina Public Press, a statewide investigative newsroom. In 2022, she worked to build collaborative coverage of elections administration and democracy in North Carolina.

Laura received her master’s in journalism from the University of Maryland and her bachelor’s degree in political science and J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.

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