Cleveland Review Of Books

Conducted in the fall of 2018, episode 1 of the CRB Podcast is Billy Lennon (CRB's Editor-in-Chief) interviewing the, amongst many other things, comic book artist Chad Bilyeu. A Cleveland ex-pat, Chad recently started the "Chad in Amsterdam" series of comic books, which, by creating scenes of humor-filled alienation, explore how one's identity changes and how one is treated based on where they live. Chad is nothing but an acute observer, and his brilliance is tied to the everyday, keeping a critical distance but never hovering off the ground. We discuss his upbringing, his long undergraduate career which ended with him getting a degree from Georgetown, and the impetus to create the Chad in Amsterdam series. He also delivers harsh but well-meaning critiques of Cleveland's culture. Buy the comic on Chad's website: http://www.chadinamsterdam.nl/ Follow him on twitter: https://twitter.com/CHADinAMSTERDAM The music on this episode is from Mourning [A] Blkstar. Last fall, they released their album "Garner Poems