{"id":298636,"date":"2025-06-17T08:47:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T08:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/the-talk-by-darrin-bell-commons-comics\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T08:47:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T08:47:54","slug":"the-talk-by-darrin-bell-commons-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=298636","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Talk,\u201d by Darrin Bell \u2013 Commons Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe Talk.\u201d Written and illustrated by Darrin Bell. Henry Holt. $29.99. June 2023. 352 pages. Teen to adult. (School Library Journal suggests Grade 10. My 7<sup>th<\/sup> and 9<sup>th<\/sup> graders enjoyed and learned a lot from it.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to Fables Books, 215 South Main Street in downtown Goshen, Indiana, for providing Commons Comics with books to review. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-753\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Fables-logo-CROP-300x140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Fables-logo-CROP-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Fables-logo-CROP-600x280.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Fables-logo-CROP.jpg 688w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><em>Check Fables out online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fablesbooks.com\">www.fablesbooks.com<\/a>, order over the phone at 574-534-1984, or email them at fablesbooks@gmail.com. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thanks also to my colleague Cynthia Good Kauffman for passing her copy of this book on to me.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1567\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1567\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1567 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Talk-Cover-from-Macmillan-728x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Talk-Cover-from-Macmillan-728x1024.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Talk-Cover-from-Macmillan-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Talk-Cover-from-Macmillan-768x1080.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Talk-Cover-from-Macmillan-600x844.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Talk-Cover-from-Macmillan-1092x1536.jpg 1092w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Talk-Cover-from-Macmillan-1456x2048.jpg 1456w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Talk-Cover-from-Macmillan-scaled.jpg 1820w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1567\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Macmillan Publishers, us.macmillan.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Before his 2023 graphic memoir \u201cThe Talk,\u201d Pulitzer Prize-winner Darrin Bell was known as a political cartoonist more than a memoirist. \u201cThe Talk\u201d earned him a new fanbase, as well as multiple best-of-the-year accolades, from \u201cPublisher\u2019s Weekly\u201d to \u201cTime.\u201d The book was so successful, in fact, that Bell\u2019s publisher wanted to extend its reach to another format. Documentary? Fictionalized film? Nope. The audiobook version of \u201cThe Talk\u201d was released in August of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re probably thinking what I was thinking when I heard this news: \u201cAudiobook from a comic? How does that even work?\u201d Bell was skeptical, too, he told \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsbeat.com\/interview-pulitzer-prize-winning-cartoonist-darrin-bell-discusses-the-talk-audiobook-adaptation\/\">Comics Beat<\/a>,\u201d \u201cuntil I read the script.\u201d Much like screenplay writers are hired to rework books for film, Macmillan hired a scriptwriter, who turned Bell\u2019s story into, essentially, a radio play.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1568\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1568\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1568 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Darrin-Bell-and-son-from-Substack-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Darrin-Bell-and-son-from-Substack-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Darrin-Bell-and-son-from-Substack-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Darrin-Bell-and-son-from-Substack-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Darrin-Bell-and-son-from-Substack-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Darrin-Bell-and-son-from-Substack-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Darrin-Bell-and-son-from-Substack-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darrin Bell with his son, recording his own dialogue from the book. Image from Bell\u2019s Substack, \u201cDisobey in Advance.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span id=\"more-1565\"\/>While audio and the visual medium of comics might sound incongruous, comics and radio plays have a longstanding history, especially in serial radio programs which, in the days before television became widespread, kept families up to date with characters like Dick Tracy, Little Orphan Annie, and a slew of action heroes from the Lone Ranger to Superman. In homage to this history, Gene Luen Yang translated in the opposite direction, resurrecting a radio play from the 1940s to create his 2020 comic \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/2020\/superman-smashes-the-klan-by-gene-luen-yang-and-gurihiru\/\">Superman Smashes the Klan.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Format retreads are often fueled solely by publishers with dollar signs in their eyes. With the right people involved, however, a format translation can create a new way of seeing\u2014and hearing\u2014important stories that need to be in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Talk,\u201d without question, is a story that needs to be heard right now. In 2020, Bell was working on a different project for Macmillan, a graphic memoir family history. As he told \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/news-and-features\/articles\/editorial-cartoonist-darrin-bell-talks-the-talk\/\">Kirkus Reviews<\/a>,\u201d however, \u201cwhen the police murdered George Floyd and the summer of protest began,\u201d his young son asked who Floyd was, and \u201cThe Talk\u201d began to take shape in his head. \u201dI felt that this story needed to be told first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1581 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-question-728x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-question-728x1024.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-question-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-question-768x1080.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-question-600x844.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-question-1092x1536.jpg 1092w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-question-1457x2048.jpg 1457w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-question-scaled.jpg 1821w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe talk\u201d referenced in the title is a difficult discussion between parents and their kids of color about the way they might be perceived in the outside world\u2014the way many people, especially white people, police officers, and others in positions of power, might see them differently than they see white kids. This unequal perception can, of course, put kids\u2019 lives at risk through no fault of their own.<\/p>\n<p>Bell himself first heard \u201cthe talk\u201d from his mother when he was six. He asked her why his water pistol was bright green and obviously fake, when his friends\u2019 squirt guns looked more realistic. \u201cBecause, Son . . . that\u2019s what\u2019s going to keep you alive,\u201d Bell\u2019s mom responds in his retelling. \u00a0She delivers the talk for a few panels, and\u2014as might be expected from a six-year-old\u2014he promptly ignores it. As Bell told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnycstudios.org\/podcasts\/all-of-it\/segments\/pulitzer-prize-winning-cartoonist-darrin-bell-talk-black-parents-face-their-kids\">WNYC\u2019s Alison Stewart<\/a>, \u201cI knew everything, and [Mom] was old and out of touch. She was born in the \u201940s when TV was in black and white. I didn\u2019t think she had any wisdom to share with me in 1981.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Untroubled, young Bell ventured out with his fun summer toy, imagining himself as Luke Skywalker:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1582 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-star-wars-REVISED-728x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-star-wars-REVISED-728x1024.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-star-wars-REVISED-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-star-wars-REVISED-768x1080.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-star-wars-REVISED-600x844.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-star-wars-REVISED-1092x1536.jpg 1092w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-star-wars-REVISED-1456x2048.jpg 1456w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-star-wars-REVISED-scaled.jpg 1820w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Yet the Force did not protect Bell from exactly the danger that his mother had predicted: a cop who saw the color of Bell\u2019s skin instead of the bright fluorescence of the toy\u2014and pulled his gun on six-year-old Bell. Bell of course survived that encounter, but has never forgotten that he \u201ccould\u2019ve ended up like Tamir Rice,\u201d as he told \u201cComics Beat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clearly this is a serious topic, and Bell treats it with the weight it deserves. As you can tell from the playful Star Wars page above, however, he doesn\u2019t sacrifice joy, beauty, and complexity to get his point across. Using his chops as a political cartoonist, he can pack a punch in one or a handful of panels, as in this illustration to break any parent\u2019s heart:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1580 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-umbrella-1024x686.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-umbrella-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-umbrella-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-umbrella-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-umbrella-600x402.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-umbrella-1536x1029.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-umbrella-2048x1372.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Yet with the space to stretch his talents into a full storyline, Bell also conjures multifaceted sequences like this one about his thought process before a dishonest and disloyal \u201cfriend\u201d asks Bell to come with him while he shoplifts, then leaves Bell to take the blame:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1578 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-dare-726x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-dare-726x1024.jpg 726w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-dare-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-dare-768x1084.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-dare-600x847.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-dare-1089x1536.jpg 1089w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-dare-1451x2048.jpg 1451w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-dare-scaled.jpg 1814w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As in the best memoirs, none of the main characters in \u201cThe Talk,\u201d including\u00a0 Bell himself, are oversimplified. Bell repeatedly turns the critical lens back onto himself, and shares plenty of moments he isn\u2019t proud of. In one vignette, for example, he explains how his job as a security guard in college helped him understand \u201cthe true allure of power\u201d when he recognized that he wasn\u2019t immune to its attractions:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1579 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-gandalf-726x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-gandalf-726x1024.jpg 726w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-gandalf-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-gandalf-768x1084.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-gandalf-600x847.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-gandalf-1089x1536.jpg 1089w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-gandalf-1452x2048.jpg 1452w, https:\/\/www.commonscomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/talk-gandalf-scaled.jpg 1814w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Color is used sparingly in this book, but creates both focus\u2014as with the bright green water pistol\u2014and depth, like the chiaroscuro effect in the image above. The illustrations are a masterful combination of rich and nimble, as Bell continually shifts gears and perspective to hold his readers\u2019 attention. Bell plays with contrast wherever he can. The glossy paper highlights the photorealistic depth in, for example, a dog\u2019s wet black snout, but Bell counteracts the weight of that image almost immediately to encircle the snout with scribbled puffs of air that float between panels, connecting the frames visually as well as conceptually.<\/p>\n<p>In the book\u2019s acknowledgments, Bell thanks all the people who helped and held him up, as well as, \u201cThe cop, the security guard, the administrators, and the occasional random bigot who, rather than make me feel bad about myself, made it clear that bigotry is just chronic stupidity.\u201d Whatever format you choose to \u201cread\u201d this book in, please read it, and pass it on to someone else.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Talk.\u201d Written and illustrated by Darrin Bell. Henry Holt. $29.99. June 2023. 352 pages. Teen to adult. (School Library Journal suggests Grade 10. 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