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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 337: Reading Comic Books.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 337. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.

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The topic for this episode is “comic books,” things that are written with words and pictures. We’ll talk a little bit about comic books in the United States during our discussion, and who reads them, and who doesn’t. Let’s get started.

Lee: What are you reading?

Stan: It’s a graphic novel.

Lee: Graphic novel? You mean a comic book? I thought you were too old for that sort of thing.

Stan: For your information, this is a graphic novel and it’s a literary art form. Graphic novels are written for