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And Du Bois says that he talks about a hope that it's not hopeful.Bryan Stevenson talks about how we have to be proximate.
It's perfect words. And that system has just continually perpetuated.Bryan Stevenson said it best.It didn't end. It evolved.
I saw her onstage before I actually met her, once.Bryan Adams, until recently, was not one of them.
that it left behind.Bryan Stevenson, who is an African-American lawyer who used to be with the Southern Poverty Law Center and started something called the Equal Justice Initiative,has been determined to create monuments in every location where a lynching took place.
Certainly some things missing.Bryan Stevenson, another person that Google's made a lot of investment in.
We could probably fit in somewhere in there.Bryan Fuller, he's Bryan Fuller.
Very few people do it better than Bryan Stevenson.Bryan Stevenson is a human rights attorney.Some of you may have read his book, "Just Mercy." He believes that there are many people on death row, especially, who are incarcerated unjustly.
He received the longest standing ovation of any TED speaker in TED history after this talk.Bryan Stevenson was talking about the loss of identity for many people in underprivileged communities.And he talked about his grandmother.
I grew up with DeGrassi.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: But I hate you.Brian's also a cartoonist.
I think-- is five out yet?BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: Five is coming out next week.Oh. How exciting. And he's here to talk about "Seconds," his new graphic novel, which just came out on Tuesday.
And can you please help me introduce Bryan-- welcome him.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: I won't clap.I'm gonna get progressively sweatier throughout the night.
I'm gonna get progressively sweatier throughout the night.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: You're wearing a sweatshirt.Yeah. BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: That's what happens.
I have a bunch of questions.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: OK.I wrote some of them down.
I wrote some of them down.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: We knew each other prior to this-- whatever this is.We're Twitter friends. You follow me.
I almost DM'd you.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: We've met.Yeah. BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: And you do comics as well.
Oh yeah. So outside of work, I publish comics in a small little press.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: Publisher of some renown.You're taking over the-- BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: I'm just intro'ing you properly.
I really loved it.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: They sell it on the BART?Yeah. At the BART station.
Yeah. At the BART station.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: Someone just sold it to you at the BART?I bought it with the clipper card.
And it's like Katie, the main protagonist, has that same experience, but at a restaurant where she's walking around asking people how their food is.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: Right.But she didn't make it.
Because she made the thing, and now it's running without her.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: Yeah, exactly.Her ideas live on without her.
But it's about dealing with the consequences of having had relationships with people.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: You were not a teenager when "Scott Pilgrim" came out.When the first one came out, I was a teenager.
When the first one came out, I was a teenager.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: No.It came out 10 years ago.
Was I forever 21?BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: 22.Oh shit. Was I?
Oh shit. Was I?BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: You just said you were 32.Oh. I didn't know you were going to be doing mental math.
And then I've grown.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: You felt like a teen.Yeah. BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: So did I.
Can you talk a little bit about how in the book, you're using that impulse to use fantastical elements to talk about pretty real stuff?BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: Right.I mean I think the fantastical elements came first.
The dog doesn't come back undead?BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: The dog is just back.Yeah, that's the end.
of the idea, for a long time?BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: Yeah.Literally the first "Scott Pilgrim" came out and I made no money, and I got a job in a restaurant.
Like there's a special magic.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: It seems like a celebrity culture right now.They're like a rock star.
Feels like it's like that and stand up are these two things that-- there's podcasts, and people really want to know the unique qualities of it.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: Cartoonists.And cartoonists. Yeah. We don't have a WTF podcast for us yet.
Like a restaurant has a house spirit, but maybe not like this office, perhaps?BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: Right.Yeah. The restaurant where I worked was a really old building.
It actually sounds really delicious.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: It is.I do have chef friends.
There's some really tasty foods.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: Yeah.The hamburger is my-- I had an art assistant on this book-- Jason Fisher, who's well-known for drawing hamburgers.
It's a huge hamburger.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: Yeah. he makes these patches that he puts on jean jackets.Some of them are this big.
A giant burger. You're at that level now where you can be like, I need the best hamburger drawer in the world.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: Get me the best burger drawer.Only the best. You went to Hollywood, and now you're a tyrant.
Only the best. You went to Hollywood, and now you're a tyrant.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: Comics tyrant.The other thing I want to talk about was the fairytale structure of it.
Because it feels like way different tonally, and also the look of it is different.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: I mean I was more inspired by European comics this time.Like French stuff. Franco-Belgian influence.
Like Donjon was a huge-- Oh, dungeon.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: Dungeon in English.Donjon. It was a huge thing for me.
But their-- It's one of my favorite comics of all time.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: Of course it is.But they're these French albums.
Each one's 40 pages.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: Only 40 pages.But they're really dense.
I was wondering, did you have an impulse to do shorter stuff before you started, or did you always see it as a big book?BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: Yeah.I always saw it as exactly this size and shape.
If you guys haven't seen it, you'll see Bryan and other friends in the background.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: Yeah, I mean, this is the trend size of the Tezuka books from Vertical, which are my favorite presentation of comicsright now. And I just wanted it to feel like a novel.
Where lots of Tumblr kids and Twitter people are following you?BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: Not really.And I don't tend towards doing that.
Yeah, I saw you said that.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: Yeah, which would be fun in theory.It seems like a great idea.
And it'-- I think there's lots of different spaces to do that.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: I'm terrible.
And it'-- I think there's lots of different spaces to do that.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: No, I know.
And it'-- I think there's lots of different spaces to do that.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: Yeah.
And it'-- I think there's lots of different spaces to do that.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: Can be very solitary.
And it'-- I think there's lots of different spaces to do that.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: It was cool.
And it'-- I think there's lots of different spaces to do that.BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: About the mice, from the '80s.
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