Mac White, Texas Tales Illustrated Graphic History
Artist and writer Mac White introduces his new book, Texas Tales Illustrated, which provides a graphic history of the Texas Revolution aimed at seventh-grade readers. The work features historical figures like William Philip King and Enrique Esparza, utilizing an illustrated format to engage younger audiences with true stories from the Alamo. White's extensive background in graphic fiction includes contributions to Heavy Metal Magazine and the Yale Anthology of Graphic Fiction.
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00:00 Welcome to Frontline Texas. What a motley crew we have here! I'm Jack Blood, here hosting Frontline Texas. Glad to be with you tonight here in Austin and wherever you might be watching around the world online sitting This way is the one and only Mac Daddy White. And some of you remember The Great Freeman, a staple here on ACTV. Mac White is an artist, writer or radio host, actor whose comics have been published in numerous anthologies. Zero-Zero Buzz Top Shelf Snake Eyes Hotwire The Yale... You did something for Yale? The Yale Anthology of Graphic Fiction Cartoons & Stories Heavy Metal Magazine Boing! Boing! Details just to name a few
00:43 Mutant Book of the Dead on Starhead Comics miniseries Villa of mysteries at fanographics my good friends up there in Seattle, Washington the great fan of graphics the bush junta Which is just absolutely amazing came out in the Bush years and 2004 Bush was nice enough to give you four more years to keep that relevant We're waiting for the Obama version to come out You've been you've actually done covers here for The Austin Chronicle with your great graphic artwork Rolling Stone comics journal, just all over the place. And we're really...it's really awesome to have you here! Mack is one of my favorite people in all of Austin and here he is sitting and you got a new book out as well? Yes the new book is Texas Tales Illustrated which it's all about the Texas Revolution It's coming out in two covers We've got our Sam Houston cover
01:36 Alamo cover. Hold that up a little bit so people can see what a great artist you are. Right there! And this is really good for teaching kids about the Texas history and the Texas Revolution, and if you're doing it Mac I assume it's from the standpoint that your probably not getting at public school We're trying to get it into public schools, actually. This is aimed for a seventh grade readership but of course any age can enjoy this but its told in the way that would clearly describe the Texas Revolution through the eyes of young people who actually lived through it and you see some of the characters down there
02:13 here in that bottom portion of that one cover. One would be William Philip King, who was at 15 years old the youngest defender to die in the Alamo and it tells the story also from the viewpoint of the Tejanos Enrique Esparza 8 years old who went into the Alamo and was there for the entire siege his father Gregorio Esparza uh... was one of the defenders to die there but and re-kill it through it And so, you know these are all true stories told simply and with artwork in a way that will...you know I think... Well let's face it people don't read books a lot these days. To have it illustrated kind of like cartoon fashion almost makes it really easy reading great for the kids as well we're not gonna tell you to buy those because were no allowed too but you can go check them out and see what thats about at MacWhite dot com I didn't write this stuff down for
03:11 for Steve. So, M-A-C-K White just like it's spelled MacWhite dot com where you can see all of Mack's work some of what we're going to talk about tonight is he did some great illustrations about the death of John Lennon and uh... we're gonna get to some of that because today was the big Whitney Houston funeral Also, here with us is... and we are in Free-D as we call it. That's free dimensional with our good friend Freeman who I mentioned was on Cable Access for a long time. Freeman you had one of the top shows if not the top show here on Cable Access in Austin and your sorely missed which I'm really glad to have you here with us today You are the host of Freeman TV. You've been a witness to phenomenon that some men only dream of
