Ten Cent Takes

Author: Mike Thompson & Jessika Frazer

A podcast looking at comics, pop culture, and how the two connect. Come for the history, stay for the swearing.
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Genres: Arts, Books, Visual Arts

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Issue 121: Comics and the AIDS Crisis
Episode 212
Wednesday, 3 December, 2025

Our latest deep dive tackles how comics confronted (and often struggled to confront) the AIDS epidemic throughout the 1980s and 90s. There's everything from groundbreaking moments of compassion to outrageously offensive books. We check out what the medium got right, what it got very wrong, and why these stories still matter.