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Animation Director and Writer, Sage Cotugno enters the ITBR to discuss their new graphic novel series “The Glass Scientists: Volume One." Sage discusses taking inspiration from the 1886 novella “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” written by Robert Louis Stevenson and Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” in depicting gothic characters who have rather complex nuances.
Sage and Andrew discuss the opposing forces between Sage’s characters in “The Glass Scientists…” between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as they both represent near perfect foils of each other. Dr. Jekyll represents good morals and Mr. Hyde represents evil ones. Sage admits that their adaptation differs because they display Dr. Jekyll as not all good but also not all bad displaying an “imperfect Jekyll vs this perfectly evil Hyde."
Finally, Sage and Andrew discuss the 2022 Horror/Mystery film “Talk to Me” where Sage praises the movie for being “more moderate…more secular” denoting the film's distance from traditional horror ghost style genres that follow religious affiliations. And, they also get into a riveting discussion about vampirism and all things "Dracula." This episode is for all who love queer monstrosity (shout out to Joseph Federico for this phrase)!
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