Inaugural chair of BU's comic book program on the world of graphic novels in Boston

Boston University's new Visual Narrative MFA program is all about graphic novels. Joel Christian Gill, its inaugural chair and author of the graphic memoir "Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence" joins us to introduce us to the program, and the culture of comics in Boston.

Gill also recommends a couple of comic books that are speaking to him these days:

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