Comic books are full of epic tales to inspire us, peek behind the curtain and meet the real heroes that bring these beloved stories.

漫畫書中充滿了史詩般的故事，激勵著我們，窺探幕後，認識真正的英雄，為我們帶來這些深受喜愛的故事。

Toe life thistles.

趾生活蒺藜。

Batman, This is Superman.

蝙蝠俠，這是超人。

You know them because you love comics.

你認識他們是因為你喜歡漫畫。

Well, this is Ghost World on eight ball on David.

好吧，這是鬼世界在八號球的大衛。

Boring on their comics, too, and their creator is really important.

在他們的漫畫上也很無聊，他們的創作者真的很重要。

So pay attention because you're about to watch a really great story about one of the most influential people in the world of comics.

所以請注意，因為你即將看到一個非常偉大的故事，關於漫畫世界中最有影響力的人之一。

Oh, and is narrated by Woody Harrison.

哦，而且是由伍迪-哈里森解說的。

Okay, this is the cover of the 2010 graphic novel Wilson.

好吧，這是2010年漫畫小說《威爾遜》的封面。

I started the endearingly cantankerous main character when the story was adapted into a movie.

當故事被改編成電影時，我就開始了這個可愛的暴躁的主角。

Wilson's authors, Daniel Clouds Dan, is many things His work would go on to change the trajectory of comics and popular culture as we know it.

威爾遜的作者，丹尼爾雲丹，是很多事情他的工作將去改變漫畫和流行文化的軌跡，因為我們知道它。

Dan was born in Chicago on April 14th, 1961 coming of age in the 19 seventies.

丹1961年4月14日出生在芝加哥，1970年代成年。

Dance spent his formative years surrounded by his hippie classmates.

舞蹈在嬉皮士同學的包圍中度過了他的成長歲月。

But while they were listening to the Grateful Dead in Jefferson Airplane and was dedicating himself to different pursuit to be into comics when I was in high school was like the lowest thing you could possibly be into.

但當他們在傑斐遜飛機上聽著感恩而死的歌時，並致力於不同的追求，當我在高中的時候，喜歡漫畫就像你可能喜歡的最低的東西。

I mean, I can't think of anything that would have been more pathetic.

我是說，我想不出還有什麼比這更可悲的了。

He felt like an outsider like you truly laid claim to it in a way no one else did.

他覺得像你這樣的局外人真正的提出了要求，別人都沒有做到。

Drawing was his outlet.

繪畫是他的出路。

Dan graduated from high school in 1979 and the camping to New York City to attend art school.

1979年，丹從高中畢業，營到紐約市讀藝術學校。

His very first published comic was arguably a disaster.

他出版的第一部漫畫可以說是一場災難。

The sales got low enough where the publisher said, You know, I think we're just gonna We're gonna cancel this comment I felt like, Okay, I had my shot.

銷量夠低的地方 出版商說，你知道，我想我們只是要去 我們要去取消這個評論 我覺得像，好吧，我有我的機會。

That's it.

就這樣吧

It would be a second comic that would change dance career.

這將是第二個改變舞蹈生涯的漫畫。

It was 1989.

那是1989年。

Dan released eight ball collection of comics of varying genres, lengths and drawing styles.

丹推出了八球集，風格各異、長短不一、畫風各異的漫畫。

Readers loved it.

讀者很喜歡。

No one had ever seen a comic told like this.

沒有人見過這樣講的漫畫。

You know, I was doing the kind of comics I always wanted to read, and I thought, There's got to be other people like me, And it turned out that I wasn't such a strange person after e mhm.

我做的是我一直想看的漫畫 我想，一定有其他人和我一樣，結果發現我並不是一個奇怪的人。

That's me, Thora Birch.

那是我，索拉-伯奇。

And that's a clip from the movie adaptation of Ghost World.

而這是《鬼世界》改編電影的片段。

As this tale of teenage doldrums made its way from comic to film, it became the work that brought Dan's name recognition to the level of occult celebrity.

當這個關於少年懵懂的故事從漫畫走向電影的時候，它成為了讓丹的知名度上升到神祕名人級別的作品。

E felt like I had sort of gone to a different level where people took me more seriously, you know, it was more than just the guy.

我覺得我已經走到了一個不同的層次 人們對我更加認真，你知道，這不僅僅是一個人。

Address comics beyond what it did for Dan.

解決漫畫超越它對丹的作用。

Ghost World helped to change the perception of graphic novels and comics as a whole.

幽靈世界》幫助改變了人們對圖形小說和漫畫的整體認識。

Publishers were struggling, and all of a sudden people were doing graphic novels in the soil.

出版社正在苦苦掙扎，突然有人在土壤裡做圖畫小說。

These were actually selling.

這些其實是在賣。

And so it just became this kind of weird boom time for graphic novel, Post Ghost World.

於是就成了這種奇怪的圖文小說的繁榮時期，後鬼世界。

Things got busy.

事情變得很忙。

His work has been translated into over 20 languages.

他的作品已被翻譯成20多種語言。

His writing would go on to be adapted into two more movies.

他的作品後來又被改編成兩部電影。

Art School Confidential and the aforementioned Wilson and what helped make all this possible?

藝術學校機密和前述的威爾遜，又是什麼幫助促成了這一切？

And what made Dan so beloved among so many people are his characters.

而丹哥之所以能受到這麼多人的喜愛，是因為他的性格。

Whenever I read somebody talk about all these characters air, sad losers, anything, really are they?

每當我看到有人說起這些人物空氣，悲催的屌絲，什麼都有，真的是他們嗎？

I've always felt that your goal when you're doing a story of real characters is that you have to find a way to love them, no matter who they are, with proper social attack forever eluding them.

我一直覺得，當你在做一個真實人物的故事時，你的目標是，你必須找到一種愛他們的方式，不管他們是誰，適當的社會攻擊永遠躲避他們。

They're endearing outsiders.

他們是可愛的外人。

Justus Dan Once Waas I don't know what what's going on, What the future will hold it all.

賈斯德斯-丹一旦華斯我不知道發生了什麼，未來會有什麼，這一切。

I never think about that stuff.

我從來沒有想過這些東西。

I just hope I can, you know, keep scribbling away.

我只希望我能，你知道，繼續塗鴉。

For a few more years till the Alzheimers kicks and three year was 1946 radio was king and the Adventures of Superman ruled the airwaves.

再過幾年，直到老年痴呆症發作，三年是1946年，無線電是王者，超人歷險記統治了電波。

But with fascism vanquished, the man of steel set his sights on a different foe.

但隨著法西斯主義被征服，這位鋼鐵俠將目光投向了另一個敵人。

This is the story of how Superman busted the Ku Klux Klan.

這是超人如何破獲三K黨的故事。

Because unless we stop this fiery cross clan now, they'll get you no matter where you go.

因為除非我們現在就阻止這個火熱的十字幫，否則不管你去哪裡，他們都會抓住你。

The story starts with Stetson Kennedy Ah, journalist who infiltrated the clan for the Anti Defamation League.

故事要從為反誹謗聯盟潛入宗族的記者史鐵生-肯尼迪阿說起。

He wanted to melt the cultural glue that held the clan together.

他想融化凝聚宗族的文化膠水。

Thanks, Rick.

謝謝，瑞克

No problem.

沒問題。

That's Rick Bowers, B o.

那是Rick Bowers，B O.

W.

W.

Wrote this book Superman versus the Ku Klux Klan.

寫了這本《超人對三K黨》。

But what does Stetson Kennedy have to do with Superman?

但史鐵生-肯尼迪和超人有什麼關係？

Remember the last son of Krypton needed a new enemy.

記得氪星的最後一個兒子需要一個新的敵人。

The producers of the radio show on a very bold gambit, decided Superman would take on real life.

廣播節目的製作人在一個非常大膽的賭博中，決定超人將對現實生活進行。

Hate groups on the creators of The Adventures of Superman used Kennedy's research to produce a 16 part series called The Clan of the Fiery Cross, where a great secret society pledged to purify America.

超人歷險記》的創作者的仇恨組織利用肯尼迪的研究，製作了一個16部的系列片，名為《烈火十字架家族》，一個偉大的祕密社團承諾要淨化美國。

The Superman producers went to the Anti Defamation League and said, Authenticate our script, provide us more information.

超人》製片人去找反誹謗聯盟，說：認證我們的劇本，給我們提供更多的資訊。

It was a way to get the message out that no one else could get out just by telling horror stories.

這是一種只靠講恐怖故事就能把別人出不來的資訊傳遞出去的方法。

I'm the Grand Scorpion of the clan of the fiery cross Grand Rachael mean it exposed.

我是烈焰十字大拉夏爾的族人大蠍子的意思是它暴露了。

The Klan is hate mongers, but it also exposed the clan as a money driven organization.

三K黨是仇恨販子，但也暴露了該宗族是一個金錢驅動的組織。

I'm running a business rigs, and so are you.

我在經營鑽機生意，你也是。

We deal in one of the oldest and most profitable commodities on earth.

我們經營的是地球上最古老和最有利可圖的商品之一。

Hate.

恨。

It was a breakthrough in American broadcasting.

這是美國廣播業的一個突破。

Not only have they done this great public service, but they elevated themselves to the number one radio show for kids on air.

他們不僅做了這項偉大的公益事業，還把自己提升到了孩子們廣播節目的第一名。

Well, they're cowardly Gangsters who operate at night, hidden behind sheets and hoods.

他們是懦弱的黑幫分子，在晚上行動，躲在床單和頭巾後面。

Their minds are diseased with hate.

他們的思想被仇恨所侵蝕。

No one is safe from them.

沒有人是安全的，他們。

E guess you could say that the white robe stood no chance against the man of steel.

我想你可以說，白袍在鋼鐵人面前毫無勝算。

Everybody knows Spiderman.

大家都知道蜘蛛人。

Everybody knows Superman.

大家都知道超人。

Everybody doesn't know.

大家都不知道。

Harriet Tubman.

Harriet Tubman.

Demons, Layer.

惡魔，層。

I wanted our focus to be diverse titles.

我希望我們的重點是多樣化的題目。

We are actively working to make sure we have books that you just may not see another shops.

我們正在積極努力，以確保我們的書籍，你可能不會看到其他商店。

My name is Arial Johnson, and I'm the owner and operator, a k A.

我的名字是阿里爾-約翰遜， 我的所有者和經營者，a k A。

Head nerd in charge of Amalgam comics and coffeehouse, a comic bookstore devoted to diversity.

Amalgam漫畫和咖啡館的負責人，一家致力於多元化的漫畫書店。

When I was about 11 or so, I was introduced to the X Men.

在我大概11歲左右的時候，我認識了X男。

I really connected with Storm because she looked like me white hair and white, either side.

我真的和風暴聯繫在一起了，因為她長得像我白髮蒼蒼，兩邊都是。

It was out of my love of her character that I got into comic books.

出於對她性格的喜愛，我才喜歡上了漫畫書。

Once I graduated, I did struggle with finding my place in the world.

畢業後，我確實在努力尋找自己在這個世界上的位置。

It wasn't quite happy in my career, and after a conversation between my sister, my brother in law, they gave me that extra push that I needed to do the thing that I get excited about.

在我的事業上並不是很快樂，經過我姐姐、我姐夫的一次談話，他們給了我額外的推動力，我需要做我興奮的事情。

Fast forward and we're here.

快進，我們到了。

And we've been here three years in building amalgam.

而我們在這裡建汞的時間已經有三年了。

I wanted my comic book sort of focus on diversity because I know what it's like to not be represented.

我希望我的漫畫書能關注多樣性，因為我知道沒有代表的感覺。

We also take steps to make sure people know that they're welcome here.

我們還採取措施，確保人們知道他們在這裡受到歡迎。

From the books that we stock with Michelle's from the people that I have working here, everything about the space is diverse.

從我們與米歇爾的庫存書籍到我在這裡工作的人，關於這個空間的一切都很多樣化。

I know the creators have had stories about dealing with stores, and publisher is getting their work published or in a store.

我知道創作者們都有過與商店打交道的故事，出版商是讓他們的作品出版或在商店裡。

And sometimes it is just very much like, Well, this is too different from what we normally sell, so we don't want to take a chance on it.

有時它只是非常喜歡，嗯，這與我們通常銷售的東西太不同，所以我們不想冒險。

But Malcolm Well, Shauna Lien is an indie creator who has been a long time supporter of amalgam.

但馬爾科姆嗯，連肖娜是一位獨立創作者，她長期支持汞 。

We have carried his books in the past, and currently we're carrying his line of T shirts with the name of my comic book is The Almighty Street Team is a collaborative urban superhero martial arts comic book.

我們過去也有帶過他的書，目前我們帶的是他的系列T恤，名字是我的漫畫書是《全能街隊》是一本合作的都市超級英雄武俠漫畫書。

Usually the comic books that I create stay close to the stuff I grew up loving, but she was like the urban street characters.

通常我創作的漫畫書都會貼近我從小喜歡的東西，但她就像都市街頭的人物。

I did have some trouble placing the book in stores, but we found a home in Amalgam right away.

我把書放在商店裡確實有些麻煩，但我們馬上就在阿瑪爾甘找到了家。

She got the idea, she got a vision and she connected with the book.

她有了想法，有了憧憬，她與書結緣。

When I see the support to the indie comic book creators, it makes you feel like, Hey, yeah, I can continue to make a living doing this.

當我看到對獨立漫畫創作者的支持，讓你覺得，嘿，是的，我可以繼續以此為生。

When I opened the shop, so many people said, This is what we've always needed I've always wanted Ah, place like this.

我開店的時候，很多人都說，這是我們一直需要的，我一直想要啊，這樣的地方。

We have had an overwhelmingly positive response from our local community, the geek community beyond the blurred community.

我們從在地社區、模糊社區之外的極客社區得到了絕大多數的積極響應。

Who your geek community people are excited that this space exists.

誰你的極客社區的人很興奮，這個空間的存在。

And if you have something that you want to see in your community, my challenge would be Thio do the work to see if it's something that you could dio.

如果你有什麼東西，你想看到在你的社區，我的挑戰將Thio做的工作，看看它的東西，你可以dio。

I don't think that people should keep waiting to be saved by someone else.

我覺得人不應該一直等著被別人拯救。