Ep. 46 - What Follows is True: Crescent Hotel, Sean Fitzgibbon Interview

Artist Sean Fitzgibbon joins the Graphic Novel Apostle podcast to discuss his gorgeous, hand-painted, nonfiction graphic novel, What Follows is True: Crescent Hotel. Fitzgibbon researched, wrote, drew, and painted this outstanding work that tells the story of the legendary Crescent Hotel, in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. His book focuses primarily on the years, in the late-1930s, when the building housed the notorious Baker Hospital and its fraudster proprietor, Norman Baker, who lured desperate patients to Eureka Springs with promises of the cure for cancer. 


Sean Also discusses his work on the forthcoming graphic nonfiction book, What Follows is True: Plum Bayou Mounds, which Sean is producing in conjunction with the Arkansas Archeological Survey. That book will serve as an educational resource highlighting the folklore, history, science, and archeological significance of the ancient Plum Bayou Mounds, in England, Arkansas. 


Learn more about Sean's work, and pick up a copy of Crescent Hotel, at Sean's website, www.seanfitzgibbonart.com (https://www.seanfitzgibbonart.com/) . You can read more about Sean's work on the Plum Bayou Mounds project at the Arkansas Archeological Survey's website (https://archeology.uark.edu/wfit/about/) .


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