May 24th, 2023. KATU-ABC Live TV interview.

May 21st, 2023. “Making the invisible visible: Portland illustrator Peter Glanting brings Adam Bessie’s graphic memoir to life.” Chiara Profenna. The Oregonian.

May 11th, 2023. “An East Bay Teacher Shares His Pandemic Experience in a Compelling New Graphic Novel.” Rae Alexandra. KQED Arts.

April 19th, 2023. ““Tiburon native’s graphic novel chronicles teaching amid pandemic while battling cancer.” Profile my Emily Lavin for The Ark.

March 17th, 2023. “In New Graphic Novel, Pandemic Scatters a Vulnerable School Community.” Profile with Greg Toppo of The 74 Million

January 14th, 2022. Publisher’s Weekly: Top Ten Graphic Novels for 2023!

January 14th, 2022. Publisher’s Weekly: “Teaching From the Clouds: PW Interviews Adam Bessie.”

Dec 21st, 2022. Publisher’s Weekly: Starred Review for Going Remote: A Teacher’s Journey.

Sept 15th, 2022. The Osterholm Report from The Center for Infectious Disease and Research at the University of Minnesota. Episode 114: Time for Learning, Not Forgetting. Dr. Osherholm reads my submission for a “Beautiful Place,” in which I profiled Ocean Beach, CA as an escape from the toxic clouds hanging over public education. Listen at around 11:00 minutes left in the show.

Sept 14th, 2022. The Whenever Show with Jason Novak at The Comics Journal. I had a great time on the couch on Jason’s TV show as a comic talking about my grandfather Alvah on the Blacklist, teaching, living with cancer, and Walt Whitman.

JULY 16th, 2022. The Graphic Medicine 2022 Conference. Watch a virtual reading of Chapter 8: The Fall (only 10 minutes total). The chapter focuses on my experience fielding emails from students in crisis, posing critical questions regarding how non-counseling staff respond to mental health and basic needs challenges — and how this impacts us through “secondary trauma” and “compassion fatigue.”

JUNE 14th, 2022: KPFA-BERKELEY. The Project Censored show. First interview for Going Remote: A Teacher’s Journey! LISTEN HERE for an one-hour conversation between Adam, Peter, and host Mickey Huff about the book and the documentary Long Live My Happy Head!