{"id":10252,"date":"2017-03-27T20:17:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T00:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=10252"},"modified":"2017-12-27T12:36:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T16:36:33","slug":"episode-211-john-cuneo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-211-john-cuneo","title":{"rendered":"Episode 211 – John Cuneo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 211: John Cuneo<\/a><\/p>\n

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“These drawings were made with no intention of anyone ever seeing them. They were just practice, and — as more than one person has suggested — a cry for help.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Award-winning illustrator John Cuneo<\/a> joins the show to talk about his new work, Not Waving But Drawing<\/a> (Fantagraphics Underground), the arc of 40 years of work and art and artwork, the process of moving from a collection of mannerisms to a style, his insecurity about his working-class upbringing and lack of artistic education, the cliff-diving aspect of the blank sheet of paper and why good drawing is courage, keeping his son out of the family business, the dynamic of New Yorker<\/em> illustrators vs. cartoonists, what brought him to Woodstock, what keeps him there, and the bizarrely storied history of his home, why so many dirty pictures, and more! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy Not Waving But Drawing<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“I find middle-aged men with erections hilarious to draw.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n