{"id":10337,"date":"2017-05-16T20:27:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T00:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=10337"},"modified":"2017-12-23T12:23:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T16:23:53","slug":"episode-218-ro-blechman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-218-ro-blechman","title":{"rendered":"Episode 218 – RO Blechman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Virtual Memories Show 218: RO Blechman<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Time may have taught me things, but I don’t think I learned anything.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Legendary cartoonist, illustrator, animator, ad-man, artist RO Blechman<\/a> joins the show to talk about his work and life. We get into the importance of play, the development of his trademark squiggly line (and how he feels when he sees it in other people’s work), his literary upbringing, his News of the Weak<\/a> series of painting\/collages, why he counsels against going to art school, the fateful career decision that he rues 60+ years later, his Mad Men<\/em> experience and what he learned about management from running his own animation studio, the mistake of turning down a Curious George<\/em> movie, creating a fore-runner of the graphic novel, and being a 2-D character in a 3-D world. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy all his books, including Dear James: Letters to a Young Illustrator<\/a>\"\", Amadeo & Maladeo: A Musical Duet<\/a>\"\", The Juggler of Our Lady<\/a>\"\", and Talking Lines<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

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“I really should have been a filmmaker. I really screwed up my life in a terrible way, because I had a chance to be a full-time filmmaker and I threw it away, and it just kills me.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n