{"id":10407,"date":"2017-06-26T21:02:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T01:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=10407"},"modified":"2017-12-23T12:17:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T16:17:45","slug":"episode-224-graham-chaffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-224-graham-chaffee","title":{"rendered":"Episode 224 – Graham Chaffee"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Virtual Memories Show 224: Graham Chaffee<\/a><\/p>\n

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“What I’ve learned about storytelling is that you don’t know what the story’s about until you’re halfway through it. You might have your plot, but plot’s just the vehicle.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Master tattooist and comics artist Graham Chaffee<\/a> joins the show to talk about his new graphic noir, To Have & To Hold<\/a> (Fantagraphics)! We get into the culture(s) of LA and why it’s the quintessential 20th century American city, the way the internet has changed the tattoo business, Graham’s history with comics, the difference between the story and the plot, his lengthy hiatus from making comics and what brought him back to it, the joys of drawing a good dog, the accidental portrayal of race in his comics, and the time he did a full-back tattoo portraying the dark night of Lisa Simpson’s soul<\/a>! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy To Have And To Hold<\/a>\"\" (along with Graham’s other comics<\/a>)! And visit his tattoo shop, Purple Panther Tattoo<\/a>, when you’re in LA!<\/p>\n

“I think the dirty, old, crappy version of things was organic, and the newer, cleaner version is manufactured.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n