{"id":10455,"date":"2017-07-24T21:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T01:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=10455"},"modified":"2017-12-23T12:15:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T16:15:50","slug":"episode-228-ellen-forney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-228-ellen-forney","title":{"rendered":"Episode 228 – Ellen Forney"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Virtual Memories Show 228: Ellen Forney<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Marbles<\/a> was in many respects was the senior thesis in psychology that I never did as an undergrad.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>The great Seattle cartoonist Ellen Forney<\/a> joins the show to talk about comics, civic art, being bipolar, and the challenges of maintaining! We get into her 2012 graphic memoir, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me<\/a>, finding a graphic representation of her depressive states, the evolution in her drawing style, the letter she stole from Michael Dougan, the process of going from comics panels to enormous murals for a light-rail station in Seattle, the influence of the Moosewood Cookbook<\/em>, the importance of a psychology stats class she took in college, how she learned to teach comics, the moment when she felt she was using all her artistic tools, and why she needed Kaz<\/a> to design her back-tattoo! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy Marbles<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“Knowing statistics doesn’t prepare you for the experience of the person in front of you.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n