{"id":10923,"date":"2017-12-11T20:20:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T00:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=10923"},"modified":"2017-12-11T20:27:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T00:27:03","slug":"episode-248-cullen-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-248-cullen-murphy","title":{"rendered":"Episode 248 – Cullen Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 248:
\nCullen Murphy<\/a><\/p>\n

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“The cartoonists in that community were very intent on making their own way in life with the tools they enjoyed working with, rather than being slotted into a pathway of someone else’s devising.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>This podcast has been to Hicksville and Coconino, so why not Fairfield County, CT? Cullen Murphy<\/a>‘s new book, Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe<\/a>\"\" (FSG), tells the story of Prince Valiant<\/em> cartoonist John Cullen Murphy and the community of cartoonists, illustrators and comic-book artists who settled the southeastern corner of Connecticut in the ’50s and ’60s. Cullen & I talk about the confluence of factors that led to that community and his goal of preserving that golden age in this book, his realization that “cartoonist” was not a normal job for one’s dad, his own cartooning aspirations, what writing Prince Valiant<\/em> with his father taught him about storytelling, how his upbringing around cartoonists affected how he worked with illustrators as a magazine editor, why his father stuck with realism and never worked in bigfoot style, and what Cartoon County<\/em> taught him about himself & his family. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy Cartoon County<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“When I was thinking of the audience for Cartoon County, I very much had my family in mind.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n