{"id":11232,"date":"2018-02-13T20:37:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T00:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=11232"},"modified":"2018-02-14T09:43:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T13:43:53","slug":"episode-256-lauren-weinstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-256-lauren-weinstein","title":{"rendered":"Episode 256 – Lauren Weinstein"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 256:
\nLauren Weinstein<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Comics are a way to process events in your life. You put it down on the page, and it has its own life, and you’re able to move away from it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Village Voice<\/em> cartoonist Lauren Weinstein<\/a> joins the show to talk about the balancing act of making comics. We get into how she integrates the political and the personal, finds humor alongside near-tragedy, and deals with the temptation to do self-help\/identity comics. We also get into how she manages the tightrope walk of motherhood and comics-making (esp. with a 10-month-old who’s constantly grabbing for her ink), the conversation around a comic she did about potentially passing along a hereditary disease to her unborn daughter, the moral tensions of teaching comics, drawing strips for digital vs. print, the transformative effect of reading Dan Clowes’ Art School Confidential<\/em> strip, having an on-stage persona for a mutant band where the mantra was “keep your eye off the ball”, needing neck surgery but worrying how paralysis would affect her cartooning, and more! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy her latest Normel Person<\/em> mini-comic<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“There’s a part of motherhood that’s all about you. There’s a part that’s all about the kid. Trying to balance those things can be difficult.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n