{"id":11344,"date":"2018-04-09T22:23:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T02:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=11344"},"modified":"2018-04-09T22:23:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T02:23:25","slug":"episode-264-dean-haspiel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-264-dean-haspiel","title":{"rendered":"Episode 264 – Dean Haspiel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 264:
\nDean Haspiel<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I decided at age 12 that I wanted to dedicate my life to making comics, so I became otherwise unemployable.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Cartoonist and playwright Dean Haspiel<\/a> joins the show to talk about his new play, The Last Bar At The End Of The World<\/a> (running April 10-15, 2018!) and how he looks at his life & career after turning 50. We get into his New Brooklyn<\/a> series of webcomics, our mutual upbringing on superhero comics, the inherent lie of being a freelancer, his father’s friendship with Marilyn Monroe, writing for theater vs. comics, his devotion to Mamet’s On Directing Film<\/a>\"\", my theory that most of Tarantino’s movies are about acting, fulfilling his youthful dream of drawing the Fantastic Four, and the validity of Jack Kirby’s (apocryphal) statement, “Comics will break your heart.” Give it a listen!<\/a> And go see The Last Bar At The End Of The World<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“As much as I’ve studied film and storytelling structure, I like to throw curveballs, because I think that’s what life is: a bunch of curveballs.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n