{"id":11543,"date":"2018-06-25T14:15:17","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T18:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=11543"},"modified":"2018-06-25T14:19:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T18:19:27","slug":"episode-275-dave-calver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-275-dave-calver","title":{"rendered":"Episode 275 – Dave Calver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 275:
\nDave Calver<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I wanted a combination of organic, monster-y kind of things mixed with things with more pop sensibility.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Artist & illustrator Dave Calver<\/a> joins the show to talk about Limbo Lounge<\/a>\"\" (Yoe! Books), his first graphic novel! We discuss the ups and downs of his 40-year career in illustration, his pop-surrealism-lowbrow vibe, life in a vintage trailer park, and how he manages to draw macabre without being gross. We also get into his ’70s\/’80s NYC experience (including witnessing collateral damage at a women’s wrestling match at Club 57), his time at RISD with Roz Chast<\/a> and her club-days at Danceteria (!), the movie he’s writing and its Munchkinland-Goth scenery, the loss of era-specific styles, perfecting “nicotine-stained jewel tones” for Limbo Lounge<\/em>, and how it all started with the image of flowers behaving badly! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy Limbo Lounge<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“Things have moved faster and faster to the point where I think each decade has a little less of an identity. For me, the ’80s had a really specific feel to it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n