{"id":12022,"date":"2019-01-14T20:06:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T00:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=12022"},"modified":"2019-01-21T08:36:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T12:36:22","slug":"episode-303-peter-kuper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-303-peter-kuper","title":{"rendered":"Episode 303 – Peter Kuper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 303:
\nPeter Kuper<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Art has been my saving grace, in terms of having an outlet so I’m not just having today’s news run around in my head and make me scream.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Political artist\/illustrator Peter Kuper<\/a> rejoins the show to talk about these Kafkaesque times and his new graphic novel, Kafkaesque: Fourteen Stories<\/a>\"\" (Norton)! We get into his decades-long interest in Kafka, the art of literary adaptation, why the constraints of working with an existing story can be liberating, how to talk about controversial artists in the present moment, the various translations of K he read before commissioning his own, and challenges of his adaptation-in-progress: Heart of Darkness<\/em>. We also get into his post-2016-election mindset, the discovery of his New Yorker<\/em> cartoonist line, his laborious process of breaking down a comic, what his dream adaptation project is, the time he got stranded in a village in Africa by an evil guide, and much more! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy Kafkaesque: Fourteen Stories<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“I feel a lot of anxiety that what I’m working on relates to what’s going on in the world.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n