{"id":12081,"date":"2019-02-12T12:03:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T16:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=12081"},"modified":"2019-02-12T12:11:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T16:11:37","slug":"episode-307-mort-gerberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-307-mort-gerberg","title":{"rendered":"Episode 307 – Mort Gerberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 307:
\nMort Gerberg<\/a><\/p>\n

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“People submitting comics to the New Yorker could expect a 98% rejection rate. What kind of a sane person would go into that field?! You have to have some sort of personality aberration to do this!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>On the eve of his exhibition at the New-York Historical Society<\/a> (Feb. 15 to May 5, 2019), legendary cartoonist Mort Gerberg<\/a> reflects on more than five decades of cartooning and art. We talk about his new collection, Mort Gerberg On The Scene: A 50-Year Cartoon Chronicle<\/a>\"\" (Fantagraphics Underground), and what he learned in the process of culling the selection of his work for the show. We get into the roots of his groundbreaking civil rights cartoons (and how he got away with making weed jokes in the Saturday Evening Post<\/em> in 1965), his pioneering comics reportage, how his spontaneity and energy secretly come from laziness, the challenge of drawing people on NYC subways, his intense focus on the business side of cartooning (and how it might be tied into his late start as a cartoonist), and how he tied vacations and even his honeymoon into work assignments. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy Mort Gerberg On The Scene<\/a>\"\" and check out the new exhibition of Mort’s work at the New-York Historical Society<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“When I would see something that looked like an injustice, I had to do something.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n