{"id":12126,"date":"2019-03-03T21:56:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T01:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=12126"},"modified":"2019-03-03T21:56:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T01:56:47","slug":"episode-310-james-sturm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-310-james-sturm","title":{"rendered":"Episode 310 – James Sturm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 310:
\nJames Sturm<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I don’t consider myself to be a political cartoonist, but I feel like no one can afford not to be political right now.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Cartoonist and educator James Sturm<\/a> joins the show to talk about his new graphic novel, Off Season<\/a>\"\"(Drawn & Quarterly), the story of a disintegrating marriage set against the backdrop of the 2016 election. We get into his artistic choices for this amazing book: using anthropomorphics, designing it in a 2-panel-per-page layout, and writing a story so convincing that friends thought his own marriage was falling apart (it wasn’t). We also talk about James’ experience of starting the Center for Cartoon Studies<\/a> up in Vermont and what it taught him about cartooning, finding joy in the studio, exploring visions of America in his comics (or not; it’s up for debate), treating the long VT winters as “cartooning season”, his mega-sized graphic novel that will never see the light of day and the liberation of throwing a big project overboard, the comic shops we both frequented in our youth, the revelatory experience of reading Mark Alan Stamaty<\/a>‘s comics, the Indian ledger books that comprise the first American graphic novels, and a lot more (including a Brink’s heist). Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy Off Season<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“The history of comics isn’t just the history of the industry of comics. I think the people who are making comics now are going to help re-evaluate the history.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n