{"id":12190,"date":"2019-03-31T20:35:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T00:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=12190"},"modified":"2019-03-31T20:35:59","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T00:35:59","slug":"episode-314-mark-alan-stamaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-314-mark-alan-stamaty","title":{"rendered":"Episode 314 – Mark Alan Stamaty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 314:
\nMark Alan Stamaty<\/a><\/p>\n

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“MacDoodle St. is the closest I ever got to the direction I wanted to go with my work.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>To celebrate the new 40th anniversary edition of MacDoodle St.<\/a>\"\" (New York Review Comics), Mark Alan Stamaty<\/a> joins the show for a conversation about that comic strip\/graphic novel and what it meant for him and his career. We get into how it felt to draw a coda for this collection and how looking back at this work affects the two graphic novels he’s working on. We also talk about the joy of drifting, what it means to be a New York flaneur after 50+ years in the big city, his lifelong lament over the Dodgers leaving Brooklyn, the Tom Robbins book<\/a>\"\" that warped his brain and set him on the path to MacDoodle St.<\/em>, the meditative quality of Chinese scholar rocks, and the work he wished he did in his younger days, as well as what he would have pursued if he’d been more financially secure. Oh, yeah, and he also tells us about getting possessed by Elvis’ spirit, his coping mechanisms for having a pair of gag cartoonists for parents, and the importance of composition for conveying energy to his readers. BONUS but not really: The intro is 15 minutes<\/strong> long, because I get into some weird epiphany-stuff; just skip to 15:00 for the start of the conversation.<\/em> Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy MacDoodle St.<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“Composition is the energy of the whole work. Composition — form and color — that language means more to me than what’s being represented. It’s that chi, that energy.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n