{"id":12266,"date":"2019-05-14T19:44:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T23:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=12266"},"modified":"2019-05-14T19:44:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T23:44:42","slug":"episode-320-seth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-320-seth","title":{"rendered":"Episode 320 – Seth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 320: Seth<\/a><\/p>\n

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“The drawing of the comic is where everything is discovered.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>After more than 20 years, Seth<\/a> has completed Clyde Fans<\/a>, his grand meditation on family, business, and art (Drawn & Quarterly), so let’s celebrate with a double-episode! First, Seth & I talk at a live event hosted by the Strand Bookstore<\/a>, where we get into how his approach to art and storytelling evolved over that 20-year span, the one element he hated keeping consistent throughout the process, why serializing most of the work helped with revision, and how comics have become a subset of his studio process. Then we follow up with a one-on-one conversation during Toronto Comic Arts Festival<\/a>, discussing his next project, whether he likes organic projects like his Nothing Lasts memoir or more fully formed stories, whether he owns a pair of sweatpants, the realization that he wasn’t writing about his father but about himself, the artist’s responsibility at the signing table, his decision never to research the real Clyde Fans business, the maddening acceleration of contemporary culture, the one character of his he feels affection for, his dream of writing a play, and plenty more! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy Clyde Fans<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“When you’re in the studio, you think, ‘This is the real me’; you’re not seeing yourself reflected off of other people.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n