{"id":12347,"date":"2019-07-01T20:29:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T00:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=12347"},"modified":"2019-07-01T20:29:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T00:29:18","slug":"episode-327-karl-stevens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-327-karl-stevens","title":{"rendered":"Episode 327 – Karl Stevens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 327:
\nKarl Stevens<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I wanted to be an artist but I didn’t know how, and comics were so accessible that I latched onto that.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>It may be a fine line between comics and art, but Karl Stevens<\/a>‘ fine line crosses effortlessly between them. Karl & I talk about how his realistic drawing style and watercolors treat comics as fine art, and how that visual style complements his naturalist stories, especially in his recent collection, The Winner<\/a> (Retrofit Comics). We get into his gateway from superheroes to art-comics, his recent commission to make comics that accompanied a Botticcelli exhibition<\/a> at the Gardener Museum in Boston, his work as a guard in that same museum, the challenge of drawing his wife, the challenge of getting paid as a freelancer, and whether he regrets his his teenaged decision to devote his life to comics. We also talk about his upcoming book of cat comics, drawing gags for the New Yorker<\/em><\/a>, being WAY too high to meet your idols, visiting the Words & Pictures Museum in ’90s Northampton (a.k.a. Comics-Mecca), his road not taken with Dave Sim, how short strips and gag panels have made it tougher for him to write longer stories, and plenty more! BONUS: You get the origin story of my friendship with Tom Spurgeon AND my recent crisis of faith!<\/em> Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy The Winner<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“The way light hits objects is part of the story.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n