{"id":12583,"date":"2019-10-21T17:56:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T21:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=12583"},"modified":"2019-10-21T17:56:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T21:56:27","slug":"episode-345-frank-santoro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-345-frank-santoro","title":{"rendered":"Episode 345 – Frank Santoro"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 345:
\nFrank Santoro<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Memory rhymes with these little moments in time, and time folds in on itself in a remarkable way, and comics is a wonderful example of that, unlike film or prose.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>A beautiful and subtle meditation on memory and his parents’ marriage and divorce, Frank Santoro<\/a>‘s 200-page graphic novel, Pittsburgh<\/a>\"\" (New York Review Comics), is one of my favorite books of 2019. Frank & I get into about Pittsburgh<\/em>‘s unique visual style, in which he eschews black lines and works directly with color markers, how he solved the problem of word-balloons intruding on a comic page’s color harmony, and how the book’s design and style mirror the reconstruction of memory. We talk about how the book originated with his dad totally opening up to one of Frank’s friends about a story he never told Frank, how interviewing family members for the book brought him closer to them and to understanding them as people, and why I developed the belief that men are far less likely to know how their parents met than women are. We also discuss how his art-training influences his comics compositions, how working for painter Dorothea Rockburne taught him to see the page as music, why he prefers standalone projects to serial publishing, and plenty more. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy Pittsburgh<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“The breath of poetry has a measure; with comics, the measure is the left and right of the page.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n