{"id":12593,"date":"2019-10-27T21:11:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T01:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=12593"},"modified":"2019-10-27T21:11:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T01:11:12","slug":"episode-346-ho-che-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-346-ho-che-anderson","title":{"rendered":"Episode 346 – Ho Che Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 346:
\nHo Che Anderson<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I walked into Star Wars at 7 years old as one person, and I left as someone else. That movie introduced me to the idea of visual storytelling.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Live from CXC – Cartoon Crossroads Columbus<\/a>, it’s my Spotlight Session with Ho Che Anderson<\/a>, cartoonist behind KING<\/a>\"\", Godhead<\/a>\"\" (Fantagraphics) and plenty more! We get into the ups and downs of Ho’s career, his transition from “frustrated cartoonist” to “somewhat dissatisfied cartoonist”, his twin inspirations of Mister X<\/em> and Black Kiss<\/em>, and all the comic, writing and movie influences that went into his science fiction epic Godhead<\/em>! We also talk about his being labeled an “openly black” cartoonist, how being Canadian gave him a different perspective on Martin Luther King when it came to tackling MLK’s biography, why he prefers writing a story to drawing it, the importance of world building in both his fiction and non-fiction work, and why you should never meet your heroes (unless your hero is Howard Chaykin<\/a>)! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy Godhead<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“I needed the mental real estate, so I had to get this story done, just so I could think about other things.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n