{"id":12616,"date":"2019-11-10T21:34:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T02:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=12616"},"modified":"2019-11-16T16:00:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T21:00:56","slug":"episode-349-peter-bagge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-349-peter-bagge","title":{"rendered":"Episode 349 – Peter Bagge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 349:
\nPete Bagge Returns!<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cOne of the reasons I wrote about these three women for my books is that the lives they led give me something to draw.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Third time\u2019s the charm! Cartoonist Pete Bagge<\/a> returns to talk about his new comic biography, Credo: The Rose Wilder Lane Story<\/a>\"\" (Drawn & Quarterly), and we get into the thematic ties of his three biographies \u2014 Lane, Margaret Sanger<\/a>\"\", and Zora Neale Hurston<\/a>\"\" \u2014 and how he learned the biographer’s art over the course of those works. We talk about how he discovered Rose Wilder Lane’s walk-the-walk libertarianism, her transition in and out of socialism, the likelihood that she co-wrote her mother\u2019s Little House<\/em> series of books, Pete\u2019s own history with libertarianism and the uncomfortable questions he\u2019d ask his parents, and why his own biography would be a lot less interesting than those of his subjects. We also discuss his writing and drawing process and how he structured these books, why he\u2019d prefer to produce comics in installments and how economics mitigate against that model, how trying to write for TV made his comics writing more concise, and why he\u2019s likely sticking to shorter biography comics for a while. Oh, and we talk about his \u201980s\/\u201990s editorship of the anthology Weirdo<\/a>\"\", how he followed R. Crumb, and the artists he pissed off as well as the ones to whom he gave their first shot, and the memoir he\u2019s written but has yet to draw. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy Credo: The Rose Wilder Lane Story<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

\u201cRAW was full of art and artists that I loved, but it was clearly designed to appeal to people that I hated.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n