{"id":13375,"date":"2020-05-14T09:56:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T13:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=13375"},"modified":"2020-05-14T09:58:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T13:58:41","slug":"episode-372-tom-hart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-372-tom-hart","title":{"rendered":"Episode 372 – Tom Hart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 372: Tom Hart<\/a><\/p>\n

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“For my next book, I’m looking for a new form. Everything feels like the old form. I’m giving myself that luxury. I don’t owe this to anybody but my own creative satisfaction.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Cartoonist and educator Tom Hart<\/a> joins the show to talk about how the Sequential Artists Workshop<\/a> (SAW) is adapting to the pandemic era. We get into Tom’s comics upbringing and his formative years in the Seattle scene, how he managed to avoid superhero comics during his formative years, my discovery of his debut, Hutch Owen’s Working Hard<\/a>, in 1994, the value of pretension and his drive to bring literary notions to his comics, the experience that led him to create SAW, the challenges of teaching students half his age (& younger), ow teaching his helped him as a cartoonist, the new form he’s seeking for his next book<\/a>, and why he’s hoping to get out of Florida. Give it a listen!<\/a><\/p>\n

“In my own work, I’ve removed everything in the idea-generation phase, everything that’s not about death or absolute primal urges.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n