{"id":13574,"date":"2020-06-19T07:59:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T11:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=13574"},"modified":"2020-06-19T07:59:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T11:59:20","slug":"episode-377-keith-henry-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-377-keith-henry-brown","title":{"rendered":"Episode 377 – Keith Henry Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 377:
\nKeith Henry Brown<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I was shocked no one had done a kids picture book about Miles Davis. I didn’t even read the script; I just said yes!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Designer, artist and writer Keith Henry Brown<\/a> joins the show to talk about his new kids book, Birth of The Cool: How Miles Davis Found His Sound<\/a> (Page Street Books, written by Kathleen Cornell Berman). We get into the twists and turns of his illustration career, exploring the balancing act of art & commerce in his main role as an art director, the role of jazz in his work, how he started off by achieving his childhood goal of drawing for Marvel Comics, but rapidly realized it wasn’t for him, the ongoing evolution of his style, how he discovered his place at the Society of Illustrators<\/a>, the longform graphic novel he’s hoping to create, the issues of race in his career, and more. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read Birth of The Cool<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“Part of my intense love for jazz is because it’s an incredibly brilliant art form that requires an incredible amount of talent, skill, practice, and intellectualism, and it’s a high art. And Black people had a lot to do with the creation of it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n