{"id":13686,"date":"2020-07-23T10:07:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T14:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=13686"},"modified":"2020-07-23T10:07:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T14:07:50","slug":"episode-385-ellen-lindner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-385-ellen-lindner","title":{"rendered":"Episode 385 – Ellen Lindner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 385:
\nEllen Lindner<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Women have always played baseball; it just hasn’t been discussed. In the late 19th century, in concert with American imperialism, white men looked at baseball and said, ‘This is something we want for ourselves.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Batter up! Let’s celebrate Major League Baseball’s 2020 Opening Day by talking with cartoonist, illustrator and baseball fan Ellen Lindner<\/a>. We get into Ellen’s great ‘zine about the role of women in the history of baseball, Cranklet’s Chronicle <\/em>(1<\/a> & 2<\/a>), her own history with baseball, why she’s a Mets fan, her theories about Aaron Judge’s mystery-injury, and what it’s like being in the narrow Venn overlap of comics-makers and sports fans. We also explore her comics upbringing, the education she got by volunteering at the Words and Pictures Museum of Sequential Art<\/a>, the comics festivals she misses the most in Pandemic World, the time she impressed David B.<\/a> with her French, how to tell family stories without alienating one’s family, her side-project of sewing masks and biking around NYC to deliver them, the cut-out figure she submitted to the Mets, and more. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read issues 1<\/a> & 2<\/a>\u00a0of Cranklet’s Chronicle<\/em>, as well as Ellen’s contribution to the new Pandemix<\/a> anthology!<\/p>\n

“The fine art world was totally focused on money, and so comics was an escape for me.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n