{"id":13876,"date":"2020-09-15T12:18:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T16:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=13876"},"modified":"2020-09-15T12:18:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T16:18:15","slug":"episode-398-r-sikoryak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-398-r-sikoryak","title":{"rendered":"Episode 398 – R Sikoryak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 398:
\nR. Sikoryak<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I really wanted to make a book where anyone could pick it up and say, ‘That’s something I know!’, whether it’s something from a bumper sticker or a comic that they avidly read.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Cartoonist R. Sikoryak<\/a> rejoins the show to talk about his new book, Constitution Illustrated<\/a> (Drawn & Quarterly), and how his mode of parodying other comics made a perfect complement to the founding document of the United States. We get into what surprised him about the Constitution as he read it for this project, the challenge of representing the Three-Fifths Compromise, as well as the other artistic and compositional challenges of the book (all those dense word balloons!). We also talk about his family’s immigrant history, how he’s coping with the pandemic after finishing this book, why we both miss SPX<\/a>, the artists he had the most trouble parodying, the secondary reading that went into Constitution Illustrated<\/em>, why he was glad to do a book without Trump<\/a> in it, his devotion to the scratchy old newspaper style of comics, and why he had to use Peanuts<\/em> to represent the First Amendment. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read Constitution Illustrated<\/a>! (& check out our 2012 podcast<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

“One thing that’s so great about Constitution is that it was written in the 18th century, but Amendments were continually added. Stuff happens. Things are decided in the beginning that are terrible ideas, but later on they’re replaced, eliminated, reconsidered.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n