{"id":14372,"date":"2021-03-30T12:32:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T16:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=14372"},"modified":"2021-03-30T12:39:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T16:39:50","slug":"episode-428-michael-deforge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-428-michael-deforge","title":{"rendered":"Episode 428 – Michael DeForge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 428:
\nMichael DeForge<\/a><\/p>\n

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I think one of the ways art can be politically useful is by reimagining different ways of being.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Cartoonist Michael DeForge<\/a> joins the show to celebrate his amazing new graphic story collection, Heaven No Hell<\/a> (Drawn & Quarterly). We get into his prolific comics career, his compulsion to jump genres, the ways we relitigate the traumas of our lives, and why he digs he self-imposed challenge of a daily comic strip (on top of his other comics and his illustration work). We get into how revolutionary politics permeates his art and how he engages in community activism, what it means to rethink our relationship to social media, why technology will always outpace his attempts at ridiculing it, and why Reading The Comments led him to explore a creative path when he was making Leaving Richard’s Valley<\/a>. We also discuss the uses of absurdism & satire, how his dystopian stories have him rooting for utopian ideas, how he bullied his way into judging butter tart<\/a> competitions, and more. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read Heaven No Hell<\/a> and check out Birds of Maine<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“We take for granted that technology is developing in a certain way, and it’s up to us to mitigate the damage. I don’t think that’s true, and my current work is about an alternate view of technology.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n