{"id":14462,"date":"2021-05-11T11:15:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T15:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=14462"},"modified":"2021-05-11T11:15:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T15:15:39","slug":"episode-434-karl-stevens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-434-karl-stevens","title":{"rendered":"Episode 434 – Karl Stevens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 434:
\nKarl Stevens<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Cartoonist & illustrator Karl Stevens<\/a> rejoins the show to celebrate his new book, Penny: A Graphic Memoir<\/a> (Chronicle Books), in which Karl explores the inner life of his eponymous cat Penny. We get into the challenges of realistically drawing a tortoiseshell cat (and writing her existentialist thoughts), the book’s origins in his Village Voice<\/em> strip, and how he avoided plenty of cartoon cat cliches while crafting a book that can appeal to non-comics readers. We also get into his new work adapting another writer’s script for a comic, the experiments he’s doing with different drawing styles, his productive pandemic, and how he’s trying to create book about his father’s Vietnam experience. And we talk about our respective running habits, the virtues of Transcendental Meditation, his learning curve with New Yorker<\/em> comic submissions<\/a>, and his deep-dive into back issues of Heavy Metal<\/em>. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read Penny: A Graphic Memoir<\/a>!<\/p>\n