{"id":14529,"date":"2021-06-15T10:23:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T14:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=14529"},"modified":"2021-06-15T10:23:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T14:23:17","slug":"episode-439-glenn-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-439-glenn-head","title":{"rendered":"Episode 439 – Glenn Head"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 439:
\nGlenn Head<\/a><\/p>\n

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“My whole interest in comics and autobiography is to show the dirt that’s under everyone’s fingernails, to capture that and not look away from it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>With his new graphic memoir, Chartwell Manor<\/a> (Fantagraphics), cartoonist Glenn Head<\/a> returns to the scene of the crime: the boarding school where he and his fellow students were sexually and emotionally abused in the 1970s<\/a>. We talk about why the toughest challenges of the book were artistic and not emotional, why he was just as unsparing in depicting himself as an adult, why the trauma of his time at Chartwell doesn’t provide him a get-out-of-jail-free card, and why it wasn’t exactly cathartic but was definitely empowering to draw and tell this story. We also get into why memoir is like striptease, the influence of the Patrick Melrose<\/em> <\/a>novels on this book, Glenn’s lifelong debt to the great Underground Comix artists, his drive for personal exposure, why his wife is his best editor (and only reader), the next book he’s working on, and more. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read Chartwell Manor<\/a>!<\/p>\n

(Also, go listen to my 2016 podcast with Glenn<\/a>, where we talked about his previous memoir, Chicago<\/a>!)<\/em><\/p>\n

“I’m not the hero of this book. I wanted to bury and forget the scandal of what happened, but the corpse seemed to reanimate itself every so often.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n