{"id":14554,"date":"2021-06-29T11:39:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T15:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=14554"},"modified":"2021-06-29T11:55:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T15:55:39","slug":"episode-441-andi-watson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-441-andi-watson","title":{"rendered":"Episode 441 – Andi Watson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 441:
\nAndi Watson<\/a><\/p>\n

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“The stories that don’t work out are the ones that don’t have a decent central character, or an environment or a unique way of drawing or approach or style you want to experiment with. The Book Tour was one where it all worked out.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>With The Book Tour<\/a> (Top Shelf Productions), cartoonist Andi Watson<\/a> makes his triumphant return to ‘grown-up’ comics, spinning a tale more Waugh than Kafka about a midlist British author on a book tour from hell. We get into the book’s path to publication, the new drawing style he developed for this one, why he’s shifted genres & styles over the course of his career, and how this book’s visual setting was inspired by Atget’s early-morning photos of Paris<\/a>. We talk about the YA and middle-reader comics he’s made in recent years, the quirks of writing for different age-tiers, how comics publishing has changed since he got into the field in the ’90s, how Love & Rockets<\/em> bent his brain at 18 & sent him on this wayward path, and why he’s looking forward to going on a real book tour for The Book Tour<\/em> someday! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read The Book Tour<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“After all the years I’ve been making comics, the joy is still sitting down with a blank page, with a new project, the possibility of bringing something new into the world. There’s nothing in this world that I want to do.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n