{"id":14795,"date":"2021-10-26T08:43:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T12:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=14795"},"modified":"2021-10-26T08:43:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T12:43:10","slug":"episode-457-dash-shaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-457-dash-shaw","title":{"rendered":"Episode 457 – Dash Shaw"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 457:
\nDash Shaw<\/a><\/p>\n

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“With all of the things that I do, the form and the content have to feel like they’re perfectly synced, that they’re each boosting each other up. It also has to be connected with how they’re made.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Cartoonist and animator Dash Shaw<\/a> joins the show to celebrate his new book, Discipline<\/a> (New York Review Comics), a Civil War-era story about a Quaker who joins the Union army. We get into how Dash’s upbringing as a Quaker in Virginia led him to this book, the New York Public Library fellowship<\/a> that exposed him to letters and diaries from the time, the artwork of the era and how it influenced the “floating” visual style of Discipline<\/em>, and his urge to depict the moments that are left unchronicled. We also discuss the Quaker debate over paying a military tax during the Civil War, the sense of growing up in an area haunted by that period of history, the multi-year layering process of making this book and how it converged and diverged with the making of his amazing new animated movie, Cryptozoo<\/a> (Magnolia Pictures), and how story dictates form & style. We also reminisce about a bookstore panel he did<\/a> with Frank Santoro<\/a> once upon a time, and how their tooth-and-nail arguments over the nature of comics gave him hope that there’s plenty of room for comics to grow. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read Discipline<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“I’ve made other books and animated movies, but nothing has been as hard as this book. Nothing was as picked over and fraught with indecision.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n