{"id":14864,"date":"2021-11-30T10:02:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T15:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=14864"},"modified":"2021-11-30T10:03:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T15:03:18","slug":"episode-462-edward-sorel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-462-edward-sorel","title":{"rendered":"Episode 462 – Edward Sorel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 462:
\nEd Sorel<\/a><\/p>\n

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“My wife convinced me that when someone compliments your work, you say, ‘Thank you,’ and don’t explain to them why the drawing is actually lousy.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Legendary artist, illustrator, cartoonist, & author Ed Sorel<\/a> joins the show to celebrate the publication of his memoir, Profusely Illustrated<\/a> (Knopf). We get into his remarkable career (and “unremarkable life”), the rage that drove his political cartooning for more than a half-century, the illustrations that made him realize he had come into his own as an artist, the origins of Push Pin Studios & his stories of working with Seymour Chwast<\/a> and Milton Glaser<\/a>, the terrible lessons in abstractionism that beat figurative drawing out of him for years, and his need to look at his past work to remind himself that he does know how to draw. We talk about whether political cartooning is intended to change minds or provide comfort, how writing is like a pastel drawing, how he balanced art, commentary, and commerce over his career, why he refused to sell his drawings to certain hated people, how he learned to harness the nervous energy of his line to create a unique style (and why he hates tracing), why this (secular) patron saint of late starters got around to a memoir at 92, and more! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read Profusely Illustrated<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“The thing I wanted to get off my chest in this book \u2014 much more than my life story \u2014 was the terrible, terrible Presidents I’ve lived through over the course of my life.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n