{"id":15061,"date":"2022-02-15T08:49:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T13:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=15061"},"modified":"2022-02-15T08:51:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T13:51:04","slug":"episode-473-darryl-cunningham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-473-darryl-cunningham","title":{"rendered":"Episode 473 – Darryl Cunningham"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 473:
\nDarryl Cunningham<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>With Putin’s Russia: The Rise of a Dictator<\/a> (Drawn & Quarterly), cartoonist Darryl Cunningham<\/a> undertook the most intense and difficult process of all of his nonfiction books. We get into Putin’s postwar upbringing in Leningrad, his KGB career and the fall of the USSR, and how those key elements play into his strategy and tactics for Russia on the world stage. We talk about how this book was an outgrowth of his previous Billionaires<\/a>, what it was like transitioning from the .01% to the REALLY wealthy, the ways in which money is weaponized, the challenges of visually representing Putin and of conveying some of his atrocities on the comic page, the need to push back against authoritarianism, and why he wants people to understand his book is not anti-Russian. We also discuss how he’s taking a break from nonfiction to work on his longform supernatural story, Far Beyond Midnight<\/em>, on his Patreon<\/a>, the influence of Dark Shadows<\/em> on his young mind, what it’s like posting pages online as soon as they’re done and how it affects his creative process, and more! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read Putin’s Russia!<\/p>\n

And go listen to my 2021 conversation with Darryl<\/a> about Billionaires<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n