{"id":15176,"date":"2022-04-12T09:26:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T13:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=15176"},"modified":"2022-04-12T09:26:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T13:26:06","slug":"episode-481-anneli-furmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-481-anneli-furmark","title":{"rendered":"Episode 481 – Anneli Furmark"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 481:
\nAnneli Furmark<\/a><\/p>\n

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“There shouldn’t be any difference between a landscape drawn in a book in a story and one in a frame; it’s still my vision of a landscape.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Swedish cartoonist (okay: serietecknare<\/em>) Anneli Furmark<\/a> joins the show to celebrate the publication of Walk Me To The Corner<\/a> (Drawn & Quarterly, tr. Hanna Str\u00f6mberg), her wonderful graphic novel about a woman in her mid-50s who falls in love with a woman at a party and tries to balance that relationship with the life she’s lived up to that moment. We get into Anneli’s evolution as a cartoonist, how she copes with winters in northern Sweden and why drawing in summer isn’t as fun, how Walk Me To The Corner<\/em> flowed from life into story, and how the pandemic left so little room for chance. We also get intothe false split between fine art and comics, northern Sweden’s colonial history & culture, the importance of trusting your translator, the balance of the politics & the personal in her graphic novel Red Winter<\/a>, her recent work adapting someone else’s prose, what she’s learned from teaching narrative drawing, my explanation of what a “May-December” romance is, and more. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read Walk Me To The Corner<\/a>!<\/p>\n