{"id":15373,"date":"2022-07-12T13:20:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T17:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=15373"},"modified":"2022-07-12T13:20:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T17:20:31","slug":"episode-494-brian-doherty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-494-brian-doherty","title":{"rendered":"Episode 494 – Brian Doherty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 494:
\nBrian Doherty<\/a><\/p>\n

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“The only through-line that unites every single person in this book is that they drew, published, or distributed what the mores of their time considered dirty pictures.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Author Brian Doherty<\/a> joins the show to celebrate his fantastic & important new book, Dirty Pictures: How an Underground Network of Nerds, Feminists, Misfits, Geniuses, Bikers, Potheads, Printers, Intellectuals, and Art School Rebels Revolutionized Art and Invented Comix<\/a> (Abrams). We get into the history of underground comix, the twin poles of R. Crumb & Art Spiegelman, the long-lasting influence of the undergrounds on American (and global) culture, the importance of seeing the undergrounds in their historical context, and the\u00a0question of whether these artists were “just in the right place & the right time”. We also talk about comics and libertarianism, the controversy over Crumb’s work today<\/a>, how the pandemic curtailed his research for the book, who came up with that book title (& subtitle), the artist who he most enjoyed interviewing, the people he wishes he could have interviewed, and the one person he wishes hadn’t given up cartooning. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read Dirty Pictures<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“The cultural story is the important one. All this crazy, weird shit from 1968-1975 is what wound up making comics respectable.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n