{"id":15584,"date":"2022-10-18T12:28:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T16:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=15584"},"modified":"2022-10-18T12:28:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T16:28:09","slug":"episode-508-tom-gauld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-508-tom-gauld","title":{"rendered":"Episode 508 – Tom Gauld"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 508:
\nTom Gauld<\/a><\/p>\n

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“There are all these tiny little pushes and pulls that the audience don’t even notice but feel like big changes for me.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Cartoonist and illustrator Tom Gauld<\/a> rejoins the show to celebrate the publication of his new book, Revenge of the Librarians<\/a> (Drawn & Quarterly), a collection of his weekly literary humor comics for The Guardian<\/a>. We get into his comics’ three lives \u2014 in the paper, online, and in books \u2014 and the difference between seeing his work in print vs. onscreen, the decision to include lockdown-era strips in his new book, and how he manages to keep his comics fresh despite having two weekly deadlines (he also draws a comic for New Scientist<\/a>). We also talk about his stylistic & structural experiments, how he grew more comfortable using color, the longform comics he’d love to make (if he could just find them halfway done before he got to work), and why Beckett & Austen are always great authors to fall back on for a gag. And we discuss what it’s like going on a book tour again (and meeting at least one librarian at every event), being more fearless about his work when he was younger and having higher standards now, why it was important to him to make a children’s book<\/a> before his kids went to college, and more! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read Revenge of the Librarians<\/a>!<\/p>\n

(And listen to our 2016 conversation<\/a>!)<\/em><\/p>\n

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“I think once I realized that if you wanted to draw all day, you couldn’t be a doctor or whatever, I asked, ‘Well, what job do you draw all day?'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n