{"id":15904,"date":"2023-03-07T10:55:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T15:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=15904"},"modified":"2023-03-07T10:55:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T15:55:17","slug":"episode-529-dean-haspiel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-529-dean-haspiel","title":{"rendered":"Episode 529 – Dean Haspiel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 529:
\nDean Haspiel<\/a><\/p>\n

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“What’s interesting about comics storytelling, compared to stage and film, is that it’s a sort of shorthand where you have to earn the next panel. How do you exploit the real estate of the blank page?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Artist, writer, cartoonist, playwright, director etc. Dean Haspiel<\/a> rejoins the show to talk why he’s launched his first Kickstarter<\/a> (open through 3\/30\/23) to support a new comic, COVID Cop<\/a> (think “unholy but hilarious combo of Judge Dredd<\/em>, The Toxic Avenger<\/em>, Sin City<\/em>, and Marshal Law<\/em>“)! We get into how his approach to storytelling has changed in recent years, how he felt about the COVID-delayed debut of his play\u00a0The War Of Woo<\/a>, the thrill of making his short movie There Is No Try<\/a>, and what it’s like to work in hyper-collaborative mediums like theater & film. We also talk about the experience of drawing Superman<\/a> at Yaddo<\/a>, why he needed to revisit his pitch for COVID Cop<\/em> now that we’re semisorta past the worst of the pandemic, returning to his fave character, Billy Dogma, and wrapping up one phase of his The Red Hook<\/a> series, the influence of Kyle Baker’s Why I Hate Saturn<\/a> on his upcoming work, the experience of mentoring comics artists at Atlantic Center for the Arts<\/a> last month, his take on AI art for comics, and a lot more. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go support COVID Cop<\/a>!<\/p>\n

(And go listen to our 2018<\/a> and 2020<\/a> conversations!)<\/em><\/p>\n

“There’s a lot I hope I’ll be remembered for, but really, I’m the guy who took of his shirt at the Comic-Con, and that’s my fault.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n