{"id":15971,"date":"2023-04-11T12:44:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T16:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=15971"},"modified":"2023-04-11T12:44:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T16:44:55","slug":"episode-534-noah-van-sciver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-534-noah-van-sciver","title":{"rendered":"Episode 534 – Noah Van Sciver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 534:
\nNoah Van Sciver LIVE<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I have to put my humility aside, because to me there’s no other book like Joseph Smith And The Mormons. I feel like I did something that nobody else has done.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Live from MoCCA Fest<\/a> 2023, it’s an Artist’s Spotlight feat. Noah Van Sciver<\/a>! I host a live session with Noah (with audience Q&A) to talk about his career in comics, his return to autobiography with his new Maple Terrace<\/a> comic (Uncivilized Books), what his graphic biography of Joseph Smith<\/a> taught him about comics, when he realized\/accepted he was Alt and not Mainstream, and the great wisdom his father gave him about comics (and how his dad named one of his sisters about a character from a Conan comic). We also get into looking at 40 and how it compares to the comic he did about turning 30, why ex-Mormons appreciate his Joseph Smith bio, the challenges of getting work done as a father, how the American Splendor<\/em> and Crumb<\/em> movies set him on his path, the influence of Kerouac and the Beats on his writing and art, the original comic art that made him plotz, his sense of obligation to share the work of older artists, and a lot more. Give it a listen!<\/a><\/p>\n

(And go listen to our 2022 conversation<\/a>!)<\/em><\/p>\n

“The line that came out of my pen was Alternative.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n