{"id":16545,"date":"2024-01-10T01:30:47","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T06:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=16545"},"modified":"2024-01-11T11:09:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T16:09:34","slug":"episode-571-ed-subitzky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-571-ed-subitzky","title":{"rendered":"Episode 571 – Ed Subitzky"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 571:
\nEd Subitzky<\/a><\/p>\n

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“For better or worse, I was never topical. I always think of my work as being about the human condition and the human comedy.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>The great cartoonist and humorist Ed Subitzky<\/a> gets his long-delayed due with the new collection, POOR HELPLESS COMICS<\/a>! (New York Review Comics). We talk about Ed’s amazing career at National Lampoon, how he developed his “can’t draw’ style after taking a cartooning class with RO Blechman<\/a> & Charles Slackman A DOZEN TIMES<\/em>, how the Rapidograph became his Excalibur, and why this collection includes some of his favorite prose pieces alongside all the comics. We get into how he began experimenting with the form & structure of comics, his lifelong curiosities for science and philosophy and how he wound up getting published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies<\/em>, how he juggled all these great comics with his longtime career writing direct marketing pieces, and how it took preparing this book and looking back at his work for him to realize his comics were really<\/em> funny. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read Poor Helpless Comics!<\/a><\/p>\n

“What is the nature of reality? That’s in so many of comics: probes about what is real.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n