{"id":7369,"date":"2013-10-12T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=7369"},"modified":"2017-12-11T07:51:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T11:51:54","slug":"podcast-the-least-insane-of-cartoonists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-the-least-insane-of-cartoonists","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: The Least Insane of Cartoonists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_3_Episode_22_-_The_Least_Insane_of_Cartoonists.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virtual Memories \u2013 season 3 episode 22 &#8211;<br \/>\nPete Bagge: The Least Insane of Cartoonists<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9413\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7369-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_3_Episode_22_-_The_Least_Insane_of_Cartoonists.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_3_Episode_22_-_The_Least_Insane_of_Cartoonists.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_3_Episode_22_-_The_Least_Insane_of_Cartoonists.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_3_Episode_22_-_The_Least_Insane_of_Cartoonists.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=7369-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_3_Episode_22_-_The_Least_Insane_of_Cartoonists.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Season_3_Episode_22_-_The_Least_Insane_of_Cartoonists.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4itPQhel9GzH3WK2iXr4Zw\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Interviews\/The-Virtual-Memories-Show-p1091071\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I was asking not to be taken seriously, but I was also getting annoyed that I wasn&#8217;t being taken seriously.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1770461264\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1770461264&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 5px solid white;\" title=\"wreb.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/wreb.jpg?resize=150%2C201\" alt=\"Wreb\" width=\"150\" height=\"201\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1770461264\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/peterbagge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter Bagge<\/a>, the comics legend behind <em>Hate!, Neat Stuff, Apocalypse Nerd<\/em> and <em>Everybody is Stupid Except for Me<\/em>, joins us to talk about his new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1770461264\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1770461264&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1770461264\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. We have a great conversation about why he chose to write about the founder of Planned Parenthood, how he made the shift from fiction to nonfiction comics, who his favorite &#8220;pre-feminist feminists&#8221; are, why he decided to stick with comic books over paperback books (and why he came around on the latter), what the strangest sketchbook request he ever received is, and how he feels about being a comics convention prostitute.<\/p>\n<p>We also talk about how he never got a word of approval from his dad or his editor,\u00a0how his libertarian politics got him ostracized after the 2008 election (and how some people seem to be coming around on that), why he doesn&#8217;t draw elbows, and what it felt like to be considered the\u00a0&#8220;least insane of cartoonists&#8221; by R. Crumb.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9414\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7369-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_3_Episode_22_-_The_Least_Insane_of_Cartoonists.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_3_Episode_22_-_The_Least_Insane_of_Cartoonists.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_3_Episode_22_-_The_Least_Insane_of_Cartoonists.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_3_Episode_22_-_The_Least_Insane_of_Cartoonists.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=7369-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_3_Episode_22_-_The_Least_Insane_of_Cartoonists.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Season_3_Episode_22_-_The_Least_Insane_of_Cartoonists.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4itPQhel9GzH3WK2iXr4Zw\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Interviews\/The-Virtual-Memories-Show-p1091071\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_3_Episode_22_-_The_Least_Insane_of_Cartoonists.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enjoy the conversation!<\/a>\u00a0Then check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-archive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the archives<\/a>\u00a0for more great episodes! Related conversations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-the-guy-who-drew-the-liver-spots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drew Friedman<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-visible-cities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Katchor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-mike-and-ivans-comics-cabaret\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Kupperman \/ Ivan Brunetti<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-classical-pop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">R\u00a0Sikoryak<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-cartoon-character\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matt Wuerker<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Follow <em>The Virtual Memories Show<\/em> on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-virtual-memories-show\/id531173075\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/vmspod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VirtualMemoriesShow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualmemoriespodcast.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tumblr<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?tag=podcast&amp;feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RSS<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>About our Guest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/peterbagge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter Bagge<\/a>&#8216;s newest book is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1770461264\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1770461264&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1770461264\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. He is best known for the 1990s comic book series <em>Hate!<\/em>, which followed the exploits of slacker ne&#8217;er-do-well Buddy Bradley (collected vols. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1560976233\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1560976233&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">1<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1560976233\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1560978376\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1560978376&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">2<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1560978376\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1606997459\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1606997459&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">3<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1606997459\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>). He is a contributor to <em>Reason<\/em> magazine, which led to the collection <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1606996568\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1606996568&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Everybody Is Stupid Except For Me, and Other Acute Observations<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1606996568\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, and his work has appeared in <em>Weirdo<\/em> (where he served as managing editor), <em>The Stranger, New York Press, Entertainment Weekly, Details, Seattle Weekly, Screw,<\/em> and more. He is also the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1606996223\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1606996223&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Peter Bagge&#8217;s Other Stuff<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1606996223\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1616550031\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1616550031&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Reset<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1616550031\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1593079028\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1593079028&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Apocalypse Nerd<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1593079028\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1401219020\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1401219020&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Other Lives<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1401219020\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1600108962\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1600108962&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Bat Boy: The Weekly World News Comic Strips<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1600108962\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, among other works.<\/p>\n<p><em>Credits: This episode\u2019s music is <\/em>Hateful Notebook<em>\u00a0by the Descendents. The conversation was recorded at the Bethesda North Marriott during <a href=\"http:\/\/spxpo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPX 2013<\/a>\u00a0on a pair of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002SQJLA4\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B002SQJLA4&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Blue enCORE 200<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002SQJLA4\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0mics feeding into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001QWBM62\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B001QWBM62\">Zoom H4n recorder<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B001QWBM62\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. <\/em><em>The intro and outro were recorded in my home office on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002VA464S\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B002VA464S&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Blue Yeti USB microphone<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002VA464S\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. File-splitting is done on a Mac Mini using Audacity. All editing and processing was done in Garage Band. Photo by me.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Memories \u2013 season 3 episode 22 &#8211; Pete Bagge: The Least Insane of Cartoonists &#8220;I was asking not to be taken seriously, but I was also getting annoyed that I wasn&#8217;t being taken seriously.&#8221; Peter Bagge, the comics legend behind Hate!, Neat Stuff, Apocalypse Nerd and Everybody is Stupid Except for Me, joins us &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-the-least-insane-of-cartoonists\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Podcast: The Least Insane of Cartoonists&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,26,33,1183,17],"tags":[2111,2122,2110,1471,1442,183,2107,2119,1429,994,713,2116,794,2105,2118,2104,1742,1485,2101,1858,551,2109,938,987,2121,2113,2103,2100,2124,2125,2115,487,2117,2123,2099,2108,2114,306,2102,746,2120,2112,2055,2106],"class_list":["post-7369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-comics","category-football","category-podcasts","category-politics-explicit","tag-adam-clayton-powell-sr","tag-adrian-tomine","tag-albert-lasker","tag-art-spiegelman","tag-ayn-rand","tag-barack-obama","tag-birth-control","tag-bob-clampett","tag-charles-burns","tag-charles-schulz","tag-chris-ware","tag-curt-swan","tag-dan-clowes","tag-dark-horse-comics","tag-don-martin","tag-drawn-quarterly","tag-fantagraphics","tag-harvey-kurtzman","tag-isabel-patterson","tag-ivan-brunetti","tag-jack-kirby","tag-jean-baker","tag-jean-shepard","tag-joe-sacco","tag-kim-thompson","tag-laura-ingalls-wilder","tag-libertarianism","tag-margaret-sanger","tag-mike-richardson","tag-mike-tice","tag-mort-weisinger","tag-nick-gillespie","tag-paul-coker-jr","tag-paul-levitz","tag-peter-bagge","tag-planned-parenthood","tag-prescott-bush","tag-robert-crumb","tag-rose-wilder-lane","tag-seth","tag-tex-avery","tag-w-e-b-dubois","tag-will-eisner","tag-zora-neale-hurston"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/9766289022_d567ff97ed_o.jpg?fit=2615%2C2182","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1UR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7551,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/2013-podcast-countdown-6-in-the-bagge","url_meta":{"origin":7369,"position":0},"title":"2013 Podcast Countdown: #6 in the Bagge","author":"Gil","date":"December 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Hope you had a merry Christmas! 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