{"id":7674,"date":"2014-02-03T11:10:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T15:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=7674"},"modified":"2014-02-04T11:54:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T15:54:51","slug":"podcast-feeling-gravetts-pull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-feeling-gravetts-pull","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Feeling Gravett&#8217;s Pull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_5_-_Feeling_Gravetts_Pull.mp3\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Virtual Memories \u2013 season 4 episode 5 &#8211; Feeling Gravett&#8217;s Pull<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1763\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7674-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_5_-_Feeling_Gravetts_Pull.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_5_-_Feeling_Gravetts_Pull.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_5_-_Feeling_Gravetts_Pull.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_4_Episode_5_-_Feeling_Gravetts_Pull.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=7674-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_5_-_Feeling_Gravetts_Pull.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Season_4_Episode_5_-_Feeling_Gravetts_Pull.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;Comics is a medium that isn&#8217;t going to go away. It may just now finally be coming into its own in the 21st century. In this internet era, there&#8217;s something very special about what comics do, no matter how much they get warped and changed by technology.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More than 30 years after taking on the role of\u00a0British comics&#8217;\u00a0<em>Man at the Crossroads,<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/paulgravett.com\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Gravett<\/a>\u00a0remains at the center of the global comics scene. We had an in-depth conversation about the growth of comics as an art form, the surprise of seeing local manga in Algeria, why he considers himself less of a comics historian or curator than a comics activist, how it feels to have been the first publisher of some of the finest cartoonists of our time, and why he should be called Paul &#8220;Mission To Explain&#8221; Gravett.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_5_-_Feeling_Gravetts_Pull.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Give it a listen<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m probably slightly insane for wanting to go on looking and searching and questioning and provoking myself, trying to find stuff that doesn&#8217;t give me what I know already.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Along the way, Paul and I also talk about his new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0300204019\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0300204019&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Comics Art<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0300204019\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> (Yale University Press), the new exhibition he&#8217;s curating for the British Library, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/whatson\/exhibitions\/comics-unmasked\/\" target=\"_blank\">Comics Unmasked: Art &amp; Anarchy in the UK<\/a>, the history of comics and his history within it, and the way virtually every lifelong comics reader&#8217;s home winds up resembling an episode of Hoarders. Paul Gravett is \u00a0one of comics&#8217; finest ambassadors, and it was a pleasure to talk with him during my recent UK trip. (Oh, and here&#8217;s a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/robot6.comicbookresources.com\/2011\/02\/its-always-time-for-richard-mcguires-classic-comic-here\/\" target=\"_blank\">that Richard McGuire comic<\/a> we effuse about!)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Paul Gravett Talks Comics Art on The Virtual Memories Show by Virtual Memoirist, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chimeraobscura\/12036772913\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium alignright\" alt=\"Paul Gravett Talks Comics Art on The Virtual Memories Show\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2870\/12036772913_8b688341ff_c.jpg?w=440\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1764\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7674-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_5_-_Feeling_Gravetts_Pull.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_5_-_Feeling_Gravetts_Pull.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_5_-_Feeling_Gravetts_Pull.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_4_Episode_5_-_Feeling_Gravetts_Pull.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=7674-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_5_-_Feeling_Gravetts_Pull.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Season_4_Episode_5_-_Feeling_Gravetts_Pull.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<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_5_-_Feeling_Gravetts_Pull.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Enjoy the conversation!<\/a>\u00a0Then check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-archive\" target=\"_blank\">the archives<\/a>\u00a0for more great episodes! Related conversations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-comic-sans\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Spurgeon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-the-show-must-go-on\" target=\"_blank\">Roger Langridge<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-mike-and-ivans-comics-cabaret\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Kupperman \/ Ivan Brunetti<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-the-least-insane-of-cartoonists\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Bagge<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-sex-crime-and-other-arbitrary-genre-labels\" target=\"_blank\">Maxim Jakubowski<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-visible-cities\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Katchor<\/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\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/vmspod\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VirtualMemoriesShow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualmemoriespodcast.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\">Tumblr<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?tag=podcast&amp;feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\">RSS<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>About our Guest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgravett.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Gravett<\/a> is a London-based freelance journalist, curator, lecturer, writer and broadcaster, who has worked in comics publishing and promotion since 1981. Under the Escape Publishing imprint, he co-published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1616552107\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1616552107&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Violent Cases<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1616552107\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> in 1987, the first collaboration between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Neil Gaiman<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davemckean.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dave McKean<\/a>, three volumes of Eddie Campbell&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1603090258\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1603090258&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Alec<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1603090258\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> between 1984 and 1986, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1852861576\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1852861576&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">London&#8217;s Dark<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1852861576\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> in 1988 by James Robinson and Paul Johnson. Since 2003, Paul has been the director of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicafestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Comica<\/a>, the London International Comics Festival. His <em>very<\/em> extensive bio can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgravett.com\/index.php\/site\/biography\" target=\"_blank\">at his website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Credits: This episode\u2019s music is <\/em>The Boy With the Jigsaw Puzzle Fingers<em>\u00a0by Karl Hyde. The conversation was recorded at the Hilton London Euston on 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 microphones<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002SQJLA4\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> 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;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B001QWBM62\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. The intro and outro were recorded on <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;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002VA464S\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. Processing was done in Audacity and Garage Band. Photo of Paul Gravett by me.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Memories \u2013 season 4 episode 5 &#8211; Feeling Gravett&#8217;s Pull &#8220;Comics is a medium that isn&#8217;t going to go away. It may just now finally be coming into its own in the 21st century. In this internet era, there&#8217;s something very special about what comics do, no matter how much they get warped and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-feeling-gravetts-pull\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Podcast: Feeling Gravett&#8217;s Pull&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[27,793,26,4,1183],"tags":[1094,2363,1471,2391,2364,2390,2376,2381,713,2359,794,2366,2379,2360,2382,823,2362,2392,2368,402,2374,2370,2369,224,2380,2377,2389,2387,2388,2386,2375,1359,2384,2367,346,2358,2371,2361,1472,306,2378,1194,2372,2385,2365,2393,2383,458,2373],"class_list":["post-7674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business","category-classic-comics-criticism","category-comics","category-literature","category-podcasts","tag-alan-moore","tag-angouleme","tag-art-spiegelman","tag-barnaby","tag-bob-dixon","tag-british-library","tag-bryan-talbot","tag-chris-reynolds","tag-chris-ware","tag-comics-art","tag-dan-clowes","tag-dan-dare","tag-dave-mckean","tag-dylan-horrocks","tag-ed-pinsent","tag-eddie-campbell","tag-enki-bilal","tag-francisco-sousa-lobo","tag-frank-hampson","tag-frank-miller","tag-fredric-wertham","tag-fumio-obata","tag-gerry-anderson","tag-grant-morrison","tag-jamie-hewlett","tag-joff-winterhart","tag-john-harris-dunning","tag-jon-mcnaught","tag-laydeez-do-comics","tag-luke-pearson","tag-mary-m-talbot","tag-matt-groening","tag-maurice-horn","tag-modesty-blaise","tag-neil-gaiman","tag-paul-gravett","tag-paul-pope","tag-posy-simmonds","tag-richard-mcguire","tag-robert-crumb","tag-salvador-dali","tag-stefan-zweig","tag-tate-gallery","tag-tatsumi","tag-thierry-smolderen","tag-thunderbirds","tag-warren-ellis","tag-winsor-mccay","tag-yale-university-press"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1ZM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16705,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-582-keith-mayerson","url_meta":{"origin":7674,"position":0},"title":"Episode 582 &#8211; Keith Mayerson","author":"Gil","date":"March 26, 2024","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 582: Keith Mayerson \"I loved comics growing up; I was too young and stupid to appreciate fine art.\" How did an eBay search lead to the discovery of a lost classic of comics? 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