{"id":9249,"date":"2015-12-14T19:44:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T23:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=9249"},"modified":"2018-10-03T13:38:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T17:38:14","slug":"episode-147-peter-kuper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-147-peter-kuper","title":{"rendered":"Episode 147 – Peter Kuper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show #147:
\nPeter Kuper<\/a><\/p>\n

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“The things we were seeing on the lamppost that would wash away, the art on the walls that would get painted over: we wanted to codify that in World War 3 Illustrated<\/em>.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"ruinscover\"<\/a>Alt-comix lifer Peter Kuper<\/a> joins the show to talk about his new graphic novel, RUINS<\/a>\"\" (Self-Made Hero)<\/a>, a beautiful book about American expats in Oaxaca, Mexico during last decade’s political upheaval. Peter\u00a0also talks about co-creating World War 3 Illustrated<\/a>\u00a0and the legacy that anthology has left since its inception in 1979 (!),\u00a0how surprised he finds himself to be\u00a0teaching at Harvard, how he\u00a0fights despair over the fight against\u00a0climate change, the need to\u00a0build one’s\u00a0own artistic scene, what it’s like to be\u00a0one of the only people who actually followed through on the “if Bush\/Cheney are re-elected, I’m leaving America” pledge, and more!\u00a0Give it a listen!<\/a><\/p>\n

“For me, the safest thing has been doing things I love. I’m an atheist, but I’ve had the experience of putting in the love and the effort and have come to believe that it’ll work out. I know a tremendous amount of it is luck, but persistence and putting yourself in the way of possibility has worked.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"ruins_64_72\"<\/a>Seriously, Peter Kuper’s a legend in cartooning, and this wide-ranging conversations covers a lot of territory, including his revelations about murals in Mexican art, the wide variety of art-styles he employs, the economics of cartooning, the sink-or-swim experience his parents subjected him to in Israel (and why that led him to do the same to his kid in Mexico), the devaluation of political humor, the GOP candidate he fears the most, and the historical knowledge of comics his students at Harvard and SVA have (or don’t have),\u00a0so\u00a0go listen<\/a>\u00a0to our conversation and then go buy Ruins<\/a>\"\"!
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“We all draw. Every kid draws. For whatever reason, we give it up. I encourage people to keep it there. Why not sketch for pleasure? Turning it into a career is a whole other bag.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We talk about some books in this episode. Here’s a list of them:<\/p>\n