{"id":9816,"date":"2016-08-08T21:10:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T01:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=9816"},"modified":"2016-08-08T21:13:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T01:13:24","slug":"episode-180-leslie-stein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-180-leslie-stein","title":{"rendered":"Episode 180 – Leslie Stein"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Virtual Memories Show #180: Leslie Stein<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I’m able to be what people want me to be when I’m behind the bar or playing music, but I’m not a performer by nature, so it’s not an easy transition. With comics, the joy I feel when I’m drawing comes through.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"EOTMC3_Cover_FINAL\"<\/a>Cartoonist Leslie Stein<\/a> joins the show to celebrate her new book, Time Clock<\/a>\"\" (Fantagraphics)! We talk about her amazing diary comics (recently collected in Bright-Eyed At Midnight<\/a>\"\"), why she picked a really weird name for her ongoing comics project (Eye of the Majestic Creature<\/a>), the artistic benefits of boredom, finding her style(s), drawing for online vs. print (and color vs. b\/w), her strategy for surviving comic cons and festivals, how she got a gig publishing comics at VICE<\/a>, the disconcerting discovery that she had an audience, and how she strikes a balance of cartooning, being in a band, and tending bar! Give it a listen!<\/a> And buy her newest books, Time Clock<\/a>\"\" and Bright-Eyed At Midnight<\/a>\"\"\u00a0(my personal fave of all her work)!<\/p>\n

“I’ve been thinking about this one project for five years, and that’s been keeping me from starting it. I feel like it could be amazing or it could be terrible, and I just have to spend a few years on it to figure that out.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This episode was recorded at the School of Visual Arts<\/a>, where Leslie studied. Past guest Nathan Fox<\/a>, chair of the MFA Visual Narrative Department<\/a>\u00a0at SVA,\u00a0offered us a space to record. SVA’s\u00a0low-residency MFA Visual Narrative Program includes two years online and three summers in NYC. The program focuses on the growing need for original content creators in advertising, video games, picture books, graphic novels, film, comic arts, illustration and animation, and it prepares artists and authors to become innovators in the ever-evolving art of visual storytelling.\u00a0Now go listen to the show!<\/a><\/p>\n

“I started diary comics on a whim, which is how I approach everything.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Enjoy the conversation!<\/a>\u00a0Then check out\u00a0the archives<\/a>\u00a0for more great episodes! You might like:<\/p>\n