{"id":9989,"date":"2016-11-07T21:02:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T01:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=9989"},"modified":"2017-12-13T07:36:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T11:36:17","slug":"episode-193-ed-koren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-193-ed-koren","title":{"rendered":"Episode 193 – Ed Koren"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Virtual Memories Show #193: Ed Koren<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I’ve mined this little world that may or may not be exclusive to me, but it’s something that I’m interested in: the interface between country and city, between older and younger, between lifestyles. It’s an emotional and intellectual world I like probing.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ed Koren<\/a>‘s cartoons and covers have graced The New Yorker<\/a> for more than 50 years, so it was honor to record with him during CXC<\/a> about his career, his perspective on generations of cartoonists, the development of his unique style (he has a good answer to my question, “Why so hairy?”), the persistence of his middle-class work ethic, his first encounter with the Undergrounds, his lithography “uptown” art, the advantages of having small ambitions, and more!\u00a0Give it a listen!<\/a><\/p>\n

“I still take enormous delight in starting and finishing and going through the uncharted seas of getting from here to there. There’s no map to get from an idea to a final culmination. (That’s what Dorothy Parker called single-panel cartoons: culminations.)”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n