{"id":16876,"date":"2024-06-25T12:08:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T16:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=16876"},"modified":"2024-06-25T19:03:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T23:03:16","slug":"episode-593-bob-fingerman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-593-bob-fingerman","title":{"rendered":"Episode 593 – Bob Fingerman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 593:
\nBob Fingerman<\/a><\/p>\n

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“My artistic goal before I die is to have one complete book to look as loose as the way I draw background characters. Then I’ll feel like I’ve achieved Feiffer-hood.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>With That’s Some Business You’re In<\/a> (Zoop), cartoonist-humorist-author Bob Fingerman<\/a> has created a career retrospective to celebrate (lament?) his 40th year in comics (with an intro by Bill Sienkiewicz<\/a>!). We got together in LA to talk about that milestone, what it meant to him to bring together decades of his comics, art, and illustration into a single volume, the challenges of writing the narrative to his work-life, and what he learned from looking at the arc of his career. We get into the ‘maybe someday’ vibe of the big projects he wants to tackle, the process of getting over his younger shame at making comics for, um, ‘lower-prestige’ (but well-paying) magazines, the distance he needed on his best-known comic, Minimum Wage<\/a>, the artist’s retrospective he really<\/em> wants to see, why he enjoys creator-owned work instead of someone else’s IP, and his true artistic goal. We also discuss the life-changing stuff \u2014 like addressing the tension between narcissism and imposter syndrome, the nature of change, the toxicity of NYC, and the need to leave a better memory \u2014 while we talk about life in LA, the writers who blew him away and how he can’t begin to emulate them, the way his characters changed from punching bags to people, the joy of hummingbirds and small dogs, and a lot more. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read That’s Some Business You’re In<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“Looking back with kinder eyes than I’ve had, for most of my life I’ve been a very \u2014 not just self-critical \u2014 self-excoriating person. The older I get, I see less and less value in that.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n