{"id":17013,"date":"2024-08-27T19:14:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T23:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=17013"},"modified":"2024-08-27T19:15:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T23:15:19","slug":"episode-602-dash-shaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-602-dash-shaw","title":{"rendered":"Episode 602 – Dash Shaw"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 602:
\nDash Shaw<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Someone told me that reading this book after COVID felt like being a crowd of people again, and that felt great.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Cartoonist and animator Dash Shaw<\/a> returns to the show to celebrate his phenomenal new graphic novel, BLURRY<\/a> (New York Review Comics). We talk about the decompressed mode he brought to this book, the turning points we encounter in the most mundane situations, his focus on the microscopic moments of doubt we have between two very similar things, and how he settled on the idea of structuring the book around nested stories (& figured out to thread them together by the end). We get into the 2×2 panel regularity of every page of Blurry<\/em> and how that allowed him to build the book, how the experience of making a Clue<\/em> miniseries<\/a> changed his comics-making process, and how Blurry<\/em> felt like he’d been playing a video game for a long time and then discovered a bonus level. We also discuss his film-making process and how that contrasts with the isolation of making comics, the ways his work tends toward collage, why naturalistic dialogue is another form of stylization, what it was like to grow up in a comics-friendly house, and a lot more. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read BLURRY<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“Making films, you can go back and forth about whether you should use take 3 or take 4 of a scene, and I’ll bolt up awake at night 4 years later thinking, ‘Why did I choose take 3 instead of take 4?’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n