{"id":18360,"date":"2026-09-23T22:27:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T02:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=18360"},"modified":"2026-10-01T19:19:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T23:19:41","slug":"episode-692-alison-fensterstock-and-michael-tisserand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-692-alison-fensterstock-and-michael-tisserand","title":{"rendered":"Episode 692 – Alison Fensterstock and Michael Tisserand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 692:
\nAlison Fensterstock and Michael Tisserand<\/a><\/p>\n

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“New Orleans has come to be defined by this hyper-awareness of its own identity. It’s all music, food, and culture, and it’s Bunny’s generation that started that deep examination of the identity of New Orleans.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Let’s celebrate a New Orleans legend with Alison Fensterstock<\/a> and Michael Tisserand<\/a>‘s fantastic new book, BUNNY MATTHEWS: HIS LIFE, ART, AND OBSESSIONS<\/a> (Historic New Orleans Collection)! We talk about the role Bunny Matthews<\/a> played in shaping New Orleans’ identity with his comics, music reviews, art, and cultural criticism, how Alison & Michael found their collaborative voice for the book, their first encounters with Bunny’s work, his satirical comic about David Duke that thankfully never got published, and how\u00a0Vic and Nat’ly<\/a> became a cultural phenomenon (and how Bunny drew the grossest po’boys ever). We get into Bunny’s role in parsing Yat culture<\/a>\u00a0and promoting music, the lengths they went to find his earliest writing and drawings, Bunny’s influences (and the shadow of Stan Mack<\/a> in the alt-weekly world), how he quoted Cab Calloway next to Balzac, his transition to painting, and the masterpiece of his Nint’Wardica<\/a> canvas, in response to the BP oil disaster. We also discuss the decline of alt-weeklies, the obit pre-write that led to this project, how thrilled they are with the design and production of the book, what it means to be a New Orleanian, and a lot<\/em> more. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read BUNNY MATTHEWS: HIS LIFE, ART, AND OBSESSIONS<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“No one saw and satirized New Orleans selling itself as lovingly and wonderfully and snarkily as Bunny did.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n