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Just began listening to the interview. It's 50+ minutes long, so it'll take some time.
The woman who is conducting the interview (Patty) has that deep, smooth FM deejay voice that should make it an easy listen!
We'll see if content can match surface gloss.
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Very cool video, I hadn't seen that before. Patrick just let me know that they posted some videos on Flog the Blog for his new softcover of Rebel Visions.
This is the first post in at least a week for me because I am having a hard time getting on these forums. Rick B. mentioned he's been having problems to. Do the mods know? Most of the time it takes forever just to load a page and of those times almost all crash.
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Well, that was good stuff, Jay. Quite a bit of the interview was merely a primer for listeners unfamiliar with the history, but there were several tidbits that I did enjoy.
Patrick mentioned his top 3 recommended artists for UG neophytes: R. Crumb, Spiegelman and Robert Williams, then threw in a couple of his personal faves, Kim Deitch and Spain. I have several disagreements with those, but to each his own.
He declared that the UG movement was the most important art movement in the latter half of the 20th century, and while that is a bold statement I think a case can be made to support it, given the social-political-entertainment barriers that UG artists almost singlehandedly broke down. Patty wisely mentioned film as a potential historical rival to UG comics from that era, and she has a point, considering the revolution in cinema in the early '60s. The other potential rival would be rock 'n roll, which began even earlier. Patrick deflected the debate by narrowing the perspective to print media, which perhaps made his statement more credible.
There was an interesting passage about EC comics and Fredric Wertham, which soon led to a spirited monologue from Patrick that delved into the socio-political impact of undergrounds (Zap #4, etc.).
I was pleased to learn that Patrick is an avid fan of recent comic book creators who carry the UG torch today, including Clowes, Ware and one of my favorites, Julie Doucet.
Overall, some very interesting insight into Patrick's book and the UG era.
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