Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Conversation begins at 9:15
Artist, writer, cartoonist, playwright, director etc. Dean Haspiel (http://deanhaspiel.com) rejoins the show to talk why he's launched his first Kickstarter (kickstarter.com/projects/deanhaspiel/covid-copopen through 3/30/23) to support a new comic, COVID Cop (think "unholy but hilarious combo of Judge Dredd, The Toxic Avenger, Sin City, and Marshal Law")! We get into how his approach to storytelling has changed in recent years, how he felt about the COVID-delayed debut of his play The War Of Woo (lavenderafterdark.com/2022/10/10/the-war-of-woo-makes-world-premiere-in-new-york-city-a-review/), the thrill of making his short movie There Is No Try (vimeo.com/719629432), and what it's like to work in hyper-collaborative mediums like theater & film. We also talk about the experience of drawing Superman at Yaddo (freaksugar.com/interview-dean-haspiel-on-reuniting-friends-in-the-superman-kal-el-returns-special/), why he needed to revisit his pitch for COVID Cop now that we're semisorta past the worst of the pandemic, returning to his fave character, Billy Dogma, and wrapping up one phase of his The Red Hook series, the influence of Kyle Baker's Why I Hate Saturn on his upcoming work, the experience of mentoring comics artists at Atlantic Center for the Arts last month, his take on AI art for comics, and a lot more. Follow Dean on Twitter (twitter.com/deanhaspiel), Facebook (facebook.com/DeanHaspielArt), Instagram (instagram.com/deanhaspiel_art/), and Substack (deanhaspiel.substack.com/), and support his Patreon (patreon.com/deanhaspiel) • More info at chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-529-dean-haspiel • Support The Virtual Memories Show via patreon.com/vmspod and via our newsletter, https://buttondown.email/vmspod
Conversation begins at 9:15
Artist, writer, cartoonist, playwright, director etc. Dean Haspiel (http://deanhaspiel.com) rejoins the show to talk why he's launched his first Kickstarter (kickstarter.com/projects/deanhaspiel/covid-copopen through 3/30/23) to support a new comic, COVID Cop (think "unholy but hilarious combo of Judge Dredd, The Toxic Avenger, Sin City, and Marshal Law")! We get into how his approach to storytelling has changed in recent years, how he felt about the COVID-delayed debut of his play The War Of Woo (lavenderafterdark.com/2022/10/10/the-war-of-woo-makes-world-premiere-in-new-york-city-a-review/), the thrill of making his short movie There Is No Try (vimeo.com/719629432), and what it's like to work in hyper-collaborative mediums like theater & film. We also talk about the experience of drawing Superman at Yaddo (freaksugar.com/interview-dean-haspiel-on-reuniting-friends-in-the-superman-kal-el-returns-special/), why he needed to revisit his pitch for COVID Cop now that we're semisorta past the worst of the pandemic, returning to his fave character, Billy Dogma, and wrapping up one phase of his The Red Hook series, the influence of Kyle Baker's Why I Hate Saturn on his upcoming work, the experience of mentoring comics artists at Atlantic Center for the Arts last month, his take on AI art for comics, and a lot more. Follow Dean on Twitter (twitter.com/deanhaspiel), Facebook (facebook.com/DeanHaspielArt), Instagram (instagram.com/deanhaspiel_art/), and Substack (deanhaspiel.substack.com/), and support his Patreon (patreon.com/deanhaspiel) • More info at chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-529-dean-haspiel • Support The Virtual Memories Show via patreon.com/vmspod and via our newsletter, https://buttondown.email/vmspod
