Virtual Memories Show

Virtual Memories Show 657:

“Every week is a battle between my deadline and my self-loathing.”

Political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow (a.k.a. Dan Perkins) is back as we celebrate his new Kickstarter project, OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE (closing Oct. 30, 2025), collecting 5+ years of weekly This Modern World cartoons! We talk about how he keeps his sanity (well, tries to), what it was like to look back at the past half-decade week by week, why he decided not to go down a rabbit-hole of extra material for the project, and what it means to have a bookshelf of his strips (and not just pixels on a screen). We get into the importance of his Sparky’s List newsletter as the media landscape keeps withering away, his writing process and how the, um, of this administration compels him to build some flexibility each week, and the realization that he’s made a major body of work over the past four decades. We also discuss his major life changes since we last recorded, the good and bad of Being Very Online, his love of Martin Cruz Smith’s Arkady Renko mystery novels, what makes him a New Yorker, and the impossibly fraught question of what brings him joy. Give it a listen! And go support OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE!

“Doing a kickstarter is like when a rock musician does a stage dive; you have to trust to audience to catch you.”

“My job is kinda like being a sewage system worker. I pull on the high boots and I climb down into the sewer every day.”

“I’ve been publishing books since 1992. It’s part of what I do, part of the whole thing that is the Tom Tomorrow Experience.”

“Things change so quickly that if I don’t use an idea the week I write it, I might be able to pull out a line or joke, but there’s a LOT of rewriting.”

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About our Guest

Tom Tomorrow is a Herblock and RFK Award winner, Pulitzer Prize finalist, and creator of the weekly cartoon This Modern World. (Longer bio over here)

Follow Tom Tomorrow on Bluesky and Instagram, subscribe to Sparky’s List, and check out his merch from Topatoco and Threadless. Oh, and you can also follow This Modern World on TinyView and/or Daily Kos.

And go listen to our 2015, 2016 and 2020 conversations!

Credits: This episode’s music is Fella by Hal Mayforth, used with permission from the artist. The conversation was recorded at an undisclosed location on a pair of Blue enCORE 200 microphones feeding into a Zoom PodTrak P4 digital recorder & interface. I recorded the intro and outro on a Heil PR-40 Dynamic Studio Recording Microphone feeding into a Zoom PodTrak P4. All processing and editing done in Adobe Audition CC. Photo of Tom/Dan by Greg Pak. It’s on my instagram.

Virtual Memories Show 656:

“This has transmuted the pain into something beautiful. It’s given it meaning.”

With her debut graphic novel, PRECIOUS RUBBISH (Fantagraphics), artist and designer Kayla E explores and investigates the trauma of her upbringing, the fragments of her memories, and the process of reintegration. We talk about why comics were the perfect form for this project, how she found her iconography and the postwar children’s comics style for it, what it was like to uncover her memories and get them on the page, how it feels to give her story to her readers, and how she’s learning to respond when her readers share their trauma with her. We get into her comics-roots, what it was like to hit up her comics heroes, how she felt the moment Mark Newgarden told her she had a book on her hands, why Harvard is bad for getting a comics education, how her work as a graphic designer dovetailed with the incredible production of Precious Rubbish. We also discuss her recovery and her conversion experience, why her Bible kinda begins and ends with the Book of Job, her years of worry that she’d turn out as psychopathic as her parents and brother, why the Sopranos is her favorite work of art, what it means to not be loved by one’s parents, and more. Give it a listen! And go read PRECIOUS RUBBISH!

“Years of healing and building a safe life, getting sober, and figuring out how to be a functioning person in the world has made me a better cartoonist.” [not that that was the goal.]

“Being a cartoonist and putting together really meticulous comics helps me design other cartoonists’ work.”

“I’m making work that’s so hideous, I want to spend as little time as possible in the world of this work.”

“Depending on what the idea is, I figure out what form makes the most sense to communicate it, or investigate it.”

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About our Guest

Kayla E is a Texas–born artist of Mexican-American descent. She earned her B.A. from Harvard University and is a recipient of a 2023-2024 Princeton Hodder Fellowship. She works as creative director at Fantagraphics and lives in a small town in North Carolina with her wife and two dogs.

Credits: This episode’s music is Fella by Hal Mayforth, used with permission from the artist. The conversation was recorded at the Bethesda North Marriott on a pair of Blue enCORE 200 microphones feeding into a Zoom PodTrak P4 digital recorder & interface. I recorded the intro and outro on a Heil PR-40 Dynamic Studio Recording Microphone feeding into a Zoom PodTrak P4. All processing and editing done in Adobe Audition CC. Photo of Kayla by someone else. It’s on my instagram.

Virtual Memories Show 655:

“No matter who you are, you have emotions that I have felt. Our experiences are different, but I can speak to the emotions. I’ve felt love and you’ve felt love. I’ve felt anxiety and you’ve felt anxiety. That connectedness makes me feel less alone in the world.”

ICU nurse Hunter Prosper joins me this week as we celebrate his wonderful new book, STORIES FROM A STRANGER: Every Person Has a Story (Simon Element). We talk about the ICU experiences that led him to start talking to strangers in public and asking them deep questions about their lives five years ago, how those conversations have changed him, why he started sharing them online, how he figured out the questions he wanted to ask, and how long it takes just talking to someone before they’re both comfortable with him recording the questions. Along the way, we get into how we each approach the dance of having a conversation with someone we’ve never met, what it was like to discover he had an audience, whether people speak differently when the phone comes out, and how it felt to see a book-length version of this project. We also discuss how he wants to explore new ways of making his videos, how it felt to discover there’s a group-chat of his past strangers (that he’s not invited to), why he’ll always be a nurse first and not a ‘content creator,’ going traveling with his fiancee to do interviews and photos for the book, what he sees when he looks in the mirror, and more. Oh, and things get heavy once I tell him it’s okay to ask me some questions. Give it a listen! And go read STORIES FROM A STRANGER!

“I was starting to get burned out from listening to people’s stories, because when I listened and then had to perform CPR on them, I wasn’t able to disconnect the two when I got home.”

“I’ve been doing this now for five years, and I’ve built a community that’s centered around people who really care about other people.”

“How can I expect someone to tell me their life stories when they’re just going out to get groceries?”

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About our Guest

Hunter Prosper graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2019 and became a resource nurse (a nurse who works anywhere throughout the hospital) but when COVID hit he decided to specialize in the ICU. He’s currently based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but travels all over the world interviewing people for his Stories from a Stranger series. Hunter began making content in 2021 as a form of therapy for himself and others.

Follow Hunter and Stories From A Stranger on TikTok, Youtube, Instagram and Facebook.

Credits: This episode’s music is Fella by Hal Mayforth, used with permission from the artist. The conversation was recorded remotely via Zencastr. I used a Heil PR-40 Dynamic Studio Recording Microphone feeding into a Zoom PodTrak P4. All processing and editing done in Adobe Audition CC. Photo of Hunter by Adrienne Estella. It’s on my instagram.

Virtual Memories Show 654:

“Music, cars, going west: those things were always inseparable for me.”

With her amazing new novel, HOT WAX (Simon & Schuster), author, critic, and inveterate road-tripper M.L. Rio evokes the rock scene of the ’80s and the travails of the not-quite-Almost-Famous band GIL AND THE KILLS. We talk about the redemptive & destructive power of rock & roll, how music is inseparable from her writing process, the challenge of writing about live performance, why it makes sense that “the girl with the Shakespeare degree is writing a rock & roll novel,” and why she couldn’t gloss over the sweatiness of touring and road trips. We get into the literature gap of people in their 30s (esp. women), how this novel evolved with her over a decade, what it’s like operating in male-dominated spaces like music criticism, why she’s going out on a 34-city book tour and trying to make it as fun as a rock tour (including merch!), what it means to be an ethical eavesdropper, how she stays safe (and well fed) while solo road-tripping around America, and the joy of radio crime drama. We also discuss the obsessiveness of record collectors, the loss of nuance in literature, the warping influence of Catholicism (and the perils of reading Shakespeare and Bret Easton Ellis way too young), our first concerts (her: Green Day, me: Asia), and a lot more. Give it a listen! And go read HOT WAX!

“We have all these books about 20somethings falling in love and figuring out their happily-ever-after, and then we jump into these novels that are all about unhappy middle-aged people getting divorced. There’s nothing in the middle, and your 30s are this weird, lost decade, especially for women.”

“I got an ear for Dad Rock — for lack of a better term — at the age of 9 or 10.”

“There’s a reason there’s no Almost Famous about a girl, because we know how that would end, and it wouldn’t be good.”

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“Are the patterns that we grew up with the ones we want to keep?”

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About our Guest

M.L. Rio has been an actor, a bookseller, an academic, and a music writer. She holds an MA in Shakespeare studies and a Ph.D. in English literature. She is the author of the internationally bestselling novel If We Were Villains, the USA TODAY bestselling novella Graveyard Shift, and now Hot Wax. She never stays in one place for long, but keeps her books, records, and four-legged sidekick in south Philadelphia.

Follow M.L. on Instagram, Facebook and Bluesky.

Credits: This episode’s music is Fella by Hal Mayforth, used with permission from the artist. The conversation was recorded at Simon & Schuster’s offices on a pair of Blue enCORE 200 microphones feeding into a Zoom PodTrak P4 digital recorder & interface. I recorded the intro and outro on a Heil PR-40 Dynamic Studio Recording Microphone feeding into a Zoom PodTrak P4. All processing and editing done in Adobe Audition CC. Nice photo of M.L. by Helena Santos; double-selfie by me. It’s on my instagram.

Virtual Memories Show 653:

“Hirschfeld and Sondheim are two men of the theater who have theaters named for them.”

Curator and archivist David Leopold rejoins the show for a wide-ranging talk centered on the amazing new HIRSCHFELD’S SONDHEIM: A Poster Book (Abrams ComicArts). We talk about David’s decades as Hirschfeld’s archivist, Sondheim’s love of Hirschfeld’s work, the process of making his first book of Hirschfeld’s art that focuses on a single creator, the connections between Al & Sondheim in David’s text pieces for the book, and the joy of getting an intro from Bernadette Peters. We get into the work that the Hirschfeld Foundation does for regional theaters, why the drop-off of arts criticism is a disaster for culture, how younger people experience and appreciate Hirschfeld’s art, and the time David held a seance at the Algonquin to promote the Hirschfeld Broadway Tarot. We also discuss our all-time fave Prince songs, what it’s like being an archivist in a post-object world, the Steve Cohen magic performance that blew his mind, his new exhibitions at the Studio of Ben Solowey, how the next generation of theater organists (!) is getting trained, how aware Sondheim and Hirschfeld were that they were making history in their lifetimes, and more. Give it a listen! And go get HIRSCHFELD’S SONDHEIM!

“Hirschfeld was in the New York Times on average every other week FOR SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS. And that represents less than half of his work.”

“I have found the Fountain of Youth: work with older people!”

“It’s fascinating to be woking with Hirschfeld’s work, because I have a front-row seat on the change in perception of an artist’s work.”

“Hirschfeld lived entirely in the present; he hired me to think about his past.”

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About our Guest

David Leopold is an author and curator who has organized exhibitions for institutions around the country including the Library of Congress, the Field Museum in Chicago, the James A. Michener Art Museum, and the New York Public Library. Internationally, he has organized shows for museums including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Filmmuseum in Berlin. He has been the archivist of Al Hirschfeld’s work for 30 years, first for the artist himself, then for the nonprofit Al Hirschfeld Foundation, where he is now Creative Director. He has written extensively about twentieth century performance caricature.

Follow David & the Al Hirschfeld Foundation on YouTube, Tiktok, Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky.

Credits: This episode’s music is Fella by Hal Mayforth, used with permission from the artist. The conversation was recorded at the Studio of Ben Solowey on a pair of Blue enCORE 200 microphones feeding into a Zoom PodTrak P4 digital recorder & interface. I recorded the intro and outro on a Heil PR-40 Dynamic Studio Recording Microphone feeding into a Zoom PodTrak P4. All processing and editing done in Adobe Audition CC. Photo of David by me. It’s on my instagram.

Virtual Memories Show 652:

“I want the reader to feel like they were there, like it’s a sketchbook from that moment in the book.”

It’s been a year since his last episode, so what’s artist Dmitry Samarov been up to? Plenty! We talk about his new project of redesigning and illustrating public domain books, why he started off with the White Whale itself, and why Babbitt was next in line, what the common themes are among the six books he’s illustrated since this project began, and how it all ties into his reaction to the 2024 election. We get into what it’s like working with publishers after controlling his own books for years, how he discovered James Hogg’s The Suicide’s Grave on SOME OTHER PODCAST (okay, it was Beyond The Zero), how he’s exploring visual interpretation and different tools with each book, and how this project has him reading and rereading differently than he used to. We also talk about how he looks back at his art in the wake of his self-monograph, how he got into a relationship with someone after a long time solo (after a showing of why Cronenberg’s not-good The Shrouds), what other books he’s considering illustrating, his new series of ‘zines about bookselling, the joy of Moby Dick‘s tangents, and more. Give it a listen!

“This is all the fun parts of making books like I did before, except without the writing.”

“I’ve always worked from life, so whatever’s going on in my life will impact the art.”

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About our Guest

Dmitry Samarov paints and writes in Chicago, IL. Follow Dmitry at his site and through his weekly newsletter, and buy some books from his Ebay shop.

Go check out our conversations from 2014, 2015, 2018, 2020, lockdown, 2021, 2022, and 2024.

Credits: This episode’s music is Fella by Hal Mayforth, used with permission from the artist. The conversation was recorded remotely via Zencastr. I used a Heil PR-40 Dynamic Studio Recording Microphone feeding into a Zoom PodTrak P4. All processing and editing done in Adobe Audition CC. All art by Dmistry Samarov. It’s on my instagram.

Virtual Memories Show 651:

No guest this week, so it’s time for our first Ask Me Anything (AMA) episode since 2019! Past guests and pals peppered me with questions about the podcast, my reading habits, menswear aesthetics, mental health, comics, hair care, keeping a journal, work/life balance or lack thereof, the one episode I think people are sleeping on, Star Trek vs. Star Wars, the superpower I wish I had, and a lot more. I dish some pod-secrets, talk about the episodes that will never air, stride the Giant’s Causeway, and tell you where I buy my underwear, so go listen! Give it a listen!

Enjoy the conversation with myself! Then check out the archives for more great episodes!

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About our Guest

There’s a whole About Me page that you oughtta read.

Follow me on Bluesky and Instagram and subscribe to my free newsletter. You can support The Virtual Memories Show via Stripe, Patreon, or Paypal

Credits: This episode’s music is Fella by Hal Mayforth, used with permission from the artist. The conversation with myself was recorded at Virtual Memories HQ on a Heil PR-40 Dynamic Studio Recording Microphone feeding into a Zoom PodTrak P4. All processing and editing done in Adobe Audition CC. Photo of me by me. Same with that one of the Giant’s Causeway. The quote’s from Rilke. It’s on my instagram.

Virtual Memories Show 650:

“There was something about mortality and sunshine being intertwined that meant RLP had to be set in south Florida.”

With RED LIGHT PROPERTIES: Unfinished Business (Kinjin Storylab), writer/cartoonist Dan Goldman brings us a wildly entertaining graphic novel of midlife, the afterlife, and the south Florida real estate market. We talk about how the concept for RLP grabbed hold of him 20+ years back & never let go, why the story had to take place in/around Miami, how his work in video games and TV/movies affected his world-building in comics. We get into the peak life experiences of making this book, the transition from digital to print, why he set the book in landscape, the role of the “invisible” elements of comics design, the impact Scott McCloud’s Reinventing Comics had on him, why the next season of Red Light Properties — Gut Renovations — will be “singles, not albums,” how it felt to work with Kickstarter and control every aspect of Unfinished Business‘ design & production, all while reveling in our shared comic loves. We also discuss turning 50, whether cocaine is ever a good story device, his sensitivity to hauntings, why he needs to quit comics every so often, the effect The Invisibles had on him (esp. Grant Morrison’s letter columns), the paradox of choice and the joy of the analog-hunt, his prose writing and why he tells stories that are 83% true, and plenty more. Give it a listen! And go get RED LIGHT PROPERTIES: Unfinished Business!

“As a designer, lettering is what moves sound across the page, paces the discussion, and creates sound in the reader’s mind.”

“I’ve got a better digital comics collection than I do a physical collection these days, and I don’t remember what’s in there.”

“For me, American indy comics at the time weren’t cool; DEADLINE was cool.”

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About our Guest

Born in Detroit and raised in Miami, Dan Goldman is a writer-artist working in prose, comics, and video games. He has lived in New York City, São Paulo, and Los Angeles in search of inspiration, culture, good food, and deep kinship. He is the co-creator of the graphic novels Chasing Echoes, the Priya’s Shakti series, 08: A Graphic Novel of the Campaign Trail, and the Eisner-nominated Shooting War. He has also written on video games like the Emmy-winning Silent Hill: Ascension, and The Division: Resurgence. Dan is currently in South Florida researching new RLP stories. You can follow his adventures and read his new comics via his Kinjin Storylab newsletter.

Follow Dan on Bluesky, Instagram and YouTube.

Credits: This episode’s music is Fella by Hal Mayforth, used with permission from the artist. The conversation was recorded remotely via Zencastr. I used a Heil PR-40 Dynamic Studio Recording Microphone feeding into a Zoom PodTrak P4. All processing and editing done in Adobe Audition CC. Photo of Dan by someone. It’s on my instagram.

Virtual Memories Show 649:

“Collaborating can bring out new things in your own writing, but also structurally gives you the chance to do something different: combining songs and story is something I could never do on my own.”

“I hate how music has been turned into content, like it’s a scented candle.”

With SONGS FOR OTHER PEOPLE’S WEDDINGS (Abrams Press), writer David Levithan and singer-songwriter Jens Lekman bring the collaborative alchemy, as 20 years of fandom/friendship lead to this wonderful novel about a Swedish singer-songwriter — J — who finds a side-career playing original songs at people’s weddings. We talk about the power of a great song, how David & Jens traded writing prompts with each other — a wedding song leading to a chapter, a chapter leading to a wedding song —, discovered how differently they each look at love, and managed to fuse that tension into a story of how love changes over time. We get into the differences between stories and songs, how Jens had fallen out of love with music (blame Spotify) and how this book helped him fall back in love with it, whether they’ll write a sequel about funerals, and how Jens’ song, “If you ever need a stranger (to sing at your wedding),” led to his side-career as a wedding singer. We also discuss Jens’ new album inspired by the book, David’s upcoming history of the AIDS era, the ways collaboration helps create new structures, what it means to be alone, how our private lives can get drowned by our public ones, their book/music tour and the importance of face-to-face interaction, the value of emotionally honest fiction, and more, including numerous Nick Cave references. Give it a listen! And go read SONGS FOR OTHER PEOPLE’S WEDDINGS!

“I felt like I was writing someone else’s autofiction.”

“The novel is about what happens when you’re right for each other but there are other things going on.”

“To me, the book is also a meditation on what it means to be alone.”

“I would love one of my novels to have the force of New Order’s Bizarre Love Triangle.”

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About our Guests

David Levithan is the author of numerous acclaimed novels, including The Lover’s Dictionary, Every Day, Boy Meets Boy, and Two Boys Kissing. His other collaborations include Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist with Rachel Cohn, and Will Grayson, Will Grayson with John Green. He can often be found with headphones on, a devoted music listener . . . but it’s safe to say that nobody will ever ask him to sing at a wedding.

Check out David’s FAQs and IAQs.

Jens Lekman is a singer and songwriter from Sweden with several beloved albums such as Life Will See You Now, Night Falls Over Kortedala, and Oh You’re So Silent Jens. He was once voted the fifteenth-sexiest man in Sweden by ELLE. Then he dropped down to number thirty-three, and since then he hasn’t been included in their list. He works part-time as a wedding singer.

Follow Jens on Bandcamp, Facebook and Instagram.

Credits: This episode’s music is Fella by Hal Mayforth, used with permission from the artist. The conversation was recorded remotely via Zencastr. I used a Heil PR-40 Dynamic Studio Recording Microphone feeding into a Zoom PodTrak P4. All processing and editing done in Adobe Audition CC. Photo of David by Ryan Joch; photo of Jens by Ellika Henrikson. It’s on my instagram.

Virtual Memories Show 648:

“Going inside is how we get better, and how we get better at being human.”

With PAST TENSE: Facing Family Secrets and Finding Myself In Therapy (Avery), cartoonist Sacha Mardou brings us a phenomenal graphic memoir about the midlife process of overcoming lifelong traumas and anxiety. We talk about her decision to to make her therapy process (& sessions) public, first as online comics and then as a Past Tense, the benefits of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model, what it took to violate the English stiff upper lip and admit that she had problems and needed therapy, and her mother’s Jehovah Witness conversion and how she’s still sifting through the damage of that. We get into how therapy changed her relationship to her daughter, why corniness is no reason to avoid addressing/admitting one’s inner child (and the work I needed to do to truly appreciate Past Tense), the strong, supportive and sympathetic public response to her online therapy comics and how she wound up going back to her therapist to deal with the shame-cycle of that, and how her families (and therapists) feel about seeing themselves in the book. We also discuss Sacha’s indy comics upbringing, her marriage to fellow cartoonist Ted May and whether that means her daughter has any hope for a non-cartooning career, how she feels like her art is always catching up to her writing, how we feel about Gen X getting overlooked, her Doris Lessing binge during perimenopause, why we need to turn up the bonobo turn down the chimp, and a lot more. Give it a listen! And go read PAST TENSE!

“Deciding to make this book was part of what ended up in the story: how — or WHY — do you turn your very personal therapeutic healing into something public?”

“My family story is like a soap opera, so to connect all those threads I felt like it was important for the artwork to be simple and tell the story as cleanly as possible.”

“The hope is there’s something universal; mine isn’t the only family that lived through war, or had incest and sexual assault happen. I’ve tried to show these things in terms of healing and how it took time for the story to unfold and for me to reclaim those pieces and heal.”

“I keep wondering when I’m going to run out of emotional things to talk about, but it hasn’t happened yet.”

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About our Guest

Sacha Mardou studied English Literature at the University of Wales and started making comics in the late 1990s. Her previous work includes the serially-released graphic novel Sky in Stereo, which was Ignatz-nominated (Best Series 2014), named an Outstanding Comic of 2015 (The Village Voice) and shortlisted for the Slate Studio Award (2016). Her online therapy comics have been featured in The Huffington Post and Bored Panda. Since 2005, she has been a resident of St Louis, Missouri, where she lives with her cartoonist husband, Ted May, their daughter, and two disruptive cats.

Follow Sacha on Instagram, Facebook and Bluesky, and check out her Patreon and Etsy.

Credits: This episode’s music is Fella by Hal Mayforth, used with permission from the artist. The conversation was recorded remotely via Zencastr. I used a Heil PR-40 Dynamic Studio Recording Microphone feeding into a Zoom PodTrak P4. All processing and editing done in Adobe Audition CC. Photo of Sacha by someone else. It’s on my instagram.