Drawn from experience

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Kurt Andersen talks with comic artist Aline Kominsky-Crumb about her trailblazing work. In 1965, Wilson Pickett went to Stax Records in Memphis to record “In the Midnight Hour” — and nothing was the same after. And “Luke Cage” showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker breaks down how his love of hip-hop and other music shapes his show.

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0:00.0	From PRX
0:03.4	This is Studio 360.
0:09.8	I'm Kurt Anand.
0:10.6	And I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
0:12.9	This first level of garden.
0:14.2	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
0:16.1	I like to have the roasted chicken base.
0:17.7	Very well done.
0:18.9	Editing is all about timing.
0:20.6	I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
0:23.2	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
0:25.6	Studio 360.
0:27.6	It's good.
0:28.2	Anderson.
0:32.9	In 1972, a comic was published, an underground comic called Goldie, a neurotic woman.
0:39.8	It was by Aline Kaminsky, age 24.
0:43.2	And it was one of the first explicitly autobiographical comics, and the very first by a woman,
0:49.7	at a time when memoir was barely a genre.
0:53.4	No, it wasn't considered an art form to talk about yourself. It was
0:56.4	like for tabloids or something. And ever since, she has published more funny, intimate comics that
1:02.0	continue to draw directly from her life. I'm not capable of making things up. Oh, really?
1:08.1	No, I write and draw about what I know. But my stories always have a
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