Episode 682 – Katie Skelly
About this episode
Katie Skelly returns to discuss her new graphic novel HEAVEN and her creative journey post-lockdown.
Virtual Memories Show 682: Katie Skelly “I was on twitter and saw someone say, ‘The Weeknd makes music for haunted strip clubs,’ and that idea is something my brain kept coming back to.” After a 12-year Virtual Memories gap, Katie Skelly is back to celebrate her fantastic new graphic novel, HEAVEN (Fantagraphics)! But that’s not all: she’s also got the Bad Girl Tarot II (Kickstarter closing July 16, 2026 ), her horror comics anthology, Viscere , and the Thick Lines podcast! We talk about how she restructured her life and creativity post-lockdown, how she wound up marrying Jaime Hernandez , moving to LA, abandoning the Mets, and finding a community of cartoonists (spoiler: community is the thread that runs through Katie’s art and life), the funny tweet about The Weeknd that inspired HEAVEN , why she designed this new tarot deck to be like a prop for a movie you’d want to live in, and why she didn’t learn from my example and avoid making her own podcast. We get into how writing Ed Piskor’s obituary broke her, and the episode in Ed’s life that she takes as a cautionary note, the festival that drew her into the comics…
People in this episode
Host: Gil Roth
Guest: Katie Skelly
Topics covered
- graphic novels
- tarot
- comics
- creativity
- social media
- community
Keywords
- Katie Skelly
- HEAVEN
- graphic novel
- tarot
- comics
- creativity
- social media
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Fantagraphics, Kickstarter
Books & works: HEAVEN, Bad Girl Tarot II, Viscere
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