Alexandra McCarthy / Alex McCarthy is a comic artist, manga artist, comic writer and creator of her webcomic Burnt Toast which is a surreal and humourous look at her life from a satirical viewpoint and is quite funny. Alex McCarthy's newest manga is called Reluctant Hero about a woman off to college and pushed into finding new friends with crazy consequences. We talk with Alex McCarthy about her passion of drawing, how creating new characters and stories are perfect to break out of a creative slum; What people who aren't in comics and manga misunderstand about the profession of being an Artist and much more!