You might know that Angela had a book come out April 2022 from First Second, a major comics publisher. That book is Maker Comics: Live Sustainably and it is rad. It was years in the making (not all for the writing - Les McClaine drew it beautifully). And here we talk about the writing of that book and the process. It was such a delight and privilege to work on this book. Angela made great use of Abe's brain on this, too. He has read it at least three times start to finish.

This book is available . . . Everywhere Books Are Sold!! Because it is through a major publisher with that kind of distribution network. 

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• Twitter and Instagram as @dodosdiscuss
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• Find Angela at @angelabcomics and angelabcomics.com
• Find Abe at abeolson.flyingdodostudio.com

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You might perhaps have heard about the Kickstarter currently running for What the Gnomes Know.  It is a gnome-themed anthology run by CanonWrite Productions, same people who did Less Than Secret. Angela has a comic in both. Well, a hybrid comic. They both mix prose and illustration and comics. Anyway, Abe was a great help in figuring out that little story. "Little" because our cap was 13 pages and it is a completed mystery story. That's a lot of story to cram into only 13 half-letter-ish size pages. And it turned out great! So listen to us brainstorm about the story "Gnoir with a Silent G." 
If you are wondering about the pause between episodes - we have moved into a house we purchased and gotten a dog since the last episode. But we are back. Get ready to giggle. We hope.

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• Find Angela at @angelabcomics and angelabcomics.com
• Find Abe at abeolson.flyingdodostudio.com

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Yes, the answer is tea. Angela lives it. Abe knows it but pretends he doesn't. For nearly an hour, he pretends to think coffee is better. It must have been rough.
(Yes, Angela writes these descriptions.)

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• Twitter and Instagram as @dodosdiscuss
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• Find Angela at @angelabcomics and angelabcomics.com
• Find Abe at abeolson.flyingdodostudio.com

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Feeling curious? We've got you covered. Our random discussion points this week cover the Everglades and mangroves, Charles Darwin and Mark Twain, artificial hearts and banana DNA, and more. And of course, mocking each other when we don't know the answers. Want to feel smart? Listen to our ignorance.

You can find all our episodes at dodosdiscuss.flyingdodostudio.com . We are on Instagram and Twitter as @dodosdiscuss. If there is a topic you want to hear us ramble about, let us know!

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• Twitter and Instagram as @dodosdiscuss
• Email [email protected]
• Find Angela at @angelabcomics and angelabcomics.com
• Find Abe at abeolson.flyingdodostudio.com

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We're trying a little stochastic magic as the jumping-off point for our conversation this week, using random searches to find topics. We ended up talking about the first saint from the united states, why trains have a caboose, how many letters are in the Hawaiian language, the original of Panama hats, and much, much more.
Enjoy the journey with us.

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• Twitter and Instagram as @dodosdiscuss
• Email [email protected]
• Find Angela at @angelabcomics and angelabcomics.com
• Find Abe at abeolson.flyingdodostudio.com

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Both of us are continually working to hone our storytelling skills. As part of that work, we made our way through the exercises in The Short Story Writer’s Companion by Tom Bailey. The first exercise was to write a list of attributes about a character. Nothing specific, just a list of random facts such as shoe size and favorite ice cream. Then we were to write a scene where that character has a motivation—in this case, heading out for a blind date—and include as many of those details as possible while still writing an engaging scene. We wrote these a couple years ago originally, so we revised them and now this is our critique of each other's work. More to come in this series! There are a fair number of exercises, and they were very useful.
You can download the PDF of our stories, or you can see all of them on our website.

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• Twitter and Instagram as @dodosdiscuss
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• Find Angela at @angelabcomics and angelabcomics.com
• Find Abe at abeolson.flyingdodostudio.com

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A while ago (around July/August of last year), the housing situation across America got very weird. Well, here in Bellingham, WA, rents increased from 0 to 100%. We lucked out at only a 30% increase. Ooh. It was the last straw. So here is our solution. It is slow going and we haven't moved and nothing has really happened yet, but it is in the works, so we will go on about it more as time goes on.

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• Twitter and Instagram as @dodosdiscuss
• Email [email protected]
• Find Angela at @angelabcomics and angelabcomics.com
• Find Abe at abeolson.flyingdodostudio.com

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While This Is How You Lose the Time War might sound like a wibbly-wobbly timey-whimey back and forth and all about plot, it is not. Neither of us really like time-travel stories, usually. But this one was amazing. Time-travel is merely the backdrop and the story is really an exploration of a beautiful and peculiar relationship. Highly recommended. Let's try to figure out what made us love it so dang much.

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• Twitter and Instagram as @dodosdiscuss
• Email [email protected]
• Find Angela at @angelabcomics and angelabcomics.com
• Find Abe at abeolson.flyingdodostudio.com

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BAAAT!
We recently watched all three seasons of What We Do in the Shadows and it quickly became one of our favorite shows. But why?! We tried to talk about what we like and why we like it and how we can attempt to apply it to our own work. In the end, we were still so fresh on the show being awesome, it was hard to stop weeping and foaming at the mouth. Spoilers, so give it a watch, and then come listen.

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• Twitter and Instagram as @dodosdiscuss
• Email [email protected]
• Find Angela at @angelabcomics and angelabcomics.com
• Find Abe at abeolson.flyingdodostudio.com

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It's time for us to gush about how much we love Murderbot. It would hate hearing us talk about it this way and would probably run away to binge watch some shows in a closet. Which, honestly, is what Angela wants to do when people compliment her.

The Murderbot Diary series is by Martha Wells. It is an absolute delight and we are already looking forward to the next book in 2024.

Have you read Murderbot? Give us a shout-out on Twitter and Instagram @dodosdiscuss!

Contact us:

• Twitter and Instagram as @dodosdiscuss
• Email [email protected]
• Find Angela at @angelabcomics and angelabcomics.com
• Find Abe at abeolson.flyingdodostudio.com

Thanks for listening!