We have artist and creator Tanta Dorph-Mankey joining us today! We talk about what it means to have a day job as a creative person, managing expectations as you work towards a creative degree, and how finding your community can help provide you with confidence in your projects! All this and so much more on today’s Inspired Ink! 

TIMESTAMPS

01:00 Managing jobs versus creativity

14:00 Introduction to comics

19:20 Wrestling talk

24:20 Family influences

26:15 Schooling experience

32:18 Artistic goals and finding community

39:30 Stories as escapism

44:45 The other end of tough trials

50:00 Make what you like

53:40 2024 Outlook

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https://www.minacoleta.storenvy.com

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Brandon Bloxdorf is the creator of the publishing imprint and podcast Apollo City Comics and an indie comic book creator of titles including Teenage Babylon, Fake Your Death, various anthologies and more!

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Episode edited by Alex Batts, Marketing Coordinator for Comix Wellspring.

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