Make It Then Tell Everybody

Dan Berry chats to Tim Probert about moving from art direction for animation to writing and illustrating his six-book fantasy series Lightfall. They chat about Tim's education and the rules that get stuck in your head, and get real deep into Tim's creative process. Do you like this show? Consider supporting it on Patreon!

Dan Berry chats with Jules Scheele about the craft of making comics, Jules' recent adaptation of Orlando for Avery Hill and because they both started their careers in the late 2000s, early 2010s, they moan on about the good ol days of the internet before it got ruined.

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Dan Berry chats with The Rickard Sisters; Sophie (the writing sister) and Scarlett (the drawing sister) about their work together adapting edwardian political fiction - finding the 'king poles' of the story, cutting stuff that hasn't aged particularly well and getting old stories in front of modern audiences. We spoke about how their creative partnership and individual working processes were formed following an Ehlers-Danlos syndrome diagnosis.

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Dan Berry and Monica Gallagher chat about the different eras of webcomics, from the deeply interpersonal setup 'back then' to the more algorithmic now, growing up artistically speaking in public and resisting the urge to 'George Lucas' your earlier work and the pains of pitching.

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Lee Lai and Dan Berry get in deep on pencils, words and pictures that do different jobs and giving yourself treats at each stage of the process.

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Dan Berry and CROM have a chat about finishing what you start, letting go of perfectionism, and building a creative life on your own terms.

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Georgina Chadderton and Dan Berry chat about teaching comics, translating comics across a culture gap, working with editors and overcoming perfection. Check out Gina's book Oh Brother from wherever you like to buy books from.

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Michael Lark and I chat get together to chat in Michael's back garden about process, working from reference, work ethics, how to hide the flaws in a drawing and how life experiences can help bring things into focus. This is the first new Make/Tell interview since June 2022, and here we are in June 2026, picking up where we left off. You can follow Micheal's instagram here, and Dan's instagram or bluesky as well.

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Yes, yes, I know. Not a new episode of Make/Tell, not really. I stopped making this podcast, remember?

Maybe you've already heard, maybe this is how you find out, but this is the last episode of Make It Then Tell Everybody. I wrote about it here.

This episode is a Q&A with Dan.

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