Paper Cuts

Guests: Will Arnold and Tate Foley

Host:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded on July 24, 2026

Will Arnold received his MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he now manages the student labs and studios at the School of Art & Design. Will is the co-founder of Work Press & Publication, a Risograph-based zine and artist book self-publishing venture. He is also an organizer for the CU Small Press Fest and served on the board of the St. Louis Independent Comics Expo from 2023-2025.

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Tate Foley teaches at Hope College in Holland, Michigan and prints out of his studio there. Tate is a co-founder of Work Press & Publication and has been printing zines and artist's books under that moniker since 2013. Tate's work explores the thin line between human understanding and spiritual experience. 

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Work Press & Publication is an independent print and publishing house founded in 2013 by Will Arnold and Tate Foley. Work Press started because of a mutual interest in small-press, short-run, desktop publishing and Risograph printing. We are interested in creative projects that situate themselves in a mezzanine between fine artist’s books and efficiently produced zines. While many of Work Press’s books and prints contain various printing and production processes, Risograph printing is at the heart of our shop.

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Guest: Sara Century

Host:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded on June 23, 2026

Sara Century is one of the creators of The Forgotten Five, a sort of superhero comic now available to order through Image, as well as the author of the horror anthology A Small Light & Other Stories through Weirdpunk Books. She has written a number of zines, including film zines about the Scream franchise, lesbian vampires, Hitchcock, and, mostly recently, a bizarre selection of films starring Elizabeth Taylor. She is also releasing a series of X-Men zines, the first of which is available for pre-order. She is the host of the comic book podcast Best Issue Ever, and regularly guests on other podcasts. Find out more about Sara and her endless projects at saracentury.com.

Guest: Mark Lindblom

Host:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded on July 27, 2026 at the 2026 StoryBox Comics Fair in Silver Spring, MD

Mark Lindblom is a cartoonist, illustrator, and editor based in Washington, DC. Originally from Wisconsin, he came up in broadcasting, working in nonprofit media with organizations including NPR, PBS, and C-SPAN, before trading the airwaves for ink and paper and planting roots in the DC arts community.

Mark is the current editor of Magic Bullet, Washington DC's free comics newspaper produced by D.C. Conspiracy, the city's long-running cartoonist collective. Published twice a year and distributed throughout the DC area, Magic Bullet showcases the work of local cartoonists, artists, and writers. This fall, the paper celebrates a milestone: its 25th issue. Mark has been a steady contributor alongside his editorial work, bringing a historical sensibility to his comics; digging into the stories, characters, and corners of DC that don't always make the official record.

D.C. Conspiracy has been building community for roughly two decades, and Mark's work within it reflects a belief that local publishing is its own form of civic practice: a way of documenting place, connecting creators, and keeping the conversation going at street level.

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Guest: Helen Frederick

Host:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded on June 24, 2026 at Reading Road Studio in Silver Spring, MD.

Helen Frederick is recognized as a distinguished artist, curator, educator, coordinator of international projects, and as founder of Pyramid Atlantic, a center for contemporary printmaking, hand papermaking and the art of the book. As an advocate for and an active participant in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area arts scene, she has served on the directorial boards of alternative art spaces, various local and national boards including the CollegeArt Association, and national peer-review panels. Her work has been exhibited at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., The Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University, Dieu Donne Gallery, New York, Henie-Onstad Museum, Norway, and the Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, Japan, and is in collections of the Rhode Island School of Design, Whitney Museum and Brooklyn Museum in New York, the National Gallery of Art, Library ofCongress, and Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., among many others. Frederick, who is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Art at George Mason University, has fulfilled speaking engagements around the world, always emphasizing collaboration across disciplines. 

Throughout her life, Frederick’s passion for diverse cultures and histories has led her to travel to observe the material cultures of many societies, their skills, and ideas and to make connections among disparate cultural traditions. Her private Reading Road Studio in Silver Spring, Maryland, provides collaborative opportunities for artists interested in works in and on paper, constructions, artist books, and critical conversations about social justice, cultural and visual literacy. She has received the Southern Graphic Council International Printmaker Emeritus Award, the College Art Association Distinguished Teacher Award, and was invited into the Feminist Art Base archive, the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Frederick is an alumnus of the Rhode Island School of Design. She serves as the organizational curator for the Kala Chaupal Trust, New Delhi, India.

Guest: Darin Klein

Host:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded on July 8 and July 20, 2026

Darin Klein is an arts programmer and curator, and the creator of over 100 solo and collaborative zines and artists’ publications. His various projects have been presented at venues including Amy Adler’s Echo Park Studio, &Pens, Bitches Rule, The Broad, Commonwealth & Council, For Your Art, Hammer Museum, Human Resources, LACE, LACMA, Luis de Jesus Los Angeles, New Image Art, Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair, REDCAT, and Upstairs at Paul’s in Los Angeles; Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair, and White Columns in New York; 2nd floor projects, 42nd International SF Film Festival, ESP, Needles & Pens, scene/escena, Showroom, SF MOMA, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco; and Dog & Pony in Spokane, WA. Klein is a Printed Matter Awards for Artists recipient, a Printed Matter artist grant recipient, and has lectured and facilitated workshops on zines and zine making at Denison University; The Hammer and Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair (Geffen Contemporary at MOCA) in Los Angeles; and California Institute for the Arts in Valencia, CA.

His publishing project, Darin Klein & Friends, presents innovative and unexpected collaboratively produced zines and independent media, prioritizing queer and underrepresented artists. 

Guest: Taylor Yates

Host:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded on June 12, 2026

Taylor Yates is an associate therapist, astrologer, and artist exploring symbols and mythology as tools to rewire narratives. she is the creator of the tarot deck PORTALS and editor-in-chief of feminist memoir magazine Selfish. Taylor has a Master's in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University and is certified with the National Guild of Hypnotists.

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Guest: Kyle Quinn

Host:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded on May 20, 2026

Raw Meat is an independent publishing house, art gallery, and bookstore based in Chinatown, New York. The project was founded in 2015 by artist Kyle Quinn, who continues to run the collective today. Raw Meat works with a wide range of established and emerging contemporary artists across mediums including photography, painting, sculpture, collage, and installation.

While the press primarily publishes artist books, Raw Meat also produces photography editions, exhibition catalogues for independent artists and galleries, and a wide range of fine art ephemera ranging from print to sculpture.

Their mission is to create space for and amplify the voices of LGBTQ+ and femme contemporary artists through the documentation and dissemination of their work. Raw Meat focuses on crafting visually compelling editions that explore—through a romantic and critical lens—themes of sorrow, identity politics, queer history, vulnerability, and subversion. Through exhibitions and publications, they aim to foster dialogue with audiences and encourage viewers to reconsider preconceived ideas surrounding happiness, community, identity, and sexuality.

Raw Meat is dedicated to supporting projects that might otherwise go unpublished—work that many institutions shy away from due to its rawness, intimacy, or vulnerability. These are productions that deserve an audience willing to engage with their power and beauty. Raw Meat strives to create books and exhibitions that inspire the current queer generation—artists, students, educators, and audiences alike—to create new work boldly and without fear.

Over the years, Raw Meat has collaborated with universities, museums, art book fairs, galleries, and curators around the world. 

Guests: Diana H. Chu and Benjamin Grzenia

Host:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded on May 4, 2026

Artists Diana H. Chu and Benjamin Grzenia launched BearBear as a self-publishing risograph studio in Milwaukee, WI. BearBear celebrates the intersection between what we put on our tables, where we call home, and who we gather with. Since 2019, BearBear has taught fellow artists about riso, hosted monthly risograph workshops to the public, co-organized events like zine fests or pop-up markets that allow other local artists to sell paper goods and art books, and offered accessible walk-up printing through a program called “Riso Open Studio”. Risography is a 1980s-era digital stencil duplication technology from Japan. It’s a fraction of the cost of screen printing or letterpress, making it a more economical choice for producing art publications.

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Guest: Sarula Bao

Host:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded on March 6, 2026

Sarula Bao is an illustrator, zine maker, and community organizer. She directs a small press and programming initiative, Endless Editions, as well as the Brooklyn Art Book Fair (BKABF). Her primary goals and practice are community building by removing barriers of entry for artists, fostering connections and providing space, platforms, resources and labor. She is also a faculty member and the Lead Technician at the SVA RisoLAB.

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Guests: Eva Parra and Camilo Otero

Host:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded at the Center for Book Arts in New York City on February 20, 2026

Calipso Press is an independent publishing project founded by Eva Parra and Camilo Otero. What began as a small experiment between friends in Madrid found its shape in Cali, Colombia, where Calipso became a space for making books and building community. Today, based in New York, Calipso continues to operate between places, languages, and traditions of print culture.

Their work moves between artists’ books, photography, riso printing, exhibitions, and collaborative publishing projects. At the center of it all is a belief that books are more than containers for content: they are social objects that create encounters, preserve relationships, and carry ideas across borders. Whether working with emerging artists, poets, photographers, or long-term research projects, Calipso approaches publishing as a form of conversation shaped as much by friendship and curiosity as by design and production.

Eva Parra is an artist, publisher, and educator. Trained in philosophy, her early work focused on color, perception, and the ways we experience images. Over time, these interests expanded through photography, printmaking, and publishing into questions of how we learn, make, and spend time with others. Fermentation is a recurring thread in her practice, both as a material process and as a way of thinking about transformation, care, and the sharing of knowledge. Through books, workshops, and participatory projects, she cultivates spaces for making, conversation, and experimentation together.

Camilo Otero is a publisher, curator, and writer working at the intersection of contemporary art, independent publishing, and cultural history. Originally trained as a journalist, he has spent much of his career thinking about how stories are organized, circulated, and preserved, whether through exhibitions, archives, or books. Drawn to artist-run initiatives and the social life of printed matter, he approaches publishing as a way of connecting people, ideas, and places through shared acts of research, exchange, and curiosity.

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