Salt Honey

This week, we have a conversation about building stories and characters, the subjectivity or what makes a good story, and how we connect to stories. Talking points: preteen roleplaying, self conscious writing, purple prose, the significance of tropes, story structure.

This week, we discuss the shoujo manga artist Kyoko Okazaki, whose work centering around the social issues of young people living during the ‘80s and ‘90s in Tokyo still has resonance in popular culture today. Works discussed in this episode: Helter Skelter, River’s Edge, PINK.

This week we talk to Priscilla Hamby, a.k.a. Rem (Devil’s Candy, Soulless, Vampire Kisses,) about her career, Tokyopop’s Rising Stars of Manga, American comics, and how peoples’ perception of manga influenced work has changed over the years. Rem is one of our favorite artists and dream guests, and it was such a pleasure to talk with her about her influences and her work.

This week we talk to Priscilla Hamby, a.k.a. Rem (Devil’s Candy, Soulless, Vampire Kisses,) about her career, Tokyopop’s Rising Stars of Manga, American comics, and how peoples’ perception of manga influenced work has changed over the years. Rem is one of our favorite artists and dream guests, and it was such a pleasure to talk with her about her influences and her work.

In this episode, we talk about how we got into conventions, our favorite shows, least favorite shows, some advice on how to set up or plan for merchandise and tables, and touch on con etiquette. Spoiler alert: we’re bad at tabling.

Tucker was our first guest, but we uploaded this out of order. Tucker probably best known for being a comics critic and running The Factual Opinion. In this episode we talk about different facets of comics and our inherent biases when we choose media. We also try to dive into the way the internet has changed and affected the way we create and consume media.

We talk to our friend Iasmin Omar Ata about their new graphic novel, Mis(h)adra, and delve into the topic of sci-fi and why it’s important. We also talk about video games, science fiction and feelings, the importance of paneling in comics, world-building, and the concept of rationalism.

This week, we get to talk to Meredith Gran (Octopus Pie) about her approach to storytelling, the internet, teaching, and being financially self sufficient while making comics. We talk about the game Meredith is making and the history of webcomics (as we know it.)

This week, Sloane and Leslie discuss their favorite and least favorite parts of four graphic novels. This episode is DEFINITELY spoiler-friendly. We discuss The Divine, Beautiful Darkness, This One Summer, and Prince of Cats.

Sloane and Leslie talk about what goes into comic sales and the struggles of monthly comics and how to cope. We talk about our good and bad experiences as teens taking art classes and how we combat creative burn out, among other things.