This week we recap the beginning of December! Leslie was in Los Angeles for CALA and then Portland! We did a Salt & Honey drink and draw! And also watched movies! Spoilers for The Favourite and a bit of Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse. We'll be back to our regularly scheduled programming next week!

Sloane and Leslie discuss the real cost of cons and what the point of tabling at a convention is. Talking points: our ideal show, how to maximize your experience, transparency from organizations, the Festival Workers Association.

Festival Workers Association: https://festivalworkers.com/

This week, Sloane and Leslie talk about the movies they've seen recently! We discuss what we like and didn't like, SPOILER HEAVY.

Leslie chooses 4 random comics for her and Sloane to read this week. We do capsule reviews of what we like and don't like about comics without very much context. Works reviewed: By Night #5 (Boom), Supergirl #24 (DC), Uncanny X-Men #1 (Marvel), Shadow Roads #5 (Oni Press.)

Sloane and Leslie talk about the work of Junji Ito, one of the most popular working horror manga artists. Spoilers for Tomie, Uzumaki, Hellstar Remina, Souichi, and several of his other short stories. His work deals with a lot of anxiety, existential dread, and the cruel, capricious nature of the world, while portraying the fragility of human nature. Also mentioned in this episode: Kazuo Umezu, Suehiro Maruo, Shintaro Kago, Shuzo Oshimi.

This week, Sloane and Leslie discuss what it means to be "successful." Obviously, it's can be a bit of a touchy subject for a lot of working artists, so we go on a couple of different tangents about what it really means to feel like you're doing something as a cartoonist or creative person.

in this episode, we go through and iron out the details of the story we came up together on the previous episode. Please go back and listen to that episode if you haven't already! We kind of address some issues that some people may come across when they don't know how or where to edit their ideas for comics.

This week, we experiment with coming up with a collaborative short story together. We try to pick apart and examine what we think is important in stories and characters and discuss our different ways of solving problems.

This is the recording from our live panel that took place at Thought Bubble UK. We're joined by Sarah Horrocks (Goro, Bacchae) to talk about audiences, audience engagement, and the way other work and artists influence our work.

Our guest! Sarah Horrocks

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Sloane and Leslie talk about the Netflix limited series, MANIAC, directed by Cary Fukunaga. Contains spoilers! We discuss the portrayal of mental health in media, as well as touch on the movie, Searching.