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  • Episode Seventy-One: Iasmin Omar Ata
    Iasmin Omar Ata joins Kevin to talk about Mis(h)adra, the dystopian world of the trivia app HQ, and fandoms
    Isamin's website
    Iasmin Omar Ata is a Middle Eastern / Muslim / epileptic comics artist, game designer, and illustrator who creates art about coping with illness, understanding identity, dismantling oppressive structures, and Arab-Islamic futurism.
    best of 2017s
    So Pretty Very Rotten - An Nguyen and Jane Mai
    Pashmina - Nidi Chanani
    La Raza - edited by Fat Fajardo and Pablo Castro
    Buncha Jokers - Kris Mukai
    My Brother's Husband - Gengoroh Tagame
    You & A Bike & A Road - Eleanor Davis
    52 min
  • Episode Seventy: Eric Kostiuk Williams
    Eric Kostiuk Williams is a cartoonist based in Toronto. His books babybel wax bodysuit and condo heartbreak disco are out now from Retrofit and Koyama Press, respectively 
    Eric joins Kevin to talk a little about working from home, online persona's, the comics, zines, and drag community
    Eric's Website
    Buy Eric's comics
    43 min
  • Episode Sixty-Eight: Kat Fajardo
    Kat Fajardo is a grant-winning comic artist and illustrator based in NYC. In this episode, Kat joins Kevin to compare entrances into comics and talk about the importance of community and zines
    show notes:
    la raza anthology
    school of the visual arts
    columbia college
    chicago printers resource (chiprc)
    cartoon crossroads columbus (cxc)
    bandida
    the first rule of punk
    43 min
  • Episode Sixty-Four: Tom and Sara McHenry
    Tom and Sara McHenry join Kevin to talk about Twin Peaks, creating casts of characters, humor, a personal internet histories.
    Support Tom and Sara on Patreon
    Find their comics and zines on Etsy and Gumroad
    Show notes
    Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
    Twin Peaks: The Return
    Joe McAdam's Analog Twitter
    The Andy Griffith Show
    1 hr 32 min
  • Episode Sixty-Three: Michael Sweater
    Micael Sweater joins Kevin to talk about embarking on large projects and the negative influences of social media on art.
    Michael's Website
    Show Notes:
    Benji Nate
    Silver Sprocket
    Locust Moon
    Rob Woods
    Frank Santoro grid Fundamentals
    The Oatmeal
    Adam Ellis - guy who draws the same comics over and over for Buzzfeed
    Ctrl+Alt+Del
    29 min

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Tight Pencils is a podcast about the creative process. Host Kevin Budnik sits down with a friends, strangers, creators established and aspiring to talk about how they got where they are and where they…