Tight Pencils

Andrea Bell talks to Kevin about work habits, social media pros & cons, and processing emotions through vulnerability.

Andrea's Website

Andrea on Instagram

Discussed in this episode:

The Pomodoro Technique

Scott McCloud

Brené Brown

TED Talks

Bianca Xunise joins Kevin to talk about listening. Also discussed in the episode - representation for women of color, our relationship with the police, comics as a way to open up conversation between cultures, and Cool Spot.

Bianca is on twitter @biancaxunise

Find her work, including her pieces for The Nib on her website biancaxunise.com

mentioned in this episode:

Samurai Champloo

Amanda Scurti's piece Disability in the Age of Trump via The Nib

Tight Pencils Episode 51 w/ Amanda Scurti

Tank Girl

The Gorillaz

Clerks

Freaks and Geeks

Kate Leth is a bestselling writing and cartoonist living in LA, by way of Canada, specializing in teen and all-ages stories for both page and screen. You can find her licensed comics work in Patsy Walker AKA Hellcat for Marvel, as well as series such as Vampirella, Girl Over Paris, Edward Scissorhands, Fraggle Rock and three Adventure Time graphic novels. Her creator-owned work includes the all-ages Power Up from Boom Studios, the romantic high school adventure School Spirit, and the supernatural teen thriller Spell on Wheelsfrom Dark Horse.

She is also currently working on several web and television animation projects, none of which she can talk about because of NDAs. Ain't that just the way!

Kate's Website

Shivana Sookdeo joins Kevin to talk about generation resentment between artists, creating while living with depression, and a background in psychology that she utilizes to cope with her depression

Shivana's Website

Shan Murphy is an illustrator, cartoonist, and recent graduate from the New Hampshire Institute of Art. Shan makes poignant comics about loneliness and personal growth. In this episode, Shan and Kevin talk about the universal feelings of insecurity and trying to find a place in comics.

Shan's Website

Sara Lautman sits down to talk about how she started drawing cartoons

Sara Lautman is an artist living in Baltimore. Her cartoons are published with The New Yorker, Mad, Playboy, Jezebel and on her own blog. Her most recent collection, Black and White Diary Comics, February-December 2017, is available from Birdcage Bottom Books.

http://saralautman.com/

Eric Kubli is a graphic designer and illustrator from Ohio. Now living in Oakland California, Eric has been working on a comic series called Northlake Magic. Issue three of Northlake was just released digitally, and in this episode Eric talks to us about how he began the series.

We also talk about video games and communicating with your friends over the internet, two things that provide inspiration and support for Eric in his work

Eric' Website

Visit Eric's Gumroad shop to download Northlake Magic 3, and a ton of other good stuff

Hannah Fisher is a cartoonist based in Seattle. She is the author of the webcomic Cosmoknights and is currently coloring Coady and the Creepies, for Boom! In this episode Hannah joins Kevin to talk about nerdy genre comics and giving agency to female characters.

Hannah's Website

Read Cosmoknights

Kelsey Wroten is a freelance illustrator and comics artist from Kansas City, MO, now living in Brooklyn, NY.

We talk about the grand philosophy of storytelling through comics, and a little peek at Kelsey's book with Uncivilized Books slated to come out in 2018

Also, a beer and some cat noises

find more of Kelsey's work at kelseywroten.com

In this episode, I talk to my Dad about how it felt raising a child who wants to pursue a career in art