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Comics Manifest

Aaron Williamscomicsmanifest.com
Join Aaron Williams on Comics Manifest where he interviews amazing and influential creators in comics. Guests share their creative journey, express what excites them today, share their worst creative moment, and most memorable successes. Expect to receive strategies you can adopt, mindsets that you can obtain, and ACTIONABLE tips that can inspire you and help you take your comics projects to the next level. Comics Manifest aims to inspire the aspiring creator and with new episodes airing every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, you can expect to be inspired all week long!
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Episodes

096: It's All About The Work with Reilly Brown

Reilly Brown, is a writer and illustrator, he is the co-creator of Power Play and Saint George: Dragon Slayer, and has worked on other titles including Deadpool, LOBO, The Amazing SpiderMan, Slapstick. And is also posting a weekly webcomic Dash Hudson : Tentacles of Trident.

Apr 07, 201747 min

095: Make Comics For Yourself with Faith Erin Hicks

Faith Erin Hicks is an award winning, New York Times best selling cartoonist and creator of the graphic novel trilogy The Nameless City, Friends with Boys, and the webcomic Demonology 101.

Apr 05, 201749 min

094: Make Drawing A Habit with Ellen Lindner

Ellen Lindner is an illustrator and cartoonist, and creator of the graphic novel Undertow, the comic series The Black Feather Falls and the editor of the Strumpet.

Apr 03, 201753 min

090: Ideas Have A Life Span with Johnny Ryan

A Motivational Minute with Johnny Ryan. Back in episode 026 of the show I got the chance to chat with creator of Prison Pit and Angry Youth Comix, Johnny Ryan. Our conversation was far different than I thought it would be, incredibly inspiring, motivational, and dare I say... heartfelt. We got to the topic of weaknesses and if Johnny had any, this is what he said. Go to comicsmanifest.com/026 for the full episode.

Mar 17, 20175 min

089: Don't Be Afraid to Ask with Katie Cook

Katie Cook is an illustrator and cartoonist. She is the creator of the popular webcomic GRONK: A Monster's Story, writer for My Little Pony Friendship is Magic, and also the illustrator of the children's book OBI-123 a sequel to her first star wars children's book ABC-3PO.

Mar 15, 201732 min

087: Life As An Open Minded Skeptic with Tini Howard

Tini Howard is a comic book writer and winner of the Top Cow Talent Search. She has written comics including The Skeptics, Power Rangers Pink, and Magdalena. Music attributions: George Street Shuffle Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Mar 09, 201749 min

084: For The Love of Books with Calista Brill

Calista Brill is a writer and executive editor at First Second books. Calista is the author of the picture books, Little Wing Learns to Fly and Tugboat Bill and the River Rescue.

Feb 24, 201740 min

082: Grasp The Adventure

Motivational Minute: Grasp the Adventure! Doug TenNapel is not only an extremely productive and passionate comics creator but also a person who is dedicated to helping others create a life that is not only financially stable but fulfilling and meaningful. This is a clip from episode 011 and is one of my favorites. I hope it shakes something in you and gets you motivated and inspired to chase your dreams.

Feb 18, 20174 min

081: Comics Are Easy Just Break Our Hearts with Mike Cavallaro

Mike Cavallaro is an illustrator, cartoonist, and creator of Parade (With Fireworks), and artist of the comics Foiled, Curses Foiled Again, Life and Times of Savior 28. His newest book Decelerate Blue written by Adam Rapp is out now.

Feb 15, 20171 hr 3 min

080: Just Draw The Dog with Benjamin Marra

Benjamin Marra is a cartoonist, illustrator, and educator. Ben is the creator of his comics publisher Traditional Comics and creator of comics including Terror Assaulter O.M.W.O.T. , Night Business, Blades and Lazers, Gangsta Rap Posse and more. Ben was also an educator at the School of Visual arts where he taught Visual Narrative.

Feb 14, 20171 hr

079: Set A Goal

Motivational Minute: Set A Goal! Setting goals is something that is extremely important to me and during these ten minutes Der-Shing Helmer and Tom Nguyen share their thoughts on goal setting and how you can set yourself up for success and create a goal that you can commit to.

Feb 10, 20179 min

076: Never Be Afraid To Make A Mistake with George O'Connor

George O'Connor is a New York Times best selling illustrator and cartoonist, and the creator of the 12-book graphic novel series, Olympians. George's newest installment of his Olympians series Artemis: Wild Goddess of the Hunt is out now.

Feb 03, 201755 min

074: Make A Decision And Take A Chance

Motivational Minute: Make a Decision and Take a Chance! It is so hard to pursue your passions, fear of failure, fear of not being good enough, fear of whatever is always there to stop you. So what does Kazu Kibuishi and Kelly Fitzpatrick do along their journey that's different how did they overcome that fear?

Jan 28, 20178 min

072: Learn To Let Go with Kean Soo

Kean Soo is an award winning cartoonist and creator of the all ages graphic novel series March Grand Prix and Jellaby.

Jan 23, 201743 min

069: Don't Wait For Perfection with Cat Farris

Cat Farris is a cartoonist and illustrator who has done work through publishers including OniPress, IDW, and Darkhorse. Cat is also the creator of the mini comic series Flaccid Badger and the popular webcomic series The Last Diplomat.

Jan 16, 201736 min
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