#ARTIST INTERVIEW

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Take care of your body and mind, art friends. ♥ Need help with the basics? Check out Mind. Body. Artist. It's a blogcast site @astrafauna & I started about taking care while making art. It's on hiatus right now but there's tons of useful stuff in the archive. Content breakdown below the cut ✂️

Introduction to MBA List of topics we have done and hope to do Meet the hosts: Sarah Dahlinger Sarah Forde

Mental Health 🔵Dealing with Crowdfunding Stress 🔵Define Who You Are 🔵Monthly Wrap Up 🔵Is This What You Want to be Doing? 🔵Use “And” 🔵What does a trout have to do with social media trolls. 🔵How to Take Advice to Win 🔵Do What You Need to do to Succeed 🔵Using an Alternating Schedule to Balance Both Art and Fitness (or whatever recharges your battery) 🔵One Success Metric to Win 🔵Art and Grief 🔵There Is No Time Limit for Getting Back Up 🔵Pick your Perfects to Achieve your Real Goals 🔵Can't work? Time to study! (with short exercises) 🔵Creating with ADHD 🔵How to Balance Creative Work and Day to Day Work 🔵Overcoming Self Doubt and Creative Burnout 🔵Getting Back Up After a Failure

Physical Health 🔵How to Roll Out Your Arms for Tendonitis Relief or Prevention 🔵Four Way Wrist Curls 🔵Ice/Hot Baths for Tendonitis Relief 🔵Stretch Your Wrists and Forearms 🔵Stretch Your Hamstrings: My favorite hack for eliminating low back pain. 🔵Tendonitis Flare Up: Fixed in a Few Days 🔵What I Learned from a Year of Never Missing a Workout. 🔵Let’s talk with a Licensed Massage Therapist about pain while making art.

Food Prep 🔵Recipes Intro 🔵Egg Muffins 🔵Lavish Bread Mini Wraps 🔵Five Minute Crock Pot Veggie Chili 🔵How to Make All Your Meals for a Week Without Really Trying 🔵All Week Salad 🔵Chicken with Onions 🔵Slow Cooker Pork Stew

Artist Interviews 🔵Interview with Loish 🔵Interview with Iris Compiet 🔵Interview with Doug Hoppes 🔵Interview with Heather R. Hitchman 🔵Interview with Brynn Metheney

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Interview Master Lists

updated my author interview list! over 160+ author interviews and growing! 📚💙

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there is also a very new (and thus very small 🥰) artist interview page

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more artist interviews are coming as well!! 🎨💛

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This week’s NIF interview roundup is here!

Want to hear from Nika, Nero Villagallos O’Reilly, Pentaro Pentarovsky, Bob Appavu, Kody Okamoto, R. Smith, and Ashley McCammon?

Read them all here: https://cartoonist.coop/journal/

Also, check out their socials below! A few of them even have a tumblr you can follow :D

Nika

 BlueSky: @nikacomics.bsky.social

Twitter: @nikacomics

Nero Villagallos O'Reilly

BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/itsnero.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsneroart

Mastodon: https://mstdn.itsnero.com/@itsnero

Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/itsneroart

Pentaro Pentarovsky

Cara: https://cara.app/pentaro

Socel: https://socel.net/@pentaro

Bob Appavu

BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/bob-artist.bsky.social

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bobappavu/

Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/bob-artist

Kody Okamoto

BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/kodyisover.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kodyisover/

R. Smith

BlueSky: ryancomics.bsky.social

Ashley McCammon

BlueSky: bsky.app/profile/draculing.bsky.social

Instagram: instagram.com/draculing

Tumblr: draculings.tumblr.com

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COLLAGE ON VIEW

Curious

Ian Tothill at the South Square Center in Bradford, England, United Kingdom 2-24 November 2024. Ian Tothill's "Curious" is a collection of collages made from all kinds of discarded materials--old books, packaging, envelopes, photos, magazines, flyers and more. They have been reassembled to form pictures which reflect his curiosity about color, ideas, memory, shape, stories. Some are abstract, others are populated by characters and images given new life with imagined narratives. Read More

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Join me and Brandon Mullins in conversation with Sydney Kit from the Columbus Cartoon Coalition to discuss Valhalla Awaits: A Norse Mythology! Have any questions for us? Let me know and I'll be sure to answer them! We'll be live on Jan. 31 at 7 p.m. ET on the Columbus Cartoon Coalition YouTube channel.

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The talk from the 2nd Richmond Animation Festival, with special guest Robert Beatty.

The next Richmond Animation Festival will be at the Byrd theater again, the last sunday in April, 2025. Follow the Fest IG for updates.

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The two amazing artists also discussed their views on AI techniques. Urasawa expressed that he would prefer to do works by himself because otherwise, AI just steals all the fun from the creative process.

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Author Interview with Conrad Altmann

Author Interview with Conrad Altmann

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A Nib & Ink Fest INTERVIEW ROUNDUP! We’re amping up our interviews so from now on you’ll get a weekly round up going forward. This week’s interviews are from

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Niki Smith

Jamila Rowser

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Amanda J Ellis!

Read up on' em all HERE!

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In Conversation With 84gotyouinyourfeelings

By Atang Moalosi & Tefo Kosie

With his unique delivery and downright passion for bass-pumped beats and hard-hitting drums, 84 conveys personal and societal struggles riddled with kasi lingo and distinctive annotations. We chatted to him about his lyrical content, and production choices among many others.

We're obviously going to ask you about your name, how did that come about?

My uncle was born the year 1984. He was my Superman growing up. 84 is my tribute.

When did you figure out you had a passion for rapping and how did that then translate to writing and recording music?

Back in primary, my older cousin used to be part of a rap group. When I finally gained the courage to ask him for a feature, he said no. In that, writing music began. After high school started recording.

You've been consistently releasing singles since last year, how has the reception been from your fans, have you felt any pressure to release a  project?

To say I have fans is a blessing. The reception is good, overwhelming sometimes. I plan on dropping a project or two this year.

The first track of yours we heard was xeta lobaka, how did you find out about us?

Instagram, I saw your page. Le bereka overtime. True embodiment of Bots.

Your songs have these distinct melodic loops, are you the one producing them or there's someone behind the production?

Majority of the instrumentals are produced by Tsutsurika Tata (Dj skinny D), influenced by the kasi.

You work really closely with the dj/producer Dj Skinny D, how is that experience like?

That’s my brother. Its us against the world.

Along with the distinct production in your tracks, you have this "chaotic" flow/delivery when rapping that has you switching between the pitches of your voice, how did you get into it?

Freestyling. Started expressing myself with no filter. Found me.

Tell us about DAW, what is it and how did it come to life?

DAW is a creative collective made up of Tsutsurika Tata, Dj.getsyouwetter, Gambit & myself. Our support system. An acronym for DO ALL WILLINGLY, which we try live by.

You've also had the chance to perform live, when was your first ever performance and how was the experience?

First performance was an event in 2019 called VAARBZ. A real confidence booster. Entered knowing no one, by the end of the night everyone knew my name.

You recently released a track "I LOVE YOU" along with some visuals featuring kgalie, how long did it take for you to shoot the video and would you say it was challenging for you to try and portray the message behind the song?

The video was shot in a couple of hours. Coming up with the concept wasn’t necessarily challenging. Recently went through a break up so I had time to self reflect and accept. In that, the video was born.

Like most rappers, you tend to narrate a lot of elements of your daily life and tinges of the common social ills affecting people, you have tracks like Battle Of Dimawe which touches on a historical event in Botswana, would you take us through the process of how it came about?

Ke godisitswe ke Bakwena. Hearing stories of Kgosi Sechele I around camp fires, ignites a great sense of belonging. A past I am proud to tell.

What can we expect from you as we go further into 2025?

Music & Art.

all photos used are photographed by @tsutsurika_tata

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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY

Intuitive Collage

Laurinburg, North Carolina, USA. As an intuitive collagist and mixed media artist, Jason McCollum relies on his spiritual practices to receive transmissions through Reiki meditation and readings. Having lived and worked in Asia for over 30 years, McCollum has been able to gain insights into various cultures, their writings, art, and spiritual traditions. Read More

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Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one's thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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'In my later work, the person who is navigating the space, his or her experience becomes the content. So, the whole subject-object relationship is reversed. The content is you! If you don't walk into the work and engage with it, there isn't any content. That's really what I've been dealing with ever since I saw the Velazquez painting.' (Las Meninas) - Richard Serra - Article/Interview 2008: Sean O’Hagan for The Guardian

Art Quotes About What is Art, Art History and Interpretation

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