Make It Then Tell Everybody (general)

Recorded at the Thought Bubble Festival in Leeds in front of a live audience. Lucy Bellwood, Box Brown and Dan Berry discuss at length the question How Do You Make This Make Money?

Nicola Streeten and Dan Berry talk about memoir and autobiography, the necessity of community and opening doors into the world of comics.

Benjamin Rivers and Dan Berry sit down to talk about the similarities between comics and games, working to a schedule and the empty spaces where ideas live.

Alex Norris of Dorris McComics and Dan Berry get together to talk about prevention, the structure of comics an the fine line between clever and not.

Erika Moen of Oh Joy Sex Toy and Dan Berry get together to talk about the importance of sex education, where money comes from and getting your sex comic into bookshops. 

Tillie Walden and Dan Berry talk about diary comics, time & money and never having to think about ice skaters ever again.

Sloane Leong and Dan Berry get together to talk about finding and keeping an audience, getting brutal criticism and what you think about when you draw.

Isabel Greenberg returns to talk with Dan Berry about the completion of her upcoming book, The One Hundred Nights Of Hero, brush presets and finding new directions to tell stories.

As mentioned at the end of the show, if you have been motivated by this podcast to make something and you want to start a Patreon campaign for it, please consider using this referral link. The idea is we both get a bonus! Let's get paid together.

C. Spike Trotman of Iron Circus and Dan Berry get together to talk about being The Man, developing and trusting your taste and digital dollars vs meat money.

A few links you may want to check out - Creators for Creators, Iron Circus submissions and Yes Roya. Get clicking'.

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Lucy Bellwood and Dan Berry talk about other people's audiences, what makes a project scary and being accountable.

Chris Schweizer and Dan Berry talk about drawing, teaching, choosing what to work on and clinical decision-making.

Karrie Fransman and Dan Berry talk about pitching books, fear and the ego and letting yourself have a winter.

Matthew 'The Horse' Hodson and Dan Berry talk about developing a style, the charm of words, shoes, gardening and line dancing.

James Kochalka and Dan Berry get together to talk about correct pronunciation of 'Kochalka', publishing, working with ideas and terrifying librarians.

Kyle Webster and Dan Berry get together to talk about brushes, style, working with ideas and the idea of a portfolio as a tasting menu.

Jade Sarson and Dan Berry talk about self publishing, 24 hour comics, managing a workload and wearing an extrovert disguise. 

Duncan Fegredo and Dan Berry get together to talk about dream jobs, storytelling as a performance and forgetting how to draw. The audio quality on this one is a little variable in places. Just so you know.

Britt Wilson and Dan Berry talk about process, loosening up, being particular and having good taste.

Zac Gorman and Dan Berry talk about learning to take it seriously, time & money and selling out.

Becca Tobin and Dan Berry talk tools, fluidity, sandwiches and pagefright. 

Kate Beaton and Dan Berry talk about how to make money from something you give away for free, being part of the product and what is and isn't funny.

Tom Humberstone and Dan Berry get together to talk about getting into comics, finding a style and the sensual allure of ink on paper.

Simon Hanselmann and Dan Berry get together to talk about food colouring, rivalries, crossdressing and the idea of your career as a tamagotchi. 

Ryan Sands of Youth In Decline talks to Dan Berry about publishing deliberately, having a healthy dissatisfaction with your work and bouncing up and down on a trampoline. 

Liz Prince and Dan Berry talk about ideas, publishing, autobiography and Wolfman.

Jordan Crane and Dan Berry talk about letting a story develop organically, working through drafts and cars covered in guns and stuff.

David Hellman and Dan Berry talk about collaboration, the creative process and running a kickstarter campaign.

Matt Diffee of The New Yorker talks to Dan Berry about Hand Drawn Jokes for Smart Attractive People like you, confidence and 'flipping the funnel'.

His book is available now!

Jason Little and Dan Berry got together to talk about stealing like an artist, traditional and digital production and Jason's cartooning DNA.

Jason's book Borb is published by Uncivilised Books.

Eleni Kalorkoti talks to Dan Berry about 'zine-a-month' aversion therapy, good and bad art directors and being a pornographer.

Graham Anable and Dan Berry talk about his career in comics and animation, co-directing an oscar-nominated animated feature film and getting into that Delicious Mood

Sophie Goldstein and Dan Berry get together to talk about baby steps & big leaps forward, ways of talking and being a Slytherin at the Hogwarts for cartoonists.

Andy Poyiadgi and Dan Berry get together to talk about how directing films and drawing comics cross over, confidence and where ideas come from.

Patrick Crotty of Peow! Studios and Dan Berry talk about publishing and running a print shop, starting small, money and marketing.

Ryan Cecil Smith and Dan Berry talk about finding your voice, drawing with purpose, self publishing, risograph and how nobody cares about your stupid brush line!

Jessica Abel and Dan Berry talk amongst other things about science fiction, editing an anthology and the new generation of narrative podcasts.

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Zainab Akhtar, Laura Snapes & Douglas Wolk talk journalism and its crossover between comics and music with Dan Berry. Recorded at the Thought Bubble festival 2014 with support from the Arts Council as part of Thought Bubble's TBTV youtube channel.

Scott McCloud and Dan Berry talk about how Scott got into comics, the artistic potential of comics, getting the urge to do something and letting his story The Sculptor incubate for 30 years. The Sculptor is out on the 3rd February from First Second in the US and Self Made Hero in the UK.

Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Dan Berry get together to talk about interactive comics and hyperfiction, incorporating sound into interactive comics and Sonic the Hedgehog.

Dan Berry gets the interview tables turned on him by Hannah Berry (no relation) and talks about getting into comics, his creative process and the Bristol scale.

Josh Bayer and Dan Berry get together and talk about art school, intuition and changing the conversation you have with yourself.

Hope Larson and Dan Berry talk about getting into and out of comics, burnout, writing stories and the parallels between directing film and making comics.

Kevin Huizenga and Dan Berry talk about rituals, creativity and process.

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Jess Fink and Dan Berry talk about autobiography, erotica, getting work done, developing a process and drawing with confidence.

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Darryl Cunningham and Dan Berry talk about the comics crash of the 1990s, the links between creativity and self esteem, research and the allure of divisive topics.

Evan Dahm and Dan Berry talk world building, hiding your compromises, maintaining consistency, making comics and then telling everybody about those comics.

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Vera Brosgol and Dan Berry talk about getting into, out of, and then back into drawing, storyboarding & storytelling and the idea of who you work for.

Jillian Tamaki and Dan Berry talk amongst other things about ideas, the evolution of a style and faith.

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Cathy G Johnson and Dan Berry get together to talk about ideas, the creative process, "romance", curating an event and how seductive images can be.

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Neil Slorance and Dan Berry sit down to talk about process, working with a writer, reviews and being part of a creative community.

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Woodrow Phoenix and Dan Berry talk about the shape of stories, typography, pushing the boundaries of what you can do with comics and an enormous book that you can not buy on Amazon.

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John Porcellino and Dan Berry get together to talk about 25 years of King-Cat Comics and Stories, punk rock, style, sickness and health. John also has a new book coming out imminently from Drawn & Quarterly entitled The Hospital Suite and a US tour, so check both out quick as you can!

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Patrick Kyle and Dan Berry talk about self publishing, risographs and dream logic. Patrick's book Distance Mover is out from Koyama Press in September. 

Jesse Jacobs and Dan Berry's conversation about process, stories, sketchbooks and wilderness confection is made all the more dramatic by being recorded during a booming thunderstorm. 

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Alec Longstreth and Dan Berry talk about convention etiquette, the whole years of his life represented by a book you could kill someone with and his Schedule.

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Renee French and Dan Berry talk about getting into a project, falling in love with drawing tools, where ideas come from and how they incubate.

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Phil McAndrew and Dan Berry talk about pitching a tv show, the similarities between working with an idea and squishing a bug and Super Obvious Secrets.

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Annie Koyama of Koyama Press and Dan Berry get together to talk about how publishing works, the life of a book, how Annie became a publisher accidentally, trusting taste and taking risks.

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Andrew Fulton and Dan Berry talk about quality of line, thinking with drawing and minicomics. We've also teamed up to give one of you listeners the chance to win a year's subscription to the Minicomic Of The Month Club. All you need to do is go here and fill out your email address by the 20th July to be in with a chance of winning a minicomic delivered through your front door every month for a year!

Nick Abadzis and Dan Berry talk about ideas, the development os a style, motivation, work ethic and letting a story reveal itself to you as you write it.

John Martz & Dustin Harbin talk to Dan Berry about the worst, most hackneyed interview question you can ask a creative person. I can't even type it in here, it is that bad.

Jason Shiga and Dan Berry talk about writing stories and the tendency to start writing the biggest stories, money, mathematics and choose your own adventure books. Go and read Jason's webcomic Demon from ther start here.

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Simon Moreton talks to Dan Berry about his work and the three Ms; Memoir, Memory and Minimalism. Simon has a new book coming out from Avery Hill Press soon, perhaps you should buy it.

Also check out the parade of kind-hearted champions who help support the show via Patreon. Perhaps you'd like to join them too!

Christopher Butcher, Director of the Toronto Comic Art Festival (amongst other things) talks to Dan Berry about how TCAF works, how his various jobs overlap and what it is like to feel responsible for over 400 cartoonists at the same time.

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Adam Murphy and Dan Berry talk about working with rules, honesty, story structure, audiences and The Big Existential Art Questions.

Sam Alden and Dan Berry talk about creative processes, work ethics, developing a style and all the associated guilt that goes along with making comics.

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Box Brown and Dan Berry sit down to chat about the links between stprytelling and wrestling, getting into drawing comics and the development of a style.

Pete Fowler and Dan Berry talk about his work, staying busy, learning and what creativity is and how it works.

Neill Cameron and Dan Berry talk about getting better at art, developing your taste, collaborative work and a walkabout in the outback.

Mike Dawson and Dan Berry talk about his new book Angie Bongiolatti, his process and his thoughts on conventions.

Garen Ewing and Dan Berry talk about the days before the internet, artistic insecurity, the deep pit of research, pacing a page of comics and believability vs realism.

John Allison and Dan Berry talk about his new book, multitasking and achieving the transcendent out of body state of zen drawing.

Paul Duffield and Dan Berry talk about his process, visual literacy, his Patreon campaign for The Firelight Isle and of course a bodybuilding koala. Check out Paul drawing a page from The Firelight Isle on youtube. Click here to have a look at the Make/Tell patreon campaign too!

Julia Wertz and Dan Berry talk about the links money & creativity, alcoholism & comics and abandoned asylums & comics. Julia is the author of The Fart Party vols 1 & 2, Drinking at the Movies and The infinite Wait. She also explores abandoned buildings and writes about them.

Sarah Glidden and Dan Berry talk about her non fiction work as personal memoir or examination of journalism, the challenges of depicting yourself in comics as opposed to depicting real people and the challenges of the creative process.

Christopher Hastings and Dan Berry talk about his education in comics, building and maintaining an audience for his webcomic The Adventures of Dr McNinja and his work for Marvel.

Gary Northfield and Dan Berry chat about developing a loose style, how his career has progressed and his drawing tools.

This was recorded at the Volume Publishing Fair at the fancy new Library of Birmingham, featuring Tula Lotay, Lisa Wood, Philippa Rice, Viv Schwarz and Martin Steenton talking to Dan Berry. This is without a doubt the most aggressive Make/Tell so far. Big thanks to Lizz Lunney for making this happen.

Emily Carroll and Dan Berry talk about the rules of drawing comics, the difference between working for yourself and someone else and horror that is human and universal.

Michael Deforge and Dan Berry chat about his approach to drawing and writing, the development of his style and his work on Adventure Time.

Hunt Emerson and Dan Berry talk at his studio in Birmingham about his entry into the underground comix world, erotica, drawing as a job and Everything You Could Possibly Want To Know About Hunt Emerson. 

Pat Grant and Dan Berry talk about academic writing, Pat's creative process and background and comics storytelling that leaves the page. Check out his book Blue here and Toormina Video here.

Jeffrey Brown and Dan Berry talk in front of a live audience in an acoustically challenged room at the excellent Thought Bubble Festival in Leeds. Talking points include getting into comics, four-point advice for aspiring artists and landing a job drawing Star Wars comics.

Andy Diggle and Dan berry talk about Andy's entry into comics, his time as editor of 2000 AD, his writing process and the idea of parameters or constraints in his work and the shape of the story that inhabits all our heads.

Adam Cadwell and Dan Berry talk about autobiography, developing as an artist in public and organising things like Great Beast and the British Comic Awards.

PJ Holden and Dan Berry talk about career false starts, self doubt, climbing the metaphorical Mount Dredd and his Loki-esque tendencies. 

Lizz Lunney and Dan Berry talk about jokes, ideas and how animals can say things that humans can't.

Dan Berry talks to Robin and Lorenzo Etherington about their careers so far, their working processes and the workshops they do for young people.

Jonathan Edwards and Dan Berry talk about lines, shapes, style and blundering about in a darkened room looking for the light switch.

Sarah McIntyre and Dan Berry talk abotu drawing and developing a style, publicty and comic fairs in every school in the country.

Jack Teagle and Dan Berry chat about winning awards, approaches to developing a style and The Simpsons.

Tony Lee and Dan Berry talk in depth about inspiration, ideas, pitches and what it takes to be a writer.

Daniel Humphry and Dan Berry talk about Off Life, the UK's only street press comic magazine. Topics covered include typography, distribution and secret handshakes.

Roman Muradov and Dan Berry talk about effortless and carefree artwork, process and sabotage.

Katie Green and Dan Berry talk about her upcoming graphic memoir entitled Lighter Than My Shadow, her creative process and separating Katie the character from Katie the author.

Jon McNaught and Dan Berry spoke in person at his studio in Bristol about alternative comics, his process and print work and his approaches to storytelling.

Nick Edwards and Dan Berry talk about finding tools that work, sketchbooks and smashing stuff up. 

Edward Ross and Dan Berry talk about speaking the language of film, science fact (not fiction) and measuring success.

Kristyna Baczynski (Kriss-Tenner Baa-Chin-Ski, not Chris-Teena Baaz-In-Ski) and Dan Berry talk about the correct pronunciation of her name, heritage and the idea of artistic style as an accent.

Viv Schwarz and Dan Berry talk hospital clowns, creative processes and writing the voice of a character.