Donya Todd and Dan Berry talk comics, including artistic intuition, sexism and smoking. Donya is the author of Death and The Girls, out soon from Blank Slate Books and is the editor of the Bimba anthology.

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Will Morris talks to Dan Berry about paper, looking, drawing and reveals some shocking information about a beloved tv show. Check out Will’s website, the WebTrip site and his book The Silver Darlings.

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This show was recorded live at the Illustrato.rs Lineup show at the Mall Galleries, London on the 4th May. Dan Berry spoke to Richard Short, Karrie Fransman and Posy Simmonds about their work, their approach and the challenges in creating long-form work.

A word of warning though – this was recorded in an art gallery, so the acoustics were terrible. The recording is actually better than the live sound on the day though. Big echoey white walls may be great for hanging art, but they aren’t so good for reproducing those soft intimate Make It Then Tell Everybody tones that you’ve grown accustomed to.

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Photo By Canan Marasligil

The first non-comics guest to the show, musician extraordinare Jim Guthrie and Dan Berry talk about the overlaps in the creative process, advertising and Jim’s long awaited new album, Takes Time. The tracks featured in this episode are Bring On The Night and The Rest Is Yet To Come from Takes Time, and Hug Me Til I’m Blue from the extended edition of Now More Than Ever.

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This Saturday, the 4th of May there will be a live Make It Then Tell Everybody as part of the Illustrato.rs Lineup event at the Mall Galleries just off Trafalgar Square in London, next door to the ICA.

I will be joined by the wonderful Richard Short, Karrie Fransman and Posy Simmonds, author of Tamara Drewe and Gemma Bovary. We’ll likely be chatting about the blurred lines between comics and illustration, but who knows where the mood will take us.

The event is free, but has limited places, so arriving early is advisable. Plus you’ll want to get around the Independent Comics Fair which is also part of the Illustrato.rs Lineup show. Oh, it’s Free Comic Book Day too. So the best thing to do would be to set aside the whole day so you can dedicate your full attention properly to comics for the day.

A comics lecturer and creator, Dan Berry both writes and draws his own work — such as the forthcoming The Suitcase from Blank Slate Books. But on top of that, he’s also launched a podcast fairly recently, in which he sits down with a number of writers, artists, creators, in order to talk about creation, process, and publishing. Make It Then Tell Everybody is the name of the show, and it’s quickly become one of the must-listen comics podcasts available. Informative, fascinating and warm, it also has some belting pastoral theme music.

That’s a nice thing to say don’t you think? Read the whole thing here.

Isaac Lenkiewicz and Dan Berry talk about brushes both analogue and digital, The Simpsons and Jump Man.

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What is it for? Well, this is a relatively inexpensive way for me to offer something other than an email of thanks for a donation to the show.

These prints are part one of a longer plan to bring out more beautiful Make It Then Tell Everybody items designed by the wonderful Kristyna Baczynski. We’ve got some very cool stuff planned, watch this space.

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Eleanor Davis talks from the comfort and security of a blanket fort to Dan Berry about hard work, getting better at art and the challenges of longer format work and living with another creative person.

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Ryan Andrews and Dan Berry talk about Ryan’s work, Totoro dung, Dragonball, his life in rural Japan and the difficulties of weaning yourself off Photoshop.

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Here’s an update from Ryan by email;

Here’s the photos of my tools I’m using right now. They didn’t have my “Manga Black” ink last time I went so I got this. I don’t really have a favorite brand of brush or ink yet. I pretty much just go and grab whatever they have. I used to have a favorite paper, but it looks like they changed the recipe cause it doesn’t work the same anymore. Avalon watercolor by Holbein. Its like 50 USD for a pad of 20 sheets though, which is why I don’t really have any paper right now.