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Patreon Funding

I’ve been exploring ways of trying to help pay for the podcast for a while now, so I’ve set up a Patreon page.

Patreon is a relatively new site that helps people fund the creators that they like. It basically works on strength in numbers so here’s what I’m asking for.

If you want to (this is all entirely optional) then you can opt to donate a dollar or two (a dollar is about £0.60 at the moment of writing) for each new episode of Make It Then Tell Everybody that I do. The idea is that enough people get on board that individually, the amount is barely noticeable, but to me on the receiving end, it will make a huge difference. To cover all my hosting costs, I’d need about $40 a month. Anything more than that goes towards an equipment upgrade and travel to do interviews in person. The holy grail of this is to get enough people donating that I can afford to get each episode transcribed. Not only would it be a valuable resource for reference, it would mean that the podcast would be accessible to deaf people too. That sounds like a good idea to me. Wouldn’t you like to help me do that? Head over to the Patreon page and give it a read.

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Sarah Glidden

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.

Christmas List

I’ve been running Make It Then Tell Everybody for a little over a year now. When I started I wasn’t sure that the show would last this long. I was worried that I’d run out of people to talk to or questions to ask or worse, no-one would be listening.

I was exhibiting at the Thought Bubble festival this year and was genuinely touched by people coming to my table to tell me how much they enjoy the show, how it had helped them cope with their insecurities as an artist and how it had introduced them to the work of people they’d not heard of before. It was really great. Thanks Everybody!

So here’s what I want.

If you enjoy the show, please donate some money to help me pay for it. I’ve got server and hosting costs, equipment to buy and travelling to do more interviews in person. It’s not an enormous amount, but it certainly adds up to a few hundred pounds over the course of a year. In 2014 I want to upgrade my equipment, do more interviews in person and cover all my technical costs.

If you do a one-off donation, that’s great, thanks! If you do a recurring donation each month, that’s also great! Thanks Very Much!

Make It Then Tell Everybody Live!

On the 7th December, we’ll be doing a live Make/Tell at the ever so fancy new library in Birmingham. I’ll be talking to Philippa Rice, Vivane Schwarz, Lisa Wood (aka Tula Lotay, aka Thought Bubble Festival organiser) and Martin Steenton of Blank Slate Books. There’s a helluva lot of stuff going on at Volume. Click here for more details. There’s a Birmingham Zine Festival going on, so be sure to get along to see not just the best library I’ve ever been in, but also get along to pick up some awesome books from your favourite artists.

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Andy Diggle

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.