Julia Wertz and Dan Berry talk about the links money & creativity, alcoholism & comics and abandoned asylums & comics amongst other things. 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.
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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.
Christopher Hastings
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
Gary Northfield and Dan Berry chat amongst other things about developing a loose style, how his career has progressed and his drawing tools.
Tula Lotay, Lisa Wood, Philippa Rice, Viv Schwarz & Martin Steenton
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
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
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
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
Pat Grant and Dan Berry talk about academic writing, Pat’s creative process, his background and about comics storytelling that leaves the page. Check out his book Blue here and Toormina Video here.
Jeffrey Brown
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
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
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.
Lizz Lunney
Lizz Lunney and Dan Berry talk about jokes, ideas and how animals can say things that humans can’t.
The Etherington Brothers
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
Jonathan Edwards and Dan Berry talk about lines, shapes, style and blundering about in a darkened room looking for the light switch.
Sarah McIntyre
Sarah McIntyre and Dan Berry talk about drawing and developing a style, publicty and comic fairs in every school in the country.
Jack Teagle
Daniel Humphry
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.