Tune in today for 3 Great DMA Guests!
That's right, I've finally overdone it and booked 4 guests in one week. I hope you like them!
We are drowning in a frictionless tech deluge.
Every week, there is a new platform to master, a new algorithm to appease, and a new AI tool threatening to automate us into oblivion. It feels like we are all just huddling together for warmth around the glow of our screens, trying to figure out how to actually get our work done without losing our minds.
That is exactly why I am sitting down with Jeremy Caplan on today’s Draw Me Anything at 11am EDT.
Our conversation is going to be less of an artist chat and more like a tactical war room briefing for survival in the digital era. Jeremy is the Director of Teaching and Learning at CUNY’s Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. He used to write for TIME Magazine. Before that, he was a violinist. He is one of those infuriatingly talented people who seems to have lived three lifetimes.
But more importantly, he is the creator of the massively popular Wonder Tools newsletter right here on Substack. Jeremy spends his days wading into the deep, chaotic waters of the internet. He tests, breaks, and reviews new apps, sites, and digital tools so the rest of us do not have to waste our precious hours doing it. He helps over 80,000 subscribers figure out what is actually useful and what is just digital noise. His goal is to help people do what they already do more enjoyably, efficiently, and creatively.
At 3pm EDT, I’m welcoming the absolute masters of the comics podcasting universe: Brad Guigar and Dave Kellett.
If you are somehow unfamiliar with these two, let me give you the briefest of primers: Brad Guigar is the creator of the wildly popular webcomic Evil Inc and the author of The Webcomics Handbook. He is essentially a walking encyclopedia of how to survive as an independent artist on the internet.
Dave Kellett is the genius behind the long-running webcomics Sheldon and Drive. He is also the co-director of the brilliant comics documentary Stripped (which famously features the first published art from Bill Watterson since he retired Calvin and Hobbes - also, his VOICE!).
Together, they host Comic Lab, a weekly masterclass podcast that is half shop-talk, half how-to, and half friendship. (Yes, they squeezed in three halves. They are just that good).
I have had the distinct privilege of being a guest on their show a few times now. If you want to hear us nerding out over the business of cartooning, stand-up comedy, and surviving the freelance life, you can listen to my previous appearances here:
Episode 331: Special Guest Jason Chatfield (Talking about The New Yorker, Dangerfield’s comedy club, and Ginger Meggs)
Click to subscribe to their podcast Episode 302: LIVE from the Reuben Awards with Sarah Andersen and Jason Chatfield
Episode 404: ComicLab LIVE at the National Cartoonists Society (A wild live show at the 79th Reuben Awards)
The Live Comic Lab podcast at last year’s Reuben Awards in Boston
Tomorrow, we are turning the tables. I finally get to interrogate them.
We are going to be scribbling away and diving deep into a frankly absurd list of topics, including:
Crowdfunding scams (and how to spot them before you lose your shirt).
Substack (and how to build an actual audience without losing your mind).
Podcasting and new media (navigating the changing landscape of how we talk to each other).
The industry at large in cartooning and comedy.
The upcoming 80th anniversary of the National Cartoonist Society.
…and much, much more!
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Aaaaanyway…
‘til then!
Your pal,
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