Jerzy Drozd - TCAF 2015 - Artist Interview

0:00 Introduction
0:16 Jerzy's Work
Jerzy Drozd is a cartoonist, teaching artist, and podcaster from Ann Arbor, MI. He attended Toronto Comics and Arts Festival to promote the Kennedy Assassination book he co-illustrated, Warren Commission Report (http://abramsbooks.com/product/warren-commission-report_9781419712302/) and also his recently launched all-ages full-color adventure web comic, Boulder and Fleet (http://boulderandfleet.com).

4:51 Educator's Day at TCAF
Jerzy put on a delightful workshop targeted at teachers and librarians to use comics and sequential art as a teaching mechanism during TCAF's educators day. Joseph recorded the interactive panel which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIHlRObImNw&index=12&list=PL_pXBtCqjKy-L_vq3ZPxPPh6UHE1ulekp

8:14 Podcasting
Jerzy also is a prolific podcaster. He covers everything from modern cartoonist's works, Comic are Great! (comicsaregreat.com), artist and writer techniques and tips, Lean Into Art (leanintoart.com), children's book and comic fandom and events, Kids' Comic Revolution! (http://comicsaregreat.com/category/kidscomicsrevolution), to his love for 80s cartoons, Saturday Supercast (http://saturdaysupercast.tumblr.com).

13:48 Kids Read Comics
Jerzy is a co-organizer of Kids Read Comics (http://kidsreadcomics.org), the 3-day free-admission festival in Ann Arbor, MI, with roughly 3000 visitors. The convention runs June 20-21, 2015, but the educator's day starts June 19. It has programming for kids, artists, librarians, and educators and will have a large artist alley full of creators for kids comics.

18:24 Reaching a child audience with your comic
25:30 Advice for up-and-coming comic artists in general.

Editor's note: Sorry about the sloppy camerawork, I forgot my stabilizing rig and proper warp stabilizing would take too long to render with my computer.

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This independent artist interview was conducted by Joseph Coco on behalf of Becca Hillburn's art process blog, Nattosoup (http://nattosoup.blogspot.com). It was conducted in the artist alley during the convention. If you would like to be interviewed at a convention or show support for the interviews, please contact Becca and contribute to her Patreon, https://patreon.com/Nattosoup.

Music credits: Steve Combs - Plug Me In

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