This week Alice and Jessamy chat to the incredible comic artist and author Gillian Goertz about accomplished friends, hype girls, undermining local recognition, shamelessness, confidence, the energy of the States, working in sales, the benefits of working lots of different jobs, being a late bloomer, resisting the golden handcuffs, opportunity cost, access to representation in the arts, setting the bar high, having basic needs met as a requirement for creativity, hanging out with people who are better at the thing than you, the importance of having people to talk shop with, why comics, the power of finding mentors, self-gatekeeping, writing for kids, using real references to create imaginary worlds, the joy of seeing things you recognise in art, the weight of research, being a stickler for details, tying up loose ends in writing, character design, the personhood of children, terrible haircuts, early vs late development, the “period toilet”, wanting your childhood to last, the convention of adulthood, what we can learn from kids, playfulness and flow states, creativity as an asset everywhere, finding friends that want to have the same fun as you, costume parties, drunk feminist films, and the hard work that goes into fun projects.
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