This is the start of a conversation. Listen in as Yao Xiao hosts, Virginia Zamora, Lily Padula, Cathryn Virginia, and Regina Flath offering their perspectives on everything from career approach, mentoring, challenges, to everything in between.

Jonathan Bartlett reflects on the business of illustration and gives his advice for 2018; think of this as “the stuff your teacher’s never told you”. As the new year begins now is a great time to step back and evaluate your approach. Time stamps for each section: 8:05- What are you selling? 13:10- How are you selling? 26:30- Who you are selling to (negotiating clients, talking money)? 34:55- Final thoughts

What is the place of comics in our culture? How can we make our stories heard? Darryl Ayo moderates, panelists include Calista Brill, Calvin Reid, Hazel Newlevant, and Sara Varon

Christina Dacanay hosts. Featuring Roxie Vizcarra, Carey Pietsch, Will Varner, and Zoe Van Dijk discussing different career structures available to an illustrator, and how illustrators across all spheres sustain themselves.

Jensine Eckwall hosts our first one on one conversation with comic artist and illustrator, Bianca Xunise. Success is not one-size-fits-all as you will hear in this honest and inspiring discussion about career choices and knowing yourself.

Jonathan Bartlett hosts. Featuring comic artist and illustrator, Jen Bartel and illustrator Nico Delort. New York was once considered the unofficial center of the illustration community, but with technology and time that has changed. Location is the starting point of this talk, but quickly begin covering many different topics like acceptance, identity, community, and defining success.

Jensine Eckwall hosts. Featuring Kat Fajardo, Hazel Newlevant, Kevin Stanton, and Annie Stoll discussing the details of self-publishing, crowd funding, and their own experience with putting their work into the world through these channels. Projects like, Chainmail Bikini, 10001 Knights, and La Raza Anthology.

Yao Xiao moderates a conversation between four amazing illustrators from diverse backgrounds: Rebecca Mock, Kyle T. Webster, Leland Goodman, and Jensine Eckwall. In this episode the participants discuss technology and communication; the tools used, internet and networking, effect on their careers, social access, and whether or not it levels the playing field at all.

The Society of Illustrators New Visions Committee brings you a conversation addressing a host of issues facing the contemporary illustrator. These include topics of diversity and inclusion, multiculturalism, and illustration’s role in a larger cultural context. For the first podcast, panelists will discuss how these issues manifest themselves in education, and their specific experiences in (and outside of) the classroom. Featuring Aya Kakeda, Marcos Chin, Cynthia Cheng, and Annie Bowler. Moderated by John Lee.

In the second part of our series "Stories Matter", panelists will follow up on our past conversation discussing illustration’s role in the cultural conversation and the place of the illustrator within it. Moderated by Richie Pope, with Odera Igbokwe, Cathy G Johnson, John Lee, Ronald Wimberly, Shannon Wright, Yao Xiao, and Alexandra Zsigmond.

How do the images we make influence the world around us? How does the world affect the images we make? In this discussion, where audience members are invited to contribute along with the panelists, influential new voices discuss illustration’s role in the cultural conversation and the place of the illustrator within it. Featuring Wesley Allsbrook, Alexandra Beguez, Jensine Eckwall, Chris Kindred, Ricardo Lopez Ortiz, Richie Pope, Shadra Strickland, and moderated by Jonathan Bartlett. Originally held at the Society of Illustrators on October 10, 2015. Illustration by Richie Pope.