Tom Ray

Jeaux Janovsky is a cartoonist living out in California. He is a person I have known online for maybe 15 years but we've never actually met... Until now! He has worked with legendary animator Ralph Bakshi, Fred Seibert of Frederator Studios, and cartoonist Gene Deitch. He also recently did some work for the Netflix show Nailed it! He is also currently working on a new comic called Tuna Tulip in the style of old Harvey comics. Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Links Jeaux Janovsky on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jeauxj Support the show! My third webcomic book is now available! So three years, Then This Happened... Available now on Amazon as an interactive eBook or in Paperback  https://amzn.to/3iCp8L8

Mike Lloyd is an animator and artist living out in California. He currently makes promotional animation and more for his day job but he has also done animation shorts for comedians and also for the Netflix documentary "Behind the curve" a film about theorists who defend the belief that the Earth is flat. Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Links Mike Lloyd's website https://likemoyd.com Mike Lloyd on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mikelloydart Support the show! Check out the vintage pop-culture items available in my eBay Store https://ebay.to/2vMYStC Podcast Music by my band Lorenzo's Music , listen on Spotify https://spoti.fi/2JJF39Q

One of my favorite music sites is opening again, the Free Music Archive !  I talk with  Hessel van Oorschot from the Netherlands who's company Tribe of Noise bought the site after it was shut down a few years ago. We talk about his plans for the relaunch of this site. But we also talk about the future of art and music on the internet. How different organizations like Coil and Grant for the Web are trying to find ways to help creators, artists, and musicians build their work outside of an ad-based revenue model. This conversation isn't just for musicians it's a discussion about what the future of art on the web could be and what some of these organizations are trying right now. Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Links Free Music Archive https://freemusicarchive.org Tribe of Noise http://tribeofnoise.com Coil https://coil.com/creator Grant for the Web https://www.grantfortheweb.org Support the show! Check out the vintage pop-culture items...

Sean Chappell returns to the show to tell me about how life has been going since the last time we talked and he had just quit his job to pursue his art career full-time . Sean is an airbrush artist from Canada and has learned a lot from his experience and even switches gears a bit after starting a Kickstarter campaign to create a table-top game he invented called Honey Bomb ! Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Links Sean Chappell's artwork website Red Fracture https://redfracture.com Honey Bomb by Ramstar Games http://ramstargames.com Support the show! Check out the vintage pop-culture items available in my eBay Store https://ebay.to/2vMYStC

Awesomeness Studios is the name Marlene S. uses for all the webcomics and drawings she makes online. Awesomeness Studios has created several different series and story ideas on the webcomics website Tapas.io. We talk about how she got started, how she came up with all of her comic ideas and how she would like to go to school for art, comics, and animation. Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Links Awesomeness Studios "Doing Fine, Supine" Webcomic on Tapas https://tapas.io/series/Doing-Fine-Supine Awesomeness Studios on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/awesomeness.studios Support the show! Check out the vintage pop-culture items available in my eBay Store https://ebay.to/2vMYStC

Thann Clark is a photographer who lives in California who not only does personal artistic photos but found a way to do it professionally for an auction house. He takes pictures of older items that they sell but also gets the chance to photograph crazy Hollywood studio memorabilia! Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Links Thann Clark - Website https://www.thannclark.com Thann Clark on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thann_clark/ Support the show! Check out the vintage pop-culture items available in my eBay Store https://ebay.to/2vMYStC Podcast Music by my band Lorenzo's Music , listen on Spotify https://spoti.fi/2JJF39Q

Mark Piotrowski is an artist in Michigan who has been painting public works since high school. He also creates his own personal work painting on large custom cut aluminum sheets. Recently he's turned all of this into a business called MARKed ARTs that he runs when his teaching position is on summer vacation. Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Links Mark Piotrowski on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/markedarts Mark Piotrowski on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/markedart Mark Piotrowski on Ello https://ello.co/markedarts Support the show! Check out the vintage pop-culture items available in my eBay Store https://ebay.to/2vMYStC Podcast Music by my band Lorenzo's Music , listen on Spotify https://spoti.fi/2JJF39Q

Jessie Taylor is a painter living in New Jersey who also hosts a podcast called Dream a little dream. We talk about her artwork and how she manages to carve out time to pursue her passions while working a full-time job. Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Links Jessie Taylor's website https://www.jessietaylorpaints.com https://www.instagram.com/jessietaylorpaints Support the show!  Check out the vintage pop-culture items available in my eBay Store https://ebay.to/2vMYStC Podcast Music by my band Lorenzo's Music , listen on Spotify https://spoti.fi/2JJF39Q

Angela Puerta is a Colombian singer-songwriter and guitarist based in Madison. We talk about music, making videos and about how she also works with city planning and trying to bring a more diverse culture to music venues and festivals. Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Links Angela Puerta Music website https://www.angelapuertamusic.com Support the show! Check out the vintage pop-culture items available in my eBay Store https://ebay.to/2vMYStC Podcast Music by my band Lorenzo's Music , listen on Spotify https://spoti.fi/2JJF39Q

Mr. Hydde is a painter based in Canada in the greater Toronto area. He tells me how he went to Japan and while there got the chance to meet artists in the field of printmaking. He's done gallery shows and painted murals in different cities. He was inspired by Jean-Michel Basquiat and from that inspiration created a style he calls Low Brow. We also talk about why he goes by the name Mr. Hydde. Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Links Mr. Hydde on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mrhydde_artist Mr. Hydde website https://mrhydde.com Support the show! Check out the vintage pop-culture items available in my eBay Store https://ebay.to/2vMYStC Podcast Music by my band Lorenzo's Music , listen on Spotify https://spoti.fi/2JJF39Q

Lynda Edwards is a freelance artist who not only paints but has created an art school in the community where she lives. We talk about the interesting background of her family, her interest in expressing the history of things in her paintings and taking her art school teaching online. Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Links Lynda Edwards on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lyndaedwardsart Lynda Edwards website http://artandasanas.com Support the show! Check out the vintage pop-culture items available in my eBay Store https://ebay.to/2vMYStC Podcast Music by my band Lorenzo's Music , listen on Spotify https://spoti.fi/2JJF39Q

John Hazard & Lisa Burdige are a couple that creates the autobiographical webcomic Background Noise Comic. John spent over a decade working at Nickelodeon where he provided game design, online animation and avatar character creation for the brand website. Lisa has published short fiction, essays, and plays. She also works for agencies and has developed award-winning ideas and content strategy for top brands. We talk about creating their comics, promoting it, the experiences they've had since starting Background Noise Comic and more! Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Links Background Noise Comic on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/background_noise_comic Background Noise Comic website - https://backgroundnoisecomic.com Support the show! Check out the vintage pop-culture items available in my eBay Store - https://ebay.to/2vMYStC Podcast Music by my band Lorenzo's Music , listen on Spotify https://spoti.fi/2JJF39Q

Sophia Voelker is an artist here in Madison who is a painter but also works with mixed media using alternate material, such as joint compound, paper products, cement and layered gesso texturing in her artwork. Sophia works online under the name Black butterfly Studio . We talk about how she came to live in Madison and the process of some of the different kinds of mixed media pieces she has made. Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Links Black Butterfly Studio Website https://www.blackbutterflystudio.com Black Butterfly Studio on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/theblackbutterflystudio Support the show! Check out the vintage pop-culture items available in my eBay Store -  https://ebay.to/2vMYStC

René Gauthreaux has been creating autobiographical comics on Instagram this past year. But before that, he had gone out and tried a number of different things including starting a music zine and traveling to another town to break into the comic business. But there were things that stopped him along the way. He tells me the story about how it took really breaking down his fear of rejection to feel happy about the art he decided to make. Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Links René Gauthreaux on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arisde_art Support the show! Check out the vintage pop-culture items available in my eBay Store https://ebay.to/2vMYStC

Henrique Nardi is a Graphic Designer & Type Educator. I got the chance to meet Henrique while he was working on the Madison mural that was recently completed on Monroe street with another local artist Triangulador here in town.  Since they were working I didn't really get a chance to talk too long with Henrique, so I thought why not have him on the podcast!  We talk about other murals that he's worked on, fonts & typography as an art form, and his recent work on translating his favorite band's new book " Do What You Want: The Story of Bad Religion " to another language. Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Links Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tipocracia_ Behance: https://www.behance.net/henriquenardi Flickr (with albums of all three murals): https://www.flickr.com/photos/tipocracia/albums Otis Redding Mural making-of video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6wBzXxB2KE UW students design work: https://www.instagram....

Scott Pyburn is a person I actually met before on a previous season of the podcast . He was traveling with the Mighty-Con comic-book circuit.  While drawing at his booth and selling original artwork and custom drawings he saw that toys were really a big draw at these conventions.  After everything shut down this year and the conventions all closed he decided to try something he realized he was passionate about all along, making his own custom action figures under the brand Toyzaholiks . Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Support the podcast!  Check out the vintage pop-culture items available in my eBay Store - https://ebay.to/2vMYStC Links Toyzaholiks on Instagram -  https://www.instagram.com/toyzaholiks THE BOOTLEG IKEA TOY SHOW - https://www.slugtoys.com/ikea