comics – Mike Thorn

Listen to Craftwork Episode 33: Writers’ Workshops, Artists’ Sketchbooks, & the Chaos of Memory w/ Emil Wilson

In this interview, we chat with Emil Wilson about creative freedom, visual communication, character transformation, and so much more.

is an award-winning art director, illustrator, and artist whose creative work has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, as well as on NPR, the Oscars, and during the Super Bowl. He is based in San Francisco.

Books and stories mentioned in this episode:

Either/Or; The Idiot — Elif Batuman
Helter Skelter — Vincent Bugliosi & Curt Gentry
Great Expectations — Charles Dickens
Carrie; Pet Sematary — Stephen King
The Executioner’s Song — Norman Mailer
The Thorn Birds — Colleen McCullough
Centennial — James A. Michener
Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt — Ben Reeves
Sophie’s Choice — William Styron
War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy
How to Write a Novel in 20 Pies — Amy Wallen (with illustrations by Emil Wilson)

On the first episode of Craftwork, guest Meghan Kemp-Gee talks about poetry, screenwriting, comics, and so much more.

Meghan is the author of The Animal in the Room (Coach House Books, 2023), as well as three poetry chapbooks, What I Meant to Ask, Things to Buy in New Brunswick, and More. She also co-created the webcomic Contested Strip, recently adapted as a graphic novel, One More Year. She is a PhD candidate at UNB and currently lives in North Vancouver BC.

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Books mentioned in this episode:

The Writing Moment: A Practical Guide to Creating Poems – Daniel Scott Tysdal
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
The Artist’s Way – Julia Cameron
Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott
20th Century Men – Deniz Camp, Stipan Morian, & Aditya Bidikar
The Adversary – Michael Crummey

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Craftwork Episode 33: Writers’ Workshops, Artists’ Sketchbooks, & the Chaos of Memory w/ Emil Wilson

Craftwork S1E1: Persona Poems, Metacognition, & Vancouver Island Marmots w/ Meghan Kemp-Gee