Loading
Showing posts with label artist interview. Show all posts
Showing posts with label artist interview. Show all posts

10 Questions with Jenny of Ork Posters

Posted: 1/09/2015
Jenny Beorkrem makes striking visual art that takes inspiration for geography and looks great on your wall. We had a chance to ask her a few questions about the origin of Ork Posters, and how she's grown her business.

First off, can you tell us about your business and what you offer?
Ork Posters offers typographic city neighborhood maps that are produced as wall art.
How long has Ork Posters been around?
I started the business in 2007.
What is the origin story for your business?
I’m a graphic designer and was working at a small design firm. I had seen other more traditional neighborhood maps and was looking for one that was more my style, simplified and modern, of my


Read more...
, , , , , , , , , , , | edit post

Ten Questions with Cartoonist Josh Sortelli

Posted: 10/03/2014


A few weeks back I talked with award-winning web cartoonist Josh Sortelli - the creator of "No Scrying" and "Elf Only Inn". We delved into his creative process, found out what's next, and even got some recommendations. 

 Willy of E-Junkie: I guess the first question would be what made you to decide to do a web comic when you started "Elf Only Inn" in 2002?
Josh Sortelli: This is going to sound like a joke answer but it is not: When I saw how bad the first wave of webcomics were I realized that any idiot could do it. That is still true today, there is absolutely no barrier to making comics online except for making comics online, but back then the major player was Keenspot and I was reading a comic called Fat Jesus and decided to take some ridiculous scribbles and use it to rant about chatroom roleplaying. I put a very small amount of effort into the first strips I made and I was certain that someday I would be on Keenspot too. And that actually happened.

Read more...
, , , , , , | edit post