Episode 022 ✿ Comics, Playwriting, and the Creative Path ft. Lily Rushing (goofwench)

For this episode I spoke with Lily Rushing (@goofwench) about her creative practice as a comic artist and more!

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Topics discussed:

-LIly introduces herself

-Joining theater as a child who didn’t talk much

-Creativity as a tool for communication

-Lily’s experience at a theater conservatory, studying playwriting in Chicago

-How Lily got into comics

-Beer’s Books

-Black is the Color by Julia Gfrörer 

-Going to the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo 

-Tara Booth

-Copying other artists’ style initially

-Lynda Barry

-Ernie Pooks Comeek by Lynda Barry

-Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller

-The Hernandez Brothers

-Vanessa Davis

-Quimby’s

-Her outlook on her career and school while she was a theater student

-Focusing on your art practice as your path instead of what it may get you

-Being a multi-disciplinary artist

-The connection between art and everything in Lily’s life

-The evolution of Lily’s style and voice

-Make Me a Woman and Spaniel Rage by Vanessa Davis

-Lisa Hanawalt

-Bianca Xuniz

-Six Chix

-Lily’s character Spikewench

-GutterBoys podcast episode with Jasper Jubenvill

-Switching from gouache to pen and ink

-Relinquishing control creatively

-Creating a lot of work

-Balancing her creative practice with her day job and personal life

-Being on unemployment during the pandemic and developing her style

-Lily’s process for creating comics

-Inking and coloring before choosing the words

-Lily’s experience selling prints, stickers, etc.

-Calico Critters and Sylvanian Drama on Tik Tok 

-Tik Tok and Instagram

-Lily’s dream projects and goals-beings syndicated, zines and more

-What Lily does for fun- “local behavior”, bike-riding, hanging out, etc.

Lily's instagram and TikTok

Lily's shop

Lily's Play "Desert Stories for Lost Girls" in Los Angeles Sept 28-Oct 16

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