25 - Ashley Hartley
This Pint Has 20 Ounces
English - December 20, 2019 08:00 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBComedy Society & Culture alberta beer craft beer brewery community arts comedy calgary beer sports Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Ashley Hartley joins us this episode to tell us about her role Director of Marketing with the Panel One Comics Society, and how this Calgary based not for profit that was founded over a tweet celebrates Canadian comic creators and graphic storytellers.
Panel One started in Calgary five years ago, but today has 175 members spanning across Canada. What began with a single tweet suggesting the idea of hosting a festival for Canadian comic creators has become a resource for support, networking, and professional development for colonists, letterers, artists, cartoonists, and writers. Some of those roles involved in creating comics are obvious, but some others were a bit of a mystery, so as a letterer herself she gives us an inside peek at a process that can range from just one person sitting down to create a comic by hand to entire teams of people, each contributing at a different step of the process.
Ashley believes that comics are for everyone, and this storytelling medium isn’t just engaging for readers, but for the creators too. Comics are an accessible way to create art and a great way to be a story teller because there are no rules in comics - ANYTHING can be a comic! We also find out which Canadian comic creators Ashley has her eye on, as well as discover a longtime connection between Ashley and Jonathan.
Later in the show we sit down with Mama T to find out about her don’t-call-it-christmas plans, and Jonathan & Josh talk about the guys who have a story for everything.
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