Pixels & Panels: A Show About Digital Storytelling

This week, we were joined by our interns Bee, Mike, and Reni, who were a part of Glow's inaugural summer 2024 internship class. They did an incredible job coming up with 3 amazing visual novel games in a matter of weeks, and we sat down with them to talk about how the internship went and what their experience was. Follow them and Glow on social: @ glowartcompany @ sketchi_bee @ mzo.art @ rosy....

This week we chat with Meki, the creator of Teddy & Bear on Tapas! She's an amazing guest and an even better storyteller (both on the pod and at telling comics, heh) and we know you'll love listening to her! Follow Meki's work: https://tapas.io/series/Teddy--Bear/info

We chat with 66 of City of Blank this week! Follow us on Instagram. Follow 66 on Instagram.

Today's chat is with the lovely Nick Seluk, the creator of The Awkward Yeti. We chat everything from his foray into comics, the earliest days of the comic before it become the mega title it is today, and how he continues to adapt around the always-changing industry. Follow Nick on IG Follow Us on IG

Hello beloved listener. We're SO excited to be back for another season! We're joined this episode by Ksenia, who works with both Chapters and Spotlight to make engaging interactive stories. Ksenia tells us about how they work, why they're such a big business, and what you can do to create the next hit series in this format.

Hi everybody, we have a special episode today, where we’re joined by the executive team at Tapas Media, one of the largest webcomic publishing platforms globally. Michael Son is the VP of Content and works closely on the studio side and turning webcomics into tv and film adaptations, and Isabell Castro is a creator-turned-community-director who focuses on making Tapas a great home for its creators...

Hi everybody, we’re joined today by Madamka, the massively talented Hungarian creator behind the webtoon canvas series Diamond Dive. We had a great time unpacking Madamka’s story, learning about how working on Diamond Dive has led to her learning more about herself, how fragments of her personality as it developed over the years are sprinkled in throughout her characters, a special tier that she h...

Hi everybody, we’re joined today by Aki, the trilingual creator behind the webtoon canvas series Villainess for Hire. She has lived in China, Canada, and Japan, and is no stranger to making comics that elicit deep thought and emotion, like her viral short comic Nine Lives you might have come across on Tumbler in the past. It was a blast to unpack Aki’s story, learning about how her knowledge of Ea...

Hi everybody, we’re joined today by Alissa, the German creator behind the webtoon canvas series To Be Honest. The story follows Leon as he lands in an orphanage and finds himself roommates with Gilbert, the most hated kid in Leon’s new school.   We had a great time learning about Alissa’s story, from her professional work in animation and how it has impacted her comic, to her passion for her story...

We’re joined today by Mae, the creator behind the webtoon canvas series First Ones Out. The story follows a cast of six soon-to-separate friends in their last few months of high school in Bangkok, a time we can all recall as hectic and a bit scary to internalize. It was a blast talking through Mae’s story, learning about how she carved out a path forward in art by getting a scholarship to animatio...

Hi everybody, we’re joined today by Bang Grim, the creator behind the Webcomic adaptation of the iconic Wattpad series, Play the Game. We had a great time unpacking Bang’s story. We learn about her gorgeous art style and what influenced it, unearth the backstory behind adapting an existing written hit series and getting the original creator excited about the adaptation, and discuss how she manages...

Hi everybody, we’re joined today by Uche, the creator behind the wildly hilarious Webtoon Original, Vibe Check. And as personal updates, Akhil has been traveling across the world and I’ve been relocating cross country so we appreciate everyone’s patience as we’ve been away the past few weeks. But we have so many amazing episodes in the queue so we’re excited to be back.   We had a lot of fun unpac...

Hello everybody, we’re joined today by Professor Scott, the co-creator behind the new fantasy webcomic FAIRHOME. We had a lot of fun unpacking Scott’s story, whose comic FAIRHOME has been over 15 years in the making. We chatted about him working with multiple illustrators before finding the incredible Damian who illustrates Fairhome in the current style, learn about how his investment into LOST an...

Hello everybody, we’re joined today by Izy, the creator behind the BL webcomic REEDS. We had a really insightful discussion with Izy, and to preview the episode, Izy talks about his love for visual storytelling and how it has led him down the path of creating comics, discusses the ongoing research he’s done to create an accurate representation of Hmong people and what it’s like to see so many peop...

Hi everyone! We have a very special episode for you today. After many months of begging and persistance, our hard work paid off and we're pleased to bring you Steph Yeoh, the creator of Reunion on our pod. Her series has been one of the scintillating stars of Webtoon, rocketing to over a million subs in less than a year, and cementing its place as the one of the most successful Originals series la...

We’re joined today by Mina, who creates the webcomic GEN Z on Webtoon Canvas. In the story, we get to watch four members of the band ‘Gen Z’ Akira, Moon, Zuke, and Avian chaotically living together as they come of age. We’re excited to share the conversation with had with Mina, where we discussed topics such as design and fashion inspirations for the distinct and well-dressed characters she’s crea...

Hey everybody, we’re joined today by Kris Nguyen, whose work Cape of Spirits won the 2018 Webtoon Discover contest. She currently produces Fictional Skin for Webtoon Originals, a drama series told from the view of Finn, a closeted nerd who loves drawing comics and his cousin Vivi, an outgoing student who jarringly finds that the new guy at school is just like a character out of a video game, and m...

Hey listener, today’s guest is Sarah, an outstanding animation student who also produces a warm princess story called The Princess Plot on Webtoon Canvas. This enthralling series is about a princess who wants to experience freedom for just a bit longer ahead of her upcoming marriage to a prince she’s never met before, and the princess’ maid who finds that pretending to be someone you’ve known all...

We have two guests we’re delighted to present, a veteran novelist and comic creator mccull, and her jovial editor rowdy. We’re excited to talk about their current BL comic The Leg Less Traveled, where we follow Fletch and Judas’ cross-country roadtrip and the music, the diversity, and the romance they find along the way. We’ll learn about the friendship mccull and rowdy cultivated over the years,...

Today’s guest is Robin, a supremely talented 21 year old art college student. We’re excited to share with you the story behind their QL webcomic Chainlinked, where we follow the sometimes awkward but always heartwarming encounters between the lead characters Danny and Hunter .   We’ll chat about the genesis of Chainlinked and why it was important for Robin to portray happy representation of queer...

Today’s guest is Secret Pie, a creator of many talents, including entomology, making music, and of course making comics. We’re excited to share with you the story behind her offbeat webcomic Broccoli Soup, where we follow a young Broccoli’s life in a void with their best friend Doris.   We’ll chat about her dynamic and unforgettable art style (which makes you feel like you’re in a new art exhibiti...

Today’s guests are Laundromat & Lawnmower, two talented sisters behind one of my personal favorite webcomics, Poor People Go to Hell. In this gripping fantasy webcomic, we follow our protagonist Agnes’ pursuit of the truth as she investigates the sudden disappearance of her parents and the mysterious cult that may be behind it all.   We’ll learn about how their mad scientist-turned writer keep...

We’re joined today by Cecilia, a talented creator and animator based in Canada. Her current comic, Lemon Soda & Coffee is a heartwarming romance where the lead character Axel falls in love with a stranger he runs into in a street, and against all odds, serendipitously becomes her new neighbor. We discuss her foray into comics starting from growing up in Hungary to attending animation school in...

Today’s guest is Soy, a rising creator from Hong Kong. She’s the genius behind the comic Stare Down, where a seemingly innocuous stare down turns into a fun romance between two high school students. We discuss her foray into comics, and her interesting methods for character design, such as reverse engineering from myers briggs personality types. Having grown her comic on Canvas to nearly 200,000 s...

Today’s guest is Xhioqi, a young, talented creator from the Philippines. Her lead comic, The Onion Villainess, follows the story of a high schooler who one day wakes up as the tragic character from the novel she was reading, a villainous empress who was killed by her own kin. We talk about her foray into comics, from initially using art as an escape, to disproving the notion that readers wouldn’t...