Paper Cuts

Guest: Curt Gettman Host:   Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on July 15, 2026 Curt Gettman is the co-founder, editor, and former publisher of Unicorn Mountain , an independent Pittsburgh-based lit/comics/music anthology series and artist collective. Over the past twenty years he has worked in public art, arts administration, and cultural planning, including serving as a Senior Public Art Project M...

Guests: Will Arnold and Tate Foley Host:   Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on July 24, 2026 Will Arnold received his MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he now manages the student labs and studios at the School of Art & Design. Will is the co-founder of Work Press & Publication , a Risograph-based zine and artist book self-publishing venture. He is also an organ...

Guest: Sara Century Host:   Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on June 23, 2026 Sara Century is one of the creators of The Forgotten Five , a sort of superhero comic now available to order through Image, as well as the author of the horror anthology A Small Light & Other Stories through Weirdpunk Books. She has written a number of zines, including film zines about the Scream franchise, lesbian v...

Guest: Mark Lindblom Host:   Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on July 27, 2026 at the 2026 StoryBox Comics Fair in Silver Spring, MD Mark Lindblom is a cartoonist, illustrator, and editor based in Washington, DC. Originally from Wisconsin, he came up in broadcasting, working in nonprofit media with organizations including NPR, PBS, and C-SPAN, before trading the airwaves for ink and paper and plan...

Guest: Helen Frederick Host:   Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on June 24, 2026 at Reading Road Studio in Silver Spring, MD. Helen Frederick is recognized as a distinguished artist, curator, educator, coordinator of international projects, and as founder of Pyramid Atlantic, a center for contemporary printmaking, hand papermaking and the art of the book. As an advocate for and an active participa...

Guest: Darin Klein Host:   Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on July 8 and July 20, 2026 Darin Klein is an arts programmer and curator, and the creator of over 100 solo and collaborative zines and artists’ publications. His various projects have been presented at venues including Amy Adler’s Echo Park Studio, &Pens, Bitches Rule, The Broad, Commonwealth & Council, For Your Art, Hammer Museu...

Guest: Taylor Yates Host:   Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on June 12, 2026 Taylor Yates is an associate therapist, astrologer, and artist exploring symbols and mythology as tools to rewire narratives. she is the creator of the tarot deck PORTALS and editor-in-chief of feminist memoir magazine Selfish. Taylor has a Master's in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University and is certified w...

Guest: Kyle Quinn Host:   Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on May 20, 2026 Raw Meat is an independent publishing house, art gallery, and bookstore based in Chinatown, New York. The project was founded in 2015 by artist Kyle Quinn , who continues to run the collective today. Raw Meat works with a wide range of established and emerging contemporary artists across mediums including photography, paint...

Guests: Diana H. Chu and Benjamin Grzenia Host:   Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on May 4, 2026 Artists Diana H. Chu and Benjamin Grzenia launched BearBear as a self-publishing risograph studio in Milwaukee, WI. BearBear celebrates the intersection between what we put on our tables, where we call home, and who we gather with. Since 2019, BearBear has taught fellow artists about riso, hosted mont...

Guest: Sarula Bao Host:   Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on March 6, 2026 Sarula Bao is an illustrator, zine maker, and community organizer. She directs a small press and programming initiative, Endless Editions , as well as the Brooklyn Art Book Fair (BKABF). Her primary goals and practice are community building by removing barriers of entry for artists, fostering connections and providing spac...

Guests: Eva Parra and Camilo Otero Host:   Christopher Kardambikis Recorded at the Center for Book Arts in New York City on February 20, 2026 Calipso Press is an independent publishing project founded by Eva Parra and Camilo Otero. What began as a small experiment between friends in Madrid found its shape in Cali, Colombia, where Calipso became a space for making books and building community. Toda...

Guest: Paul John Host:   Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on December 11, 2023 and March 12, 2026 This episodes contains two conversations years apart. Paul John (he/him) is an artist, community organizer, photographer, and educator. His work is to connect people and create community via resource sharing, bookmaking, hosting events, and institution building. Paul cofounded Endless Editions and the...

Guest: Caroline Kern Host:   Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on March 2, 2026 Caroline Kern , formerly known as Caroline Paquita, is a visual artist living in New York City. Kern has been self-publishing since 1996 and formally started Pegacorn Press after purchasing her first Risograph stencil duplicator in 2009. Since then, she has released over forty artist books, zines, publications, and prin...

Guests: Christina and Courtney Long Host:   Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on March 11, 2024 and May 8, 2026 This episodes contains two conversations recorded two years apart. #Blkgrlswurld ZINE is an award-winning indie publishing house based in New York City. Led by Christina Long, MFA (Global Creative Director) and her younger sister Courtney Long (Senior Editor), since 2014. The press celebr...

Guests: Jalen Thomas and Chris Metzger Host:   Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on February 27, 2026 This is the third of three episodes focusing on the recent publication: Even the Score , guest edited by Lindsay Buchman and published by Homie House Press . Jalen Thomas is an interdisciplinary artist from Prince George’s County, MD. Her work combines photography, quilting, and design to examine B...

Guests: Lindsay Buchman and Heather Raquel Phillips Host:   Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on March 20, 2026 This is the second of three episodes focusing on the recent publication: Even the Score , guest edited by Lindsay Buchman and published by Homie House Press . Lindsay Buchman is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and publisher based in New York (NY) and Philadelphia (PA), whose work exp...

Guests: Adriana Monsalve and Unique Robinson Host:   Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on February 6, 2026 in Takoma Park, MD This is the first of three episodes focusing on the recent publication: Even the Score , guest edited by Lindsay Buchman and published by Homie House Press . Adriana Monsalve – (they/she) is an artist, educator, cultural worker and collaborative publisher working (mostly) in...

Guest: Jake Nussbaum Host:   Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on December 11, 2025 Jake Nussbaum is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, and scholar. He works and researches in the intersections of creative practice and political organizing. The creative methods Jake uses emerge from the questions he asks with his  collaborators and community. In the past he has made art books, pirate radio stati...

Guest: Mary Tremonte Host:   Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on November 7, 2025 Mary Tremonte is an artist, activist, educator, and DJ based in Pittsburgh. A founding member of Justseeds Artists' Cooperative , a decentralized cooperative of social movement printmakers, she works with "printmaking in the expanded field," including printstallation, interactive silkscreen printing in...

Guests: Caterina Ragg and Adriana Monsalve Host:   Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on September 18, 2025 in Takoma Park, MD Caterina Ragg is a photographer, photo editor, designer, and cat lover based in Milan, Italy. Currently, her focus is on curating visual content and strategies, managing archives, and producing impactful editorial designs for diverse clients. She likes the 90s aesthetic, spi...

Elizabeth Ajunwa is a DC-based art librarian and memory worker. She currently serves as the Director of the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center at the National Museum of Women in the Arts . As Library Director, she oversees a collection of over 25,000 books and archival resources including zines and artists' books.  Elizabeth's journey in the library field began in public librari...

The start of our final season! Adam Griffiths is a cartoonist and arts administrator based in the Washington, DC area. He received his BA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and has also continued education at the Center for Cartooning Studies in White River Junction VT, where he took classes and received a BIPOC Scholarship.  Between exhibiting his art at various DMV region ga...

Guest: Athena Naylor Hosts:   Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis Recorded on December 02, 2023 Athena Naylor Athena Naylor grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and now lives and works in Washington, D.C. She specializes in autobiographical comics and illustration. Her work has been featured in Nat. Brut and The Washington Post, and in 2021 she received an Honorable Mention for the Chicago Alte...

Guest: Stephanie McDevitt and Janene Scelza Host:  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on October 18, 2023 Girls, on Film Girls, on Film was founded in December 2017 by long-time friends Stephanie McDevitt and Janene Scelza (pronounced Skell-za). Girls, on Film is a quarterly zine about 80s films. For each issue, we discuss eight 80s movies related to a particular theme. We are currently a group of f...

Guests : Erin Mallea and Paper Buck of Tree News , Bekezela Mguni of the Black Unicorn Library and Archive Project , and Adriana Monsalve of Homie House Press. Host :  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on September 9, 2023 at the Carnegie Museum of Art Erin Mallea is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the past and present of particular microcosms as entry points into larger environmental, social,...