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Growing Gills: How to Find Creative Focus When You’re Drowning in Your Daily Life

Go from overwhelmed, anxious, and stuck, to consistent, clear, and in control of your creative life.

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Out on the Wire: the Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio

Discover how the best of the best in radio and podcasting make their magic. Ira Glass, Alex Blumberg, and more.

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Trish Trash: Rollergirl of Mars

Trish “Trash” Nupindju is a talented young hoverderby player on Mars. She wants desperately to go pro but her family is going broke faster than her escape velocity.

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La Perdida

Carla heads to Mexico City with a backpack, a few hundred dollars, and a head full of preconceptions. A story about finding yourself by getting lost.

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Drawing Words and Writing Pictures

The alchemical art of combining words and pictures to make comics: go in with nothing, and come out with a finished comic in just 15 chapters.

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Mastering Comics: Drawing Words and Writing Pictures continued

Mastering Comics goes deeper and wider, introducing everything from webcomics to color, and helps the developing artist get from spark to finished work.

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Life Sucks

Life sucks when you’re a baby-faced kid in LA—broke, girlfriend-less, and stuck in a dead-end job. And when we’re talking about Dave Miller, we really mean dead-end.

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Radio: An Illustrated Guide

A collaboration with Ira Glass and This American Life, all about what happens behind the scenes at TAL and how they make their show.

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Mirror, Window

Comics short stories of young Chicagoans grappling with serious questions, such as Does she love me?, Can I stay friends with someone who has betrayed my trust?, and Can I make a life as an artist?

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Soundtrack

The best of Artbabe Volume 1, including most of the stories from the first four (minicomics) issues, long out of print, and Vol 1 #5, the issue for which I won a Xeric grant.