NOTES FROM SAW

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The Terrible Anvil, Podcast Meg Lentz The Terrible Anvil, Podcast Meg Lentz

SELL THE PIANO: HOW TO MAKE COMICS FOREVER!

Our very last episode of The Terrible Anvil (Season One) was recorded this week! With Tom and Jess together in the same room!

We tried to tie a bow around the business of comics by offering ideas on HOW TO KEEP GOING (FOREVER), AKA making your own sustainable comics practice amidst inner/outer turmoil and also remembering to wash the dishes.

A big takeaway from this episode: CELEBRATE SMALL WINS!

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Tom's Thoughts, Process Tom Hart Tom's Thoughts, Process Tom Hart

Giving ourselves gifts in 2021

Like all of us, I need to get through the resistance some times. I over-think everything. I don't know my own voice. I'm adhering to someone else's standards. And I'm afraid of what everyone will think if I fail, and I know I will fail.

One way out of this is to produce work, lots of work, and to damn the torpedoes as far as the critical voice goes. (We can use our critical voice later, when we need a dialogue about who we are, what our style is, what we want to say...)

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