Episode 301 – Kriota Willberg

Virtual Memories Show 301:
Kriota Willberg – Live at CXC!

“If you can understand the skeleton, you can figure pretty much everything else out.”

Recorded live at Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) in 2018, Kriota Willberg returns to the podcast to talk about the origins of her new book, Draw Stronger: Self-Care For Cartoonists & Visual Artists (Uncivilized Books). We get into her work in the Graphic Medicine field, learning to see beneath the skin, the graphic novel she’s working on about Galen and the process of stitching people up, her best practices for festivals and conventions, the myth of the wandering uterus, and why cartoonists need to think (and train) like athletes! Plus: My New Year’s Resolutions! Give it a listen! And go buy Draw Stronger: Self-Care For Cartoonists and Other Visual Artists!

“I can see what people look like without their skin.”

“Posture is important: If you’re just taking care of yourself from elbow down, that may not fix things.”

Enjoy the conversation! Then check out the archives for more great episodes!

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About our Guest

Cartoonist Kriota Willberg draws from decades of experience as a massage therapist and educator in health sciences and the arts, creating a comprehensive guide to injury prevention for cartoonists. Her comics appear in The Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, Comics For Choice, and The Graphic Canon. She is at work on her first full-length graphic novel. Kriota is the first-ever artist-in-residence at the New York Academy of Medicine Library.

Credits: This episode’s music is Fella by Hal Mayforth, used with permission from the artist. The conversation was recorded at the Columbus Public Library on a pair of Blue enCORE 200 Microphones feeding into a Zoom H5 digital recorder. I recorded the intro and outro on a Heil PR-40 Dynamic Studio Recording Microphone feeding into a Cloudlifter CL-1 and a Mackie Onyx Blackjack 2×2 USB Recording Interface. All processing and editing done in Adobe Audition CC. Photo of Kriota by me from our earlier episode. It’s on my instagram.

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