The Root Cellar

Adam Meuse has been creating independent comics for 20 years. His two self-published books, Social Insect and Taking Up Space, were recognized in Best American Comics 2010 and 2019. His self-published mini-comic Sad Animals sold over 10,000 copies. You're Garbage Fired, a collection of post-2016 presidential election sketchbook pages was published by Birdcage Bottom Books in 2018. His illustrations also appeared in the 2017 Philip K. Dick award-winning novel The Mercy Journals by Claudia Casper. I hope you enjoy our conversation. If you do, please share it with a friend.

Alex Kuno is a full-time artist and illustrator living and working in Lowertown, Saint Paul, Minnesota. His work has been exhibited in galleries around the United States, Rome and Milan, profiled on mnoriginal.org, hifructose.com, Vice.com and juxtapoz.com and he maintains a growing list of commission clients and private collectors around the world.Recently, Alex graciously agreed to talk with me about his work. If you're not familiar with Alex's work, I recommend looking him up on Etsy at AlexKunoArtwork or on Instagram @AlexKuno before listening. I hope you enjoy our conversation.

Max McKerlie is a Toronto-based artist focused on costume design and illustration. Through video and performance, Max has created a group of characters including Pastiché the Quilted Clown, Bisou the Soft Touch Clown, Luno the Moonbeam Clown, Babbetto the Pranking Potential Clown, Ashputtle the Peal and Peridot Clown, and Spirallo the Dizzy Clown that move through a cold and at times hostile world. If you’re not yet familiar with Max’s work, I recommend watching Tiptoe of the Patchwork Pierrot and visiting maxmckerlie_art. I hope you enjoy our conversation. If you do, please share it with a friend.

Charlotte Whiteley, an Alaska-born artist, works from her studio in Portugal with the narrative possibilities of masks. Learn more about her and her work at https://therootcellar.substack.com Once there, you can also subscribe to get episodes early and find the written conversations with artists, musicians, and writers from around the world.

Episode 4: Christine Pfister is a stop-motion animator and horror director whose shorts and music videos have won Best Horror Short at the London Shorts Film Festival and been named official selections at the Bucharest Shortcut Cinefest and Final Girls Berlin Film Festival. Her prop fabrications have been commissioned for Season Three of M. Night Shyamalan's series 'Servant'.  A world builder with a keen sense of horror, humor, and the mystical aspects of the human condition, Christine graciously invited me to her studio in upstate New York recently. Before you listen to our conversation, you can learn more about her work and see her shorts at: http://www.christinepfister.comPodcast music by Too Hands, learn more at https://toohands.bandcamp.com.

Episode 3: Alexander speaks with ceramicist Esther Clark.  Find Esther's work at https://estherclarkceramics.comPodcast music by Too Hands, learn more at https://toohands.bandcamp.com.