508 - The Real Magic of Finding Your Creative Voice with Brian Selznick

Creative Pep Talk

Education, Business, Arts, Design

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🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Feeling lost on the creative journey? Download our 7 step Creative Career Path Handbooklet for FREE by signing up to our newsletter. --- How do truly embed yourself into your work? Today on the show, we have a creative master who has done this at the highest level. In this episode, Caldecott winning author illustrator Brian Selznick joins me to discuss his new book “Run Away with Me”. We deconstruct the elements that make this book both a quintessential piece of work for Selznick, and also an evolution of his creative voice. If you want to develop a deeper sense of yourself in the work and find your place amongst the timeline of your creative hero's. This episode is for you! SHOW NOTES: Brian Selznickhttps://brianselznick.com https://www.runawaywithmethebook.com Maurice Sendakhttps://www.mauricesendak.com A Page is a Door by Remy Charliphttps://www.theinventionofhugocabret.com/remy_essay.htm Co-Writing / Editing: Sophie Miller http://sophiemiller.coAudio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones http://pendingbeautiful.coSoundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? http://whywithaquestionmark.com SPONSORS:SQUARESPACEHead to https://www.squarespace.com/PEPTALK to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code PEPTALK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	on the creative journey it's easy to get lost but don't worry you'll lift off sometimes you just need
0:12.7	a creative pepsa up is it just me or did you get serious about making stuff partially because you loved
0:27.4	creative work that just had a really strong sense of creative voice?
0:33.3	Like that was a huge driver for me.
0:35.1	I just became so obsessed with that feeling that you get when you encounter art
0:42.4	that feels like meeting a person on a deeper level than you can feel when you meet someone
0:49.1	just face to face.
0:50.6	Like, I wanted to figure out how to do that.
0:53.4	If you want to figure out how to do that. If you want to figure out how to do that, today is a good day for you because today on
1:00.3	the show we have someone who I think has an incredibly powerful sense of creative voice
1:05.9	and it's Caldecott winning author and illustrator Brian Selsnick.
1:10.5	You might know Brian Selsnick's work from books like the invention of Hugo Cabray,
1:16.3	which became the movie Hugo,
1:17.9	or some of his other books like Wonderstruck, The Marvel's Collideroscope, and many, many more.
1:23.9	It's a complete honor to get to speak to Brian as a big fan of his work.
1:28.5	And on today's episode, we discuss his new book.
1:32.1	And we kind of use it as a specimen to explore who he is as an artist, how he developed
1:38.8	this very unique and authentic way of working that also continues to grow throughout his creative journey.
1:46.9	His new book, Run Away with me, is a YA illustrated novel, and it's about two teenage boys
1:53.9	falling in love in Rome.
1:55.6	And I love the book, and I think this conversation has so many different takeaways for people that want to
2:04.7	develop their creative voice or get a stronger sense of that in their work. Because this is just
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