Hi everyone, Quilett Podcast Host Jonathan Kaye here, with a reminder that we have a new

podcast called Quilett Narrated. This is the podcast that presents selected Quilett articles in an unabridged spoken word format.

It's on its own separate podcast feed, so if this interests you,

please look for Quilett narrated on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

What follows is a sample of the kind of fare you can expect at Colette narrated.

This selection is Don't let cancellation become banal. by artist, animator, and podcaster, Nina Paley, which was

published at Quillette on March 27, 2023.

This past winter, I made my first comic book in 30 years titled Agents of Hag.

I crowdfunded it on Indigoco, raised 150% of its modest $1,000 goal,

and ordered a few hundred copies to be printed.

But before I could access the funds to pay the printer, Indigogo retroactively canceled

the campaign and refunded all the backers. There was no explanation provided, no appeal process, and no recourse.

As a form of protest I made compliance comics, the same panels and voice balloons, scrubbed of characters and words essentially an empty comic book that complies 100% with Indie Gokos' terms of service.

I've been making art professionally since I was a teenager. I have drawn two

internationally syndicated comic strips, a self-syndicated weekly strip, and

multiple published comic books. In 1998, I started making animated short films,

which screened at countless film festivals,

including Sundance.

In 2006, I was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship while working on my first animated feature film, CETA Sing's the Blues, which went on to win several dozen awards internationally and a 100% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

I taught animation at Parsons School of Design

and became a popular guest lecturer at universities worldwide

where I spoke to students of art, religious studies, and law alike.

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