Nidhi Chanani

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Music, Performing Arts, Arts

4.9 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Wheels Off, illustrator and author Nidhi Chanani joins Rhett from her home in San Francisco to talk about the creative projects that she’s currently working on, and her career as an artist. You’ll hear Nidhi talk about the inspiration behind her new graphic novel Jukebox, why freelance work suits her artistic style and allows her to balance multiple projects at once, the connection between art and nature, and much more. Nidhi shares the story of how she untethered herself from her academically regimented adolescence, and when she realized that being an artist was a viable career path. Nidhi Chanani is a freelance artist, author, and illustrator from Kolkata, India. She moved to Southern California when she was 4 months old, and received her degree in literature from the UC Santa Cruz. After that she attended art school for a year and a half, but dropped out after feeling artistically limited by instruction methods. She’s gone on to illustrate and author a multitude of children's books, many of which depict everyday familial problems and showcase female characters of color dealing with issues of identity. Her inspiring and empowering work has won her several awards, and earned her a Netflix adaptation of her best selling graphic novel Pashmina. Her most recent book, Jukebox, is available here. She also created a Jukebox Playlist for the episode, which you can listen to on Spotify. Wheels Off is brought to you by Osiris Media. Hosted and produced by Rhett Miller. Co-produced by Kirsten Cluthe in partnership with Nick Ruffini (Revoice Media). Editing by Justin Thomas. Production Assistance by Matt Bavuso. Music by OLD 97’s. Episode artwork by Katherine Boils. Show logo by Tim Skirven. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	O'SIrhus.
0:03.5	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:08.8	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:10.4	That's when it got wheels off.
0:13.0	We started up and we ain't going to starve.
0:16.6	I like you.
0:17.6	Like it or not.
0:19.1	That's where they got wheels off.
0:24.6	Niddy Chanani is a freelance illustrator.
0:28.1	She's a cartoonist.
0:29.6	She's a writer, a graphic novelist.
0:33.6	She joins me and us from her home in the San Francisco Bay area.
0:43.5	And she's just so great.
0:48.8	It's easy for me to talk to musicians, I guess, because music is what I've devoted my life to specifically.
0:56.5	I get nervous when I talk to musicians from other disciplines because they seem so foreign to me.
1:03.9	And what I always find is that those disciplines aren't as foreign as I had imagined.
1:12.3	So what Niddy does in her graphic novels and in her writing, even in her illustration,
1:20.0	is degrees removed from what I do, from what the other wheels offoff guests from the last couple of years do.
1:30.8	When we talk about it in this conversation, we make something out of nothing.
1:36.7	We try to create something beautiful and give it to the world.
1:41.5	And to my mind, and this isn't self-aggrandizing, this is, in this case,
1:48.3	Niti-chanani aggrandizing, in my mind, that's a pretty noble thing. I mean, it makes
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