Working: Cartoonist Dami Lee on Freelancing, Pitching, and Generating Ideas

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🗓️ 7 November 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week, in her first episode as co-host of Working, Karen Han interviews cartoonist Dami Lee. In the interview, Dami talks about her resistance to art school and her early strategy of pursuing art “on the side.” Then she discusses her current career as a freelance cartoonist, her webcomic As Per Usual, and her book Be Everything at Once: Tales of a Cartoonist Lady Person. After the interview, Karen and co-host Isaac Butler discuss the difficulties of pitching work as a freelancer. In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, Dami talks about her work translating comics from Korean to English. Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to [email protected] or give us a call at (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Big Mood, Little Mood—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now at slate.com/workingplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.7	Ooh, macadies, give us a fry.
0:32.7	Help yourself.
0:33.5	Why? What?
0:34.3	I've won, Dad.
0:35.2	They were free.
0:36.0	Free fries, huh?
0:36.9	Signed up for rewards on them at Donald's app.
0:38.8	But Donald's have a reward scoop.
0:40.4	Yes, and an app is a thing you get on your phone when you don't want to.
0:43.4	Okay, thank you.
0:44.5	I'm having another one for that.
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1:05.6	Basically, like, everything I know I learned from YouTube,
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