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 working@slate.com 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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0:00.0	A brand new movie from the Paw Patrol is ready to launch.
0:03.8	Did he say lunch?
0:05.0	No, I said launch.
0:06.2	Ah!
0:07.6	I think we got superpowers.
0:09.6	Awesome.
0:10.4	Prepare for a movie event so enormous.
0:12.8	You're ready with the big does now!
0:14.6	Ah!
0:15.4	You'll need to see it on the biggest screen possible.
0:18.8	We're going to need a new name for ourselves.
0:20.8	How about the Paw Patrol?
0:22.2	Paw Patrol!
0:23.0	With just a little bit extra.
0:25.0	Paw Patrol, the mighty movie, in cinemas now.
0:30.4	This is meant to be an ad for the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5.
0:34.2	How it stands up perfectly on a desk for business calls
0:37.4	and has a larger cover screen for emails.
0:39.8	But we've got one in the studio,
0:41.4	so our sound engineer Brian is distracted.
0:43.8	He's not even listening, look.
0:45.4	Flannel!
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