The Eisner Award nominations were announced, and there’s a lot to talk about! Then it’s on to questions from out Patreon backers. In a social-media landscape that favors branding the creators themselves over their creations, it it OK to have a pen name? And what’s the best approach to warm-up sketches?

BUT FIRST… Brad hit a monster pothole on a winding Philadelphia thoroughfare, rupturing the tire, forcing him to pull over on a road with no shoulder and wait for AAA Roadside Assistance for over an hour as cars swerved around the curve, narrowly missing collision after collision.

And it was his in-laws’ car.

Show notes

• 0:00 — Brad hits a pothole in his in-laws’ car
• 10:56 — There are now 5½ hours of ProTips!
• 13:02 — Dave’s recording in his closet. And getting no respect.
• 13:51 — mini-review — the Orbi mesh wifi system
• 15:13 — Drunk ComicLab is coming!
• 17:35 — Brad does a podcast and gets interrupted repeatedly.
• 18:47 — Eisner Award nominations
• 33:33 — The Hugo Awards
• 35:41 — Warm-up sketches
• 38:00 — Doing pencilling/sketches in multiple layers
• 47:50 — Are pen names poison on social media?