You don’t have to be famous to be interesting. Everyone is interesting. Everyone has a story. I want to draw out the stories of ordinary people to highlight that fame isn’t what makes a person interesting—life is. Ordinary: regular people. Chaos: because that’s how life rolls, it seems. Stories that resonate, stories that inspire, stories of ordinary, as told by people of nearly any age, hosted by Heat and Rocket Kid. We have four threads in Ordinary Chaos: 1: Heat talks with a not-famous artist 2: Heat talks with a regular ol‘ not-famous person 3: Heat talks with Rocket Kid, her elementary-aged son 4: Rocket Kid talks with a guest Go to ordinarychaospodcast.com for links, show notes, and more.
Episodes
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
0:29 Mike Ciccotello—children’s book author and illustrator
3:57 How did you get into children’s books?
8:25 In the “new world” that opened up, what surprised you the most?
11:04 How much input do you get as the illustrator if the author has the story?
13:40 How has your process changed as you do it more often?
16:20 How do you get through the dips?
20:15 Do you have a preference between writing and illustrating versus just illustrating?
22:20 How did pandemic affect this?
27:37 Do you have a favorite?
29:08 What’s your biggest frustration?
34:21 As people are looking at your book on the shelf, what do you wish they knew or understood about the path that it took to get there?
36:36 Is there anything that we missed? (Yes! Draw with Mr. Mike!)
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