{"id":6083,"date":"2021-02-21T16:56:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T16:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/?p=6083"},"modified":"2021-02-21T16:56:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T16:56:10","slug":"comic-artist-j-marshall-smith-talks-inspiration-and-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/2021\/02\/21\/comic-artist-j-marshall-smith-talks-inspiration-and-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Artist J. Marshall Smith Talks Inspiration and Music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
SCAD Radio: Would you want to start off by giving a little bit of background about who you are and what you do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
J. Marshall Smith: Sure. My name is Jonathan Smith also more popularly known as J. Marshall Smith<\/a> just for the ease of finding me on the Internet. I\u2019m originally from Baltimore, I’m getting my masters in St. Louis at Washington University, which has a pretty cool new Illustration Masters Program. I mostly do comics and a little editorial illustration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Radio: So what got you into illustration?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Smith: I studied fine arts in college. I have a painting and drawing and printmaking bachelor’s and I was always interested in art that communicated well and sort of engaged with the viewer in more of a dialogue and less of a diatribe. So even though I wasn’t studying illustration, I was always interested in stuff that was illustrative. And I ended up teaching at the Baltimore Academy of Illustration. They need someone to teach painting and drawing–so I sort of fell into it that way. I was interested in comics for a while, but I really started doing autobiographical stuff sort of inspired by a friend of mine named Meredith. I don’t know if she’s still making comics but you can find her Meredith Park (@meredithplayground<\/a>) on instagram. Yeah and things just sort of kept rolling from there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Radio: And you’ve done quite a few drawings of Tiny Desk concerts<\/a>–I think they were part of your postcard series that you did? What made you decide to start doing those drawings? <\/p>\n\n\n\n