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The completed jam described in the NPR piece.<\/p><\/div>\n

This past winter, I was interviewed for a radio segment on NPR<\/a> about the monthly comic jam nights at Green Brain Comics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ve participated in countless jams over the years. I just really like doing them, and I’m fortunate to know so many cartoonishly inclined peers who will pick up a pen and jam with me; any time, any place.<\/p>\n

I was in my twenties before I ever visited a comic book shop. I preferred TV to comics when I was a kid. My big childhood dream was to join an improv troupe or sketch comedy ensemble. I prepared for this by trying out for every school play. Whenever I flunked an audition, I’d mope around the theatre until someone gave me something to do. This typically ended up involving laying out program booklets or designing posters. Ultimately, I failed enough auditions to become a professional graphic designer.<\/p>\n

Eventually, it clicked that I didn’t have to go onstage to do comedy, I could draw comics instead. Jam comics satisfy my desire to improvise within a group of funny people. The gang of regulars turn out for jam night each month is<\/em> an improv troupe of sorts. We just draw instead of act.<\/p>\n

Which is not to say I won’t act, when offered the chance<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This past winter, I was interviewed for a radio segment on NPR about the monthly comic jam nights at Green Brain Comics. I’ve participated in countless jams over the years. I just really like doing them, and I’m fortunate to know so many cartoonishly inclined peers who will pick up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,81],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-press","tag-jams"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/that-yellow-kid-jam.jpg?fit=1700%2C2088&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1iEpY-J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}