Quill and Quire

“Now I feel like everything I do supports my illustration,” says Meneka Repka
The “unvarnished connection between your brain and your hand is what I’m excited about now,” says Jillian Tamaki
“I always treat drawing like a weird little private ritual rather than a means to an end,” says Sid Sharp

Excerpt from Anxious and Hairy: The Evolution and Culture of Human Hair by Judy Wearing
Like we “shared a brain:” Iain Reid and Ellie Foumbi on the serendipitous collaboration behind their new novel
Mark Anthony Jarman on the decades-long ride behind his second novel

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