Your Creative Push

Hailing from New Zealand, Li Chen is the creator of Extra Ordinary Comics (or Exocomics) which is a weekly slice-of-life webcomic based on her life with her partner Jordan, and her cat Shoelace.  With her fun and quirky comics, she has gained a steady following of fans and supporters and has published three collections of her work. Full shownotes: http://yourcreativepush.com/li In this episode, Li discusses: -How many children love to draw but eventually lose their passion, but she just kept going. -How and why she started Extra Ordinary Comics. -Patreon and Kickstarter and how they helped her to release her collections. -The notion of authority figures that we envision as the gatekeepers that hold us back from doing what we want to do. -How she still sometimes feels like an imposter who just found herself in this situation. -How her style has changed over the years and how looking back at the older comics sometimes makes her cringe. -How she is grateful that, when she was starting out, she was somewhat ignor