Hey y’all,
Adam Koford has been a freelance illustrator and cartoonist for nearly 30 years. To celebrate the launch of his new Substack, Your Friend and Mine, we conducted this typewriter interview via the magic of the United States Postal Service. (For a plain-text version with links and a few extra notes from me, see the P.S. below.)
![Do you have any advice for people who want to be more creative? Figure out what works for YOU, and try not to be too precious. [Drawing of Monet among 80+ canvases, all in various states of completion, Savoy Hotel, London, 1899]](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rAtC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc10b30f4-802b-4528-967c-12f01c5a3d78_1024x1307.jpeg "Do you have any advice for people who want to be more creative? Figure out what works for YOU, and try not to be too precious. [Drawing of Monet among 80+ canvases, all in various states of completion, Savoy Hotel, London, 1899]")
Big thanks to Adam for being the 28th participant in this series of typewriter interviews!
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xoxo,
Austin
P.S. Because Adam mentioned introducing an old movie to someone as part of his perfect day, here’s a great list of old movies he recommended to me once upon a time: