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Strip Search, Episode 11 - Shelli Paroline & Braden Lamb


Braden Lamb (front left) and Shelli Paroline joined Dave and Pete for the latest episode of "Strip Search."
It's hard to imagine having more fun at your job than Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb. Sure, as prolific and in-demand illustrators they have a lot of deadlines to juggle, but as a wife-and-husband team they also have each other to fall back on for help and support. Plus they get to draw the Adventure Time comics -- what's cooler than that?

In the latest episode of Strip Search: The Comic Strip Podcast, we chatted with Shelli and Braden about how they approach their work, what it's like to be an artist in Salem, Mass. (Witch City!), and also about Shelli's role as co-director of the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (M.I.C.E.), coming to Lesley University in Cambridge Oct. 20-21.

Plus, hear about "On The Loose in New York City," the latest book project by former Strip Search guest Sage Stossel, and get the lowdown on the latest issue of Comic Strip Cartoonist magazine. Listen below!



Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb's many projects include the Adventure Time comics, the "Making Scents" graphic novel with writer Arthur Yorinks, and the recent "One Day a Dot" with Ian Lendler, which traces the history of the universe for young readers.

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