Your Creative Push

Dan Berry is a cartoonist, illustrator, podcaster and educator based in the town of Shrewsbury, UK. He is a frequent collaborator with the author David Gaffney and is currently working on the follow-up to The Three Rooms in Valerie’s Head; a book called Rivers. Since 2012 he has produced the podcast Make It Then Tell Everybody in which he has spoken to over a hundred and sixty other artists about what they do and how they do it. Between 2008 and 2019 he was the Programme Leader for the illustration, comics and children’s books degree courses at the School of Creative Arts, Wrexham Glyndwr University. Full shownotes: http://yourcreativepush.com/danberry In this episode, Dan discusses: -His fascination with being able to create something that puts ideas and images in other people’s minds. -Being hospitalized from the extreme stress he experienced working as a designer for a marketing agency. -His decision to quit teaching. -How everyone has different responses to stress, and the value in being able to determine