Creators on the Couch - Jeremy Whitley 4 Navigating With You

It's our SEASON 11 PREMIERE! We bring back Jeremy Whitley for the FOURTH TIME to discuss his new OGN, Navigating With You. How did he manage to take Anthony & Doc's real-life high school friendship and turn it into a YA lesbian romance? Listen to find out!

• Intro
• Background
• What have you been up to since the Dog Knight?

• Navigating With You (4:21)
  • What was the impetus for this story?
  • Did you realize you basically wrote me & Doc, except girls?
  • Love inclusive writing, a Jeremy specialty
  • THANK YOU for acknowledging disability tragedy porn without falling victim to it
  • The impact Josh has on Gabby, and her development over the arc, just *chef’s kiss*
  • Super Navigator Nozomi - story within the story - when did you decide to write a manga within a comic? How hard was it to condense the story into a handful of pages for each volume? (27:37)
  • What was the biggest thing you wanted to fit in there that was just for you & yours, knowing other people might or might not “get it” but you had to have in the story? (36:48)

• Any new stories coming up?
• Ending
  • Plugs for social
  • Jeremy’s website

References:

• Macho Man “Cream of the Crop” interview - Anthony (33:32)

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