About this episode

The episode explores Tarlochan Doaly's journey from a company employee to a successful freelance illustrator for major pop culture brands.

How does a creative side project turn into a decade long freelancing business working with the biggest names in pop culture, like Disney, Pixar, Marvel, DC Comics, Lucasfilm, Warner Bros and Sony Pictures? All good super-heroes have an origin story. And this interview tells the series of events that took Doaly from working for a company in Birmingham, England, to the front page of comic covers seen all over the world. Signing at Comic-con events. It's quite the transformation. Tarlochan Doal,...

People in this episode

Host: Steve Folland

Guest: Tarlochan Doaly

Topics covered

• freelancing
• illustration
• pop culture
• comic books
• career transformation

Keywords

• freelance illustrator
• Marvel
• Disney
• comic covers
• Comic-con
• career change
• pop culture

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Disney, Pixar, Marvel, DC Comics, Lucasfilm, Warner Bros, Sony Pictures

Places: Birmingham, England

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