Creative, Not Famous: The Small Potato Manifesto: The Small Potato Manifesto - Paperback

by Ayun Halliday (Author)

Few artists achieve fame and fortune, but that doesn't mean your creative life can't flourish. Writer, illustrator, zinemaker, and playwright Ayun Halliday interviewed dozens of creative people and shared her own experiences to produce this rallying cry for the small potato--someone whose focus is making cool, meaningful work and living a creative life rather than achieving wealth or celebrity. Sections range from the practice of artmaking to wrangling self-doubt to DIY marketing and self-promotion. Along the way, Halliday shows that your art can bring you satisfaction, success, community, and a modest income--without losing sight of your reasons for doing it in the first place.

Author Biography

Ayun Halliday (pronounced Anne) was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and came of age at the height of the preppy craze. After graduating from Northwestern University, she joined the experimental theater troupe the Neo-Futurists where she met her husband Greg Kotis, a playwright best known for the musical Urinetown. She currently lives in New York City where she is the brains behind the East Village Inky Zine and the author of No Touch Monkey, Dirty Sugar Cookies, and others.