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.

Meet the small potatoes!

Akin Salawu

Anthony Wills Jr.

Ben Snakepit

Bob Laine

Christine Schisano

Connie Fu

Delaine Derry Green

Drew Ackerman 

Edward Thomas-Herrera

Ellia Bisker

Emmy Bean

Greg Kotis

Heather Riordan

J.T. Yost

J. Gonzalez-Blitz

Karen Christopher

Liz Mason

Lorijo Manley

Maria Camia

MariNaomi

Meghan Finn

Mimi Pond

Moe Bowstern

Nick Balaban

R. Sikoryak

Rachel Kramer Bussel

Rob Ackerman

Sabrina Chap

Shelton Lindsay

Stephanie Summerville

Steven Svymbersky

Todd Alcott

Trav SD

Winter Miller

Plus 4 Mystery Spuds Draped in the Mantle of Anonymity!

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