I was interviewed by Kate Heartfield last week for an article in the Ottawa Citizen. The article, Open to Ideas, can be read online here as well.
I spoke with one of those creative people last week. Unless you’re a fan of manga, chances are you’ve never heard of Sara Mayhew, who just got back from a worldwide conference of ideas in California.
Mayhew is no big-city jetsetter. She’s a 24-year-old comic-book artist who lives in Kirkland Lake, in northern Ontario. She divides her time between freelance illustration and creating manga — a style of comics that originated in Japan.
She and Bill Gates have a few things in common. They both spoke at the 2009 TED Conference, and they’re both unrepentant geeks. Geeks change the world.
Yes, I think that was just a comparison between me and Bill Gates. But no pressure…
