Illustrator, Ben Walker-Storey loves monsters, ghosts, creepers and kaiju. On the Cheap Chills Podcast, Ben talks with other artists and creators about how macabre movies, gothic toys and forbidden comics influenced their life and their artwork.
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In TRUE ADHD form, Let’s start with number 2 in my list of Powers, Setbacks and Workarounds:
* Start your project in any tiny way you can
As I work on my next leather jacket project (Hammer’s Horror of Dracula!) I’m thinking about ADHD symptoms and how I’ve gone so long undiagnosed, struggled with the same problems, shortcomings and self-criticism. I’ve made some strides and cutting myself some slack on issues that had me hung up in procrastination and distraction, often to the point of self-sabotage.Here is a minute or so on just getting started. Maybe cleaning off your desk and setting out supples sounds dumb, even condescending. But it really does beat spending a week laying on the bed disassociating over solitaire.
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13 Nov 2025
Animate fast with Fresco and screen recording
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I’m trying a new technique to quickly animate things by using screen capture and a new feature in Adobe Fresco. It’s a way to add some quick motion when you don’t have all day.
Let me know what you think.
*If this looks at all complicated its because I insisted on having an animated background and separate head for my character.
28 Jul 2025
Mattie Lubchansky "Just Draw the Pages"
Apologies for the long gap between episodes. I’ve been chipping away at a few of my favorite kind of projects; the ones that don’t pay. So this podcast has had to take a back seat. It may come back at some point or may not. Follow me on Instagram at Cheapchillsfanclub and do me a kindness? Check out my Twitch channel, Cheapchills (https://www.twitch.tv/cheapchills) to see what’s next.
This episode is really a break from a break because I have a special guest with a new book coming out.
Mattie Lubchansky is an Ignatz award-winning graphic novelist. Their new book Simplicity comes out July 29. It’s a vibrant new graphic novel about a timid academic sent out from the walled dystopian security territory of New York City to investigate a cult in the wilds of the Catskill Mountains.
Mattie and I talk about telling stories as an indie comic creator, political cartoons, podcasting about local government (corruption) and so, so much more!
We did forget to talk about monsters though so at the halfway point I’ll tell you about a movie I just saw that really hit different; the 2017 Japanese stop-motion film, Junkhead.
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Watch Junkhead free on Tubi (https://tubitv.com/movies/100040381/junk-head), Kanopi, and Hoopla
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