The Pencil Pushers Podcast

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Daniel Swartz: Letterpress Designer

Aug 24, 2026

Welcome folks as we interview letterpress designer, printer, and educator Daniel Swartz, who returned to rural northern Indiana after a 2020 life upheaval, building a new practice in his late grandfather’s garage studio. Swartz describes growing up around creativity, studying art at Indiana Wesleyan, shifting...

Nathaniel Long: Comic Book Artist and Author

Aug 14, 2026

Host Mike Rosado welcomes illustrator/designer/comic artist Nathaniel Long, a South Carolina-based creator from the Winston-Salem area whose early Spider-Man obsession and grandfather’s drawings sparked a lifelong pull toward hand-drawn craft. Long talks about choosing traditional tools for their tactile reality,...