Articulate City

Meet Articulate City’s Kendra Spanjer:

Local artist, illustrator, bike rider, cake decorator, music lover and all-around awesome person Kendra “Kendy Stix” Spanjer supports all our crazy ideas and is always up for dressing in a costume. We love her. You will, too.

The art I ♥:
Visual Arts, Live Music, Cinema

Listening:
Cobra Skulls, The Sadies, Nick Cave, Crystal Castles, Tiger Army, Patsy Cline

Watching:
Rushmore

Reading:
The Believer Magazine

Dining:
Surfside Pizza

Browsing:
emusic.com, threadless.com, awkwardfamilyphotos.com

Working:
Currently paid to write for Linden marketing. I also co-own Bailiwick Press – micropublishers of the Aldo Zelnick series – which currently does not pay me to illustrate middle-grade comic novels. Aspirations include jerry-rigging a more open schedule.

Giving:
Legacy Land Trust, Crossroads Safehouse. My work with Bailiwick Press is generating opportunities to advocate for literacy and art in elementary schools – which is awesome!

Avoiding:
Under-informed optimists, meetings and reality TV.

Fancying:
Tulips, typography, bike rides, muscle cars, Google docs, Tor’s idiosyncratic figures of speech, plotting and scheming about the future.