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Ryan Claytor

Ryan Claytor

Comics artist and Associate Professor at Michigan State University, coordinator of the Comic Art and Graphic Novel Minor, and creator of Elephant Eater Comics.

Feb 10, 2026

37:44
So what does that break down to? How many projects a year is this typically? How are your months? You know, do you have seasons in a year where you're more prolific or you're working more and there's seasons of rest? I just want to know, like, how do you operate? Yeah.
38:07
Yeah, that's such a wide and varied answer.
38:10
I'll try to get to your first question, which is one bite at a time.
38:14
What's that all about? So my self-publishing company, I named Elephant Eater Comics based on a saying that my dad would tell my siblings and I as we were growing up.
38:25
He'd say, well, it's just like eating an elephant.
38:27
You do it one bite at a time and before you know it, you're done.
38:30
So I tried to keep that in mind as I have big projects or big tasks in front of me, like going through school or making a book or what have you.

5 MINS LATER

43:51
How do you manage working with students on that level?

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