The Fire that Came with Creating (ep 562 - Fifth Element/Ricardo) (Patreon)

My guest this week in The Sewers of Paris is illustrator Ricardo Bessa, whose beautiful art features lush colorful fantasy settings and characters on fabulous adventures, often very queer. Ricardo knew he was a fish out of water in the town where he grew up, and planned to move to London to find others like him … and that worked, at first, but he didn’t count on running into burnout that nearly ended his career.