Tracy Butler
Illustrator & Comic Artist, Lackadaisy
Tracy Butler is an illustrator and comic artist situated in St. Louis, Missouri. Her early art career was spent working for a small game developer, capering between roles as a concept artist, 3d modeler, animator and art director. In 2015, she left the game industry to pursue comic-making and cat-drawing on a full time, independent basis. More recently, following a successful Kickstarter under the auspices of Iron Circus Comics, she’s begun adapting her comic series, Lackadaisy, for animation with director and studio virtuoso Fable Siegel.
When she’s not drawing cats, Tracy spends her time lost down a 1920s research rabbit hole, hiking to obscure and abandoned historic sites, looking after feral cats, and chasing after them for spay/neuter. (If you don’t keep tabs on them, they might start up a shady speakeasy operation or something.) You can find Tracy’s comics, art and social media links at Lackadaisy.com.
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Comics to Animation: Iron Circus Tells All
Join independent/crowdfunding guru Spike Trotman as she sheds some light on the transition her company Iron Circus Comics made with expanding into animation.
Spike will be joined by cartoonist Tracy Butler, creator of Lackadaisy and animator Fable Siegel to discuss the ups and downs of their campaign, as well as show a few never before seen rough tests from the short. (maybe?)
The conversation will be moderated by Illustrator and professor JoAnn Purcell.
