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How It Started, How It's Going
We published Art Department Weekly irregularly for the better part of a decade. Now we’ve published an issue every month in 2020. Next year should be interesting
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Madeline Vega
HOME OFFICE In January, MV reorganized the front room and brought back ADW. Within three issues we were all at home for the foreseeable future. Dadda School started in the kitchen, but now three of us work out of the redesigned office.
From an issue early in 2020
Madeline Vega
LEAST IMPROVED While Madeline did get a new computer and switched her office chair, she would not say she prevented her posture from looking like the example at the end of the chart.
TIGHT SCHEDULE Convention issues took months to produce in the past, but Madeline published the 2017, 2018, and 2019 con issues June 16, July 14, and August 12.
NOT MUCH OF AN ENDORSEMENT I asked Kal why he thinks Little Fires Everywhere was so popular. “I don’t know.” In 2017, we missed the endorsements for Celeste Ng’s second novel when Kal ran around the Book Con entrance. He discovered the title on Audible in November and was aghast when I said maybe it was too adult. “It started out as just teenagers having teenager issues, but then it became more adult at the end. It went from being really engaging to ‘Meh. I’m so close to the end, I might as well finish it.’” He says he will not be watching the Hulu show.
