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Marlene Santos: Webcomic artist - Tom Ray's Art Podcast

On this episode of the podcast, I talk again with webcomics artist Marlene Santos. The last time I spoke with Marlene on the podcast she was just starting a new series on the comic site tapas called JumpHero. Since then Marlene has built a new website and was featured on one of the Tapas website editor picks. We catch up on this episode and see how things have been going!

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Links

Marlene Santos Website  

https://jumpherocomic.com

Marlene Santos Webcomic on Tapas 

https://tapas.io/series/JumpHero

Marlene Santos on Twitter

https://twitter.com/JumpHero_wcomic

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