Nadine Takvorian - The Benefits of Being a Perpetual Student

This week’s guest is Nadine Takvorian. Nadine is an author and illustrator whose work focuses on personal storytelling through images. Her graphic novel Armaveni draws from her family’s experience in the Armenian diaspora, using the visual language of comics to explore memory, identity, and history. In this conversation, we talk about storytelling—specifically stories told with pictures. Nadine shares how she developed her approach to the work, what she’s learned over time, and how she thinks about translating ideas and emotion into visual form. This is a thoughtful discussion about craft, process, and the discipline of learning how to tell stories in a way that connects.