<p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">My guest this week is illustrator <a href="https://www.ricardobessa.com/">Ricardo Bessa</a>, 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.</p>