Kendra Yee Interview For FORGE. Issue 5

In a lot of ways, Rookie changed my life. The online magazine primarily geared towards teenage girls, started by Tavi Gevinson back in 2011, meant a lot to me in the way that it provided a platform for discussion and exposure of young artists and writers from around the world. In my life, Rookie served as this ever evolving source of inspiration and community, around individuals who had relevant contemporary opinions and were incredibly articulate in how they communicated them through articles, comics, playlists, and pieces for the site. Tavi, herself, became this beacon of hope towards being able to accomplish and express what you sought out to do as a young person, and we owe a lot of what we’ve been able to do and say with the magazine to the inspiration and encouragement she has been able to provide to us, with out directly intending to. Knowing that someone else my age could not only edit a large scale magazine, but also curate ground breaking and fresh work through doing so, gave me a lot of the confidence to even attempt capture a similar experience in the slightest way possible, through starting FORGE.
One individual who has many of the same feelings towards Rookie and it’s creator, is none other than staff illustrator Kendra Yee. 18 year old Toronto based artist, Yee, was asked to join the Rookie team back in 2012, after attending the Rookie Yearbook One book launch, and reaching out to Tavi. Yee could not have been more enthralled and excited by the invitation. Since then, Yee has provided original comics and artwork for the site on a monthly bases, while simultaneously creating original work for her blog Unadoptable, showcasing her work in the local Toronto Gallery scene, and being a full time college student at OCAD. Although Yee has worked enormously hard to get to where she is today, she continues to look in the direction of her own growth as an individual artist and looks to create the work that she feels she hasn’t seen in the world of art today.
This video also features music by the one and only Frankie Cosmos!
For more of Kendra’s work…
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[@fennavanbecelaere5474]

I've always loved the sunday comics on Rookie!

[@sarahlaurie6]

great interview! i love kendra and her work.

[@AngelCastro-ce3uz]

I love her.

[@brookebeck2323]

i love her aw

[@Peej_11]

whats the name of the background song?

[@growingbugs4847]

cool! u guys make it around to the states ever?

[@kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631]

Political views? So sad.