Episode 1: Ilene Haddad

In this episode of the podQast, Q and Ilene (a/k/a Weenie) discuss art, writing, travel, and Ilene's attempt to pick up her husband in a cheesy dance club while dressed as another woman.

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• Website:  Casa Weenie
• Website:  Graphic Designerd
• Casa Weenie on Facebook
• Casa Weenie on Instagram
• Ilene Haddad on Twitter

Award-winning essayist, Ilene Haddad, is a graphic designer, cartoonist and writer from Austin, Texas. Her work has appeared in outlets such as Austin’s NPR station, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, the National Headache Foundation, and the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop. In 2012, she began drawing a web comic, Casa Weenie, about her mixed/mixed up marriage. Her cartoons have appeared in High Shelf Press, The Syndrome Mag, and on her mother’s refrigerator. Ilene lives with her husband, Bill, and two useless lapdogs, all of whom inspire her work and feature prominently in her current project, a graphic memoir about married life.