(calm upbeat music) - My name is Jordan Rogers and I'm an illustrator.

Yeah, I wanted to be a comic artist because I'm colored.

I'm queer and I just don't think that there's a lot of content out there that is for people of color or queer people.

So that's why I want my stuff out there.

(soft upbeat music) When I was younger I was always drawing like every artist but I did grow up watching cartoons and stuff and that kind of shifted into comics.

Now I'm actually really picky about my comics.

I don't really like superhero comics 'cause they're so gritty and I like pretty stuff.

There is one called "Hellcat".

The Hellcat Comics is what I love, because they're drawn so beautifully and I love the style.

But it's a Marvel comic and it is a superhero comic but it's very cartoony, so it cancels out.

"Grasshopper Girl," is a book written by Teresa Peterson and illustrated by me, Jordan Rogers.

It is about a girl, Grasshopper Girl and Unktomi, a trickster.

He is often mischievous, sometimes clever, however, always teaching and reminding us how to behave.

I think passing down stories is important because it's such, it's a tradition that is kind of fading in Native American culture.

It's just something that's disappearing and I think it should be talked about more often.

Spoken stories should be talked about more often.

I grew up working traditionally with painting, watercolor pens and paper, but I wanted to try digital art and now I mostly do digital art, but having those skills on traditional art has helped me a lot.

I make my art on an app called "Procreate", which is $10 one purchase, but it has everything you need.

When you're drawing traditional, you will want to try to double tap the paper to remove something.

- [Interviewer] Wait, did you ever do that while the camera was on?

- No, I did not.

I almost did though.

- [Interviewer] Would've been cool.

- No.

I make activity books based around health and science and nutrition for native kids up north in Minnesota.

I wish I had more Native American themed stories, movies books.

I wish, I do wish I had that growing up but also growing up as a mixed kid, it was hard to find Native American stories as well as black stories.

So I kind of wish I had both, which is why I'm an artist.

So kids like me can also have both.

(soft upbeat music) - [Narrator] Postcards is made possible by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and the Citizens of Minnesota.

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