Graphic Novels, Comics and Cartoons

Ant Sang is the creator of the celebrated Dharma Punks comic series, was one of the creators of “bro’Town”, and has a new graphic novel out, Shaolin Burning. Chris Slane is the award-winning cartoonist whose work regularly appears in our newspapers and magazines, and co-author of the recently published graphic novel Nice Day for a War. Dylan Horrocks is the author of seminal graphic novel Hicksville, comic books Pickle and Atlas, has written for DC Comics and publishes webcomics at hicksvillecomics.com.

Karen Healey is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Guardian of the Dead, co-founder of feminist comics website Girl-Wonder.org and is writing a PhD on superhero comics as fan-created text. Together they discuss the medium they love and its continued evolution with Adrian Kinnaird, cartoonist and writer of the award-winning New Zealand Comics blog, From Earth's End. This illustrated event will give you an exclusive look behind the scenes of the storytelling process and artistic creation of a graphic novel, a must for all aspiring cartoonists!

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