tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79563807779962879112024-03-13T04:45:36.934-07:00laydeezdocomicsIs a graphic novel reading group or forum with a focus on comic works based on life narrative, the drama of the domestic and the everyday. EVERYONE IS WELCOME to join the monthly meetingsLaydeez do Comicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01946059069948958297noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7956380777996287911.post-87368864895636314422013-06-20T02:22:00.001-07:002013-06-20T02:22:24.129-07:00Change of Blog addressThe Laydeez do comics blog has now been moved to <a href="http://www.laydeezdocomics.wordpress.com/">http://www.laydeezdocomics.wordpress.com/</a>Laydeez do Comicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01946059069948958297noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7956380777996287911.post-23880705045521598422013-05-06T07:19:00.001-07:002013-05-07T03:34:02.895-07:00Laydeez Do Comics Bristol, April 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Katie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08425925113579810745noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7956380777996287911.post-37674307288224376032013-05-01T16:58:00.001-07:002013-05-01T16:58:42.233-07:00Laydeez do Comics Chicago April Meeting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
The April meeting of Laydeez do Comics Chicago starred cartoonists Jeffrey Brown and Sharon Rosenzweig. Our guest blogger for April is <a href="http://sarahannmorton.com/">Sarah Morton</a>. </div>
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First up, Jeffrey Brown describes in detail the process of making his forthcoming book, <i><a href="http://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog/a-matter-of-life/839">Matter of Life</a></i>. </div>
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Our second presenter is <a href="http://sharonrosenzweig.blogspot.com/">Sharon Rosenzweig</a> who presented three distinct projects. First, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Comic-Torah-Reimagining-Very-Good/dp/1934730548">The Comic Torah</a> which she did in collaboration with her husband, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Freeman">Aaron Freeman</a>. Next she presented her work as an "investigative cartoonist"<a href="http://occupyportraits.blogspot.com/2011/11/occupy-wall-street-by-sharon-rosenzweig.html"> documenting the Occupy Movement</a>. Finally she presented her comic project, "Mom's Flock" which will appear in Greenwoman Magazine and on the <a href="http://www.graphicmedicine.org/moms-flock-by-sharon-rosenzweig/">Graphic Medicine website</a><span id="goog_1400407916"></span><span id="goog_1400407917"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"></a>. "Drawing makes me fall in love with people." </div>
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<a href="http://www.graphicmedicine.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/LDC-Chi-April.m4a">At this link</a> you can listen to the audio from this event, and see wee images of the work presented. </div>
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In May Laydeez do Comics Chicago will feature our guest blogger from this meeting, <a href="http://sarahannmorton.com/">Sarah Morton</a>, as well as <a href="http://www.tyrellcannon.com/">Tyrell Cannon</a>. </div>
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<br />Comic Nursehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12453230965400972639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7956380777996287911.post-35374812781095333002013-04-07T11:54:00.003-07:002013-04-07T11:56:02.593-07:00Laydeez do Comics Chicago March MeetingOur first speaker was <a href="http://www.king-cat.net/">John Porcellino</a>. He spoke of what he calls his "psychic punctuation" and his punk/DIY philosophy. He also performed a creator's close reading of one of his poetic comics, "Ant Crossing."<br />
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You can hear the audio of the presentations and view small versions of the images being discussed <a href="http://www.comicnurse.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/LDChicago03-13.m4a">here</a>.Comic Nursehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12453230965400972639noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7956380777996287911.post-42305456020592042932013-03-26T13:54:00.001-07:002013-03-26T13:54:32.075-07:00Laydeez do Comics March 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My name is Sally-Anne Hickman and I was lucky enough to be this months guest blogger. I really enjoyed the experience and I hope I got enough information across. I write and draw my diary in comic form and doing this blog was a nice way of drawing and writing about other people.</div>
<br />Sally-Anne Hickmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15997370367855518507noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7956380777996287911.post-73707204585910067722013-03-22T11:34:00.001-07:002013-03-23T12:36:17.375-07:00Laydeez Do Comics Leeds January 2013<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Laydeez Do Comics Leeds: January, 2013</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">by Christine Chettle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As in November, I was struck by the diversity of the attendees at <i>Laydeez Do Comics</i>. The audience was of a range of ages and interests: as well as comic artists, there was an intriguing mix of students, chefs, illustrators, academics, and a whole lot more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The speakers were <b>Kate Ashwin</b>, <b>Kristyna Baczynski</b>, and <b>Darryl Cunningham</b>. Interestingly, all of the speakers framed their presentations in the context of how they developed professionally, in quite different ways. Taken together, this combination gave an empowering and multi-faceted inspiration. In addition to the considerable insight given in their presentations, each presenter was kind enough to answer two further questions from me about a) women in comics and b) any specific words of wisdom for artists just starting out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before talking about the feature artists, here’s a quick plug for some other projects mentioned during the session. <b>The Blood Bag Project</b> is a craft project that aims to raise awareness of Diamond Blackfan Anaemia, set up by the aunt of a 2-year-old girl who suffers from this condition (Chloe). Check it out here: </span><a href="http://www.wix.com/leighlalovesyou/thebloodbagproject"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">www.wix.com/leighlalovesyou/thebloodbagproject</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Becoming</b> is a feminist coming-of-age collective, currently accepting proposals. Check it out hereː </span><a href="http://www.project-babe.tumblr.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">www.project-babe.tumblr.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">. I’ll also talk about my own work at the end (part of the perks of blogging for <em>Laydeez Do Comics</em>), so stay tuned for that. I'm afraid I'm more one to consume comics and talk about them rather than draw them, so please have patience with my attempts at illustration . . .</span></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.widdershinscomic.com/"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">www.widdershinscomic.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, </span><a href="http://www.kateashwin.com/"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">www.kateashwin.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> and </span></b><span class="st1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">@</span></span><span class="st1"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">katedrawscomics</span></b></span><b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ashwin has been working in comics for twelve years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She started off with Darken, a swords and sorcery comic and she currently writes the Victorian webcomic <i>Widdershins</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Widdershins</i> is an alternative version of Victorian Englandː it represents Victorian Yorkshire as an epicentre of magic and has been called ‘Indiana Jones with magic’. In contrast to other webcomics which follow more of a diary format, she always writes a story arc first. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ashwin finds it helpful to use short stories to test out characters. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ashwin talked a lot about how artists can use social media to raise their profile. She has just recently funded a graphic novel through Kickstarter, which she was able to do in part because she has a fan base.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Establishing a fan base takes time and can be difficult, of course. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ashwin has built this up over the past twelve years, through being connected with other webcomic artists in various different ways, including conventions, ads like Project Wonderful, and through the comic art buzz on twitter/facebook/tumblr, which helped her to disseminate the project and other work. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kickstarter (an independent crowdsourcing programme) has different tiers of rewards, offering a chance for people from different incomes to contribute. As well as the comic, she offered extra book pages, bookmarks, and excerpts from the drawing process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her project was funded in just 2 weeks, reaching twice its financial goal. This occurred partly through her fan base and partly through promotions by Kickstarter, which come as part of its package. She was also assisted by some generous re-tweeting from Neil Gaiman!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Being online is a shield from potential negativity, especially as Ashwin’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>public name is gender neutral ,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which helps since people assume that it is male by default.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a danger than people can be a bit creepy at conventions; people sometimes focus more on the artist’s self-portrait than their actual work. However, generally Ashwin has been able to deflect unwanted attention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a sense of ‘background radiation’ but this is changing: fifty percent of webcomics are by women. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Draw what you’d like to read; that’s something I’ve gone by. There’s a lot of excellent stuff out there and it’s great to be contributing to it. Take risks!’ </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Baczynski is a freelance comics artist, an illustrator, and a designer. She has been drawing since childhood, and so decided to do a degree in Graphics and Design, specializing in illustration and animation. She won a Northern Design Award for a short animation that she did during her final year, which led to her working for the animation and media development team at Hallmark Cards’s Creative Studios in Bradford; she eventually became a designer and art director there. Baczynski worked on comics after hours, often staying up until one in the morning. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>After university, she found herself lost without the peer support she’d known from likeminded friends in her course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So she created some little ‘zines—these were just sheets, folded and then cut up by hand-- and bought a table at Thought Bubble Comic Festival 2009 to sell them, and discovered a whole world of inspiration. As well as making back what she’d spend on the ‘zines and more, Baczynski made friends with other comic artists across the UK who have helped and inspired her ever since. Some of these are Tom Humberstone (another comic book artist and also the editor of <i>Solipsistic Pop</i>), Matt Sheret and Julia Scheele (the people behind We Are Words and Pictures, publishers of the comics paper, <i>Paper Science</i>). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Baczynski has since contributed to multiple issues of both <i>Solipsistic Pop</i> and <i>Paper Science</i>. She continued to work hard on her comics outside of 9-5 hours, making self-published comic books and ‘zines to sell online and to take to fairs and conventions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Her hard work has paid off. In 2011, Baczynski was the first Thought Bubble Artist in Residence, which was affirming in many ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was asked to be part of <i>Nelson</i>, a collaborative story anthology created by comics artists all over the UK. <i>Nelson </i>was coordinated by Rob Davis and Woodrow Phoenix and published by Blank Slate Books. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Baczynski received positive mentions in both the Guardian’s and the Observer’s reviews of <i>Nelson</i>, and was also invited to Hay-on-Wye Literature Festival as an author in 2012 because of her work in <i>Nelson</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 2012, Baczynski decided that she had enough of a portfolio, of a reputation, and enough experience to go freelance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“I’ve never felt any negative stereotypes for being a woman. Women are underrepresented because comics have a stigma of boys playing around. If you work with a small press, you find there is an equal percentage of varied demographics, a fairer demographic. The more people raise awareness of the presence and potential of women in comics, the more change will come. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">‘Comics are a labour of love. And it does feel like labour sometimes, especially when you’re working into the night between working a day job. But I find that they are the culmination of all my skills and they stretch and test those skills more than any other work I do or have done. Writer, typographer, designer, illustrator, painter, colourist, printer [ . . .] It’s all in one medium and you apply and grow all those skills as a comics creator, and I find that so rewarding.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Darryl Cunningham is a cartoonist, and has written <i>Psychiatric Tales</i>, and <i>Science Tales</i>. Cunningham always had a love of doodling and started out doodling buildings in Keighley and York. As a boy, he read Marvel comics and thought ‘I want to grow up and be a superhero artist’. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He studied at Leeds College of Art, experimenting with different image styles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For a day job, Cunningham worked for a long time on an acute psychiatric ward as a nurse, encountering different forms of severe mental illness, eg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>bipolar disorder. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He uses his book <em>Psychiatric Tales</em> to explore these experiences, which acquired an even more personal aspect when he himself developed depression as result of burn-out at work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His cartooning skills became a way of battling depression. By putting his interests to creative use, a new landscape emerged. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Cunningham was particularly inspired by Marjane Satrapi (writer of the well-known graphic novel <i>Persepolis</i>, which charts Satrapi’s childhood and teenage years in Iran and Austria).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He started to keep a cartoon diary which combined his experience of depression and his years of experience on the ward, focusing on an immediacy of style.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cunningham made the typeface from his own handwriting and incorporated photographs into his drawings. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">He started putting chapters on the internet and received a huge response, developing an online fanbase. This fanbase allowed him to publish the original cartoon diary as <i>Psychiatric Tales</i> -- <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cunningham found that ‘if you build up a fanbase online, then people [publishers] come to you’. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He received support from the comics communityː Scott McCloud helpfully put a link on his blog, for example. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a result of this fanbase, Cunningham has published <i>Science Tales</i> (which tackles the subject of science denialism including anti-evolutionism and climate change denial) and is currently working on <i>Political Tales</i> (which examines police accountability). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">‘Sometimes women face a resistance in the comics world – for example, sometimes online, there can be sexual aggression towards women. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Men should take steps to become aware of women’s perspectives, through reading women’s blogs, for instance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would like to see more women getting involved, as they bring new subjects and new perspectives.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Any adviceʔ <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">‘Look deep in yourself for the qualities you need to survive – your talents, hopes, dreams and desires – because these are the things that will save you.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">My name is Christine Chettle and I’m a big fan of webcomics. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m also a PhD student at the University of Leeds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My thesis examines, among other things, aesthetics, social transformation and fantasy in Victorian fiction (works by Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot and George MacDonald).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because of this,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve discovered a fascination for sequential illustrationː last September I gave a conference paper on Victorian cartoons featuring crinolines (<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">‘The Value of Enlargement: Crinolines and Gauging Community in George Eliot’s <i>Daniel Deronda</i>’</span><span lang="EN"> </span>) and I have a book chapter coming out next year on sequential illustration in two novels by Charles Dickens (<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">'Graphic Haunting: Illustration and Liminal Masculinity in Charles Dickens' <i>Nicholas Nickleby</i> and <i>A Christmas Carol'</i> in <em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Haunted Men: Masculinity in Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories</span></em>(Pickering and Chatto, 2014)).</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition to all this, I’ve just started a blog (<a href="http://fantasiesofthevictorians.blogspot.co.uk/">http://fantasiesofthevictorians.blogspot.co.uk/</a>) and I’m launching an international collaborative project ‘Subverting Laughter’ which will use sequential illustration as a digital storytelling method.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Check the holding page out here: </span><a href="http://subvertinglaughter.wordpress.com/"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">http://subvertinglaughter.wordpress.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">You can find me on Twitter at @Cherissonne and email me at </span><a href="mailto:c_chettle@yahoo.co.uk"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">c_chettle@yahoo.co.uk</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, </span><a href="mailto:en08cc@leeds.ac.uk"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">en08cc@leeds.ac.uk</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> or </span><a href="mailto:c.e.chettle@yahoo.co.uk"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">c.e.chettle@leeds.co.uk</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">. My academic profile is here: </span><a href="http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/people/20040/school_of_english/person/1452/christine" target="_blank" title="http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/people/20040/school_of_english/person/1452/christine_chettle"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/people/20040/school_of_english/person/1452/christine</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7956380777996287911.post-86290962954299012562013-03-07T18:18:00.001-08:002013-03-07T18:18:34.698-08:00Laydeez Chicago February MeetingHi all - another snowy, cold spell here in Chicago. Despite the inclement weather plenty of excited folks turned out for Laydeez do Comics Chicago meeting two!<br />
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Our guest blogger for February is comics artist and fellow nurse Mat Defiler. Our speakers, as she illustrates below, were <a href="http://lauraszumowski.com/">Laura Szumowski</a>, <a href="http://realityenginecomic.com/">David Mitchell</a>, and me, <a href="http://www.graphicmedicine.org/?s=Carol+Tyler">MK Czerwiec</a> (Comic Nurse.)<br />
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Speakers for our March 28th meeting will be <a href="http://www.king-cat.net/">John Porcellino</a> and <a href="http://www.rivalehrer.com/">Riva Lehrer</a>. </div>
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<br />Comic Nursehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12453230965400972639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7956380777996287911.post-85009820570989592722013-02-08T08:21:00.001-08:002013-03-07T18:18:05.202-08:00Laydeez do Comics Chicago!This is MK Czerwiec, aka <a href="http://www.comicnurse.com/">Comic Nurse</a>. My colleague <a href="http://www.rivalehrer.com/">Riva Lehrer</a> and I are proud to report on the first meeting of Laydeez do Comics Chicago!<br />
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Our inaugural presenters were drawn by <a href="http://realityenginecomic.com/">David Mitchell.</a> From left to right they are:<br />
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Our meeting fell on the 52nd anniversary of the first girl group #1 hit on the Billboard charts, "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" by The Shirelles. The day before, the last living Andrew Sister, Patty, had passed away at age 94. So the question to the group was, "Who is your favorite Girl Group and why?" Answers ranged from Sleater-Kinney to Destiny's Child to The Go-Gos.<br />
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Our next meeting will be in two weeks, February 21st at <a href="http://www.quimbys.com/">Quimby's</a>. Our speakers will be<a href="http://lauraszumowski.com/work.html"> Laura Szumowski</a>, David Mitchell (website link pending!) and me, Comic Nurse.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">As we travel back in time to Monday 26th November 2012, back when we were busy dreading the Mayan apocalypse, we have a great crowd gathering at the Wharf Chambers for the premiere of 'Laydeez do Comics Leeds'. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The evening's speakers are Nicola Streeten, Steve Tillotson, and Griselda Pollock. </span></div>
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name is Alison Lucy Stone, currently a member of the professional design agency
and creative studio at <a href="http://hoxtonstreetdesign.com/">Hoxton Hall</a>,
creating a programme tutoring and teaching 14-19 year olds in a series of
workshops to raise skills, experience and aspirations of young people through
art and design. My passion for graphic novels stemmed from the third year of my
degree during completion of a 17,000-word dissertation around the topic of the
unique reading experience of wordless graphic novels. You are also most welcome to
check out my own creative work on my personal blog, <a href="http://alisonlucy.wordpress.com/">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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plentiful baked goods and jolly interesting discussion. Please click on my illustrated summaries below to read in more detail about the night’s events...enjoy!</span></span></div>
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My name is Eve Lacey, this month’s guest blogger and I am a writer. You can
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This month, Laydeez <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do Comics welcomed Alison Bechdel<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to the Gallery at <a href="http://www.foyles.co.uk/bookstore-charing-cross" target="_blank">Foyles on Charing Cross Road</a>, whose
scaffold was doodled with black, white and red – a fitting backdrop for the
sanguine shades of Bechdel’s most recent publication, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Are-You-Mother-Alison-Bechdel/dp/0224093525">Are
You My Mother?</a></i> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The meeting
began with an introduction to upcoming <a href="http://www.comicafestival.com/"><span style="mso-fareast-language: HI;">Comica</span></a> events, an invite to the <span style="mso-fareast-language: HI;"><a href="http://queerzinefestlondon.tumblr.com/">Queer
Zine Fest London</a></span>, and a call for British comic artists to read and
contribute to <a href="http://strumpetcomic.com/"><span style="mso-fareast-language: HI;">The Strumpet</span></a>, a new transatlantic periodical edited by Ellen
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followed by Charissa King-O'Brien’s short film <i><a href="http://thepapermirrorfilm.blogspot.co.uk/">The Paper Mirror</a></i>, an
artistic collaboration between Bechdel and queer/crip artist Riva Lehrer in
which the graphic novelist sat for her own portrait and provided a sketch of
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Bechdel began with an explanation her of methods – <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from grey sketches to blue pencil to
black ink, scanned, shaded, coloured and digitally aligned with the text. Bechdel’s
work displays an obsessive record of her own life and, using Alice Miller’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Drama of the Gifted Child</i>, she
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You My Mother?</a></i> Bechdel records Virginia Woolf’s musing on <i>To the
Lighthouse:</i> ‘I did for myself what psychoanalysts do for their patients’ –
writing had enabled Woolf to put her mother and father to rest once and for
all. Except she does not describe this development in calm, cathartic terms,
rather her creative process is violent, murderous. Similarly, Bechdel’s
regurgitation of her family’s life is not without malice. Her mother, Helen
Bechdel, was reluctant to support the publication of family secrets, but in
response, Alison half-jokingly explains the irony of the situation: she may
never have developed a compulsion to retrace her formative years in such
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disapproval, Bechdel has become a professional diarist and an expert in memoir,
and unearthed the graphic novel’s natural affinity with psychoanalysis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marvel and DC comics often seem all ego
and Id, all BOOM! and KAPOWW!, and it is perhaps in a direct mockery of this
parodic superficiality and lack of psychic nuance that Bechdel carves out a
space for the unconscious, somewhere between the image and the text. With at
least two layers of meaning in every glance, Bechdel has found her own therapy
– the drawing cure, contained within moveable frames, tackling the brevity of
text and space by allowing the two to speak louder than the sum of their parts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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differing mainstream popularity of <i>DTWOF</i> and her graphic novels; the
extent of the autobiographical content in her comic strips; with the discomfort
of writing about family members; change in space and format and the many
fruitless attempts at animating series of her work. The most revealing and
comical moment of Bechdel’s presentation was the series of snapshots of herself
in costume, dressed as her mother and D.W. Winnicott, which she used to
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could not help but collaborate with her own novelisation, and so mould the
infinitely meta-textual <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Are-You-Mother-Alison-Bechdel/dp/0224093525">Are
You My Mother?</a></i> And in the process of sketching her enigmatic mother,
Bechdel found herself committing more and more of her own psyche to the page,
paradoxically gaining perspective through two dimensions rather than three,
until she was bound to confess, as she did at the end of her presentation, ‘I
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<span lang="EN-US">I am Sarah Glazer, you can see my work at </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><a href="http://www.sglazer.com/" target="_blank">www.sglazer.com</a> </span><span lang="EN-US">For a writer like me (who does not draw) and is a newcomer to
graphic novels, the Laydeez do Comics salon off Brick Lane can be a
revelation--a window into the ever-widening scope of comics art and the London-based
talent that makes it happen. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>As a journalist
who has covered medicine and health, I was fascinated to learn at October’s
gathering that medical illustration has become not just a method of documenting
illness, but an art form that brings a little humanity to medicine<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">. </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll report further down on the formal presentations made on Oct. 22nd. But I’ve found that just as important is the inviting atmosphere Laydeez
co-founders Sarah Lightman and Nicola Streeten create, enabling talented people
with diverse skills to find one another, such as writers linking up with
artists. Listening to the
self-introductions at the start of the evening (required of everyone who
attends), I’m continually surprised by the diverse paths through which people
come to this art form. Many create comics prolifically in their spare time
while holding down a day job that may have nothing to do with graphic novels. During the break over tea and cake, I talked to Ian Williams,
a GP. He told me he uses the graphic novel format to illustrate the disturbing
ways that doctors sometimes act out their personal frustrations and stresses. He has been unsparing in exploring some dark corners. In his
“Cruel to be Kind” strip he dramatizes young doctors’ sadistic techniques for
prodding awake a patient whom they believe is faking unconsciousness. You can
see this comic in “Disrepute,” published under his pen name Thom Ferrier, and at
the web site he founded (<a href="http://www.graphicmedicine.org/">http://www.graphicmedicine.org/</a>),
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presenters of the evening-- the very talented
American comics artist Phoebe Cohen graciously agreed to illustrate this
blog. </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Phoebe Cohen is a graphic novelist, artist and illustrator in Florida. She runs the website </span><a href="http://www.wanderingschmuck.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">www.wanderingschmuck.com</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> and has a blog at </span><a href="http://phoebester.xanga.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">phoebester.xanga.com</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">. She is currently collaborating with Nancy Miller on the graphic novelization of Ms. Miller's book: "Memoirs of a Copycat."</span><br />
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the way medical researcher Lucy Lyons describes what she does. </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her occupation, drawing
people and the human anatomy in various forms of sickness and health is
“drawing research.” </span><span lang="EN-US">She spent five years studying and drawing examples of a rare
disease in which a person’s muscle and connective tissue turn to bone, known as
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span>While exploring aging in Denmark, Lyons rendered arthritic
hands with a beauty that even an old woman ashamed of her arthritis was able to
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tradition going back to the 16<sup>th</sup> century. Flemish physician Andreas
Vesalius’ influential book on anatomy was illustrated with woodcuts by Titian
pupil Jan Stephen Van Calcar. One of the most famous woodcuts shows a skeleton
standing in a lifelike pose of grief, a “weeping skeleton.” Medicine could not be understood without drawing, 19<sup>th</sup> century
pathologist Sir Robert Carswell believed. Yet his sketches went far beyond the
clinical. “You can feel this man’s pain,” Lyons said of Carswell’s sympathetic portrayal
of a man with subcutaneous cancer. And his portrait of an impoverished woman
with an extreme form of the skin disease psoriasis gave the woman “her dignity,”
Lyons observed, pointing to the personal detail of the earring she wore. In much the same way, Lyons’ sketches of elderly Danes reflect
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with artists for the drawing part. “When I used to write, I held on too long”
to a piece of prose before letting it go to publication, she said. But working
with an artist and a deadline “makes me get past myself.” </span>Trier usually tells the artist what images she wants to go
into each panel, as well as the words. “I’m very conscious of how I want the final
piece to look,” she said. But she acknowledged she is more open to artists’
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it, is that “We’ve invited people to do stuff they don’t (normally) do.” This has ranged from inviting workers at a Chicago Nestlé
factory to design their own chocolate bar to compiling the stories of New York
City’s nighttime workers into comic book form. The comic book, “The Invisible
City,” supported like most of their other work by foundation grants, was then
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Masters,” based on stories from the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) and the gallery
P.S. 1 in New York City. “Modern Art Made Her Sick!” accompanies a pop
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comic book based on a novel by Anthony Trollope. The renderings, including one
of a drawing room, looked very inviting with their style reminiscent of 19<sup>th</sup>
century book illustrations. But I’m not sure I’m even allowed to compliment the
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Laydeez do Comicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01946059069948958297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7956380777996287911.post-82908591222950142252012-10-09T03:00:00.000-07:002012-10-09T11:28:28.564-07:00Laydeez do comics BRISTOL August 2012I am <a href="http://mis-comp.com/" target="_blank">Nick Soucek,</a> a comics artist and I was the guest blogger for the Bristol Laydeez do comics which took place in August at <a href="http://www.cafe-kino.com/" target="_blank">Kino Cafe </a>in Bristol. Here is what happened...<br />
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Laydeez do Comicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01946059069948958297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7956380777996287911.post-8500740351232279202012-09-21T23:32:00.001-07:002012-09-21T23:36:16.945-07:00August 2012 Laydeez do Comics<br />
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<br />Laydeez do Comicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01946059069948958297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7956380777996287911.post-47113149668544121102012-05-30T14:43:00.000-07:002012-05-30T14:43:22.103-07:00May 2012 Laydeez do comics<div style="text-align: left;">
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<br />Laydeez do Comicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01946059069948958297noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7956380777996287911.post-72190908940150334272012-04-29T05:56:00.000-07:002012-04-29T06:00:38.076-07:00April 2012 Laydeez do Comics<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Laydeez do Comicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01946059069948958297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7956380777996287911.post-8801647834606842982012-03-28T21:04:00.007-07:002012-04-02T18:38:13.136-07:00March 2012 Laydeez do Comics<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #232323; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My Name is Robin Barnard. Have a look at my own blog <a href="http://imagesdegradingforever.blogspot.com/2012/03/sights-that-stagger-mind-and-assault.html" target="_blank">here</a>. I am this month's guest blogger for Laydeez Do Comics</span></div><div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">This month we were treated to a group of new and very promising creative talents in the form of the <a href="http://londonprintstudiocomics.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">London Print Studio Comics Collective</a> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.karriefransman.com/" target="_blank">Karrie Fransman</a> writer and artist of <i>The House That Groaned</i> introduced the Collective in her role as Youth Arts Co-ordinator. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.londonprintstudio.org.uk/" target="_blank">The London Print Studio</a> is a charitable organisation and funded this project, selecting six 20 - 21 year old creative talents from hundreds of applicants to offer them a six month internship. During this time, the successful applicants were encouraged to develop their work and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">as part of the experience each member hosted workshops with children aged 16-18. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This Project is one I think we all at the Laydeez would say is both inspirational and very much a necessity and it is great to see people being given a chance to let their creativity grow and shine in such a positive way.</span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The collective have produced between them a fantastic anthology called <i>Parallel Lives</i>, published by Knockabout </span></span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Parallel-Lives-London-Collective-Anthology/dp/0956915914/ref=sr_1_12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1330777565&sr=1-12%20Parallel%20Lives"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Pre-order here</span></span></span></a></span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The first member of the collective to present was </span></span></span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.nervousinacape.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Abraham Christie</a></b></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://doodledaydream.blogspot.co.uk/">http://doodledaydream.blogspot.co.uk</a></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GvzNPN5Witg/T2t2F3sZGZI/AAAAAAAAA50/NokaBhkXO1k/s1600/strongman.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GvzNPN5Witg/T2t2F3sZGZI/AAAAAAAAA50/NokaBhkXO1k/s640/strongman.jpeg" width="433" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #232323; font-family: 'Andale Mono';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Abraham does comics which by his own admission seem to feature himself naked - one wonders if this a metaphor for how exposed a creator may feel when sharing something personal to them. </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #232323; font-family: 'Andale Mono';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Abraham also does semi autobiographic comic strips with an avatar of himself wearing a cape (masking himself safely underneath a veil), in normally mundane or normal situations - He has even has done a strip about his visit to the Laydeez</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://doodledaydream.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/issue-no-341-laydeez-do-comics.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://doodledaydream.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/issue-no-341-laydeez-do-comics.html</span></span></a></span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Abraham’s Contribution to <i>Parallel Lives</i> is a sample chapter from his big graphic novel project - which depicts the last day on earth an earth with super heroes, but with these heroes powerless to do anything to avert the impending disaster - what will these do - the sample chapter depicts a man trying to make up for lost time and some broken promises to his girlfriend (possibly wife) but ends up missing her entirely. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What appealed to me most about Abraham’s work was its honesty, a true and raw edged graphic depiction of Abrahams' own sensibilities. Abrham has already found his voice, stays true to this and has a interesting way of looking at things which will make his work stand out.</span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The next member of the collective to present was </span></span></span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://teahermit.co.uk/" target="_blank">Jade Sarson</a></b></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2yxOErxOUBQ/T2t2LLc_rzI/AAAAAAAAA6E/HW3WqKmm-Q4/s1600/Image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="285" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2yxOErxOUBQ/T2t2LLc_rzI/AAAAAAAAA6E/HW3WqKmm-Q4/s400/Image.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Jade drew a Laydeez blog entry for the December 2011 meeting which was both beautiful and inspiring in its design. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Jade does a popular web comic </span></span><a href="http://cafesuada.smackjeeves.com/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://cafesuada.smackjeeves.com</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">, which she currently updates around once a month.</span></span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Jade did a self published graphic novel adaptation of The Tragedy of Antony & Cleopatra, completed for her final year of university. The project was heavily inspired by the Manga Shakespeare series, and re-sets the story in the 1920’s. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Her contribution to <i>Parallel Lives</i> is a sample of <i>Siddown</i>, Jade's work in progress graphic novel, set on a train that can travel through time. The story features an unlikely couple who come from completely different time periods but are very much in love. By happenstance the lady who comes from the 1920s ends up coming off the train the same time as her boyfriend - now she is stuck in the future but they are now truly united and look like they will go on to be happy.</span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Jade has an eye for detail and design which is staggering. She admits to spending a lot of time considering the elements of the page, researching the look and feel, including textures and layouts but all based around strong central characters. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">All the elements combine together to elevate and to take the emotions and depiction of the story into many interesting places and Jade is also able to diversify with her styles bringing something different and unique to each project. </span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The next member of the collective to present was </span></span></span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lilyrosebea.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Lily-Rose Beardshaw</a></b></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Andale Mono'; font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tfBkCnk10cU/T3pTjnoM4zI/AAAAAAAAA6k/gv_dGN_djco/s1600/Lilly+Beardshaw.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="282" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tfBkCnk10cU/T3pTjnoM4zI/AAAAAAAAA6k/gv_dGN_djco/s400/Lilly+Beardshaw.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Lily combines the use of a wide range of materials and methods to make her creations, from the traditional ink and paper, collage and even hand sewn or stitched images. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Lily made a “rather silly comic”for the anthology <i>Science Fiction Octuple Feature</i> and made an adaptation of <i>Gormenghast.</i></span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Lily is now working on <i>Born Secular</i> Which she says comes from a song from the album <i>Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins</i>. It also refers to the condition of the majority of young people living in the UK today. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Lily’s contribution to <i>Parallel Lives </i>is <i>Ham Sandwiches,</i> a story set in a school about an alienated young woman who discovers a friend in the most unlikely of places and in the most unlikely person, it is warmly written with well defined and rich characters.</span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Lily is a complete innovator when it comes to choosing what to make a comic with and how and has a fantastic attraction to material textures colours and paints all lending themselves towards depicting the story in a very unique and rich way, Lily's work is literally tactile.</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">During the every popular mid session break, I took the opportunity to try and speak to these creators in person. </span></span></span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I was also treated to a display of original art by another contributor to <i>Parallel Lives,</i> Taymah Anderson, one of the younger workshop attendees who has great sensibilities in both storytelling and line work providing a unique and fresh perspective.</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">After the break the next member of the collective to present was</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://shamisadebroey.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Shamisa Debroey</a></span></b></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SGk_7d0j_KY/T2t4Gnxj0OI/AAAAAAAAA6M/ALieCplOm4s/s1600/Shamisa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SGk_7d0j_KY/T2t4Gnxj0OI/AAAAAAAAA6M/ALieCplOm4s/s400/Shamisa.jpg" width="318" /></a></span></b></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Shamisa is Belgian, a country that embraces the graphic medium and treats its as a serious art form she started with illustrations but wanted to make a sequential narrative. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">She describes her style as “clear line but with a lot of colour.” </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Shamisa is in the process of making a graphic novel based on her life and family called <i>The Wanderer</i> which she describes as “Two generations that collide in their search for the ‘other one'. A poetic atmosphere and personal words bind the two stories together.”</span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Shamisa’s contribution to <i>Parallel Lives</i> is <i>Casual Conversations,</i> a chance meeting between a woman and the man she has a casual fling with (not that he realises it). 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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Susan also contributed to a beautifully made Laydeez blog entry for last month's meeting in February. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">She sees the graphic medium as a conduit for universal communication in illustration without language and has a very great sense of graphic depiction. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Susan is British </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Chinese a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">nd interested in sharing some her cultural heritage. She creates and writes comics exploring Chinese mythology and folklore. </span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Susan shared her contribution to <i>Parallel Lives</i> which is called <i>Hungry Ghost Festival</i> a ritual which is similar to Halloween but lasts an entire month. In the story she depicts a Chinese man born and bred in the West who is completely unfamiliar with any of his heritage or ancestral customs and puts him right in the middle of the Hungry Ghost Festival where his cultural ignorance makes him wonder what kind of mad place he has gone to (Comparing the experience to <i>The Blair Witch Project</i>)</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The style and technique used are equally a unique fusion of styles both magna and westernised methods of storytelling, all beautifully depicted. I love that although the lead character is a surly and uneducated teenager, his heart is still very much in the right place and despite the crazy goings on, he still tries to make an (admittedly misguided) attempt to save someone.</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">In conclusion the collective learnt from each other as a group, severing as inspiration, help and a sounding board for each other, each pushing the others on with their beautifully creative output. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">All of the collective I would imagine feel both very lucky and proud to have shared such an experience and have possibly even surprised themselves with the things they have managed to do and the experiences that they shared.</span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #232323; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Andale Mono'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">One hopes to hear or see from this talented group in the future in ways that we here at the Laydeez could only begin to guess at - one thing's for certain it will certainly be a very interesting future indeed.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="-webkit-line-break: after-white-space; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; word-wrap: break-word;"><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="-webkit-line-break: after-white-space; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; word-wrap: break-word;"><div><div><div style="-webkit-line-break: after-white-space; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moving with the flow of digitalisation in the media, Karrie has explored various comic forms, from an <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/the-first-witch-hd/id385259441?mt=8">tilting iPad app</a> to an interactive comic website for her graphic novel, "<a href="http://www.thehousethatgroaned.com/">The house that groaned</a>". Her debut graphic novel as already won the approval of many critics and the title of Foyles number 1 book. It delves into the themes of society's portrayal and expectation of the human body. Referring to academic psychologists, she pays homage to <b>Norbert's Elias</b>' term of "<i>Homo Aperti</i>", the open man who behaves according to his own natural desires, not embarrassed about his own bodily functions. Society develops creating restrictions to allow us to fit the norm, one of which is how we look physically. Karrie compares the idea of <b>Nigella Lawson</b> VS <b>Gillian McKeith</b> and how we obsess about what we should eat constantly to avoid diseases, obesity etc. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A quote that Karrie refers to is: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<i>The individual body can be studied as a canvas on which the anxieties and discourses of the larger, social body are reproduced</i>." -<b>RW Connell</b>: 2002</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Hey all, faybird33 here, guest blogger for the first Laydeez do Comics of 2012. I write one page comic art mostly about sex, society, relationships. You can check me out at <a href="http://www.faybird33.com/">www.faybird33.com</a>. I also run an online resource for creatives at <a href="http://www.wildanduntamedthings.co.uk/">www.wildanduntamedthings.co.uk</a>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MXvkCLJu8NM/TxcTMDtiFUI/AAAAAAAAABk/nIxvFncHk8U/s1600/Karen+Rubins.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MXvkCLJu8NM/TxcTMDtiFUI/AAAAAAAAABk/nIxvFncHk8U/s200/Karen+Rubins.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">So, to the speakers. First up was <a href="http://www.karenrubins.com/" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Karen Rubins</span></b></a> who told us about her symbolic, fantasy comic book <i>Blood Magic</i>. Inspired by her residency at the <a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/people-pages/karen-rubins/" target="_blank">Victoria and Albert Museum</a>, <i>Blood Magic</i> is set in 16<sup>th</sup> century Medieval England, and focuses on a village where the women use their menstrual blood for magic and rituals. Karen showed us several concept drawings, describing the mood of the piece as dark and dramatic. She spoke about how objects at the V&A – like a gold German goblet – gave her the setting and influence for <i>Blood Magic</i>. Other V&A objects that influenced the design and characters included stained glass windows, sculptures, woodcuts and early printed texts. She showed us some artwork from <i>Blood Magic.</i> The illustrations were in black and white, except for the blood which was red to show the significance of the magic. Karen explained that she used certain materials to give an air of authenticity, such as rough, off white paper. She discussed some of the symbolism behind the images, such as the blood, rabbits – meaning fertility, sheep – representing </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">farming and village life and also a symbol of sacrifice. She also mentioned the <i>Book of Signs</i> as a reference for the magic symbols. It was all very interesting, and rather intriguing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MyVRhaauWXA/TxcTgS7YdVI/AAAAAAAAABs/zPIBsqbCwK8/s1600/Dan+Locke.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MyVRhaauWXA/TxcTgS7YdVI/AAAAAAAAABs/zPIBsqbCwK8/s200/Dan+Locke.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Next on was <a href="http://www.daniellocke.com/" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Dan Locke</span></b></a>, a writer and illustrator based in Brighton, who spoke about his passion for making comics. He showed us his first comic, a piece inspired by his work as a dish washer at a local cafe, where he focused on people watching, imagining their lives. Then he showed a comic about a strongman’s son in the circus and said how this strip lead to a series of strips that set the precedent for everything he has made since. He explained why he started to create autobiographical comic strips, and showed some examples of these earlier pieces. These strips lead to Dan getting a three month residency at an Islington housing association for people with serious mental illnesses and violent crime, where he ran drawing workshops. His project was to retell some of the residents' stories, and these stories were made into a pamphlet and given out at Islington Exhibits in 2010. He showed us a couple of strips he made for various anthologies and comic book reviews. He then talked about his current project, a book about his early life and the house he grew up in. The book is titled <i>311 District Road</i>. Dan was a charming speaker, giving us an honest and often amusing glimpse into his world, mind and creations. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The break gave us Sarah's fantastic homemade lemon cake, chocolate brownies and peach cake. After stretching our legs and chatting we were back to the final speaker,</span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.jacquelinenicholls.com/" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Jacqueline Nicholls</span></b></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wt9tpzgbxpU/TxcTvXClYmI/AAAAAAAAAB0/qcK1RPaFxYA/s1600/Jacqueline+Nicholls.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wt9tpzgbxpU/TxcTvXClYmI/AAAAAAAAAB0/qcK1RPaFxYA/s200/Jacqueline+Nicholls.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Jacqueline is an artist and Jewish educator. Her art combines the two – her learning and her drawing. She spoke of her interest in mixing text and drawings. She showed us various works: two multi-layered silk screen prints, an intricate paper cut – a rather amazing piece of work created from a single sheet of paper; and fifteen small squares of white cotton embroidered with the words ‘maybe this month,’ representing the hope of fertility treatments. Jacqueline told us about her time in New York, where for forty-nine days she walked the city, marking each day with a drawing of objects she found in the street. These New York drawings were beautifully illustrated and emotive. She started this project to give herself a daily drawing exercise, and she spoke candidly about the fear which went alongside putting the work on her blog. Jacqueline‘s talk was very personal, moving and honest. Her work is striking, emotive and unique – rather like her.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">And there you are, another interesting evening with the Laydeez (and some men), in London. Happy New Year and stay gold, faybird33.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div></div>faybird33http://www.blogger.com/profile/01294713472377188104noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7956380777996287911.post-78185664480693250342011-12-11T05:58:00.000-08:002011-12-11T05:59:32.261-08:00December Laydeez do Comics<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1n9uTYDm7xQ/TuScYIwRLpI/AAAAAAAAA5c/ds9mauQUe7M/s1600/LDC_ComicDEC5_Part1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="78" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1n9uTYDm7xQ/TuScYIwRLpI/AAAAAAAAA5c/ds9mauQUe7M/s400/LDC_ComicDEC5_Part1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Hi there Laydeez.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">I’m <b><a href="http://teahermit.co.uk/">Jade Sarson</a></b>, an illustrator and comic creator based in Milton Keynes. I recently graduated from the University of Lincoln with a first class honours degree in Illustration, and am currently one of six comic interns at the london<b>print</b>studio (if you went to last months meeting you may have met Shamisa, one of the other interns). I am currently working on developing my first graphic novel alongside the internship, and also frequently update my webcomic Cafe Suada, both of which you can find out more about on my website: http://teahermit.co.uk/</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">So yup, I’ll be your guide to what happened at this month’s festive meeting.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">The evening began with the usual game of introducing yourself and answering a question, this months being “What was your best/worst Christmas present?” There were a lot of interesting answers, including Sarah Lightman’s hilarious cop out of “I’m Jewish, we don’t DO Christmas”, but I think my favourite was the person who declared socks the best gift ever to give or receive. I have to agree, socks are awesome!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DTYJNs517iQ/TuSceM50JNI/AAAAAAAAA5k/593ByFMw4A4/s1600/LDC_ComicDEC5_Rachel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="208" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DTYJNs517iQ/TuSceM50JNI/AAAAAAAAA5k/593ByFMw4A4/s400/LDC_ComicDEC5_Rachel.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Then <b>Rachel Abrams</b> was up. Rachel told us a bit about her illustration work for Turnstone, projects for big mega corporations which have influenced the way she approaches her personal projects. She also explained who her artistic influences are, from Asterix comics to Spiegelmann, as well as cartoons by Matt Groening and projects by RSA Animate. Rachel was humble about her work for large corporations and said that they were nothing in comparison to pitching about her personal projects, which is far scarier because they are just that: they’re PERSONAL.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Her current project is very engaging… she used the phrase “I’ve got this friend who…” to sum up the premise. This new comic of hers aims to take all the tales Rachel has heard about a certain subject and tackle them in an ambivalent way. And the subject?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Female fertility.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Rachel has observed that women everywhere feel a natural unhappiness regarding their own fertility. Society pressures them to have children and lots of women are turning to modern science to solve their problems. IVF treatment and egg freezing procedures are becoming far more commonplace these days, and this is a subject that Rachel is determined to try to explain and question in her new comic project.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">However, what was interesting about her talk was that she was very keen to ask the Laydeez about her target market… she was keen to identify who the comic was for, very specifically, so that she could have them in mind when creating the comic. “Is it for young women? Will boyfriends read it? Should I pitch it to drug companies?” she asked us.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Laydeez piped up at this point. Several attendees were very adamant that this project, though on the fence about the delicate subject matter, is something personal to Rachel, and therefore SHE is the audience. She should write and draw it for herself. Personal projects are done for that exact reason. And the conclusive point made was that by isolating her feelings in this comic, Rachel will in fact draw in MORE readers. I am certainly looking forward to seeing where she takes the project from here, especially after seeing a sample panel which compared female fertility to the fearsome power of a nuclear bomb.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bc-qJQg9gDk/TuSck39FkLI/AAAAAAAAA5s/MTp_85OCMBs/s1600/LDC_ComicDEC5_Sarah.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="261" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bc-qJQg9gDk/TuSck39FkLI/AAAAAAAAA5s/MTp_85OCMBs/s400/LDC_ComicDEC5_Sarah.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Next up was </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b><a href="http://www.sarahlightman.com/">Sarah Lightman</a></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">, one of the organisers behind Laydeez Do Comics (the other being Nicola Streeten, who also spoke at the meeting this month). Sarah started by showing us a self portrait that she drew at 15, and explained that from a young age she has been unashamed of being honest about herself, and didn’t beautify herself in any drawings, which I thought was brilliant. Confidence to draw people as-is and see the value in that is amazing, in my opinion. But anyway. Sarah moved on to tell us about her ongoing project, the “Book of Sarah”, which is a comic visually based on Jewish religious texts (her religion has always been an important part of her life). The Book of Sarah is not about religion, however, it is about Sarah’s experiences with finding herself, and expresses how she feels about finding a place in your family and your community. She went on to explain that through finding the comics community, she has found her place (something I and I’m sure many of the other listeners could empathise with). Following on from childhood, the Book of Sarah focuses on romantic interludes and the isolation caused by breakups. What I found most interesting about the book itself was that the narrative was told with a beautiful use of negative space. In the childhood chapters cut out clothing and bodies hint at who is missing or supposed to be somewhere, and in later chapters single objects are placed in a white space to force the reader to interpret the story behind each one. Sparse text is used to guide the reader's interpretations though, as it is Sarah’s story and it wouldn’t do for the reader to interpret the objects too differently to the intent. I wonder when this fantastic conceptual book will be finished. I suppose only Sarah knows. In the meantime we can read her food diary comics and The Reluctant Bride, which use the same techniques crafted just as carefully (Sarah is, after all, from a Fine Art background, and so each drawing is very precise. She loves her graphite pencils, that’s for sure!)</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Sarah finished by talking a little bit about her experience with curating exhibitions such as currently touring <a href="http://www.sarahlightman.com/talks-papers.html">Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women</a>. She feels that it is very important that the history of comics should cover women too, and not just the leading male creators, so her exhibitions aim at exposing the world to female creators’ work and influencing academia – Sarah has spoken at several universities as part of the exhibition. Hopefully the message is being heard. That is, after all, what Laydeez Do Comics is all about.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">There was a little break after Sarah’s talk to eat baked goodies and chat… I met Mike Medaglia (everyone had been congratulating him on his wedding that evening, there was a lot of clapping, haha!) and we talked a lot about webcomics and the Gosh!p meets, which I must go to in the future, they sound like a lot of fun. I also managed to grab Paul Gravett for a second (he moves fast!) to mention that myself and the comics interns will be attending Strip Turnhout on the 10<sup>th</sup>, an event Paul had mentioned that evening in the announcements.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q6ztCxI9fF0/TuSb8THTGhI/AAAAAAAAA5M/z455zij3UcQ/s1600/LDC_ComicDEC5_Marcia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="215" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q6ztCxI9fF0/TuSb8THTGhI/AAAAAAAAA5M/z455zij3UcQ/s400/LDC_ComicDEC5_Marcia.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q6ztCxI9fF0/TuSb8THTGhI/AAAAAAAAA5M/z455zij3UcQ/s1600/LDC_ComicDEC5_Marcia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">After that quick break it was time for the third speaker of the evening to step up</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">:</b><b><span id="goog_68880333"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_68880340"> </a></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b>Marcia Mihotich<span id="goog_68880334"></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://./">.</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> Marcia is obsessed with grids! Hahaha. I think you had to be there, but suffice to say, Marcia really does like grids. She is a graphic designer and illustrator, and has designed for architects, animations, magazines, book covers and book illustrations (I believe she has either completed or is in the process of illustrating a book called “How to Stay Sane”), and also draws her own comics. Marcia showed us lots of great examples of her design work, and explained how she is very accustomed to using simple but effective techniques and framing. She uses grids to compose her comic page layouts, and uses techniques such as image layering for colour application and ‘the changing speechbubble’ to tell some very clever narratives. (To explain the changing speechbubble: Only the content of the speechbubble changes, the contents of each panel do not.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Marcia then told us about how the birth of her son affected her life. “I spent so much time in the park” she remarked dryly. She used this to her advantage, however, creating beautiful graphic artwork of the park from many different perspectives, in different seasons and colours, using a layering technique to separate each aspect. She also made use of the time that her son was playing in the park to observe other people – the mums and their children. Whilst doing a lot of observational sketching she overheard plenty of hilarious life stories, and has made use of them in her comics. She explained a concept known as toxic chatter, which I found particularly fascinating: toxic chatter occurs when you are speaking about something mundane to someone and are putting on a polite façade – inside your head, you say mean, frustrated, irritated things until they go away, and this is what’s known as toxic chatter. I loved being able to finally call it something. I’m afraid this blogger is an avid toxic chatterer! Can’t help these things I suppose.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Aaaanyway. It was very entertaining to listen to Marcia, she is a naturally dark humoured, witty storyteller. She finished her talk with a sneak peak at her in-progress “SPY” comic, which everyone at Laydeez agreed made beautiful use of huge, black shadows and large areas of black inking, for dramatic effect. Cannot wait to see more of this comic, I hope she keeps it going alongside her design work! “I do it when I can, when I can find the time” she said. Well let’s hope she does.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BWloqPIahas/TuScC8EyAHI/AAAAAAAAA5U/b8YkwaiY-SY/s1600/LDC_ComicDEC5_Nicola.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="190" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BWloqPIahas/TuScC8EyAHI/AAAAAAAAA5U/b8YkwaiY-SY/s400/LDC_ComicDEC5_Nicola.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"></span></span><br />
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Finally it was time for the other founder of Laydeez to step forward, <b><a href="http://www.streetenillustration.com/">Nicola Streeten</a></b>! Nicola has been all over the media recently promoting her new graphic novel, <i><a href="http://www.myriadeditions.com/?location_id=195">Billy, Me & You</a></i>, which she talked a lot about in the last speech of the evening. Nicola started drawing again after her son Billy died, starting from the bottom (illustrating greeting cards) and working her way up through the years to illustrating clever map advertisements for local businesses. She eventually moved to Lincolnshire, began printing a zine called <i><a href="http://www.liquoricemag.com/">Liquorice</a></i> with help from her young daughter (which is still going) and signed up for a Masters course at the University of Lincoln. (Somehow Nicola navigated the labyrinthine illustration department there and found my degree show, which is how we met a few months back. Small world!)<br />
<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Nicola then focused a lot on the development of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Billy, Me & You</i> over the course of several years, and gave us a privileged look at her notes and sketches she made while developing the story and illustrations. It was also during this time that she met Sarah Lightman. As both Nicola and Sarah have ties to the fine art community – they realised that they knew plenty of people from that community, and decided they wanted to meet more people from the comics community – and that, readers of this here blog, is how Laydeez Do Comics first began!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Nicola followed on from this very chronological talk with lots of design work for B,M&Y. She explained how her literature review (a stage in the creation of a new project where you pretty much look for every other work that is similar to yours, and is often an offputting stage for new creators!) was a great aid to her artistic development. She used techniques inspired by a lot of comics she had read, such as the emotional rendering of Barefoot Gen, in B,M&Y to great effect. Nicola also explained that the passage of time was an important aspect of the graphic novel, and she used photography sparingly to emphasise this. Toxic chatter rears its head again this evening, oddly enough, as Nicola then goes on to analyse the misinterpretations of her own comic. The moments of awkward socialising depicted in the graphic novel, Nicola explains, are interpreted differently by different readers. For example, a panel where a friend moves Billy’s t-shirt out of the way and then metaphorically stabs Nicola and her husband, has also been interpreted as Nicola metaphorically stabbing the friend, which Nicola found odd, and the Laydeez attendees certainly found interesting.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">To conclude the evening, Nicola mentioned some helpful information for other comics creators, which I took careful note of.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">She mentioned <a href="http://www.myriadeditions.com/?location_id=195">Myriad Edition</a>s, publisher of Billy, Me & You, and how though they call themselves a small publisher, but it is not about size. It is important when you secure a publisher for your work that they have the right contacts for promoting your book, as Myriad have for Nicola. She has already been reviewed by several noted comics shops and newspapers, and was featured on Channel 4 news too. Lots of great press for the launch of the book, then, and something to bare in mind when looking for a publisher for your own project in the future.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">And lastly, Nicola mentioned the key things to do when creating your own graphic novel (I was paying a lot of attention at this point, as it is rare that creators will flat out tell you what works and what doesn’t, so this was very good of Nicola for the Laydeez. I’ll elaborate a little on the points she made).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">When creating your own graphic novel:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">DO A LITERATURE REVIEW<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Its important to look at what’s already out there, and identify where your work will fit into the market<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">READ WHAT YOU DON’T LIKE<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Yup, it sounds silly but really. It’s important. The more informed you are, the better your comics will be. Once you've identified your genre within the field, try to work out why there are some works that you don't find quite so great. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">WRITE PROCESS NOTES</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Nicola showed us messy scrawlings which laid out her story, and I myself take up pages and pages to scribble out my narratives. It’s good practise to separate your narrative into the sections or chapters, and then work on the design from there.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">DON’T WORK ON YOUR GRAPHIC NOVEL IN ISOLATION<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Sure, at the end of the day lots of us prefer shutting ourselves away to get final work done, but when you’re developing your comics it is important to get feedback! How can you know it’s any good if you are the only one judging your work? And to reinforce my point earlier, getting out and away from your usual workspace will inform and educate you, and the more informed you are, the more interesting and fun your comics will be to read.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">And that’s pretty much it! How educational.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">I had a great time at this month's meeting, and learnt a lot. I hope you enjoyed reading about it all! Good luck to Nicola and Sarah with the next Laydeez Do Comics meeting, which will be on Monday 16 Jan - the first one in 2012! And thanks again to Nicola for giving me the role of guest blogger this month, it was fun.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.7288123450707644" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am</span></span><span id="internal-source-marker_0.7288123450707644" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Shamisa Debroey, </span></span><span id="internal-source-marker_0.7288123450707644" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the guest blogger for November. In my own work I</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> look to push the boundaries between illustration and strip, minimal and colourful, and topics like love and hate. I recently graduated from the infamous </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sint Lukas Brussels</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> under the careful supervision of </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Johan Stuyck</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, head of publishing house </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oogachtend. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am currently working on the</span><a href="http://londonprintstudiocomics.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> London Print Studio Comics internship scheme</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and I am working on my first semi autobiographical graphic novel </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">‘The Wanderer’</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">,</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> to be published in 2012 in Belgium and the Netherlands. Here is a link to my work</span></span></span></span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/shamisadebroey/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.flickr.com/photos/shamisadebroey/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tonight's Laydeez do Comics was in association with the annual </span><a href="http://www.comicafestival.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Comica Festival</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and the international line up of guests included, <a href="http://www.sarahleavitt.com/">Sarah Leavitt</a>, the Canadian author of Tangles (Jonathan Cape), </span><a href="http://web.me.com/comicnurse/MKCzerwiec/Welcome.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Comic Nurse, AKA MK Czerwiec,</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> over from America and two German comic artists, </span><a href="http://www.mawil.net/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mawil</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://ulioesterle.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Uli Oesterle</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> whose works have recently been translated into English editions by </span><a href="http://blankslatebooks.bigcartel.com/product/luchadoras-peggy-adam"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Blank Slate Books.</span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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