Laydeez do Comics, Leeds
Monday 25th March 2012
Starts 6.30pm Ends 9.30 pm (approx)
£1.50 All welcome (mixed event)
Speakers:
Melanie Maddison of ‘Colouring Outside The Lines’ – a zine featuring interviews with contemporary female artists http://cotlzine.blogspot.co.uk/
Adam Cadwell Artist –Web comic ‘The Everyday’ now published by Great Beast books, which he co-founded. Adam is also in the several anthologies including Nelson. www.adamcadwell.com
Dr Mel Gibson – Academic – Northumbria University. What became of Bunty? - The lost history of British comics for girls. www.dr-mel-comics.co.uk
Laydeez do Comics is the UK’s first women’s led comics forum, that focuses on autobiographical comics and dramas of the everyday. It was started by illustrator Nicola Streeten & artist Sarah Lightman in London in 2009. Illustrator Louise Crosby & academic Helen Iball set up Laydeez do Comics in Leeds in 2012.
At:
Wharf Chambers
23-25 Wharf Street, Leeds, LS2 7EQ
Wheelchair accessible
http://www.wharfchambers.org/
(MM: Please ignore the bit on the flier where it refers to me as being an 'Artist' - this is a mistake)
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