Graphic Brighton: Drawing in the Margins

Graphic Brighton: Drawing in the Margins

Sallis Benney Theatre, University of Brighton, 58-67 Grand Parade BN2 0JY

Buy tickets here (Fri free / Sat £10/£6 conc.) Advanced booking advised

 

Friday 1 May and Saturday 2 May

The University of Brighton and Myriad Editions present an evening and day of graphic novelists and comic creators who all ‘draw in the margins’, their work giving voice to otherwise marginalised or under-represented groups. The 20 creators who will be presenting their work, alongside questions from academics, will be showing how comics are a brilliant medium for displaying the lives of people whose stories are rarely told in the medium, such as pregnant women, people with autism, those of a minority ethnic background and much more.

Friday 1 May

Friday evening will host a panel on gay Manga followed by a Myriad Quick Strips event where 12 creators talk about their work in 5 minute slots.

6.30pm - Doors open 

6.45pm - Panel discussion on Gay Manga,

Yaoi and Japanese style art in LGBT themed comics

Guests:

Emma Vieceli - artist: Breaks webcomic / Vampire Academy graphic novels

Inko & Chie Kutsuwada - artists / writers: Go♥Go Metro! webcomic                                         

Ilya – writer / artist Room for Love

8.30pm: Myriad Quick Strips event -

Local comic book artists present their work in 5 min Pecha Kucha style slots

Henny Beaumont (A Hole in the Heart), Gareth Brookes (The Black Project), Joe Decie (The Listening Agent), Kate Evans (Bump), Wallis Eates (You Chew, I Spew), Hannah Eaton (Naming Monsters), Fraser Geessin (The Cleaner), Ilya (Room for Love), Dan Locke (Going Home), Danny Noble (Monday Morning), Jade Sarson (For the love of God, Marie!) Nicola Streeten (Billy, Me & You), Will Volley (The Opportunity) and Ian Williams (The Bad Doctor)

Compere: Nye Wright (Things To Do in a Retirement Home Trailer Park)

 

Buy tickets here (Fri free / Sat £10/£6 conc.) Advanced booking advised

 

 

Saturday 2 May

Saturday offers panels, talks and workshops by comic writers, artists, publishers and researchers on themes including (but not exclusive to): marginalised voices in comics, age, multiculturalism, street dwellers, autism, pregnancy and motherhood, plus comics as a marginalised medium.

9.30am - Registration 

10am - 12.20pm Morning Panels on the following:

10am: Comics: a still marginalised medium?

Tim Pilcher (Erotic Comics) and Karrie Fransman (Death of the Artist / The House that Groaned)

11.20am: ‘Can’t we talk about something more pleasant?’ Older people and comics

Muna Al Jawad (Consultant in Elderly Medicine and Cartoonist), Julian Hanshaw (Tim Ginger) and Corinne Pearlman (Playing the Jewish Card comic strip)

11.20am: Multiculturalism in comics – how are people from differing ethnic origins depicted?

Warren Pleece (The Great Unwashed) and Patrice Aggs (The Boss)

1pm-4pm: Afternoon panels including:
 

1pm:  Street Dwellers – do the homeless have a voice in comics

Ilya (Room for Love) and Nye Wright (Things to do in a Retirement Home Trailer Park)

1pm: The YES Project – representing the experience of non-verbal Autism

Laura Malacart (YES) and Dan Locke (A Graphic Cosmogony)

14.20: A History of Marginalised Voices in Comic Strips

Ian Rakoff (Victoria and Albert Museum)

 

14:20:  Bumps, Births & early Motherhood in comics and graphic novels

Henny Beaumont (A Hole in the Heart), Francesca Cassavetti (The Most Natural Thing in the World) and Kate Evans (Bump)

15:20 Plenary - a selection of attending cartoonists share their thoughts of the day and hopes for the future of marginalised groups in comics

 (Photos from last year's Graphic Brighton featuring Hannah Berry, Ian Willams, Hannah Eaton, Corinne Pearlman and David Lloyd)

 

Buy tickets here (Sat £10/£6 conc.) Advanced booking advised

Saturday guests (in order of panel appearance):

Tim Pilcher – author, lecturer, editor, UK Liaison for Humanoids, co-writer / editor: Brighton the Graphic Novel and current project Brighton’s Graphic War http://brightonsgraphicwar.com/

Karrie Fransman - artist / writer: The House that Groaned and Death of the Artist graphic novels, comics and experimental comics, TEDx speaker on Why We Should be Taking Comics More Seriously   http://www.karriefransman.com/

 

Dr. Muna al Jawad - Consultant in Elderly Medicine, Brighton & Sussex Medical School & cartoonist http://www.graphicmedicine.org/meet-the-organizer-muna-al-jawad/

Corinne Pearlman - Graphic novels editor Myriad Editons & cartoonist for Jewish Quarterly

http://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/writersinresidence/tag/corinne-pearlman/ 

Ian Rakoff - writer: The Prisoner: Living in Harmony / comics lecturer at the Victoria & Albert Museum http://ianrakoff.blogspot.co.uk/

Nye Wright - writer / artist: Things to do in a Retirement Home Trailer Park http://welsheldorado.com/

Ilya - writer / artist: Room for Love http://www.selfmadehero.com/news/tag/ilya

Laura Malacart  - visual artist, researcher and academic, project author and designer: Yes! Based on a True Story of 'Non-Verbal' Autism http://www.lauramalacart.info/laura_malacart/HOME.html                                      

http://www.non-verbalautism.blogspot.co.uk/

Dan Locke - artist Helix; artist/writer Going Home, artist / illustrator Yes! Based on a True Story of 'Non-Verbal' Autism                                                                           http://daniellocke.com/home.html                                                                             

http://www.non-verbalautism.blogspot.co.uk/

Warren Pleece - artist: Incognegro / Montague Terrace https://warrenpleece.wordpress.com/

Patrice Aggs - artist: The Boss http://www.patriceaggs.com/

Henny Beaumont - writer / artist: A Hole in the Heart http://www.hennybeaumont.com/

Francesca Cassavetti - writer / artist: The Most Natural Thing in the World http://www.fabtoons.com/

Kate Evans - writer / artist: Funny Weather, The Food of Love, Bump! How to Make, Grow and Birth a Baby http://www.cartoonkate.co.uk/http://www.thefoodoflove.org/

 

Buy tickets here (Fri free / Sat £10/£6 conc.) Advanced booking advised

 

Podcasts of last year’s Graphic Brighton closing panel:

part 1: https://panelborders.wordpress.com/2014/07/03/panel-borders-what-makes-a-good-graphic-novel

part 2: https://panelborders.wordpress.com/2014/07/16/graphic-brighton-podcast-what-is-a-good-graphic-novel