What to bring

We’re interested in stories about Australian comics and the community of comics makers in Australia. Can you share some stories that reveal important insights about this practice and this community?

We’d like to anchor each of these stories in an object or an image. For each of the stories you tell, please bring something that you can put under the camera while you share this story. It might be an old mini comic, an original artwork, a flyer from an event, a photo, a memento, a sketchbook, a zine.

Please bring along:

Up to three artefacts from your own practice with a story attached.

Up to three mementos from interacting with the community of artists in Australia with stories attached.

One important book, zine or story by an Australian artist that made an impact on you.

One great panel from an Australian comic.

ARTEFACTS FROM YOUR TIME MAKING COMICS

Here’s some ideas of what you could bring that represents your own work that you can tell us a story about.

Something from the beginning, middle and recent parts of your practice
Work you’ve had an epiphany about
Works you love, or works you hate
Work you’re well known for
A tool you work with

They can be any format (for example a panel, a page, a zine, a poster) and if you still have things like sketches, or older iterations, that you feel would help you talk about your selected works feel free to bring them along too.

MEMENTOS FROM A LIFE IN COMICS

Here’s some ideas of what you could bring that will help tell stories about events, interactions, moments of learning, friendships, mentorships.

A photograph
A sketchbook
A drawing by you or someone else.
A flyer or a poster

AN IMPORTANT WORK

Bring along a piece of someone else’s work from the Australian community that you love and that has had a big impact on you. This could be:

A zine or minicomic
A graphic novel
A webcomic

A GREAT PANEL

Think about a single panel from someone else’s work from the Australian community that you think is important or interesting.

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