LIANZA WEBINAR - THE IMPORTANT ROLE OF CARTOONS AND COMICS IN LIBRARIES
Thursday November 23, 1.00PM-2.00PM
Sam Orchard is the Assistant Curator Cartoons and Comics. Sam hosts the Alexander Turnbull Library Cartoons and Comics Advisory Group and they will join us to discuss the important role that cartoons and comics play in the library.
Joining Sam on this webinar are artists Anna Crichton, Dylan Horrocks, Michel Mulipola, Kay O’Neill and Zak Waipara. This will be an exciting conversation exploring the diversity of cartoons and comics being made in Aotearoa and the role that they can play in exploring complex issues, sharing diverse voices, and creating new connections.
Anna Crichton (https://www.annacrichton.com/)
Anna Crichton is an internationally renowned cartoonist and illustrator, creating works for for The New York Times, The Wall St Journal and The Australian. In New Zealand her work for The New Zealand Herald, The Listener, Cuisine and Metro has been recognised by the New Zealand Media Awards – she is the five-time winner of the Qantas/Canon Editorial Artist of the Year.
Dylan Horrocks (http://hicksvillecomics.com/)
Dylan Horrocks has written and drawn graphic novels, comic books, comic strips and short stories in New Zealand and overseas, and has contributed to numerous anthologies in New Zealand and abroad. His graphic novel Hicksville (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2010) was first published in 1998 and has since been published in six languages. Hicksville is #12 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the Fifty Best Non-Superhero Graphic Novels of all time. He has also written comics for Vertigo and DC Comics, and his comic strip Milo's Week appeared weekly in the New Zealand Listener between 1995 and 1997. His graphic novel Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen was published by Te Herenga Waka University Press in 2014. Dylan Horrocks was awarded a 2016 Arts Foundation Laureate.
Michel Mulipola (https://www.bloodysamoan.com/)
Michel Mulipola is a self-taught Samoan comic book artist from Auckland. He’s been immersed in the world of comic books from the tender age of five and wanted to draw comics from that moment on. He has worked as a Story Artist and now as a Cultural Consultant for Walt Disney Animation Studios on an upcoming project for Disney+. Michel has illustrated work for BOOM! Studios' line of WWE comics, various anthologies and is currently working on the U.S comic book, Headlocked: The Last Territory.
Kay O’Neill
Kay O'Neill is an author and illustrator from Christchurch, best known for their work on the award-winning Tea Dragon Society series. They mostly write slice of life with fantasy elements. Their favourite tea is currently vanilla rooibos.
Zak Waipara
Zak Waipara (Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Ruapani, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu) is a lecturer in Digital Media, at AUT, and previously taught at Animation College. He has worked in animation for Māori Television’s children’s show Miharo, as a graphic artist at the NZ Herald, written and drawn comics and illustrated a range of books, and is completing a PhD on comics, children’s books and indigenous storytelling.
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