Our October guest is Hayley Gullen, whose autobio graphic novel in progress - "This Might Surprise You" - tells the tale of her diagnosis and recovery from breast cancer.

Like the best examples of Graphic Medicine, Hayley's comics mix humour with exasperating examples of her experiences with the NHS, as well as uplifting personal moments of triumph against adversity.

This Might Surprise You was shortlisted for the 2023 Caliburn prize, and examples from the work in progress can be found on the author's twitter - and instagram .

Monday Oct 30th
Doors 6.30pm
Q&A at 7.30pm

The Walrus - back room
10 Ship Street
Brighton BN1 1AD

and online via zoom - register via eventbrite [check back for link very soon!]

Our guest this month is Dan White, who is celebrating the first US collection of his long running YA comic Cindy and Biscuit, with the first 192 page volume "We Love Trouble" released last month by Oni Press.

This beloved British indie title features the adventures of the titular girl and her dog as they hunt monsters, in a comic that comes across as a mash-up of Tintin and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Dan is also co-presenter of the cult pop culture and comics podcast Silence! with Fraser Geesin, so has much to chat about with our regular host Alex Fitch.

More info about Dan's work at:

https://milkthecat.wordpress.com/ and

https://www.tcj.com/reviews/cindy-and-biscuit-vol-1-we-love-trouble/


Monday 25th Sept
doors 6.30pm, Q&A 7.30pm

at

The Walrus
10 Ship Street
Brighton BN1 1AD


and online via zoom - register here on eventbrite

Our guest this month is the revered graphic novelist Oscar Zarate, who will be chatting about his new book Thomas Girtin: The Forgotten Painter published by SelfMadeHero. This beautiful and epic comic by Zarate mixes a real life biography of the little known fine artist, with fictional stories of three people in the present day - an Argentinian exile, coping with experience of the junta, an architect, struggling with her faith, and a Customs man, being framed for a cover-up - who form a connection over Girtin's work.

Alex Fitch will be talking to the author about the many intriguing aspects of his new book, how it followed his previous tome - The Park - about lives intersecting on Hampstead Heath, and his career in comics so far.

More info https://www.selfmadehero.com/creators/oscar-zarate

Monday 21st August, doors open at 6.30pm, Q&A at 7.30pm, The Walrus, 10 Ship Street, Brighton BN1 1AD and online via zoom. Please register on eventbrite if you would like to join us for the zoom session. There is no need to register if you would like to join us in person: we look forward to seeing you on the 21st!

Our guest this month is Nick Sayers, who since the start of the Covid outbreak has been drawing portraits of people in each of the 197 countries of the world, via Zoom, and writing stories of their lives in this time. The stories sequentially form a diary of life in those extraordinary days and beyond, to life "post-pandemic".

Nick will be discussing with Alex Fitch the history of the drawings, which started out as "Nick Draws Neighbours", and his hopes to find a publisher for the collected Pandemic Portraits which form a graphic narrative of lockdown.

You can find more info about the work here.

Monday 31st July
Doors 6.30pm, Q&A at 7.30pm

The Walrus (in the back room)
10 Ship St
Brighton BN1 1AD

& online via zoom - register here on eventbrite

Our guest this month is cartoonist Teresa Robertson.

Teresa has illustrated numerous children's books and collections of piano music, as well as magazine illustrations and greetings cards. In recent years she has taken up sequential art, with a number of strips published in Friends on the Shelf magazine.

While working on her autobiographical title The Odds Were Stacked Against, which she is serialising as self published comics, she has just illustrated "The Comical Eye’s British Monarchy: From Alfred the Great to Charles III", a humorous look at the history of the Crown written by Leo Shulz and published by Self Made Hero.

More info at teresa-robertson.co.uk and Teresa's graphic stories are here on her Folksy site

Join Alex Fitch as he chats to this veteran illustrator about her long and varied career!

Monday 26 June
Doors 6.30pm, Q&A 7.30pm

at

The Walrus - back room
10 Ship St
Brighton BN1 1AD

and online via zoom. Sign up at eventbrite here