Lucie Arnoux is a French artist and graphic novelist living in London, who found fame in the country of her birth illustrating the bandes dessinées adaptations of Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes novels.

She has also provided illustrations for a number of collections of classic fairy tales, and has just finished her first autobiographical graphic novel Je Ne Sais Quoi: The Adventures of a French Woman in London,
published in October by Jonathan Cape.

"A funny, heartfelt graphic memoir about living in foreign countries, and finding one's place both at home and abroad."

Alex Fitch will be talking to Lucie about her varied career and her experiences of the French and British comic book scenes.

See more on Lucie's website here.

Monday 30th January
doors 7pm, Q&A 7.30pm

The Southern Belle
3 Waterloo Street
Hove BN3 1AQ

....and also online on zoom via eventbrite registration.

Free entry and easy access to our first small scale comic and zine fair.
Pick up some fab new comics and cool Christmas presents and meet some of the finest comic makers in Sussex.

Individual tables featuring some of Cartoon County’s finest local creators:
Ben Naylor
Corinne Pearlman (https://www.instagram.com/corinnepearlman/)
Dan Locke (http://www.daniellocke.com)
Danny Noble (https://dannyskagal.wixsite.com/mysite)
Hannah Berry (https://hannahberry.co.uk)
Hannah Eaton (https://www.instagram.com/hannaheatoncomics/)
Michi Mathias (https://www.michimathias.com)
Myfanwy Tristram (https://myfanwytristram.com)
Ottilie Hainsworth (https://www.ottiliehainsworth.com)
Zara Slattery¬¬¬ (https://zaraslattery.com)

We’ll also run an old school Community Table on the day

This month our guest is Jonathan Sandler who'll be talking about the graphic novel The English G.I.: a World War II Graphic Memoir which he adapted from his father's diaries, illustrated by Brian Bicknell.


Jonathan will be in conversation with Alex Fitch, discussing how he found his way into comics, adapting his father's memoirs, and the reception the book has received in newspapers as varied as The Jewish Chronicle, The Yorkshire Post and The Ohio Times...

More info at https://graphicmemoir.co.uk

7 for 7.30pm, Monday 28th November

The Southern Belle
3 Waterloo Street
Hove BN3 1AQ


Or join us on zoom by signing up at eventbrite here

Our guest on Monday October 31st is Susan Sainsbury, who will be talking about her two 'slice of life' graphic novels Kitty and Cheery Cak, published by Markosia. Both are period dramas set in the late 19th century and 1970s respectively, and tell the tales of female characters who don't feel that they quite fit in to the life and culture that surrounds them.

Susan first got noticed in the comics scene when shortlisted for the Jonathan Cape / Observer graphic novel competition for her submission Big Knickers, and has also had illustrations published in 'girls magazines' such as Jackie and Blue Jeans.

More info on her website: http://www.susansainsbury.com/

Monday 31 October
7.00pm. Talk starts 7.30

The Southern Belle
3 Waterloo Street
Hove BN3 1AQ

Free and open to all. Click here to register on eventbrite and be sent the zoom link if you would like to attend online.

Patrice Aggs is an American comics creator living in the UK since the early 1970s. She is best known for her comics for children, with strips in The DFC and then The Phoenix. Recent work includes illustrating the children's book Abigay's Farm by Odette Elliot and No Country by Joe Brady, a graphic novel telling the bleak tale of a family facing the arrival of civil war in their country, which seems increasingly prescient in 2022.

Her most recent work sees the illustrator turned writer, as the author of a new graphic novel It’s Her Story: Shirley Chisholm, illustrated by Markia Chenal, which relates the true story of the first black woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress in 1968, where she served seven terms, and also became in 1972 the first black person to seek nomination for President.

Patrice will be talking to Alex Fitch about these projects and more in our usual venue

The Southern Belle
3 Waterloo Street,
Hove BN3 1AQ / and online

Monday 26th September 2022

Doors: 7pm / Q&A from 7.30pm

Tickets are free but please register here to join us online or in person.