Come and join us on Monday 31st March where we're in for graphic entertainment by Richy K. Chandler, creator of Lucy the Octopus and co-creator of Rosie and Jacinda. The town: Brighton; the venue: upstairs at The Cricketers, Black Lion Street; the time: 6pm onwards, with interview at 7.30pm.
Richy has written for the Wallace & Gromit newspaper strip plus Almost Naked Animals and Adventure Time comics.
As well as contributing to anthologies like Score & Script, The Girly Comic and Wu Wei, he is the originator / editor of WASP (Webcomic Artist Swap Project).
He also teaches comic creation to children and adults.
http://www.tempolush.com/
http://lucytheoctopus.net/

Our next session on Monday 24 February features the highly talented London-based artist and blogger Isobel Williams, who will be talking us through her work drawing in the UK Supreme Court - with the court’s permission (as seen on http://isobelwilliams.blogspot.co.uk/ and http://ukscblog.com ). Isobel came to this position via her drawings of the Occupy camps. Her personal blog, about drawing in society, is appropriately called ‘Drawing from an uncomfortable position’. Drawings and the lowdown on the law at 7pm, Monday, 24 February upstairs at the Cricketers, Black Lion Street, Brighton - open to all cartoonists and comics-minded folk.

Gareth Brookes and ILYA are our special guests at the 20th anniversary meeting of Cartoon County on Monday 2nd December. Gareth Brookes was winner of the inaugural 2012 First Graphic Novel Competition, and his book, The Black Project, was published in September by Myriad Editions. ILYA, the pen-name of Ed Hillyer, is the author of the graphic novel ROOM, just published by SelfMade Hero. Gareth will be interviewed by Fraser Geesin for podcast by Mindless Ones, and ILYA by Alex Fitch for broadcast by Resonance FM.

Cartoon County was the inspiration of comics fan David Edgar-Booth, who saw that Sussex was a creative hub of cartooning and wanted to create a network for local cartoonists. Coordinated by David Lloyd and Corinne Pearlman, with Fraser Geesin, Alex Fitch and a regular band of supporters, it meets (usually!) on the last Monday of every month, save Bank Holidays, away days and special occasions like this. Join us upstairs at The Cricketers, 15 Black Lion Street, Brighton, BN1 1ND from 6pm (interviews start 7pm).

Join us on Monday 28 October when some of Brighton's finest comic artists, illustrators and writers get together to discuss their contributions to this amazing new collection of graphic stories about Brighton's most quirky, fantastical and dubious past. Mentored by Tim Pilcher and Paul Collicutt, with a cover and preface by Bryan Talbot, Brighton: The Graphic Novel gave the opportunity for new teams of artists and writers to collaborate: we'll ask them how they found the process. Brighton: The Graphic Novel is published by Queenspark. We meet at The Cricketers, Black Lion Street, Brighton from 6pm until late: interviews by Resonance FM comics journalist Alex Fitch start at 7.30pm.

We have two great guests for your entertainment this coming Monday - Hannah Eaton, whose debut graphic novel Naming Monsters has just been published by Myriad Editions, and the venerable Glenn Fabry, who can now reveal all about Mute, the graphic novel he is working on with film director Duncan Jones for Dark Horse.

So please join us on Monday evening from 6pm until late - interviews from 7.30pm, at the Cricketers, Black Lion Street, Brighton BN1 1ND. Sandwiches on us, and open to all.

‘A confident and assured debut graphic novel from Eaton, hugely enjoyable’ Richard Bruton, Forbidden Planet International
More about Naming Monsters here