At this month's Cartoon County on Monday 29 September we are hosting a talk with Dan Locke and Laura Malacart about their graphic novel project on autism. This is yet another example of the continuing and growing uses of graphic storytelling in detailing and describing a wide variety of subjects in fact rather than fiction - this time on the widely-misunderstood condition of autism. This terrific work will be on show and discussed in a recorded conversation with Dan and Laura, which will start at 7.30, under the expert management of Alex Fitch. All welcome at The Cricketers, Black Lion Street, Brighton, from 6pm until late. Read more about the project on the YES! blog.

Now you see it, now you don’t. Twelve of Brighton’s brightest graphic novelists strip off in five minutes to show you how they use their kit, and what they’re using it for, as part of Brighton Digital Festival.

Cartoon County, the Sussex Association of Cartoonists and Comic Strip Artists hosts comics entertainment courtesy of Nicola Streeten, Hannah Eaton, Nye Wright, Ian Williams, Dan Locke, Hannah Berry, Paul Collicutt, Patrice Aggs, Joe Decie, Muna Al-Jawad, Sally Jane Hurst and compered by Cartoon County's erstwhile interviewer Fraser Geesin. Conducted in association with local publisher Myriad Editions. Tips for aspiring sequential story-tellers – you know who you are. Presenters have been asked to submit around ten images each, and to show and tell on the topic of their choice, or latest work-in-progress, with a digital twist in homage to the festival. Please join us: it's free, and fun.