Jonathan Sandler on 28 November 2022
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
Susan Sainsbury on 31 October
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 on 26 September
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.
Henny Beaumont on Invisible People - 29 August 2022
This month's guest is Henny Beaumont, author of the graphic novel Hole in the Heart (Myriad Editions, 2016) a memoir about bringing up her daughter with Down's Syndrome. Henny has recently curated an exhibition at Worthing Museum - Invisible People - which mixes her own artwork with work created by people with learning difficulties and neurodiversity, supported by the charities Rocket Artists and Superstar Arts.
Invisible People is the outcome of Henny’s work as artist in residence with the British Institute of Learning Disabilities (BILD) and Respond UK, which help the health and social care sector’s understanding of trauma experienced by people with learning disabilities and by those on the autistic spectrum. The exhibition is open until Sunday 30 October.
Henny will be talking about how this exhibition builds on both her graphic novel work and her satirical illustrations that have been commissioned by The Guardian. One of these, entitled "Lost Generation," won the Political Cartoons Award for "Covid cartoon of the year" in 2021.
See more about the exhibition, and about Henny's work:
https://wtm.uk/events/exhibition-invisible-people-worthing
https://hennybeaumont.com
Monday 29th August
7.00pm. Talk starts 7.30
The Southern Belle
3 Waterloo Street
Hove BN3 1AQ
Free and open to all. If you can't make it in person, do join us via zoom.
Invisible People is the outcome of Henny’s work as artist in residence with the British Institute of Learning Disabilities (BILD) and Respond UK, which help the health and social care sector’s understanding of trauma experienced by people with learning disabilities and by those on the autistic spectrum. The exhibition is open until Sunday 30 October.
Henny will be talking about how this exhibition builds on both her graphic novel work and her satirical illustrations that have been commissioned by The Guardian. One of these, entitled "Lost Generation," won the Political Cartoons Award for "Covid cartoon of the year" in 2021.
See more about the exhibition, and about Henny's work:
https://wtm.uk/events/exhibition-invisible-people-worthing
https://hennybeaumont.com
Monday 29th August
7.00pm. Talk starts 7.30
The Southern Belle
3 Waterloo Street
Hove BN3 1AQ
Free and open to all. If you can't make it in person, do join us via zoom.
Julian Hanshaw with graphic novel Free Pass - 25 July
Julian Hanshaw's new graphic novel Free Pass (Penguin Random House) is a sci-fi satire. It follows two earlier works, Tim Ginger and Cloud Hotel. and is described as "an intoxicating new tale of liberty, privacy, and shame, set in the sticky place where sex, politics, and technology come together."
Julian has also continued to paint murals for branches of the Vietnamese restaurant chain Pho, and this year is the tenth anniversary of the first iteration of his location-based comic "Not Everybody Rises" which can be read at various points along the seawalk between Rye Harbour and Hastings.
See more about Free Pass here
... and an article on his site-specific comics
...and find Julian here on Instagram
July 25
7.30pm (doors 7pm)
The Southern Belle
3 Waterloo Street
Hove BN3 1AQ
