Martin Rowson is our guest this month and will be chatting with Alex Fitch about his career in political cartooning so far,
his current live tour 'Giving the Gift of Offence', recent collected books of his work such as The Love Songs of Late Capitalism, and illustrating The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy by Phillipe Sands.

More info at: https://www.martinrowson.com/

Monday November 20th
Please note: this is a week earlier than our normal last Monday of the month.

doors open at 6.30pm
Q&A at 7.30pm

The Walrus
10 Ship Street,
Brighton BN1 1AD

As we expect a capacity crowd this month, ALL attendees both in person and online will need to register in advance via eventbrite.

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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

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