Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Saturday 24 April
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Where to for the Australian graphic novel? How will it adapt to the radical changes in print publishing? Will it be part of a brave new world in which comics become the future of narrative? Artists, commentators and publishers will speculate, deride, and egg each other on to ever greater claims…
This session is one of five Saturday events. Single session tickets can be booked via the link on the right or book a day pass for all five.
Featuring
Bernard Caleo
Bernard Caleo is a comic book teacher, maker, and communicator. He was the editor and publisher of the romance comics anthology Tango, made the feature film Graphic Novels Melbourne with filmmaker Daniel Hayward and is part of the graphic novel publishing enterprise Twelve Panels Press. In 2021 he started a PhD at the University of Melbourne's Creative Writing program, the outcome of which will be a comic book set in Melbourne in 1888, and a written thesis examining how Australian comic books create Australian places.
Dylan Horrocks
Dylan Horrocks was born in 1966 in Auckland, New Zealand and has lived in New Zealand, England, USA and Bougainville. He currently lives by the sea near Auckland with his wife and two sons.
10 issues of his comic book Pickle were published by Black Eye (1992-97) and his graphic novel Hicksville was published in 1998, also by Black Eye. Hicksville has since been reprinted by Drawn & Quarterly and has been translated into French, Italian and Spanish.
Dylan’s comics won an Eisner Award in 2002 (Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition) and have been nominated for a number of Ignatz Awards, Harvey Awards and Prix d'Alph'Art (including Best Album and the Critics' Prize).
He has drawn strips for magazines and books in New Zealand, Australia, England, USA, France and Canada and has also done illustration work in most of those countries. He drew a weekly political strip for the NZ Listener called Milo’s Week from 1995-97 and regularly draws political cartoons for the NZ Political Review and other magazines.
In 1998 he produced Spin - a comic for New Zealand’s Ministry of Youth Affairs on ways of dealing with emotional distress. In 2001 he produced Red Hot - a comic about Hepatitis C, in collaboration with Timothy Kidd
Dylan has also written about comics for magazines in New Zealand and America and has taught cartooning and comics history courses. He regularly lectures on comics to university, polytech and graphics students. He is a Contributing Editor of the International Journal of Comic Art and was for several years a regular columnist for Pavement magazine. In 1998 he assembled an exhibition of New Zealand comics called Nga Pakiwaituhi o Aotearoa: New Zealand Comics, which showed at the Small Press Expo/International Comics and Animation Festival in USA. Dylan also edited and published the show’s catalogue, which was nominated for a Goodie Award for Best Publication about Comics.
He has also written comics for DC Comics and Vertigo, including 25 issues of Hunter: the Age of Magic, 19 issues of Batgirl and 3 issues of Legends of the Dark Knight and is currently working on a new series for Drawn & Quarterly called Atlas and a graphic novel for Top Shelf, among other things.
Zoë Sadokierski
Zoë Sadokierski is a book designer, illustrator and writer.
She wrote her doctoral thesis on hybrid novels – novels in which graphic devices such as photographs, drawings, and experimental typography are integrated into the written text (or, books with pictures in them) – at the University of Technology, Sydney, where she currently lectures in the School of Design. Her favourite colours are red and stripes.
W. Chew Chan
- Chew “chewie” Chan is an experienced comic book and storyboard artist who has worked on a number of projects: from comic books (Iron Man, Buckaroo Banzai and Cthulhu Tales) to major movie productions (Superman Returns and Happy Feet).
An avid proponent of the comics medium, he is the Comics Consultant for the Kinokuniya Bookstores of
Australia and was Graphic Novels Supervisor for Kennedy Miller Mitchell, where he also worked extensively on Warner Bros' Justice League Mortal.
George Dunford
George Dunford has been writing about graphic novels since 1994 when he wrote a history thesis about the censorship of comic books.
He’s since created stories about comics for Australian Bookseller & Publisher, Meanjin and Radio National’s The Book Show. As a Melbourne-based freelance writer he’s written for Lonely Planet, the Big Issue and the Age Good Food Guide*. His novel manuscript was recently longlisted for the CAL/Scribe Prize. Recently he created an iPhone app, Essential Melbourne.