Discovering our Collections through Comic Books

Join the Wellcome Collection library team for an interactive workshop designed to help you explore comics in our collection.

What you’ll do

Join Ed Bishop and Océane Lacanau from the Wellcome Collection library team for an interactive workshop designed to help you explore our collections and inspire your own research projects.

In this hour-long session, you’ll receive an introduction to comic books, which are books or magazines that use sequences of drawings to narrate a story. The comic books in our collections generally relate to health and wellbeing.

You'll be able to examine items from our collection and create your own comic strip from materials provided in the workshop – no previous experience is necessary.

This workshop is open to all levels and backgrounds but will be especially suited to those who are new to Wellcome Collection or at the beginning of their research journey.

About your facilitators

Ed Bishop

Ed is a Library Experience and Engagement Facilitator who has worked at Wellcome for many years. He has in-depth knowledge of engaging with the collections.

Océane Lacanau

Océane is a Library Experience and Engagement Facilitator at Wellcome. She revels in everything creative and whimsical. She has a specific fondness for books and video games and how they allow you to become an active learner when it comes to the many conditions of the human psyche.

Need to know

Location

We’ll be in the Viewing Room. It’s next to the Library entrance on level 2, which you can reach by taking the lift or the stairs.

Place not guaranteed

Booking a ticket for a free, in-person event does not guarantee you a place. You should aim to arrive 15 minutes before the event is scheduled to start to claim your place. If you do not arrive on time, your place may be given to someone on the waiting list.

Waiting list

If this event is fully booked, you may still be able to attend. We will operate a waiting list, which opens 30 minutes before this event starts. Arrive early, and we’ll give you a numbered ticket. If there are any unfilled places just before the start time, we will invite you to enter in order of ticket number.

For more information, please visit our Accessibility page. If you have any queries about accessibility, please email us at access@wellcomecollection.org or call 020 7611 2222.

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Image credit: Photo: David Sandison. Source: Wellcome Collection. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0