Laydeez Review

The Astor Room -The Freeword Centre,

REVIEWS: A total of 24 x 50 min sessions are available from a choice of 6 reviewers

Rachael Ball, Wallis Eates, Kate Evans, Karrie Fransman, Simone Lia, and Una

Six of these sessions will be offered to the shortlisted entries as part of their prize.

Extra sessions are now being offered initially to the wider community. Male or female cartoonists or artists with an interest in graphic novel storytelling.

In the event of any spaces remaining it will then be made more widely available to all genders. The cost of a review is at a heavily subsidised cost of £27 and this has been made possible by our Arts Council funding. These reviews must be booked and paid for in advance and bookings are non-refundable. In the case of signing up and then being shortlisted, the payment will be refunded.

FORMAT

The sessions will be 50 mins long and applicants must bring a print or copy of their work to be reviewed on the day and are asked to include a short synopsis. The review/ mentoring session will include a critical response to artworks and projects along with advice on a practical and artistic level. The sessions can also be opportunities to ask for professional development advice. The reviews will take the format of the first 15 mins for the reviewer to look through the work and the remaining 35 mins of feedback, discussion and mentoring.

Applicants can choose one session with a reviewer of their choice from the list below on a first come/ first served basis.

REVIEWERS

Rachael Ball is a cartoonist and workshops teacher.

Her graphic novel The Inflatable Woman (Bloomsbury) was a Guardian Best graphic novel 2015. Her GN Wolf is due out Sept 2018 (Self Made Hero.) She will be running a ‘Graphic novel your Life’ course at the HOI in August. She is also a coordinator for Laydeez do comics (London.)

rachaelball.tumblr.com

IG: ballrachael

Twitter: @rachaelcartoons

Wallis Eates is an autobiographical and collaborative comics artist whose works have been shortlisted for the Myriad Editions First Graphic Novel, and Broken Frontier awards. Her latest project, ‘Like an Orange’ is about the brain injury survivors she met through the charity Headway, and is due out with Unbound Books. She also coordinates Laydeez do comics (London branch.)

walliseates.tumblr.com

Twitter: @walliseates

Kate Evans is a cartoonist, artist and activist. Author of Red Rosa, and the award-winning graphic novel Threads from the Refugee Crisis. She has also written Funny Weather, a graphic guide to climate change, Copse, about environmental protest, The Food of Love, on breastfeeding and Bump, about pregnancy and birth.

www.cartoonkate.co.uk

Facebook: Cartoon Kate

Twitter: @cartoonkate

Karrie Fransman is a comic creator. She tells visual stories in books, newspapers, animations, sculptures and in virtual reality. She has published two graphic novels 'The House That Groaned' and 'Death of the Artist' (Penguin Random House). Her comics strips and graphic stories have been published by The Guardian, The Times, Time Out, The Telegraph, The New Statesman, The Young Vic, Psychologies Magazine, The Arts Council, The Goethe Institute and The British Red Cross. www.karriefransman.com"

Simone Lia has over twenty years experience working with image, text and story since studying illustration at the University of Brighton and then completing a Masters in visual communication at the Royal College of Art. Her graphic novels include Fluffy (2009, Jonathan Cape) and Please God, Find Me a Husband (2012, Jonathan Cape.) She creates a weekly comic strip for The Observer.

www.simonelia.com

Una is an artist/writer. She has published a novel, Becoming/Unbecoming (2015, Myriad Editions) and a short story, On Sanity: One Day In Two Lives (2016). Becoming/Unbecoming has been critically acclaimed, adopted onto curricula and widely translated. Una is currently working on a graphic commission for New Writing North and a graphic novel for Virago.

unacomics.com

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