What a great event we hosted last night!
Thanks to our speakers @fionnuala4000 , @brunamartiniart and @myfanwytristram for sharing their inspiring work.
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📣 Introducing April Online Meet-up speaker, Fionnuala Doran 📣
Fionnuala Doran is an artist, writer and academic. She is currently developing a graphic novel about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and likes to share her drawings of TV’s premiere Obsessive Compulsive Detective- Adrian MONK.
Her graphic novel, The Trial of Roger Casement, is published by Self Made Hero.
🗓️ Monday 13 April at 7.15pm GMT
🔗 Get your ticket for the April Online Meet-up with the link in our bio
@fionnuala4000
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📣 Introducing April Online Meet-up speaker, Bruna Martini 📣
Bruna Martini is a graphic novelist, motion designer, and multimedia artist with over 15 years of experience in video production for broadcast and web platforms. She has authored several graphic novels published in Italy, including Patria, Crescere in tempo di guerra and Roots-Radici. Her work often explores themes of migration, identity, and memory, blending personal narratives with historical contexts. In addition to her creative writing, she is a visiting lecturer in Illustration at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Portsmouth and Chichester.
@brunamartiniart
📆 Monday 13 April at 7:15pm GMT
🔗 Get your ticket for the April Online Meet-up with the link in our bio
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📣 Introducing April Online Meet-up speaker, Myfanwy Tristram 📣
We’re delighted to welcome back Myfanwy Tristram to talk about her new graphic novel, Noisy Valley, which is coming out with SelfMadeHero this May. Based on true stories from residents of one small Welsh community, it aims to challenge current narratives of protest as dangerous, unwelcome and increasingly illegal, instead depicting activism as a creative and joyful act.
Myf will share how she approached the project, and tell you one big thing that went wrong... so you can avoid doing the same!
@myfanwytristram
🔗 Get your ticket for the April Online Meet-up with the link in our bio
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Join us on Monday 13 April for our next Global Online Meet-up 🥳
Our guests this month are:
👉 Myfanwy Tristram - telling us about her new graphic novel, Noisy Valley. Based on true stories from residents of one small Welsh community, it aims to challenge current narratives of protest.
@myfanwytristram
👉 Bruna Martini - telling us about a number of projects including: ‘The swing’, a short graphic novel about grief for her mum who passed away last year of cancer, and ‘The adventure’, a baby comic strip which is being published in a number of magazines (Fictionable, Boxes, Lo Spazio Bianco).
@brunamartiniart
👉 Fionnuala Doran - telling us about developing a graphic novel about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
@fionnuala4000
The details:
🗓️ Monday 13 April 19:15 GMT
💻 Online on Zoom
🔗 Link in bio to book your tickets
We look forward to seeing you there!
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📣 Introducing our March Online Meet-up speaker, Helen Jones 📣
Helen Jones is co-director of Yo Comics!, a comics fair for and by young people. She will be talking about the event and why she recognises the importance of creating spaces for young people to publish and share their comics making with an audience.
Helen is a lecturer in Primary Education at UCL Institute of Education. She is also a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths, conducting an action research project to explore children’s comics making, extra-curricular spaces for learning and the use of comics in education. Alongside Lucy Starbuck Braidley, she has written a soon to be published book called Comics in the Classroom, all about the practical ways comics can be used in education.
@yocomicsfair
🔗 Get your ticket for the March Online Meet-up with the link in our bio
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📣 Introducing our March Online Meet-up speaker, ILYA 📣
ILYA is a UK-based writer/artist who will be discussing the making of his latest Original Graphic Novel, ROMO the WolfBoy. The novel is an all-ages comedic-action-mystery with a period setting, in the plus-text tradition of Posy Simmonds, merged with early newspaper strip graphics.
ILYA (Ed) is a near 40-year veteran of international comics, having worked for publishers in the UK, USA, across Europe and even Japan. In his time he’s pretty much done it all: a literal SelfMadeHero.
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🔗 Get your ticket for the March Online Meet-up with the link in our bio
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Join us on Monday 9 March for our next Global Online Meet-up 🥳
Our guests this month are:
👉 ILYA - will be discussing his graphic novel, ROMO the WolfBoy, an all-ages comedic action mystery with a period setting.
edilya.substack.com
👉 Helen Jones - will be telling us about her role as co-director of Yo Comics!, a comics fair for and by young people. Plus, her co-written book, Comics in the Classroom.
@yocomicsfair
👋 Meet the new LDComics team - we will be introducing ourselves and our new roles within the team.
The details:
🗓️ Monday 9 March, 19:15 GMT
💻 Online on Zoom
🔗 Link in bio to book your tickets
We look forward to seeing you there!
#comicartists #LDComics
LDComics has a new team, and a new look! 🔥
Don’t worry, our promise of supporting comic creators through their comics journey won’t change, and we will continue to provide opportunities for learning and sharing work ❤️
What you will see is us making some improvements behind the scenes in order to keep our comics community thriving. Here’s what we’re working on:
📺 Updating our YouTube page so you can catch up on all previous global online meet-ups. We have built a collection of excellent talks by comic makers from all over the world that you can access at any time
💻 Improving our website for better accessibility and navigation
👋 Planning in-person events and fairs across the UK (and perhaps further afield in the future)
✨ And of course continuing to platform comic artists from across the world during our Global Online Meet-ups on every second Monday of the month.
Here are the dates for your diary: March 9th | April 13th | May 11th | June 8th
All meetings start at 19:15 GMT, and take place over Zoom
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⚡️Is there anything you want to see us work on or improve? Get in touch at [email protected] ⚡️
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A week tomorrow! Join us as we welcome three new guests for our first LDC Online Global monthly of the year.
Jade King is a comic artist and zine maker who self-publishes mini comics, often about food, drugs or body horror. This includes the Tina & Britney series about the downtrodden and bratty (respectively) teenage mermaid sisters. She started Weird Canteen zine, about the strange side of food, with profits going to charity. She is from Portsmouth and lives in London.
Find out more about Jade by visiting and following her here on Instagram at @jade.ming@weirdcanteen
Link to book your FREE spot in bio!
While you're on our profile page, check out our other two guests too 🔥
We are thrilled to welcome Maureen Burdock as one of our amazing guests for the next LDC global online monthly on Feb 9th!
Book your FREE space. Link in bio 🔥
Maureen Burdock, PhD, is a graphic novelist, writer, educator, and comics coach working across graphic memoir, cultural studies, and Graphic Medicine. She is the author of Queen of Snails, Sleepless Planet, and Feminist Fables for the Twenty-First Century, and is a contributor to award-winning anthologies. Her teaching emphasizes attunement, curiosity, and longform creative practice.
Check out more of Maureen's work here:
Website: /
Socials:
Facebook: /mburdock
Instagram: /maureenburdock/
