Get a crash course on the history of autobiographical graphic novels and seize this opportunity to learn scriptwriting and the visual grammar of comics.
Cartoonist and illustrator Mandy Ord will share her passion for autobiographical comics as well as her practical and creative approach to writing engaging personal stories. Methods for representing the self as a character and the writing through lived experience will be at the core of the workshop. Focusing on the powerful combination of words and pictures central to the dual language of comics, Mandy will demonstrate how a technical approach can balance the playful spontaneity that is essential to comics creation.
- Workshop: Saturday 26 July, 10am—4pm
- Where: The Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
- With: Mandy Ord
About the Tutor
Mandy Ord is a Naarm/Melbourne based cartoonist and illustrator with a long history of self-publishing autobiographical comics. Her first book RooQops was followed by Sensitive Creatures receiving a White Ravens award at the Bologna Book Fair. In 2018 she illustrated Chalk Boy written by Margaret Wild which was shortlisted in 2019 by the CBCA for Picture Book of the Year. In 2020 her book When One Person Dies the Whole World is Over was longlisted for The Stella Prize. Bulk Nuts was published in 2023.