Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Saturday 24 April
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
From zine to seen, it’s a long way to the shop for comics creators. Hear success stories (and tales of horror) about getting published, working with an agent and selling overseas.
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
Queenie Chan
Queenie Chan was born in 1980 in Hong Kong, and migrated to Australia when she was six years old. In 2004, she began drawing a 3-volume mystery-horror series called The Dreaming for LA-based manga publisher TOKYOPOP. To date, it has been translated into multiple languages.
She has since collaborated on a single-volume graphic novel called In Odd We Trust with publisher Del Rey, a prequel to the Odd Thomas series of novels by New York Times best-selling author Dean Koontz. A sequel is forth-coming in 2010. In 2009, she also provided art for the Boys Book of Positive Quotations, by best-selling inspirational author Steve Deger.
Apart from her professional work, she also draws a number of online comic strips on her personal site: http://www.queeniechan.com/
Nicki Greenberg
Nicki Greenberg is a writer and illustrator based in Melbourne, Australia. Her first books, The Digits series, were published when she was fifteen years old. They sold more than 380,000 copies in Australia and New Zealand.
In 2008 Nicki’s innovative graphic adaptation of The Great Gatsby was selected as a White Raven at the Bologna Book Fair. She then went on to tackle Hamlet in a lavish 425-page “staging on the page”. Hamlet was joint winner of the 2011 Children’s Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year award.
Nicki’s recent picture books for young children include The Naughtiest Reindeer, Monkey Red, Monkey Blue and BOM! Went the Bear. She has also written and illustrated non-fiction for children.
Nicki is currently working on several picture books for children, including a sequel to The Naughtiest Reindeer.
Oslo Davis
Oslo Davis is an illustrator, cartoonist and artist who has drawn for a number of organisations worldwide, including the New York Times, the Age, the Monthly, Meanjin, SBS and the Guardian.
He has also been commissioned to draw for the National Gallery of Victoria, the Golden Plains music festival, State Library Victoria and Melbourne Writers Festival, among many others. Oslo’s latest book is Overheard - The Art of Eavesdropping.
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.