Linework: Jillian Tamaki and Lee Lai
Sunday, 4 Aug 2024, 10:00am - Sunday, 11 Aug 2024, 11:59pm
Past event
In this conversation, Lee Lai and Jillian Tamaki examine the tactile and embodied nature of comics.
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About the Event
Whether you impatiently page through panels or fall headfirst into the gutter, comics are a literary form that invite the reader in like no other. A new world appears in a brushstroke; a mark on the page can shift your mood, break your heart, swallow you whole. In this conversation, friends Jillian Tamaki and Lee Lai draw on their years-long artistic practices to think through the pleasures, pains and processes of comics making.
Presented in partnership with Liminal
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About Liminal Festival
Bringing together some of the continent’s most talented writers, the Liminal Festival contemplates the language of our shared histories and future.
The Liminal Festival is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.
Featuring
Lee Lai is an Australian cartoonist living in Tio’tia:ke (known as Montreal, Quebec). She has been featured in The New Yorker, McSweeneys, The New York Times and others, and was recently named one of the 5 under 35 honorees by the National Book Foundation. Her first graphic novel, Stone Fruit, was... Read more
Jillian Tamaki is a cartoonist, illustrator, and educator raised in Calgary, Alberta. She is the author of the Eisner Award-winning graphic novels SuperMutant Magic Academy and Boundless, and the author-illustrator of two picture books, including most recently Our Little Kitchen. With her cousi... Read more
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