PAST SPEAKERS
Welcome to LDComic’s Past Speaker page, where you can explore amazing artists that have spoken at our monthly meet ups. To explore each artist further click the images to visit their websites.
Many more amazing speakers, who have spoken at our global online monthlies, can be found archived over at our youtube hub
Watch the December Online Global with guest speakers: Joe Berger, Kelly Froh and Shuchita Mishra, and hosted by Dr Nicola Streeten here.
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Nick Abadzis
New York based multi award winning graphic novelist, cartoonist and creator of Laika
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Asia Alfasi
Artist and Graphic novelist
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Samya Arif
Psychedelic, women-centric, exploratory.
Paloma Armás Front
Illustration and Comics paired with emotional narratives.
Anarya Draws
Illustrator, comic maker, and art educator based in Delhi, India
Dr. Victoria Anderson
London, UK based comics artist and academic collaboration with Wallis Eates on “Wings”
Catherine Anyango
Graphic novelist, Illustrator, Animator and Senior Lecturer in Illustration, Konstfack, Stockholm
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Tim Atkins
Poet and Comic artist
Bryony Attenburrow
Delicate, ‘ligne claire’ style combining surreal elements
Camille Aubry
Live illustration & cartoon
Sean Azzopardi
Autobiography
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Ross Bampflyde
Comic artist
Niki Bañados
Graphic designer and Comic artist
Sarah Bargiela
Sarah Bargiela, a clinical psychologist, author of Camouflage: The Hidden Lives of Autistic Women
Giuseppa Barresi
Illustrator, Animator and Instructional designer
Sayra Begum
Memory captured with pencils
Hannah Berry
Graphic novelist and Comic creator
Rob Bidder
Artist and comic who has worked in different mediums including video, performance, drawing, music, puppetry and comics
Anna Blomfield
Diary comics, Graphic Memoir
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Sammy Borras
Freelance illustrator, comic creator and comics colourist
Sarah Bowie
Freelance illustrator, comic creator and comics colourist
Gareth Brookes
Graphic novels, zines, art comics made using embroidery, printmaking and pyrography.
Emma Burleigh
Watercolour mainly – Illustrations and Comics. ‘My Other Mother’, a graphic novel about my adoption, will be published by Liminal 11 in 2023.
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Holly Casio
Queer zines and diy comics about pop culture, being fat, class, ocd, and Bruce Springsteen
Francesca Cassavetti
Illustrator and Cartoonist
Ricky K. Chandler
Cartoons / Humour / Kids / Self-help
John ‘Brick’ Clark
Political Cartoons and Comics
Colossive Press
Tom and Jane Murphy (plus Vince, our feline chief of staff) – eclectic producers of zines, comics and books, based in Penge, South-east London
Emma Cosh
Comic Artist and Illustrator
Darryl Cunningham
The award-winning author of Psychiatric Tales, Science Tales, Supercrash: How to Hijack the Global Economy (a New York Times bestseller), Graphic Science and Billionaires
MK Czerwiec
Comic artist
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Eleanor Davis
Cartoonist and Illustrator
Al Davison
Comic artist and Comic bookseller
Benjamin Dickson
Comic book writer and artist
John Cei Douglas
Illustrator and comic author based in London, specialising in narrative illustration and silent comics
Dominique Duong
Illustrator, comic artist and writer of queer fantasy and horror comics
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Hannah Eaton
Literary graphic novels
Wallis Eates
London, UK based comics artist and academic collaboration with Dr Victoria Anderson on “Wings”
Hunt Emerson
Comic artist and Illustrator
Neil Max Emmanuel
Illustration, motion GFX, storyboarding, visual facilitation, woodcut, medieval, historical, illumination
Kate Evans
Non fiction, biography, graphic reportage, children’s illustration, political cartoons, social activist
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Rebecca Fox
Artist and Graphic novelist
Dr Laura Findley
Research Assistant for Sistema, Scotland and the University of Dundee and writer of comics and non-fiction
Karrie Fransman
Comics and Visual Storytelling
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Joel Christian Gill
Cartoonist, historian, and Associate Professor of Illustration at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, USA.
Jane Glynn
Mixed media, Illustrator
Sarah Graley
Comic writer and artist
Jay Gunn
Comic artist and Author
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Ottillie Hainsworth
Graphic novelist and Illustrator – Diary Comics
Jess Hannar
Memoir and diary comics artist, with a special interest in physical & mental health.
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Emily Haworth-Booth
Illustrator and Comics artist
Micheline Hess
Comic book creator and Digital painter
Ali Hodgson
Values-led graphic artist and graduate of The Royal College of Art, on a mission to make the world a better place though visual storytelling
Laura Hole
Illustrator and Comic-maker
Karoline Holhjem
Visual communication – Illustration
Gareth A Hopkins
Art and Illustration
Rachael House
UK artist who makes events, objects, performance, drawings and zines
Lauren Howell
Comic artist, Illustrator and writer
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Sarah Ingram
Comic artist
Fez Inkwright
Bristol-based illustrator who’s main focus lies in conservation, folklore, and tattoo design, with heavy occult and ethnobotanical themes.
Carol Isaacs’ (aka The Surreal McCoy)
Cartoonist and musician
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Monique Jackson
Artist and Long Covid Advocate.
Eleanor Janega
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John Jennings
Designer, Curator, Illustrator and Cartoonist
Rebecca K. Jones
Illustrator and comics artist
Bobby Joseph
Graphic novelist
Aimee De Jongh
Award winning Dutch cartoonist, animator, and illustrator
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Sabba Khan
Newham-based South Asian Muslim visual artist, graphic novelist and architectural designer
Akhila Krishnan
Multi-disciplinary – Graphic Narratives
Priya Kuriyan
Children’s Book Author, Illustrator, Animator and Comics Maker
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Lee Lai
Comics artist who talked about forthcoming book ‘Stone Fruit’
Nicola Lane
Artist
Lana Lê
Editorial, Sequential
Sarah Leavitt
Author of the graphic memoir Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me (2010) and the horror/historical fiction comic Agnes, Murderess (2019)
Cedar Lewisohn
Artist, Writer and Curator
Sarah Lippett
Graphic novelist – non-fiction
Anne Mette Kærulf Lorentzen
Danish graphic novelist and architect, based in Copenhagen.
Sophia Luu
Designer
Kane Lynch
Cartoonist and educator based in Portland, Oregon, USA
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Mita Mahato
Cut paper, collage, poetry comix, experimental
Bruna Martini
Graphic Novelist
Michi Mathias
Hand-drawn Ink & Watercolour
Kitty McEwan
Illustrator, comic artist, zinester
Hannah Miller
Cartoonist using clay and comic formats
Simon Moreton
An artist and zine-maker based in Bristol, UK.
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Dr Golnar Nabizadeh
Lecturer in Comic Studies at the University of Dundee, author of the recently published book Representation and Memory in Graphic Novels
Aleesha Nandhra
London based illustrator, printmaker and comics artist
Natasha Natarajan
Autobiographical comic strip, Interdisciplinary visual artist
Danny Noble
Mostly autobiographical stories and mischievous comic strips. Officially funny since September 2020
Alex Norris
London based comics artist and creator of Webcomic Name launched in 2016
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Virpi Oinonen
Quirky Factual Comics About Big Ideas
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Caroline Parkinson
A clean, dynamic style combining traditional line art and Photoshop
Jayde Perkin
Painterly Comics
Tony Pickering
Graphic Medicine
Weng Pixin
Artist working in a range of medium from painting, drawing, making comics to sewing and constructing using found objects
Jane Porter
Pen, ink and wash
Pops
Artist exploring themes such as sexualities, feminisms, migrations and politics. Pops is influenced by bubble graffiti, poetry, history, etc. I use striking colours and tenderness to transform harsh realities.
Candice Purwin
Illustrator, writer and animator living and working in Edinburgh
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Louise Rabey
Narrative Illustrator
Joan Reilly
Freelance illustrator and comics-maker since 1996
The Rickard Sisters
Scarlett and Sophie Rickard are graphic novelists collaborators. Sophie writes, Scarlett draws.
Teresa Robertson
Illustrator
Sheila Roosiwitha Putri
Award winning Indonesian cartoonist
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Gordon Shaw
Illustrator and comic-maker, living and working in Leith, Edinburgh
Zara Slattery
Graphic novelist, author of ‘Coma’, illustrator and tutor
Rachael Smith
Comic Creator and Illustrator.
Si Smith
Illustrator and Comic-maker, realism
Beata Sosnowska
Multimedia artist, poet, comic illustrator, experimental filmmaker and graphic designer from Poland
Mark Stafford
Cartoonist and Illustrator
Sophie Standing
Sophie Standing is based in the Seychelle and combines applique and free motion embroidery to create her artwork
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Lucy Sullivan
Illustrator, comic artist and animator
John Swogger
Freelance Archaeological Illustrator
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Rachita Taneja
Webcomic Artist
Irushi Tennekoon
Comic Artist, Illustrator and Animator
Sally Jane Thompson
Comic creator and Illustrator
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Donya Todd
Artist, Illustrator and Comic book maker
Myfanwy Tristram
Comic Artist
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Alice Urbino
Illustrator and Comic Artist
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Siiri Viljakka
Visual and sequential artist from Turku, Finland
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Dana Walrath
Collage and Graphite
Angela Watson
New York based psychotherapist and skilled leader of coaching, mentoring and training strategies in both social work and education
Tamara Webster
Illustrator and Animator
Letty Wilson
Ecological and folk horror/ fantasy/ fiction
Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom
Comics, illustrations
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Tessa Yates
Author and Illustrator of Children’s Books