LDComics Board Members
Our Artists
Meet the creative team behind LDC!
We’re a group of artists who specialise in creating comics. We volunteer our time to coordinating events because we truly believe in the transformative power of our craft! Before we are organisers, we are part and full time artists!
If you’d like the opportunity to work with one of us, click on the profiles for more information on each volunteer.
NICOLA STREETEN
is an anthropologist-turned-illustrator and comics scholar. Her graphic memoir Billy, Me & You, published by Myriad Editions in 2011, is the first long form graphic memoir by a British woman to have been published and was awarded Highly Commended in the Popular Medicine category of the British Medical Association Medical Book Awards 2012.
WALLIS EATES
Wallis began creating autobiographical comics and has since turned her hand to collaborations. She has produced comics with prisoners, adults with dementia, amateur boxers and is currently working on ‘Like an Orange’ with Cast Iron Books - a long form graphic narrative about the brain injury survivors she met during a residency at the charity Headway. Wallis runs the 'Safe Space for Hard Stories' strand for LDC, an online reflective practice support group for autobiographical comic makers.
LANA LÈ
Lana Lê – aka woolypear – is an American illustrator who specialises in portraits, sequential art, and is based in London. Currently, she’s drawing a graphic memoir about a birthmarked war refugee. Active in her creative community, Lana organises meet-ups for the Association of Illustrators, LD Comics, and hosts Artist Chats. She also teaches drawing and facilitates craft workshops.
LOUISE CROSBY
Leeds LDC host. Lou is a illustrator, poet & printmaker and combines these in a project
called Seeing Poetry - Poetry in words and comics.
Most of her work centres around poetry or
non-fiction comics. She is presently juggling a few
new projects.
EMMA BURLEIGH
Bristol Co-ordinator. Emma Burleigh is developing a graphic memoir about her reunion with her birth mother who relinquished her for adoption as a baby. In March 2018 the work won The Laydeez do Comics Women’s Prize for Unpublished Graphic Novels in Progress.
PAST & PRESENT LDC ASSOCIATES
An increasing number of branches have been started around the UK and around the globe with more in the planning stages. On this page we introduce you to the organisers past and present…our “sisters” around the globe.
PREVIOUS GUESTS
Check out out list of previous guest speakers. This page is a bit messy but will be cleaned up with we have the time! (If you’d like to volunteer to do it for us – amazing! Get in touch)
GET INVOLVED
Become a guest speaker, or better yet, start you’re own meet up! We’re a volunteer organisation, so we could do with all the help and support you’d like to offer : ) There are a few ways to get involved with LDC