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artist, writer, architect, comrade 🧧🧿
I ATE THE WHOLE WORLD TO FIND YOU out now from @drawnandquarterly & @scribepub

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🎉📣In the EXPERIMENTAL CATEGORY, the award goes to:

The Passenger
by Rachel Ang @rtwa

💧Listen to Rachel talking about The Passenger!

💧Our heartiest congratulations to Rachel, and to everyone who submitted to the Monsoon Awards, including all our wonderfully talented Finalists!💙

✨💖Keep making comics, everyone!

#comicsaward #asiancomics #comics #monsoonawards

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Finally had the time to photograph my @makecomicsfestival haul from last weekend. My priority for this market was buying books from friends and peers whose works I'd been meaning to buy for a while, so less zines than usual, more Tomes. (that being said, I couldn't resist picking up the new Shaun Tan, which almost made me cry.) I still missed out on a few books!!!

Shout out to my lovely table mate @kellysketches.comics for keeping me company + keeping me sane while I tried to survive my first post-pyelonephritis/sepsis comics market! I did better than expected 😅

And thank you to everyone who dropped by to tell me they appreciated my work and asked after my next projects, it means a lot and will get me through the upcoming months of screaming and crying while drawing comic pages.

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We're over a day removed from @makecomicsfestival weekend, and after a day of being dead to the world, I feel like I might be able to find some words to help express how I'm feeling.

One of our committee members said it best when they called it a life-affirmingly good weekend. We got to spend all weekend surrounded by the most passionate, generous, caring, supportive and talented people, and we played a part in bringing them into the same spaces at the same time. The Australian comics community is so incredible, and willing to go so far out of their way and give so much of their time just to make the community grow and become stronger. Every single person that touched this weekend in any way, from speakers to tablers to patrons to organisers to volunteers all brought such an incredible positive energy, and a high that is hard to come down from.

Thank you so much to the speakers, panelists, tablers and especially the volunteers that took a chance on our start up festival. You came from all over Australia and put your trust in us, MAKE doesn't exist without you doing that for us. I'm so humbled and thankful to all of you, I hope you had a great experience and we can pay back your trust by making things bigger and better for you in the future.

Our fellow committee members are such an amazing group of people, we came together like a puzzle and pulled it off together, with so many people giving so much to get the event across the line. I can't imagine it happening without any one of them, and I'm already excited to get together to bring the next one to life.

-->Swipe to the next one photo, go on, I've got more to say, though to be fair, it's just going to be more yapping.-->

There are so many more people to thank, venues and coordinators that gave their space and time, those that helped us through fundraisers, everyone who said something nice to us when I was at max anxiety and ready to explode. I'm overwhelmed with the gratitude that I feel towards so many people. I had the chance to speak to so many of you, but I also missed out on speaking to a ton of people over the course of the weekend, I wish I could have let my mind slow down and talk to everyone, espec

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Great day yesterday at Kensington Town Hall for @makecomicsfestival !

Big turn-out. Huge.

So stoked to get to know the faces behind the instagram handles and pick up works from:

@md_____blue
@sj.sabbagh
@lugggs
@_mattblue_
@benjis.stories
@linkraptorart
@madimarston
@stacygougoulis
@rtwa
@stickwriter
@studiobeedraws
@arielries
@chrisgooch44

...and more – still unpacking my boxes.

Also thanks to Steven for tabling with me through my first fair 🙏, and of course Bel 😘

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Inaugural MAKE comics haul!! @makecomicsfestival organised by the preeminent @reimenayee ✨️ looking forward to more MAKE festivals forever and ever, for 1000 years!!!

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MELBOURNE ALTERNATIVE COMICS EXPO - PART 1

On Friday night, Jel and I went to SPEAKING TO PICTURES, the opening event for the inaugural Melbourne Alternative Comics Expo (aka MAKE) at the Wheeler Centre.

Seven comics artists read from their work while the art was projected on screen.

Host Aaron Billings started with a comedic story about a cigarette genie trying to find a place to smoke in the JetStar lounge.

Eloise Grills and Rachel Ang both read stories about pregnancy.

Joshua Santospirito read an interview with his partner about her chronic illness and the need to find joy.

Mandy Ord read three short stories about living in Canberra as a uni student.

Bailey Sharp read some short stories about Sixties girl group The Shangri-Las.

And Shaun Tan finished the evening reading from his new picture book HOMETOWN. His artwork on a giant screen was absolutely breathtaking.

He signed my copy after the event.

I immediately turned into a blushing, stammering fanboy.

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📣Our festival is ONE WEEK AWAY! 📣

As an offering we bring you more artists, creators publishers and the like. Come hang with us on Market Day. We're so lucky to have everyone on board!

Slide 1 - @pilkoart , @sheardcomics , @lugggs , @sj.sabbagh
Slide 2 - @md_____blue , @onlystarcrossedlovers , @madimarston , @mitchographer
Slide 3 - @melbournecomicsartjam , @noahdea.art , @rtwa , @onigirigremlin
Slide 4 - @monotone_ink , @azurevoltage , @dinostock_ , @ascmelbourne

Free entry from 10am-4pm! We hope to see you there 🌟
📆 Sunday October 11th
📍 Kensington Town Hall - 30-34 Bellair St, Kensington, Melbourne, AU 3031
✏️ by @reimenayee

#MAKEcomicsfestival #melbournecomics #festival #comicsbooks #whatsonmelbourne

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It’s the final few days to see Animal Gift at Arts Project Australia in Naarm (finishes Saturday, I believe). One of my fave projects I’ve worked on. It was a dream before it began and it was dreamy the whole way through. Such an honour to work with these incredibly talented and beautiful artists and everyone at Arts Project Australia too. I’ll be thinking about this for the rest of my life. Thank you especially to wonderful humans Liz Nowell and Sarah Lamanna and Jo Salt, but also thank you to everyone at Arts Project Australia and all the artists (my dear ones! Tahlia, Sharkie, Billie, Abdul-Rahman, Danielle ✨) and everyone that came to see it.

Thank you to all the animals out there!

Images courtesy of Arts Project Australia, image credit Janelle Low.

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Bring Cut Fruit, 2025, Digital by Rachel Ang @rtwa

I drew these artworks to celebrate the rituals we share together - cutting and sharing fruit and other delicious treats, enjoying the garden together, each of us contributing to our families and communities in our own small way.

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GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: Rachel Ang (she/they)

Rachel Ang is an artist and writer who makes comics. Their work has been published in international journals such as The New Yorker and kuš!, and Australian periodicals like The Age and Meanjin. Their new book, a collection of short stories in comics form titled I Ate The Whole World to Find You, is out now through Drawn and Quarterly and Scribe, and was shortlisted for an Ignatz Award.

We’re so lucky to have Rachel joining us this year! Rachel’s comics are thoughtful and dreamlike, and it’s no wonder that their comics have been snapped up by major international literary comics publishers.

Find them at @rtwa and drawbyfour.com !

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a series of workshops by BIPOC writers, for BIPOC writers, focusing on genres less programmed.

stay tuned for details.

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Is there a single way to define motherhood? Four extraordinary Australian writers presented intimate new works on mothers and motherhood for this special event we hosted with @ngvmelbourne. ⁠
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Read the full work via the link in our bio.

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