Comica’s Third London Event Features Woodrow Phoenix, Carol Adams, Denise Dorrance And Leo Fox
by Richard Bruton
More from Paul Gravett‘s Comica continues with more events in May for the Comica London Comics Festival, the third of three events at Soho’s Century Club on London’s Shaftesbury Avenue features Woodrow Phoenix, Carol Adams, Denise Dorrance, and Leo Fox talking about their debuts in Nothing Like The First Time.
Nothing Like The First Time – Making and Publishing Your Graphic Novel Debut happens on 3 May 2024 at 7 pm, featuring four great graphic novelists, comic makers, authors (take your pick here) – Woodrow Phoenix, Carol Adams, Denise Dorrance, and Leo Fox talking about their very first book-length comic and how it goes from first idea to final publication.
Here’s the Comica PR…
“It seems lots of people in the UK have a graphic novel in them. As proof, no less than 185 people entered this year’s First Graphic Novel Award. So why are comics their medium of choice? How do you decide what subjects you share and what approach you take? And how do you grapple with realising your first book-length comic from idea to publication? Woodrow Phoenix, graphic novelist of Rumble Strip, She Lives, Donny Digits and others and also a tutor in comics, talks with three cartoonists about their experiences of creating their brilliant solo debuts.
Carol Adlam is a World Illustration Award winner with a PhD in Russian. The Russian Detective (Jonathan Cape) is her stunning reimagining of a nineteenth-century crime thriller from the world of Dostoevsky. Meet Charlie Fox, stunt journalist, magician, liar and thief, who returns to her hometown of Nowheregrad to investigate the murder of Elena Ruslanova, daughter of a fabulously wealthy glass manufacturer.
Denise Dorrance is an American-born illustrator based in London, whose satirical ‘It’s All About Mimi’ cartoons ran in The Mail on Sunday’s You magazine. In Polar Vortex (New River), she tells her poignant, stirring graphic memoir—both heartbreaking and darkly funny—about traveling home to care for her ageing mother who is suffering from dementia.
Leo Fox is an artist and cartoonist from London, where he is studying at The Slade School of Fine Art and makes work about transness and magic. His graphic novels include My Body Unspooling (Silver Sprocket), in which Lucille and his body are constantly at odds and it’s time to ask God for a divorce, and the tale of Lucille, who realises it’s time to leave behind both home and mother on Girl Island and begin the journey to Boy Island (Silver Sprocket, August 2024).”
Yep, looks like another date for your diary if you happen to be in London!
