The idea of the writer as a unique, solitary creature is being challenged by a series of exciting collaborative experiments. We explore Wiki-novels co-written by hundreds of authors, collective comics and other projects which incorporate multiple narratives and egos. Film crews can do it - can writers?
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Admit2, Andrew Slattery, Gabrielle Carey, Hayden Fryer, Johannes Klabbers, Judith Beveridge

Meet comic artists at work in the Festival Club and get your own 15 square centimetres of fame. A live collaborative comics jam brought to you by video projection, funny people and fat marker pens.
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Ben Constantine, David Blumenstein, Mel Stringer, Nicki Greenberg, Pat Grant, Shaun Tan

Shaun Tan (award-winning author-illustrator) gives insight into the art of graphic novel-ing. Shaun will take you through his processes, get you drawing, and give feedback on participantsâ?? work. Register to participate here or just come watch. >> read more
Shaun Tan

Everything you need to know to get a web comic up and running. Let comics nerd Pat Grant take you step by step through the process from writing and pencilling, to Photoshopping and basic html as we make a web comic happen right in front of you.
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Pat Grant

Artists like Shaun Tan and Nicki Greenberg are ambitious, to say the least. They seek to translate whole worlds into graphic novel form. Here they talk about exploring complex ideas in a visual format, and working for years on a labour of love in a quick-fix culture.
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Nicki Greenberg, Shaun Tan

Meet the artists behind the NYWF comics exhibition. Buy them a drink. Spill it on their work. Get thrown out. Ten years later, find yourself featuring in a cartoon as a horrible drunken philistine with one oversized bloodshot eyeball. Smile a secret smile to yourself.
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Shift your reality into the second dimension and enter the weird world of Australian comics. Itâ??s a mini-showcase of where the artform is at, with artists bringing their twisted worlds life on the backs of napkins, in full-colour mags, on walls, in graphic novels and more.
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Ben Constantine, David Blumenstein, Hayden Fryer, Jo Waite, Mel Stringer, Nicki Greenberg, Pat Grant, Shaun Tan, Tony Newton

See the Festival Club transformed into the biggest small press showcase in the Southern hemisphere - and possibly anywhere, ever! Thirty-five publications will be launched at lightning speed: upstairs, downstairs, even under the stairs. Expect champagne, giveaways and spotlight-grabbing shenanigans.
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Andrew Hutchinson, Clementine Ford, James Phelan, Lisa Dempster, Martin Robertson, Ryan Paine

Bring your wallet, your picnic blanket and cool things to swap down to Civic Park for Australiaâ??s largest Zine and Independent publishing fair on Sunday 30 September. Be delighted by table after table of amazing home-grown writing, illustration, comics, zines, badges, posters and more. Kick off with the spoken word champagne breakfast at 11am. Share your skills and learn some new ones at the... >> read more